Gum (Eucalypt tree) leaf. – Photo: Brian Hydesmith
As we get this web site up and running, we are seeking photos from members’ own collections which feature typical and iconic scenes from New Zealand and Australia. The images will be cropped to fit the wide, panorama style you see at the top of the pages, so preference will be given to ones that still look good when cropped this way.
Some years back I bought a book edited by Tim Flannery, titled “The Explorers”, from an ABC store in Australia. It’s an anthology documenting almost four centuries of exploration and includes the work of Eyre, Giles, Hume and Hovell, Leichhardt, Mitchell, Stuart, Sturt, Wills, and many others. One episode, involving Charles Sturt, has stayed with me.
The picture above shows Sturt and his party in a desperate situation. But look closely up on the left bank: there is a native running hard and about to dive into the river. He is a “chief” who Sturt had encountered earlier and made peace with. This man had subsequently realized the danger from the next tribe further along the river and took action. His courage and timing were perfect and enabled Sturt to maintain his reputation for not killing any aboriginals. This other reference takes up the story: Continue reading
The Winnipeg Free Press is to be congratulated in maintaining an excellent link with Australia through printing frequent articles from Michael Madigan from the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper. Read his most recent submissions through this link.
He writes about Australian news, but always includes some relevance to Canadian and even sometimes Winnipeg references. If he ever comes to visit our city, it would be a pleasure to have him as our guest at the Down Under Club of Winnipeg, Inc.
“We saw tornadoes of fire just coming towards us,” Tim Holmes told ABC reporters. “And the next thing we knew, everything was on fire, everywhere all around us,” Tim Holmes said. Continue reading
Greg Link visiting a school in Africa.
Although Greg Link is a Winnipegger, he has developed a close affinity with Australia. He grew up in North Kildonan, completing Business Administration and Business Teacher Education at Red River College after high school. He then relocated to Thompson, Manitoba for three years, teaching at the high school for two years before becoming an Educational Computer Consultant for one. Continue reading