People value local history in different sets of motivations. Unfortunately, most do not become interested in history until late in life. I say unfortunately because viewing history backwards is not the best way to understand the past. History is best understood moving forward. It is activity best suited to the young of mind.
Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (the Planning Minister) PO Box 15009, City East, Queensland 4002 Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.1 of 2023...
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland...
Dear American friends, I am leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, tonight, for a country I have critically admired my whole life. It is the second trip, the last in 30...
The Council is possibly in crisis, I sent the email, Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Lord Mayor, stating that his media response, to the criticisms of the Council's Flood Management Plan, and the policies which framed it, is unacceptable to the majority of residents...
"The Engineering & Design Institute, known as TEDI-London, which believes that its mix of online learning and collaborative hands-on tutorial teaching, allied with deep industry links, will prove a hit with students and would-be employers alike." So, stated in the...
The Kangaroo Point and Districts History Group recently raised questions on what Brisbane had become as a city since Conrad Martens' image in 1851, "Brisbane Views from Bowen Terrace Looking across Kangaroo Point." I believe that the Council and the city's residents...
I lived in Melbourne for a decade. Coming from Brisbane, what struck me is the largeness of the diverse landscape. The foliage and species differed, as well as the contours, but diverse suburban landscapes were paralleled in Brisbane, at a different scale. You had a...
Who wants yesterdays papers Who wants yesterdays girl Who wants yesterdays papers Nobody in the world …. Living a life of constant change Every day means the turn of a page Yesterdays papers are such bad news Same thing applies to me and you From “Yesterday’s Papers”...
First, it is important to acknowledge the work of the historians in any writing of history. I am indebted to: Patrick Hodgson’s 2017 Ph.D. thesis at James Cook University, Flu, society and the state: the political, social and economic implications of the 1918-1920...