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 […]
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, […]
The German-Queenslanders – A Celebration The Cultural Contribution Since the 1850s until the present time German immigrants and their descendants, the German-Queenslanders, have made and are still making an enormous and significant contribution to the cultural landscape of our great State. Our early German pioneers brought their ‘cultural baggage’, folkways […]
‘They Came and They Stayed’: Settlement Patterns of the German-Queensland Communities Unlike South Australia that had a large immigration episode in the mid 1800s from the Silesian province of Germany, the situation in Queensland is more complex in terms of immigration from the provinces of Germany and eventual settlement patterns. […]
THE LUTHERAN -30 May 2005 In Obum Scrub (This is a photo of the Fassifern Scrub-in the 1890’s – obtained by Mark Schuster) How one family is working to preserve and restore a part of God’s creation – Aub Podlich ‘To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.’ (Mary […]
The German wagon – A Cultural Icon The German Wagon is still today seen as the cultural icon of the German-Queensland farming culture and until the last decade were to be found in abundance – in varying states of decay – throughout the farmlands of southern Queensland. Many of these […]
SAD DEATH OF A GERMAN PASTOR At Charters Towers. Poisoned by Mercury. Preserving Butterflies. Many persons in the town and suburbs (says the Charters Towers’ “Standard” of the 14th inst.), who had not heard of the sad and sudden end of the reverend Pastor Siegfried Krieg, of the German […]
Blown to Smithereens! Local historian Peter Cullen, who has an immense knowledge and interest in oral history and the amazing stories of the many citizens now resting in the Toowoomba and Drayton Cemetery, told me of a most amazing case of a German-Queensland resident. The headlines of the ‘Darling […]
A Brief History and Profile of the Apostolic Church of Queensland (An article provided kindly provided from the Apostolic Church of Queensland website) Cathedral of the Apostolic Church, Asfield Rd, Bundaberg, Dedicated for Divine Worship on 26th June, 1958 As the Apostolic Creed denotes, the Apostolic Church of Queensland’s original […]
