Historians are Past Caring

There’s been a bit of noise about Matthew Flinders’ grave just recently. There are plans to extend the very fast train system from London to the north of England, and to do this, a lot of Eus...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/digging-up-matthew-flinders/

My sister lives outside Pomona, a small township in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. One Saturday, nearly 20 years ago, we decided to go to the agricultural show together in the neighbouring town o...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/pauline-hanson-and-alpacas/

Next weekend (8-9 October) is Open House, Brisbane, when a wide variety of buildings are thrown open to the public. The idea began in England, where there has been an Open House London since 1992...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/open-house-in-brisbane-2016/

The Labor Party has now lost 2 shadow ministers since the election on 2 July, which suggests a high level of carelessness. Nobody seems to know yet just why Stephen Conroy decided to leave, but t...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/the-currency-of-corruption/

On 9 September 1840, Patrick Leslie married Kate McArthur in the Anglican church in Parramatta. Kate was 22, Patrick would be 25 in a few weeks, and they had been engaged for over 3 years. Their...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/an-1840-wedding-at-parramatta/

The Australian historian Heather Radi died recently in Sydney. She taught Australian history at the University of New South Wales and University of Sydney for many years, and she was on the boar...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/heather-radi-1929-2016/

The Permanent Court of Arbitration has just reached a decision arbitrating the case brought by the Philippines against China in the South China Sea. The court has decided that the ‘9 Dash Line�...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/the-south-china-sea-and-freedom-of-the-seas/

Originally posted on Historians are Past Caring : Yesterday, a 73-year-old former policeman with a bad hip was arrested and charged with the murder of a young drug dealer. Roger Rogerson has a l...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/one-degree-of-separation-roger-rogerson-and-me-2/

The other day I saw one of Australia’s most famous coins for the first time, Governor Macquarie’s Holey Dollar, on display at a Brisbane Money Expo for numismatists. The story is well known...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/money-matters/

Even Prime Ministers were young once – even Gladstone, the ‘Grand Old Man’ of Victorian politics. In 1835, William Gladstone was 25 years old, and just starting his political career. That y...

https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/gladstone-in-love/