Guest blogger: Rochelle Bull, Local History Officer, Gympie Regional Libraries. Grand Hotel, formerly Otago Hotel – Mellor Street, Gympie Formerly known as the Otago Hotel and built in 1886, Mr E. Murdoch held the license in partnership with Mr McCallum (The Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, 8 June 1868, p. 4) from when … Read more
Guest blogger: Rochelle Bull, Local History Officer, Gympie Regional Libraries. Many hotels in Gympie were set up within weeks of the Gympie Gold Rush of October 1867. Publican’s licences were applied for in the November of 1867 and in the first round of applications granted in December 1867 (Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, … Read more
Guest blogger – Rutian Mi, 2019 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame fellow. There are many studies on Chinese immigrant history in Queensland but few studies have been done about Chinese business history in Queensland. This research focuses on Chinese businesses in Queensland during 1840-1940 with two case studies: Kwong Sue Duk and Tom See … Read more
Guest blogger: Dr Jennifer Moffatt, 2018 John Oxley Library Fellow. Balloting was big in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The government wanted to increase agricultural production so needed more farmers 1. Balloting land removed the greatest barrier for those wanting to be farmers – the cost of agricultural land. Outside the large land development schemes … Read more
Guest blogger: Elisabeth Gondwe – President Oral History Queensland. Oral History Queensland (OHQ) delivers the 2019 Oral History Australia (OHA) Biennial Conference at State Library of Queensland, starting 10 – 13 October. Registrations are still open inviting you to an exciting program including keynote Katrina Srigley, Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbisiing/The Stories of Nbisiing: Relational … Read more
Guest blogger: Mark Clayton. Notions of personal responsibility and safety mustn’t have counted for much when I was nineteen, else I mightn’t have risen early one winter’s morning in 1978 thinking – or not thinking, more probably – then I could make it back in time for dinner that same evening and still have time … Read more
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young – Writer. My Aunt Thora gave it the rather dismissive description ‘The Two Minute Silence’. That’s how long she reckoned it took to read the Longreach Leader, the weekly newspaper that has circulated through a wide area of the central Queensland outback for almost 100 years. Mind you, my Aunt … Read more
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young Some people with long memories may have come across an English novelist of the first half of last century called Francis Brett Young. He was my father’s eldest step brother who, while extremely popular in his time, is now virtually unread. His writing is dated and wordy, and obviously doesn’t … Read more
Guest blogger – Jayne Royal – Special Collections Librarian, Toowoomba Library and Cultural Services As part of the 70th anniversary in 2019, a special display of memorabilia from the past seven decades of the Carnival of Flowers events will be curated in the Toowoomba City Hall. Organisers are hopeful the community will contribute their personal … Read more
Guest blogger: Andrea Lynch – Jigsaw Queensland “There was this silence that started [at the time of the adoption] and continued. Along with that were these incredible feelings of shame and guilt”. – Anne (mother) In 2012 an Australian Government Senate Inquiry into former forced adoption policies and practices revealed that forced adoptions were widespread … Read more
