Wallaby Track Columns 2003

Norman McVicker’s Tales from along the Wallaby Track Year 2003

Date Published WT Number Title
2003.01.09 703 The Invisible Circus (Sound Effects)
2003.01.14 704 A Rum Affair (Sydney Hospital)
2003.01.21 705 The Rum Hospital (Sydney Hospital)
2003.01.28 706 Artist and Optimist (John William Lewin)
2003.02.04 707 Henry Kendall’s Heritage
2003.02.11 708 Meals on Wheels is 40 (History of Mudgee Meals on Wheels)
2003.02.18 709 Barks on the Barque (Greyhounds in Australia)
2003.02.25 710 Time for a Cuppa! (Tea making)
2003.03.04 711 Million Dollar Mermaid (The Biography of Annette Kellerman)
2003.03.11 712 Wynyard Square Murder (Dentist Louis Bertrand, murderer)
2003.03.18 713 George Bass—Maritime Explorer
2003.03.25 714 A Hellfire Preacher (The Story of John Dowie)
2003.04.01 715 “Our Glad”—Queen of Song (Biography of Gladys Moncrieff)
2003.04.08 716 A Missionary or Opportunist? (Lancelot Edward Threlkeld)
2003.04.15 717 A Cruel, Intolerant Governor (Ralph Darling – 7th Governor NSW) (The Case of James Sudds and Patrick Thompson)
2003.04.22 718 War and Propaganda The Stories of Lord Haw Haw, Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose and Charles Cousens.
2003.04.29 719 When “King Lash” Reigned. The Use of the lash as a form of convict punishment
2003.05.06 720 Show Business Mothers The stories of the mothers of Joy Nichols, Gypsy Rose Lee, Judy Garland. (A Mother’s Day Column)
2003.05.13 721 Birdman of Bundaberg The story of Bert Hinkler, aviator
2003.05.20 722 Mutiny, Mayhem, Murder (The wreck of the “Batavia”)
2003.05.27 723 Peter Lawson- Publican (Peter Lawson as a publican)
2003.06.03 724 The Emigrants’ Friend (Caroline Chisholm)
2003.06.10 725 Dreamers and Their Dreams (Australian Theatre – Pt 1)
2003.06.17 726 Show Business – A Magical World (Australian Theatre – Pt 2)
2003.06.24 727 A School Bell Never Rung (Education in Australia – Sydney and Mudgee)
2003.07.01 728 A Parade of Fashion (What People Wore between the two World Wars)
2003.07.08 729 The Games Children Play (Old Fashioned Games and Amusements)
2003.07.15 730 Portraying Australia (The Life of S.T.Gill)
2003.07.22 731 Mary Reibey- Convict (The Story of Mary Reibey in Australia)
2003.07.29 732 Fools and Their Money (The Story of Quack Medicines)
2003.08.05 733 Rose Scott- Social Reformer (Rights for Women)
2003.08.12 734 The Mystery Polish “Count” (The Story of Paul Strzelecki)
2003.08.19 735 Strzelecki-Wandering Scientist (The discovery of Mount Kosiuszko)
2003.08.26 736 George Caley-Eccentric Botanist (Caley as a botanist, naturalist, explorer)
2003.09.02 737 Quacks and Their Cures (The story of fictitious quacks)
2003.09.09 738 Shadows From the Gallows (Hanging of Thomas Barrett and punishment of Henry Lovell and Joseph Hall)
2003.09.16 739 Gallows Or The Lash (Story of Convicts John Ryan and Robert Sedaway)
2003.09.23 740 Rags to Riches (Esther Abrahams and George Johnstone)
2003.09.30 741 Elizabeth Kenny—Polio Pioneer (Sister Elizabeth Kenny and Polio Disease)
2003.10.07 742 The Invisible “Mr Eternity” (The Story of Arthur Stace)
2003.10.14 743 Bea Miles—The Legend (The Life and Times of Bea Miles)
2003.10.21 744 “Strike Me Lucky”—IT’S MO (The character of Roy Rene “Mo”—comedian
2003.10.28 745 Wreck of the “Dunbar” (Wreck of the “Dunbar” at the Gap, Sydney)
2003.11.04 746 The Day Sydney Got a Bridge (How Sydney got a Bridge and Opening Day)
2003.11.11 747 With Shame Remembered (Life in the Parramatta Female Factory)
2003.11.18 748 Midget “Subs” bomb Sydney (The Day World War II came to Sydney—May 31,1942)
2003.11.25 749 A Weird Web of Dreams (The Life of Percy Grainger—Composer)
2003.12.02 750 “Greycliffe” Ferry Disaster (Sydney Harbour Ferry sunk by RMS “Tahiti”
2003.12.09 751 A Child Born to Dance (Biography of Sir Robert Helpmann)
2003.12.16 752 A World of Australian Fantasy (The story of the Gumnut Babies and their creator May Gibbs)
2003.12.23 753 The Christmas Wreath (The History and Symbolism of the Christmas Wreath)

History and locality of Budgee Budgee, The life and work of Norman McVicker, Pocket Playhouse, Theatre memories, and Tales from along the Wallaby Track