Wallaby Track Columns 2012

Norman McVicker’s Tales from along the Wallaby Track Year 2012

Date Published WT Number Title
2012.01.02 1161 The Twelve Days of Christmas (Stories, legends and myths)
2012.01.9 1162 Francis MacNamara convict poet (The Life, times and poems ‘Frank the Poet’)
2012.01.16 1163 Mary Wade: death sentence aged 10 (The life, times and story of Mary Wade)
2012.01.23 1164 1788: a new era begins (The story of the founding of Sydney)
2012.01.30 1165 Jorgen Jorgensen: Danish adventurer (The Life, Times and Adventures of Jorgen Jorgenson)
2012.02.06 1166 Justice: one man’s power (The story of Samuel Barsby)
2012.02.13 1167 Marital Rights Pt1: his story (The life of John Irving)
2012.02.20 1168 Marital Rights Pt 2: her story (The Life of Ann Marsh)
2012.02.27 1169 Isaac Nichols: first postmaster (The life, times and career of Isaac Nichols)
2012.03.05 1170 Thomas Arndell: surgeon, lover, farmer (The life, times of Thomas Arndell and Elizabeth Burleigh)
2012.03.12 1171 A Theatre Built: Australia’s first (The life and times of Robert Sidaway and theatre)
2012.03.19 1172 Hangman: laments from gallows (The Robert Barratt, Ann Davis and Samuel Payton Hangings)
2012.03.26 1173 Robbery: solved by a key (The trial of 7 marines for robbery)
2012.04.02 1174 Ben Boyd: genius or fraud (The Life, times and career of Ben Boyd)
2012.04.09 1175 Divers: a passion for pearls (The story of the pearling industry, Broome WA)
2012.04.16 1176 Heroes: Hitchcock and Anderson (The search for Hitchcock and Anderson)
2012.04.23 1177 Bombs: World War II in the west (The story of the Japanese bombing of Broome)
2012.04.30 1178 Matt Brady: gentleman bushranger (The life, times and crimes of Matthew Brady)
2012.05.07 1179 John G. Lang: first novelist (The Life, times and career of J. G. Lang)
2012.05.14 1180 First born: who was it? (Stories of William Nash and Robert Hope)
2012.05.21 1181 H. M. Green: literary historian (The life and work of H. M.Green)
2012.05.28 1182 James Cook: the Transit of Venus (Cook’s preparation for journey 1768)
2012.06.04 1183 Thomas Davey: amicable eccentric (The life and times of Thomas Davey)
2012.06.11 1184 Frederick Deeming: multi-murderer (The Life, Times and Murders by Deeming)
2012.06.18 1185 Daniel Deniehy: orator and patriot (The Life, times and politics of Deniehy)
2012.06.25 1186 LEGEND: Lasseter’s Lost Reef (The Life and Times of Lewis Hubert Lasseter). The first half of this column was written by Norman the day before he was hospitalised, then completed by Robyn Murray.
2012.07.02 1187 A story about Norman McVicker (The Life, times and work of Norman McVicker OAM). This was the final article of Tales from along the Wallaby Track and was about Norman himself. Written by Sof Lee.

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