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Byte 17: Enter the Dutch - Power without Glory - 1602

Timestrider wrote 1 day ago: We have reached the early 1600’s on our journey in search of the Land Down Under… No lon … more →

Tags: Background Byte, Dutch East India Company, History, Stock Exchange, Trade

Clement Wragge: Self-Confessed Rainmaker

derekbarry wrote 1 week ago: Surely the strangest tourist attraction in Charleville are the two Vortex Rainmaking Guns in Graham … more →

Tags: Charleville, Clement Wragge, Queensland

Byte 16: In Sight of Cape York, Australia? 1606

Timestrider wrote 1 week ago: So where are we in the year 1600? Has Australia been discovered by Europeans already? Are we all don … more →

Tags: Discovery, History, Australia, Exploration, Portuguese, Dieppe maps, New Guinea

1.5 Conclusion2 comments

mikebeggs wrote 1 week ago: Alright, having so much trouble fitting all my material on inflation theory into a couple of thousan … more →

Tags: Australian politics, History, Keynes, Marxism, Money, Political Economy, Politics, thesis

Byte 15: Move over France & England - the Portuguese Really Discovered Australia! - 1522

Timestrider wrote 1 week ago: João de Barros sits down to write a manuscript about the Portuguese in India and Asia around 1550, a … more →

Tags: Discovery, Exploration, Portuguese

Byte 15: Quick Poll - Who Landed First?

Timestrider wrote 2 weeks ago: A question based on our story so far. Which European country do you think reached Australia’s … more →

Tags: Background Byte, Poll

Byte 14: Time to Spice it Up -1500-1550

Timestrider wrote 2 weeks ago: So here we are in the first half of the  1500’s and our story centers around the Spice Islands … more →

Tags: Background Byte, Portuguese, Spice Islands

The Failure to Recognise2 comments

wordsaremymedium wrote 2 weeks ago: Only in reflection of the past is it possible to begin to understand the present. The multitude of s … more →

Tags: Politics, Cogitation, Indigenous Australian's, Rudd, Reconciliation, colonisation, racism, prejudice, Eugenics

Byte 13: The French & Captain Cook's Secret Map - 1530-1570

Timestrider wrote 3 weeks ago: So Guillaume Le Testu (c.  1512- 1573), a Frenchman, was the first European to discover Australia! P … more →

Tags: Discovery, Captain Cook, Exploration

1.4 Inflation as a policy problem2 comments

mikebeggs wrote 3 weeks ago: So a longer delay than I hoped in putting up the rest of the first chapter. Partly that’s beca … more →

Tags: Australian politics, History, Keynes, Marxism, Money, Political Economy, Politics, thesis

Eurekea Excursions - Gold Rush - Ipswich Photographer

kylieeatherphotography wrote 3 weeks ago: Early last week, our school headed to Beenleigh for a 1854 Gold Rush experience. Eureka Excursions i … more →

Tags: Brisbane Children Photographer, brisbane photographer, Children, Family, Family Photographer, Family Photography, Ipswich & Brisbane Photographer, Ipswich Children Photographer, Ipswich Photographer

'Colonial Improver: Edward Deas Thomson' by S. G. Foster

residentjudge wrote 1 month ago: Once you’ve got some little way into your research, it’s quite amusing to look back at … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Biography, Colonial biography

Chinese Cemetery Rituals in Victorian Cemeteries

Carol Holsworth wrote 1 month ago: CHINESE CEMETERY RITUALS IN VICTORIAN CEMETERIES by Carol Holsworth Ch’ing Ming, a Chinese wor … more →

Tags: cemetery, Tombstones, Victoria Heritage

Byte 12: Introducing the Great Southern Land & its People

Timestrider wrote 1 month ago: A little about the history of the Great Southern Land…. Australia, as we now know it, covers some 3 … more →

Tags: Beginnings, aboriginal, Australia, Exploration

Byte 11: Discovery - Spanish & Portuguese - 1500-1550

Timestrider wrote 1 month ago: With their East African and Indian positions established the Portuguese continue to the east, past … more →

Tags: Discovery, Explorers, Magellan, Papua New Guinea, Spice Islands

1.3 (II) Thinking like a state about economic contradictions: Tinbergen6 comments

mikebeggs wrote 1 month ago: A draft thesis section. This is a draft of an unfinished document, please don’t quote without gettin … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Keynes, Marxism, Money, Political Economy, Politics, thesis

Byte 10: Beginnings:The English Take to the Oceans - 1350-1450

Timestrider wrote 1 month ago: Let’s take a small digression on our journey to the Great Southern Land… As we have seen, the … more →

Tags: Beginnings, english history, Exploration, Trade

1.3 Thinking like a state about economic contradictions: Tinbergen1 comment

mikebeggs wrote 1 month ago: A draft thesis section. This is a draft of an unfinished document, please don’t quote without gettin … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Keynes, Marxism, Political Economy, Politics, thesis

Batavia Anniversary3 comments

Fee wrote 1 month ago: Greetings all. I thought I might share a little bit of local history with you.  Tomorrow it’s … more →

Tags: Personal Bits and Bobs, Homeschooling, Photography, kids, Batavia shipwreck, History


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