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SLIPPERY CONVICT BOTTLED-UP AT LAST
david ellis WHEN the colourful convict Moondyne Joe was sentenced to Fremantle Prison in 1871, the authorities reckoned that despite having escaped more times than anyone else from prisons and lock-ups, Joe had finally met his match. In fact so positive was Western Australia’s Governor Hampton that his newly revamped prison was escape-proof, he promised […]
SLIPPERY CONVICT BOTTLED-UP AT LAST
david ellis WHEN the colourful convict Moondyne Joe was sentenced to Fremantle Prison in 1871, the authorities reckoned that despite having escaped more times than anyone else from prisons and lock-ups, Joe had finally met his match. In fact so positive was Western Australia’s Governor Hampton that his newly revamped prison was escape-proof, he promised […]
HOW BRAZIL HELPED FIRE UP OUR HISTORY
david ellis MOST of us believe it’s a fair bet that when Captain Arthur Phillip and his officers, civil servants and their families celebrated the arrival of their First Fleet in Port Jackson in January of 1788, they raised glasses filled with rum or brandy. After all, they’d hadn’t put around 3500 litres of the […]
WANDERING WELLINGTON AT MATE’S RATES
frank linn and david ellis Trust the travel guides, the websites or the brochures? Frank Linn, David Ellis and some mates explored New Zealand’s Wellington, based solely on the recommendations of mates who reckoned they knew it. Could they be trusted? Where to eat and drink, what to see and where to stay were the […]
WANDERING WELLINGTON AT MATE’S RATES
frank linn and david ellis Trust the travel guides, the websites or the brochures? Frank Linn, David Ellis and some mates explored New Zealand’s Wellington, based solely on the recommendations of mates who reckoned they knew it. Could they be trusted? Where to eat and drink, what to see and where to stay were the […]
STAMPING A MARK ON JUNEAU’S HEART OF GOLD
david ellis WHEN mining engineer George Pilz heard in the 1880s of gold to be found in the mountains that tumbled down to the sea around what was to eventually become known as Alaska’s Inside Passage, he had no intention of hiking into such inhospitable terrain himself. Instead he sat back in his office and […]
STAMPING A MARK ON JUNEAU’S HEART OF GOLD
david ellis WHEN mining engineer George Pilz heard in the 1880s of gold to be found in the mountains that tumbled down to the sea around what was to eventually become known as Alaska’s Inside Passage, he had no intention of hiking into such inhospitable terrain himself. Instead he sat back in his office and […]
MODERN-DAY SLAVE SHIP’s A GOOD READ
david ellis AUSTRALIA’s playing host over the next few months to one of our most unusual maritime visitors, the diminutive 6,800 tonne MV Doulos that’s the world’s oldest active ocean-going passenger ship. And while several hundred thousand of us will go aboard for a bit of a sticky-beak as she works her way from Brisbane […]
Moyston: ‘HOME’ OF AFL STILL KICKING AHEAD
John Crook & David Ellis THE locals of the tiny western Victorian village of Moyston are wondering why if they’ve been virtually forgotten in this the 150th year of Australian Rules football, even though it was in a paddock close to here that local Aboriginal children played a game destined to become the nation’s Number […]
‘HOME’ OF AFL STILL KICKING AHEAD
John Crook & David Ellis THE locals of the tiny western Victorian village of Moyston are wondering why if they’ve been virtually forgotten in this the 150th year of Australian Rules football, even though it was in a paddock close to here that local Aboriginal children played a game destined to become the nation’s Number […]
