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18.01.2022 "My Father took me to see #Bradman play at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against the England Team in the Summer of 1937 when I was nine years old, and the day remains clearly in my memory." Eileen Watson reflects on her early life: on the farm, school, sports and entertainment https://greataustralianstory.com.au/story/oral-history

11.01.2022 Mallee Girl - Part Two - https://mailchi.mp//have-you-read-our-latest-stories-615691

06.01.2022 4'10" Beverley Moore was almost knocked over by a blustery wind when she climbed Uluru (Ayers Rock) - a climb you can't do now. It was dangerous and people had fallen to their deaths trying. But pocket rocket Beverley made it. Here's her story https://greataustralianstory.com.au/sto/climbing-ayers-rock

03.01.2022 Listening to the "doom and gloom of the radio presenters broadcasting more government decisions about the Coronavirus or problems with the public fighting over toilet paper" prompted author #MaryRenshaw to reflect on another time in history when Australians were heeding health warnings, that time about Tuberculosis, which Mary contracted in 1969. This is her story, generously written to remind us that our current crisis shall too be overcome https://greataustralianstory.com.au//contagion-then-and-no Pictured is a TB X-ray van stationed in LaTrobe Street, Melbourne in 1962 (Courtesy: Victorian Collection)

01.01.2022 The third delightful instalment from Glennis Johnson's memoir, "Mallee Girl". Here she starts school, experiences bullying, learns to ride a bike and is given her first watch which has a mother of pearl face https://greataustralianstory.com.au/story/mallee-girl-part-3

01.01.2022 Mallee Girl (to founding member of Adoption Jigsaw): an Early Memoir - https://mailchi.mp//have-you-read-our-latest-stories-615687