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
Guest blogger: Dr Hilary Davies, 2018 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow. The Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd (CCM) was a major company in Queensland between 1905 and 1929, primarily selling motorised vehicles, engines, bicycles and sporting goods. After a business slow-down during the First World War, the CCM sought to support … Read more
Guest blogger: Elaine Acworth – 2018 Q ANZAC 100 Fellow. WARNING: This article and pages it links to, contain descriptions of war and violence. Noel Anthony Carey was interviewed by Kevin Dickson in 1995 at the Twin Towns RSL club for a series of oral histories of veterans’ experiences of World War II. Noel was … Read more
Guest blogger – Debbie Terranova – Q ANZAC 100 Fellow. Ellen Maria Humphreys owned and operated a cattle property called “Hutton Park”, situated in the central-west of Queensland near Injune. In 1941, she was a 63-year-old widow with six adult children, several grandchildren, an elderly mother, and a working dog called Tigar. Les, the youngest, … Read more
Guest blogger: Dr Jennifer Moffatt, 2018 John Oxley Library Fellow. The Fitzroy Basin Brigalow Development Scheme, or the Brigalow scheme as its known, is among the largest land development schemes undertaken by the Queensland government. The scheme was comprised of Crown land resumed from existing lessees which was sold or balloted, portions returned to those … Read more
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young. It’s difficult to emphasise the importance of radio in our young lives in pre-television days in the Queensland outback. In the early 1950s, Longreach had two radio stations, ABC Radio’s 4QL and the commercial station, 4LG which rather grandly called itself “The voice of the Golden West”. My active love … Read more
Six albums of photographs of Alexandra Camp Park from between 1953 and 1964 were recently donated to State Library of Queensland. Nola Warrick, guest blogger, tells the story behind this new collection. In 1945 the Presbyterian Church saw the potential of turning a large area of land and a huge old boarding house at Alexandra … Read more
Guest blogger: Debbie Terranova – QANZAC100 Fellow. In January 1941, the Brisbane General Hospital accepted twenty-year-old Elfriede (Elvie) Geissmann as a trainee nurse and she moved into the nurses’ quarters1. There she began a personal diary in which she recorded the trials, hopes, and despairs of a young “British born”2 woman during World War Two. … Read more
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young. There’s a saying that if you cross the Thomson River, one day you’ll return to Longreach. I often talk about growing up there – in the outback of Queensland – as a sort of badge of honour. But I haven’t been back since 1975, and that was just for a … Read more
Guest blogger: Dr Hilary Davies, 2018 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow. The Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd (CCM) was a major company in Queensland between 1905 and 1929, primarily selling motorised vehicles, engines, bicycles and sporting goods. About fifty per cent of the CCM’s workforce of approximately 120 volunteered for service … Read more
