By Mark Schuster (St Ives, NSW) During the mid to late Nineteenth Century, many German adventurers, naturalists and scientists came in quest of ‘green treasure’ in the Land Down Under – seeking new and unique plant and animal species on the great southern continent. Perhaps the exploits of the great […]
Hidden histories, that what I’m into and also that’s what makes my soul tick. Trying to make the past and its many dead come back to life, even putting the clothes and skin back on their decaying bones – and letting their lives be known to our current, media and […]
Der walfisch von trial bay poem
Frank Riethmuller – A Son of Toowoomba who became King of the Roses (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Frank Riethmuller (1884–1965) was an expert Australian rose breeder. Studio photo of Frank Riethmuller in Townsville about 1910, when he was 26. Riethmuller began to show roses in Sydney when he was […]
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The Whale and Us By internee Martin Kramer, Trial Bay Internment camp, 1916 It was 1916 and for myself and 400 other prisoners of war, in the prison camp at Trial Bay in Australia, the war was over. We had been captured from German held islands, from Ceylon to the […]
LUNGFISH IN THE GARDENS!! One day in 1872, someone saw two large strange fish in the pond of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens. Captain Peake had a seine net and that was taken down to the pond. The fish were caught and caused great astonishment, as no one at the time […]
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Roma’s very own ‘German band’: The Klaas family On the very weekend I first came to Roma (inland western Queensland) to work as a Queensland Parks & Wildlife Ranger in late August 2017, there was a local market at the Bungil Creek open space precinct. As luck would have it, […]
