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24.01.2022 On this day the 21st of March in 1895, The announcement proclaiming South Australia's Suffrage Act was gazetted as 'The Constitution Amendment Act 1894' in the "South Australian Government Gazette". The amendment stated the following: Section 1. The right to vote for persons to sit in Parliament as members of the Legislative Council, and the right to vote for persons to sit in Parliament as members of the House of Assembly, are hereby extended to women. Section 2. Women shal...l possess and may exercise the rights hereby granted, subject to the same qualifications and in the same manner as men. Queen Victoria's Royal assent granted women an equal right with men to vote, and it also allowed women to stand for election to South Australia's House of Assembly. Women who owned property could also now vote in Legislative Council election. South Australia is recognised as the first state of Australia to grant women the right to vote. It is generally accepted that this right occurred with the passing of a Bill on 18 December 1894. However, a letter from the Attorney-General advising Governor Kintore that Royal Assent would be required to enact the Bill, is dated 21 December 1894. The Bill was enacted when Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent on 2 February 1895. See more

24.01.2022 On this day the 29th March in 1841, Edward John Eyre and his men reached the coast after a journey of 180km without water. They feasted on fish caught in the shallows and, digging behind the sand dunes, they located fresh water at a depth of only 180cm. This spot was named Eyre, and after the advent of telegraph across Australia, a relay station was constructed near the site of the well. Edward John Eyre was the first european to cross southern Australia from Adelaide to the ...west, travelling across the Nullarbor Plain to King George's Sound, now called Albany. Eyre originally intended to cross the continent from south to north. He was forced to revise his plans when his way became blocked by the numerous saltpans of South Australia, leading him to believe that a gigantic inland sea in the shape of a horseshoe prevented access to the north. See more

23.01.2022 On this day the 19th of March in 1840, bushranger Thomas Wetton was hanged in Goulburn for the murder of John Hume, brother of the famous explorer Hamilton Hume. Wetton was born in Lancaster, England in 1814, and after several brushes with the law was transported to the colony of New South Wales in 1835. He was put into service at Mr Redfern’s property at Waugoola when in 1838 he escaped. In the company of two other men, Thompson and Reynolds they went on a crime spree that l...asted only a few months, that ending in the murder of Hume in the February of 1840. Wetton was tried in Sydney but as an example to the lawlessness of the Goulburn district was returned to Goulburn to be hanged. Buried nearby, his body still lies within the grounds of the Goulburn District Courthouse. All this and more can be found in our video "Ghost of the Goulburn Courthouse". Special thanks to Tricia Mack for her dedication and research. https://youtu.be/zWkWFnu08qk See more

22.01.2022 On this day the 23rd of March in 1887, a gas explosion detonated in the Hill End section of the Old Bulli Colliery. 81 men and boys were killed when a lamp ignited methane gas, creating a series of rolling coal dust explosions. An inquiry into the disaster laid the blame on both mine management and the workers for their casual attitude towards safety. Specifically, the jury’s verdict stated that the gas explosion was brought about by the disregard of the Bulli Colliery ...Special Rules and Coal Mines Act, in allowing men to work when gas existed". Oil-bearing shale was first discovered in the Mount Kembla region in 1849, leading to the establishment of several mines in the area. In 1862, the Bulli Mine Company opened a mine on the Illawarra Range escarpment, west of the Illawarra coastal plain, transporting the coal by rail from the colliery to Bulli Jetty at Sandon Point. Mount Kembla is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. It was first observed in 1770 by explorer James Cook who described it as ‘a round hill’ with a top resembling a hat. The nearby area was settled in 1817 by George Molle, Lieutenant-Governor of the New South Wales colony under Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s administration. E28 See more

21.01.2022 On this day the 17th of March in 1830, Captain Charles Sturt and his party reached the junction of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers. By the time they reached their depot at Maude on the Murrumbidgee, they had rowed and sailed 3,000 km on Australia's inland rivers, with no loss of life. Captain Charles Sturt was born in India in 1795. He came to Australia in 1827, and soon after undertook to solve the mystery of where the inland rivers of New South Wales flowed. Because the...y appeared to flow towards the centre of the continent, the belief was held that they emptied into an inland sea. Sturt first traced the Macquarie River as far as the Darling, which he named after Governor Darling. Pleased with Sturt's discoveries, the following year Governor Darling sent Sturt to trace the course of the Murrumbidgee River, and to see whether it joined to the Darling. Sturt followed the Murrumbidgee in a whaleboat and discovered that the Murrumbidgee River flowed into the Murray (previously named the Hume). Sturt continued to trace the course of the Murray southwards, arriving at Lake Alexandrina, from which he could see the open sea of the southern coast, in February 1830. However, the expedition then had to face an agonising journey rowing back up the Murray against the current. The men rowed in shifts from dawn until dusk each day, low on rations, through extreme heat, and against the floodwaters heading downstream See more

20.01.2022 On this day the 28th of march in 1922, Neville Bonner was born at Ukerabagh, near Tweed Heads in northern New South Wales. He worked as a farm labourer before settling on Palm Island, near Townsville, Queensland in 1946, where he rose to the position of Assistant Settlement Overseer. In 1960 he moved to Ipswich, where he joined the board of directors of the One People Australia League (OPAL), a moderate indigenous rights organisation, becoming its Queensland president in 1970.... He joined the Liberal Party in 1967 and held local office in the party. Following the resignation of Liberal Senator Annabelle Rankin in 1971, Bonner was chosen to fill the vacancy. He thus became the first indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament. He was elected in his own right in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1980. In 1979 Bonner was named Australian of the Year, and in 1984 he was awarded the title Officer of the Order of Australia. From 1992 to 1996 he was member of the Griffith University Council, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1993. Bonner died at Ipswich on 5 February 1999: the Queensland federal electorate of Bonner, created in 2004, was named in his honour. See more

17.01.2022 On this day the 30th March in 1772, French vessel Gros Ventre, under the command of Louis-François-Marie Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn, anchored off Turtle Bay on the northern coast of Dirk Hartog Island, Shark Bay. Mid-morning, Saint-Aloüarn sent a crew to reconnoitre the mainland. After venturing inland for some 14km without sighting any other living person, officer Mingault or Mengaud (spellings vary in documentation) took formal possession of the land, raising the flag. The occa...sion was documented, and the papers placed in a bottle and buried at the foot of a small tree, together with two coins (écus) of 'six francs' each, enclosed in lead capsules. The ship's log refers to this Bay as the 'Baie de Prise de Possession' (the Bay of Taking of Possession). The first of the coins, dated 1766, was recovered in 1998 in an expedition led by Mr Philippe Godard of Noumea, together with Max Cramer, Kim Cramer, John Eckersley, Tom Bradley and Chris Shine of Geraldton. This prompted another expedition which retrieved a bottle containing only sand, with no trace of the document, despite the contents being carefully analysed by an archaeological team. Over 150 years before English explorer Lieutenant James Cook ever sighted eastern Australia, the Dutch landed on the Western coast. In 1616, Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog landed at Cape Inscription, where he left a pewter plate with an inscription recording his landing. However, it was the French who made the first formal claim to Western Australian soil. See more

13.01.2022 On this day the 18th of March in 1922, the first section, extending from Lorne to the Eastern View section of the Great Ocean Road, was officially opened. The second official opening occurred on 27 April 1932, and this celebrated the extension of the road to Warrnambool. The Great Ocean Road Trust was officially formed on 22 March 1918, and surveying began in August of that year. On 19 September 1919, the project to construct the Great Ocean Road was officially launched by t...he Premier of Victoria, Harry Lawson. Taking 13 years to complete, the road is regarded as a tremendous engineering feat for the 1920s. With the absence of any machinery at the time, it required back-breaking manual labour as the men had only shovels, picks and horse-drawn carts to hew out the rocky cliffside. The concept of such a road was first put forward as early as the 1870s. Settlers along the coast could only reach the larger communities inland via rough tracks over the Otway ranges, so calls were made for either a rail or road route connecting these otherwise isolated coastal settlements. Shortly after Geelong businessmen E H Lascelles and Walter Howard Smith proposed a road be built between Geelong and Lorne, the Country Roads Board (CRB) was formed in 1912. Following World War I, CRB chairman William Calder suggested that returned Diggers be gainfully employed on various road projects, including a road extending from Barwon Heads to Warrnambool. The plan was soundly approved by Mayor of Geelong, Howard Hitchcock, who saw not only the value in such a road for tourism, but also as a permanent memorial to the many thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in the Great War. See more

13.01.2022 On this day the 16th of March in 1774, Matthew Flinders was born in Lincolnshire, England. In 1789, he entered the Royal Navy. He became a sea explorer, and arrived in Australia in the 1790s. Together with George Bass, Flinders completed much sea exploration around Australia, adding to the knowledge of the coastline, and producing accurate maps. Flinders, together with Bass, was the first to prove that Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania, was an island and not connected to the ma...inland. Flinders was also the first to circumnavigate the continent, and between December 1801 and June 1803, he charted most of the coastline of Australia. Australia was previously known as New Holland, and Flinders first proposed the name "Terra Australis", which became "Australia", the name adopted in 1824. Flinders was captured by the French on the island of Mauritius in 1803. He was kept prisoner until 1810 on the grounds that he was a spy. He was finally released to return to England, but his health began to fail and he died young, on 19 July 1814. Before his death he completed a book on his travels called 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', and died on the day that his book was published. See more

12.01.2022 On this day the 22nd of March in 1897, Edmund Barton head the discussion of the constitution . After not being accepted by the states the first time, the amended Commonwealth Constitution was given Royal Assent on 9 July 1900. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies was achieved and the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed. The man who became Australia's first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, was a strong advocate of the federation of the Australian colonies, and he ...led the federal movement following the death of Sir Henry Parkes. In 1897 he was one of the NSW delegates to the Constitutional Convention which developed a constitution for the proposed federation. As the most vigorous federalist in the largest state, Barton was appointed Prime Minister, although this was only after some negotiations with the newly elected Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, who initially invited Sir William Lyne, the Premier of New South Wales, to form a government. Barton was Prime Minister from January 1901 to September 1903. Prior to 1901, Australia was made up of six self-governing colonies; New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania. These colonies were ultimately under British rule from the time the First Fleet landed in 1788, until 1901. Numerous politicians and influential Australians through the years had pushed for federation of the colonies, and self-government. See more

09.01.2022 On this day the 20th February in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur made his famous speech, in which he said, "I came out of Bataan and I shall return", was first made at Terowie, a small railway township in South Australia, before he continued on to Adelaide. After he arrived in Adelaide, MacArthur abbreviated this to the now-famous, "I came through and I shall return" for which he is best remembered. General General MacArthur is famous for uttering the phrase "I shall return".... It is less known, however, that this phrase was first stated by MacArthur as part of an extended speech whilst visiting Australia. On 17 March 1942, he arrived at Batchelor Airfield in the Northern Territory, Australia, about 100 km south of Darwin. Following this, he flew to Alice Springs, then took the Ghan railway through the Australian outback to AdelaidDouglas MacArthur was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, MacArthur was Allied commander in the Philippines. He was a significant figure in the Pacific during World War II, receiving the Medal of Honour for his early service in the Philippines and on the Bataan Peninsula. Initially designated to command the proposed invasion of Japan in November 1945, when that became no longer necessary, he officially accepted Japan's surrender on 2 September 1945. See more

02.01.2022 On this day the 26th of March in 1838, George Grey discovered evidence that he was perhaps not the first European to explore the hinterland of northwest Australia. Over the ensuing three days, he discovered numerous Aboriginal cave paintings near the head of the Glenelg River. Some of the figures depicted seemed to be wearing long garments, with helmets or hats. Another cave held an unusual painting of a non-Aboriginal man's figure, over 3m long, wearing a flowing reddish gow...n. Theories suggest that these paintings were early depictions of Portuguese or Spanish mariners or priests who may have visited the area long before any European settlement on the western coast. Grey's first expedition to the area was in late 1837, but it was beset with numerous problems including Aboriginal attack and intense heat and humidity (in some areas, over 50 degrees C) compounded by lack of water. Grey himself was speared in the hip and spent two weeks recovering. His first sight of luxuriant country beyond the Macdonald Range convinced him to continue, and after several more days, he discovered the Glenelg River, named after Lord Glenelg, the Colonial Secretary of State. Sir George Edward Grey, born 14 April 1812, was Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), Premier of New Zealand and a writer. Prior to his political career, however, he was an explorer to one of Australia's remotest regions - the northwest. He was the first known adventurer to this region. See more