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Wolumla, New South Wales
Wolumla is an historical locality in New South Wales, Australia located 234km south of Canberra, between Bega and Merimbula. Wolumla is located on the hilly coastal hinterland near the headwaters of Frogs Hollow Creek, and has been predominantly cleared for beef, dairy and sheep grazing. At the , Wolumla had a population of 703. Wolumla receives a small tourist influx during peak holiday periods. The township consists of predominantly low-density urban housing with a very small commercial area located on the main street. Gold was discovered very near the town in 1896. Facilities Wolumla's small commercial area consists of a hotel/pub, a hairdresser, and a general store which doubles as a newsagent and post office. The main street also houses the volunteer-run Rural Fire Service station and a community memorial hall. Wolumla has a public school for kindergarten to year 6, established in 1882, and an Anglican church. The town is serviced by the South East and Tablelands bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bega Valley Shire
The Bega Valley Shire is a Local government in Australia, local government area located adjacent to the South Coast, New South Wales, south-eastern coastline of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in 1981 with the amalgamation of the Municipality of Bega, Imlay Shire and Mumbulla Shire, with its name deriving from the town of Bega, New South Wales, Bega. The shire is also known as the Sapphire Coast for tourism and marketing purposes. During the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, the area was devastated by fire, with 448 houses being destroyed by fire and approximately 365,000 hectares burned, which is 58% of the Shire's total land mass. The estimated population as at the was 33,253. Area The shire covers , and includes a coastline of , with 101 beaches and 26 estuaries. Around 78% of the area belongs to various National Parks in New South Wales, national parks and state forests. The biggest industry is the production of timber, followed by dairy farming and ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history. The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors suppressed bad news in the belligerent countries to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer. Limited historical epidemiological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Stanhope
Jonathan Donald Stanhope (born 29 April 1951) is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra electorate in the ACT Legislative Assembly from 1998 until 2011. He is the only ACT Chief Minister to have governed with a majority in the ACT Assembly. From 2012 to 2014 Stanhope was Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, which consists of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Early years and background Stanhope was born in Gundagai, New South Wales. He was one of nine children of schoolteacher parents who had emigrated from England. At age 5 he injured his knee, which developed into osteomyelitis, resulting in one leg being 2.5 inches longer than the other. He walked with a pronounced limp until the issue was corrected surgically at age 16. Much of his junior education was spent at one-teacher schools in country NSW. He attended Mullumbimby Public Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt McCoy (rugby League)
Matt McCoy (20 December 1923 – 20 February 2007) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and an inductee of the St. George Illawarra Dragons Hall of Fame. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative goal-kicking centre, he played in Sydney's New South Wales Rugby Football League for the St. George club, with whom he won the 1949 NSWRFL Premiership. McCoy also played for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club, and in Country New South Wales and Queensland as a captain-coach, representing both City and Country New South Wales, as well as Central Queensland during his career. Playing career Originally from Wolumla, New South Wales where he broke into the first grade rugby league team at age 15, during World War II he served as an anti-aircraft gunner and played rugby league in Darwin. After a car accident which resulted in a serious eye injury, McCoy was relocated to Sydney and started playing first g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shoalhaven Telegraph
''The Shoalhaven Telegraph'' was a weekly newspaper published in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia from 1879 until 1937. It was first published as ''The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser''. History ''The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser'' was first published by Joseph Weston on 27 February 1879 in competition with the '' Shoalhaven News''. Weston installed his brother-in-law John Maclean as the newspaper's editor. The ''Telegraphs name was changed to ''The Shoalhaven Telegraph'' in 1881. The ''Telegraph'' was sold to Maclean in 1886, who in turn sold it to Henry Rauch in 1900. In 1937 the ''Telegraph'' was absorbed by the ''Shoalhaven News''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Don Dorrigo Gazette And Guy Fawkes Advocate
''The Don Dorrigo Gazette'', previously published as the ''Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate'', is a weekly English language newspaper published in Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia. History The newspaper was established as the ''Don Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Advocate'' on 8 January 1910 by brothers Roy and Reginald Vincent. Production The paper continues to be produced by a hot-metal typesetting, printed on a Heidelberg Zylinder Automat press, and is the last known newspaper in Australia to be produced by these means. Its current editors are Michael and Jade English who in around 2006, took over from Michael's father John who had been working for the newspaper since 1961. Quotes Articles from the ''Gazette'' have been quoted in other regional newspapers: "The Only Hope". ''Daily Observer'' ''(Tamworth, NSW : 1917 - 1920), 8 May 1920, p. 1'' *Capitalists and 'Chickenguzzlers'". ''The Gloucester Advocate'', 1 April 1922, p. 1 "Why Import Timber to Australia?". '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Richmond River Herald And Northern Districts Advertiser
''The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser'' was a newspaper published in Coraki, New South Wales, Australia from 1886 until 1942. History ''The Richmond River Herald'' was first published on 9 July 1886 by Louis Ferdinand Branxton Benaud, the great-uncle of Richie Benaud. The first issue was almost never printed as the office and newspaper plant had been in flames a few hours before it was due to be printed. Louis Benaud made a career out of advocating for Coraki's interests and in the third issue the ''Herald'' argued for Coraki's incorporation into a municipality. ''The Richmond River Herald'' ceased publication on 26 June 1942. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wyalong Advocate And Mining, Agricultural And Pastoral Gazette
''The West Wyalong Advocate'' is a weekly, English language newspaper published in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia. It has previously been titled ''The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette''. History The paper began in 1900 as ''The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette'' was published by George R. Porter. This publication ceased in February 1928 and became ''The West Wyalong Advocate'' which it remains today. It also absorbed '' The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser'' at this time. In more recent times, drought and economic downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the paper changing from bi-weekly to weekly production. In 2020 the paper was offered for sale when the Bradley family of nearby Temora but a buyer was not found. In a front page story ''The West Wyalong Advocate'' announced its final issue would be published on 23 December 2020 and the paper would close. Evolution Mining, which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (Sydney)
''The Sun'' was an Australian afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under that name in 1910. History ''The Sunday Sun'' was first published on 5 April 1903. In 1910 Hugh Denison founded Sun Newspaper Ltd and took over publication of the old and ailing and ''Australian Star'' and its sister ''Sunday Sun'', appointing Monty Grover as editor-in-chief. The ''Star'' became ''The Sun'', and the ''Sunday Sun'' became ''The Sun: Sunday edition'' on 11 December 1910. According to its claim, below the masthead of that issue, it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia". Denison sold the business in 1925. In 1953, The Sun was acquired from Associated Newspapers by Fairfax Holdings in Sydney, Australia, as the afternoon companion to ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. At the same time, the former Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Sun'', was discontinued and merged with the ''Sunday Herald'' into the tabloid '' Sun-Herald''. Publication of ''The Sun'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Southern Record And Advertiser
''The Southern Record and Advertiser'' was a weekly newspaper published in Candelo, New South Wales, Australia from 1910 until 1938. It was published after the amalgamation of ''Candelo Guardian'' and the ''Candelo and Eden Union'' newspapers. History The ''Candelo and Eden Union'' was first published on 18 May 1882 by Lawrence John O'Toole. A.H. Schuback became the sole proprietor of the ''Union'' in 1899, however in 1904 he left it to start publishing the ''Candelo Guardian'' in competition. In 1910 the two newspapers merged and were published as ''The Southern Record and Advertiser''. ''The Southern Record'' was published until 1938 when it was merged with the ''Bega District News''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Broadband Network
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is an Australian national wholesale open-access data network. It includes wired and radio communication components rolled out and operated by NBN Co, a Government-owned corporation. Internet service providers, known under NBN as retail service providers or RSPs, contract with NBN to access the data network and sell fixed Internet access to end users. Rationales for this national telecommunications infrastructure project included replacing the existing copper cable telephony network that is approaching end of life, and the rapidly growing demand for Internet access. As initially proposed by the Rudd Government in 2009, wired connections would have provided up to 100 Mbit/s (later increased to 1000 Mbit/s), decreased to a minimum of 25 Mbit/s in 2013 after the election of the Abbott Government. As the largest infrastructure project in Australia's history, NBN was the subject of significant political contention and has been an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bega
Bega is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Michael Holland of the Labor Party. Bega is a regional electorate in the southeastern corner of the state. It encompasses the entirety of Bega Valley Shire and Eurobodalla Shire. Its population centres include Bega, Tathra, Merimbula, Eden, Bemboka, Eurobodalla Shire, Moruya, Batemans Bay and Narooma. History In 1894, single-member electorates were introduced statewide and the two-member electorate of Eden was split into Bega and Eden-Bombala. In 1904 Eden-Bombala was abolished as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum which reduced the number of members of the Legislative Assembly from 125 to 90 and part of the district was absorbed by Bega. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into Goulburn, along with Monaro. It was recreated in 1988. Bega has historically tended to be a safe conservative seat, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
