Wallaby Track Columns 2005

Norman McVicker’s Tales from along the Wallaby Track Year 2005

Date Published WT Number Title
2005.01.04 805 Australia’s First Lottery (Gambling In Australia)
2005.01.11 806 The “Prince” Of Australia (The Life and Times of John Piper)
2005.01.18 807 Ferreting Out The “Ferret” (The Story of a Stolen Steamer)
2005.01.25 808 First Australia Day (The First Fleet in Sydney Cove, January 26,1788)
2005.02.01 809 A Dynasty of Artistic Endeavour (The Life and Times of Georgian McCrae and Family)
2005.02.08 810 Searching for the Southern Cross (The Uses of the Southern Cross)
2005.02.15 811 Loving Husband, Amoral Marine (The Lieutenant Ralph Clark Story)
2005.02.22 812 A Drunken Judge Advocate (The Richard Atkins Story)
2005.03.01 813 Making a New Life (The stories of Mathew Everingham, John Ramsay, William Reid)
2005.03.08 814 Monster of Norfolk Island (The Career and Death of John Price}
2005.03.15 815 Lambing Flat Racial Riots (The Chinese Against the Goldminers)
2005.03.22 816 Dressing Up for Easter (The Easter Parade and Fancy Dress Balls)
2005.03.29 817 Adventure on the High Seas (The Story of William and Mary Bryant)
2005.04.05 818 Thomas Arndell, Surgeon and Farmer (The Life and Times of Thomas Arndell & Family)
2005.04.12 819 A Legacy of Australiana (David Scott Mitchell & The Mitchell Library)
2005.04.19 820 Robert Campbell, Pioneer Merchant (The Life & Times of Robert Campbell)
2005.04.26 821 Panic in the Streets (The 1942 Japanese Bombing of Darwin)
2005.05.03 822 Their Chastity in Doubt (Elizabeth Needham and her Life and Times)
2005.05.10 823 Piracy for Profit (William Campbell-Pirate)
2005.05.17 824 Pioneer Parson and Farmer (The Richard Johnson Story)
2005.05.24 825 Early Irish in Australia (Irish convicts, the “Queen”, and Irish notables)
2005.05.31 826 All’s Fair in Love and Crime (The Death of Marine Thomas Bulmore)
2005.06.07 827 Dearest Elizabeth, Wife and Mother (The Life and Times of Elizabeth Macquarie)
2005.06.14 828 Garden Palace Exhibition (First Australian International Exhibition Sydney)
2005.06.21 829 Mary Roberts, A Respected Landowner (The Life and Times of Mary Roberts)
2005.06.28 830 From Purser to Landed Gentry (Life and Times of John Palmer, First Commissary NSW)
2005.07.05 831 Capturing a Colony in Colour (The Life and Times of Thomas Watling)
2005.07.12 832 David Lennox, Bridge Builder (The Building of the Lennox Bridge)
2005.07.19 833 John White, Surgeon and Naturalist (The Life and Times of Surgeon General John White)
2005.07.26 834 A Day By The Sea (Surfing and Swimming in Australia)
2005.08.02 835 Henry Kable—Rags to Riches (The Life and Times of Kable Family)
2005.08.09 836 The State Theatre, an Opulent Complex (History and Design of the State Theatre Building Complex)
2005.08.16 837 Full Steam Ahead (The First NSW Railway)
2005.08.23 838 Australia’s First Brickmaker (James Bloodworth and Sarah Bellamy)
2005.08.30 839 A Crucial First Year (Life at Sydney Cove in 1788)
2005.09.06 840 The Rise and Fall of William Bradley (The Career of Rear Admiral William Bradley)
2005.09.13 841 Olga Deane—The Mustard Seed Lady (The Life and Times of Publicist Olga Deane)
2005.09.20 842 The Matriarch of Elizabeth Farm (The Life and Times of Elizabeth Macarthur)
2005.09.27 843 Law and Order in Early Mudgee (The Story of the First Mudgee Gaol)
2005.10.04 844 Strange Mudgee Gaol Stories (The Story of Gaoler/Governor Dick)
2005.10.11 845 Gallows Legend of Rope and Pulley (Story of George Rope and George Pitt)
2005.10.14 845a Mudgee Public School Sesqui Centenary (History of 150 years of Mudgee Public School)
2005.10.18 846 Cartoons, Satire and Comic Strips (published as 848 and renamed) (The History of Cartoons and Jimmy Bancks)
2005.10.25 847 The 1930s—A Decade of Contrasts (published as 846) (Growing Up in the 1930s)
2005.11.01 848 Mudgee Centenary Celebrations (published as 847) (Events of March 6-12, 1921)
2005.11.08 849 The Origin of the Damper (How the Damper and variations came about)
2005.11.15 850 Daniel Cassin – A Life of Service (The life and Public Service of Daniel Cassin)
2005.11.22 851 Advertising and Henry Lawson (Advertisement for Heenzo)
2005.11.29 852 Mudgee’s Yesterdays (Mudgee Town in the early 1900s)
2005.12.06 853 Creating With Clay (Early potters in Australia and Mudgee potters)
2005.12.13 854 The Great South Land (Sydney as seen by Convicts)
2005.12.20 855 The Spirit of Christmas (Traditions, stories, etc)

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