Wallaby Track Columns 2004

Norman McVicker’s Tales from along the Wallaby Track Year 2004

Date Published WT Number Title
2004.01.06 754 Australia Gets a Conscience (The Story of Bas Wie—Sabunese Stowaway)
2004.01.13 755 Dames and Principal Boys (The History of Pantomime in Australia)
2004.01.20 756 More Than a Headline (Australian Early Newspapoers)
2004.01.27 757 1788—And All That (Currency Lads and Lasses)
2004.02.03 758 Queen of Tragedy (The life and career of Dame Judith Anderson)
2004.02.10 759 Daisy Bates—A Spectacle of Wonder (The life and times of Daisy Bates)
2004.02.17 760 Bring Your Own Bread (The story of famine in Sydney Town 1790s)
2004.02.24 761 Robert Torrens—Land Title Reformer (The life and times of Robert Torrens and Land Title Reform)
2004.03.02 762 Doris Fitton—Theatre Icon (The life and times of Dame Doris Fitton)
2004.03.09 763 An Extraordinary Man (The life and journals of Watkin Tench-1788
2004.03.16 764 The Bushman’s Bible (The story of the early days of the “Bulletin”
2004.03.23 765 A Literary Hoax (The Story of the “Ern Malley” Poems)
2004.03.30 766 A Ghostly Affair (The Story of Fisher’s Ghost and Murder of Fisher)
2004.04.06 767 A Great Australian (The Life and Times of Sir Howard Florey and Penicillin)
2004.04.13 768 The Symbols of Easter (The Symbols, Traditions and Folklore of Easter)
2004.04.20 769 The Stuff of Legends (The Life and Death of Harry “The Breaker” Morant)
2004.04.27 770 A Man and His Donkey (The Story of ANZAC Stretcher Bearers and Pte J. Simpson)
2004.05.04 771 A Cargo of Women (The Second Fleet and the Women of the “Lady Juliana”
2004.05.11 772 War Correspondent—Military Historian (The Life of C.E.W Bean)
2004.05.18 773 Go Fly a Kite (The History of Kites and Kite Flying)
2004.05.25 774 A “Hair” Happening (The History of the Love-Rock Musical “Hair”
2004.06.01 775 From Theatre Icon to Legend (The Life and Theatre Career of May Hollinworth)
2004.06.08 776 The Iceman Doesn’t Come Anymore (From Meat Safe to Refrigerator)
2004.06.15 777 Unmasking a Mudgee Myth (The Life and Career of Robert Hoddle)
2004.06.22 778 Ride ’Em Cowboy (The Zane Grey Story)
2004.06.29 779 Overture and Beginners Please! (Vaudeville/Variety Acts- The Napier Family Story)
2004.07.06 780 Orphans in the Wilderness (First Orphanage in Australia)
2004.07.13 781 The Flying Pieman (The Story of William Francis King)
2004.07.20 782 A “Pipeclay” Pianist (The Life and Times of Marguerite de Pachmann-nee Okey)
2004.07.27 783 A Forgotten Olympic Hero (The Life and Career of R.L.”Snowy” Baker
2004.08.03 784 A Distrustful, Irascible Governor (Governor Phillip Gidley King)
2004.08.10 785 A Governor’s Ladies (The Stories of Ann Inett and Anna King)
2004.08.17 786 Cheating the Executioner—or Not. (Thomas Barrett, Bowers Family & Joseph Samuels)
2004.08.24 787 King of the Cattle Duffers (The Story of Harry Radford)
2004.08.31 788 A Quaker Chemist Murderer (The Life and Crimes of John Tawell)
2004.09.07 789 A Courageous Stowaway (The Round the World Voyage of Rose de Freycinet)
2004.09.14 790 Friends, Foes and Wild Cattle (The Cowpastures Herd of Wild Cattle)
2004.09.21 791 Judge and Poet (The Life and Times of Barron Field)
2004.09.28 792 A Wild White Man (The Life and Times of John Wilson)
2004.10.05 793 Gardening To Survive (The First Gardens in Australia)
2004.10.12 794 A Forgotten Diva (Life and Times of Strella Wilson)
2004.10.19 795 Blood, Sweat and Tears (The Story of the Carters’ Barracks)
2004.10.26 796 When “Rum Affairs” Were Legal (The Story of the Rum Monoply)
2004.11.02 797 Australia’s First Bank (The Story of the Bank of NSW)
2004.11.09 798 Forgotten Merchant Princes (Family Stores and Anthony Horderns)
2004.11.16 799 “Bailed Up” By Bushrangers (The Bushranger Frank Scott- Captain Moonlite)
2004.11.23 800 The Vanishing “Oz” Language (The Great Australian Adjective)
2004.11.30 801 A Caretaker Prime Minister (The Life and Career of Francis Michael Forde)
2004.12.07 802 Sold For Less Than a Song (Early Land Grants)
2004.12.14 803 Early Literature and Writers (Early Writers and Poets. Miles Franklin, Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson).
2004.12.21 804 Christmas As In Older Times (Colonial Christmas Days and Events)

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