Who Discovered Australia?

Nambucca and Bellinger News (NSW : 1911 – 1945), Friday 17 January 1913, page 6 At the Science Congress which sat in Melbourne last week it was stated by Mr. E. A. Petherick that Australia was discovered over 400 years ago by a Portuguese navigator, Delope, who was accompanied by Vespucci, the Spanish discoverer, for whom the […]

World’s First Gas Turbine Car Engine

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 – 1954), Saturday 4 December 1948, page 4 Greatest interest in the British Industries Fair in London and Birmingham is centred around the world’s first gas turbine car engine— a new British invention which is expectcd to revolutionise the world’s motor car industry. The engine […]

A Black Fellows Midden

23 July 1936. The Age. The Anthropological Society of Victoria asked Brighton council last night to take steps to preserve a blackfellows’ midden (feeding ground) in the foreshore reserve, opposite Gould Street. Cr. Hall said the midden was a very fine example of aboriginal usages, and was an interesting place. He had often inspected it, and had […]