In the following newspaper clipping from the Canberra Times dated 2 May 1951 W.P. Bluett from "Koorabri" Brindabella writes to the Canberra Times concerned with a spate of tree deaths in the Canberra area. He relates a story of a meeting in 1912 with Frederick Campbell, the owner of Yarralumla Station (post here), who himself describes an unusual tree death event that occurred on his property in 1888. He relates the subsequent land clearing of the dead timber by the use of a small Aboriginal tribe that was residing on Yarralumla at the time...
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History lost through lack of funding
The following ABC article laments the possible loss of many historical audio visual records that are waiting for digitising into modern fo...

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If anyone is looking for a place to do a little gold prospecting might I suggest the mighty Goodradigbee in the Brindabella Valley. I'll...
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Found by my son whilst hiking in the Brindabellas was this small skull. What I thought was interesting was the remaining canine evident. At...
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Located in the Canberra industrial suburb of Hume is Hill Station Homestead. The main homestead building of Hill station dates back to cir...
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A little known fact is that Canberra is built on the top of numerous limestone caves... In 1821 Charles Throsby (1777 - 1828) (bio here ) ...
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The depicted image is of a 1790 woodcut from Sydney Cove. There are a lot of reports with Australian Gorillas, yahoos, hairy men and ...
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The following ABC article laments the possible loss of many historical audio visual records that are waiting for digitising into modern fo...
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I stopped today to take a few pictures of the 'scar' on Mount Tennent ( Or Mount Tennant if your thinking about the bushranger ) I ...
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