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August 11, 2024August 11, 2024History Out There

History’s great embezzlers

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024History Out There

They stole our medals

August 4, 2024August 4, 2024History Out There

Unveiling Ipswich’s Hidden Olympic Legacy

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024History Out There

Strange Warwick convict tales

July 28, 2024July 28, 2024History Out There

War, lies, and corsets

July 24, 2024July 24, 2024History Out There

A Century of Love, Scandal, and Intrigue

July 21, 2024July 21, 2024History Out There

Love, Loss, and Legacy at Breakfast Creek

July 17, 2024July 17, 2024History Out There

Unravelling the heiress and her horse breaker

July 14, 2024July 14, 2024History Out There

Accountant invents Bastille Day tradition

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024History Out There

Queensland’s Kardashian sisters

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Congratulations to @rslqueensland which began 110 years ago today with a meeting in the Queensland Temperance League's Temperance Hall in Brisbane. There it is in the middle of this beautiful photo State Library of Queensland, on the corner of Ann and Edward Streets. Today the Queensland Temperance League is @drug.arm and continues to work closely with our Veterans. With all the noise about Ipswich luring Ed Sheeran from Brisbane recently, here’s a concert 110 years ago that was positively stolen. Follow the link on my profile to read and hear my story. "From Paul Dufault to Ed Sheeran: Ipswich’s Century‑long Battle for the Stars." Congratulations to the @bangarradancetheatre winning a prestigious international award, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale announced today. It’s for lifetime achievement in dance. In July I was honoured to spend time with a founding member of the theatre Janet Guypunura Munyarryun. Janet and her niece Monica were catching barramundi in the crocodile-infested Cato River on the beautiful Dhalinybuy homeland in North East Arnhem Land. It was wonderful to hear stories of her having tea with the Queen and travelling the world as a dancer, choreographer and now sharing indigenous knowledge. Congratulations to Janet and her Bangarra Dance Theatre! I went to South Yarra, Melbourne, searching for a Toowoomba war hero, and I found him. Follow the link on my profile to read and hear the story, "The Road to South Yarra and the Ghost of Owen Price." Wake up with Damo on radio #4AK on Tuesdays when I share history from the Darling Downs. This Tuesday after 6.30am I'm mixing it with David Littleproud and Ed Sheeran and tell you about last week when I went looking for a Toowoomba war hero in South Yarra! A pair of woman's gloves on display in 1862 represented an historic Australian first. Follow the link on my profile to read and hear this amazing story, "How a Pair of Gloves Changed a Nation." He was idolised as the "Grand Old Man of Ipswich" but he made blunders that tarnish his legend. Follow the link in my profile to read and hear the full story, "The Grand Old Man of Ipswich - Mistakes that Haunt His Legend." When drivers’ licenses were first introduced in Queensland over a century ago, Toowoomba beat Brisbane for a dubious honour. Follow the link on my profile for the story, "The Troubled Driver Who Made Queensland History." Dinosaurs discovered in a Brisbane quarry in 1958 dominated today’s news, and on radio Dr Romilio guaranteed that there’d be more footprints in the stone that built Brisbane’s GPO. Dinosaurs were discovered in Ipswich coalmine in 1933, and they were burned to build Queensland. Read that story via the link on my profile and searching for "Dinosaurs were lost in space."
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