41 – Snowy Hydro – Pt 4: Working environments & safety
Today we turn our attention the workers’ arrangements. At the peak of construction, over 1959/60, there were 7300 people employed on the project. So that’s...
40 – Snowy Hydro – Pt 3: Contractors & townships
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme began construction at Guthega, with a Norwegian contractor, and before too long, power was being delivered to the people. Workers...
39 – Snowy Hydro Scheme – Pt 2 – Getting Land & Workers
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme was underway. Now they Authority had to acquire the land across the Alps, and recruit a workforce, to survey, plan...
38 – Snowy Mountain Scheme Pt 1: Inception
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, took nearly 30 years to complete in the post war period, and was an astounding engineering feat. It remains one...
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37 – Lady Jane Franklin: adventurer
Lady Jane Franklin was an unusual woman. In the late 1830s, as the wife of Van Diemen’s Land Governor Sir John Franklin, she took the...
36 – Jandamarra the Bunuba Warrior: Part 2
PART 2: Jandamarra was a Bunuba man, from the Kimberly region in Western Australia, who has been called both an outlaw and a hero. It’s...
35 – Jandamarra: the Bunuba Warrior: Part 1
Jandamarra was a Bunuba man, from the Kimberly region in Western Australia, who has been called both an outlaw and a hero. It’s a story...
34 – The Great Emu War
In the early 1930s the post WW1 Soldier Settlers in Western Australia were doing it hard, trying to make a living growing wheat in a...
33 – Eureka Pt 5: Eureka Trials
With the rebellion at the Eureka Stockade ended, the authorities moved the main players to Melbourne to be tried for treason. In the days immediately...