Peakhurst School of Arts in Peakhurst, New South Wales, Australia | Community centre

Peakhurst School of Arts

Locality: Peakhurst, New South Wales, Australia

Address: 691 Forest Road 2210 Peakhurst, NSW, Australia

Website:

Likes: 126

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Non-profit organisation
• Education
• Community centre

11.02.2022 https://collection.maas.museum/object/207898

08.02.2022 ON THIS DAY 12th February 1793 John Macarthur was granted 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land at Parramatta where he established Elizabeth Farm. 1798 Matthew Fli...nders explored the Furneaux Islands in Bass Strait. 1814 Government House, Sydney, issued an official announcement of the new discoveries west of the Blue Mountains. 1851 Gold rushes in New South Wales and Victoria began. 1938 Third British Empire Games closed in Sydney, Australia. 1959 The Melbourne outdoor performance venue the Sidney Myer Music Bowl was officially opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies. 1979 Harry M. Miller's Computicket theatre and sporting booking agency collapsed. 1986 Ernie Bridge was elected to the West Australian Cabinet, thereby becoming the first Aborigine to become a Cabinet minister. 1990 Carmen Lawrence became the Premier of Western Australia, and Australia's first female premier, after the resignation of Peter Dowding. Pictured: Lithgow Valley Creek, New South Wales, 1878 (SLV) Top ‘Prospectors’ by S. T. Gill. National Museum of Australia. (NMA) Right Middle Myer Music Bowl under construction c. 1959 (PROV) Right Bottom Ernie Bridge MLA for Kimberley (SLWA) Left

25.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/325355782173219/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D

24.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.14169208683/3182943298455256/

23.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.29465460735/1613577082130282/

23.01.2022 Yuranigh (?1850) This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, (MUP), 1967 Yuranigh (d.1850), Aboriginal guide, belonged to the Molong district, New South Wales. He was one of three Aborigines who joined Sir Thomas Mitchell and his twenty-nine men soon after they set out from Boree, near Molong, in December 1845 on the journey of exploration that took them to central Queensland. Yuranigh was first mentioned in Mitchell's journal three weeks afte...r the start of the journey when he tracked and brought back to camp three cattle that had strayed. Thereafter he was frequently and gratefully referred to for finding water, scanning the country from lofty trees, pacifying the Aborigines who shadowed the expedition, and generally imparting bush lore. Mitchell wrote of his 'guide, companion, counsellor and friend' that 'his intelligence and his judgment rendered him so necessary to me that he was ever at my elbow Confidence in him was never misplaced. He well knew the character of all the white men in the party. Nothing escaped his penetrating eye and quick ear. Yuranigh was particularly clean in his person, frequently washing, and his glossy shining black hair, always well-combed, gave him an uncommonly clean and decent appearance'. When the expedition was over Yuranigh and Dicky, another Boree Aboriginal, went with Mitchell to Sydney, where Yuranigh took delight in showing his companion the sights. The governor granted Yuranigh a 'small gratuity' and for a time both blacks were resolved 'to work and live like white men'. However, Yuranigh soon tired of the town and after an 'affecting' leave-taking became a stockman on a northern cattle station. Later he found his way back to his own tribe. He died near Molong probably in April 1850. Mitchell saw to it that Yuranigh's grave was fenced at government expense and later he himself paid for an inscribed headstone. In 1900 the government renovated the headstone, re-erected it on a base of Molong marble and re-fenced the grave. The inscription runs: 'To Native Courage Honesty and Fidelity. Yuranigh who accompanied the expedition of discovery into tropical Australia in 1846 lies buried here according to the rites of his countrymen and this spot was dedicated and enclosed by the Governor General's authority in 1852'. A lagoon, a county in Queensland and a creek near Molong are named Yuranigh. Select Bibliography T. L. Mitchell, Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia (Lond, 1848) W. R. Glasson, Yuranigh, Queensland Geographical Journal, vol 54, 1949-52, pp 53-65.

22.01.2022 https://www.heraldsun.com.au//684e801a3caf31242dc39992cf55

21.01.2022 6. The 1890s Depression Bryan Fitz-Gibbon and Marianne Gizycki Reserve Bank of Australia Website October 2001...Continue reading

21.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 26th January 1788 The First Fleet arrives in Sydney Cove, Australia from Portsmouth, England. 1798 The koala and lyrebird observed by John Pri...ce on an expedition led by John Wilson. 1808 John Macarthur was arrested sparking the Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia. Military officers supporting Macarthur arrested Governor Bligh. 1838 The 50th anniversary of the colony of New South Wales was celebrated with a regatta on Sydney Harbour and other festivities. 1849 The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand). 1850 The Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, started publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue, aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees. 1865 Bushrangers Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and John Dunn held up Kimberley's Inn in the town of Collector, New South Wales. Dunn shot and killed the local police officer, Constable Samuel Nelson. 1924 3AR, Victoria's first radio station, began broadcasting. 1925 Australia's oldest commercial radio station, 2UE, began broadcasting in Sydney. 1943 The Defence (Citizen Military Forces) Act (1943) was passed which provided for the use of conscripts in the South-Western Pacific Zone (SWPZ) during the period of war. 1949 The Nationality and Citizenship Act was passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship. 1958 Thousands of Greek men rioted in Melbourne when the bridal ship Castel Felice was nine hours late. 1959 Darwin was granted city status. 1960 The first Australian of the year awards were granted. 1966 Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, retired and was succeeded by Harold Holt. 1966 The Beaumont children were abducted during a visit to Glenelg beach in Adelaide and were never seen again. 1971 - In the capital city of Australia, four children and three young adults were killed in the 1971 Canberra flood. 1975 The Workers' Party was launched at a banquet at the Sydney Opera House. The WP was libertarian in principle, demanding less government intervention, as well as being virulently anti-Socialist. The name was subsequently changed to the Progress Party in 1977. 1981 The Australian Institute of Sport was opened. 1984 Aboriginal leader Lowitja (Lois) O'Donoghue was awarded Australian of the Year. 1989 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney. 1991 Monica Seles became the youngest winner of the Australian Open Tennis Championship. 1991 Professor Fred Hollows was named Australian of the Year. 1992 The first Big Day Out music festival was held at the Sydney Showground, headlined by Violent Femmes and Nirvana. 1992 Prime Minister Paul Keating gave his Australia Day address in Canberra, saying that Australia must adapt to a changing world and look to Asia if it was to survive economically. 1994 Student David Kang fired two blank shots from a starting pistol at Prince Charles in Sydney, Australia. 1997 Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty was named Australian of the Year. Pictured: Rum Rebellion of 1808-1810, Artist unknown (Wiki) Middle Right Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and John Dunn (Canberra Times) Top Lowitja O'Donoghue at a ceremony to unveil a mural at the site of the former Colebrook Children's Home at Eden Hills, South Australia, 6 November 2013 (Wiki) Bottom Left Fred Hollows, date unknown (Wiki) Bottom Right

21.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/LandlineABC/videos/3487471324620533/

21.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220064516902166&set=gm.4249277058446627&type=3&eid=ARBdr1rFVPTBb3xwSpDIdQeBzDEf6qCzjHh8ruWsDphHRoHc4zfiozDAoYet1pDMiH_lP8RKlkZSrBVS&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCCKEy7ne87d8qkDqC2r-W5J3OJG5AzeoNju817n6mRwPjTTKLy6NDldfwyjnU6Dhmh_IPE8gWIR03n49EsSCL0EDyxxFsZYBu0KdLFvETDmoRYVkHv9TFgh4pPkJpmv5FjVBz4tX2yk69P3qQIgkFwRhEyDHoyGgs8Ci8OcjstnqL6Dk8gP6LZVH-DFrAZoMGjl-gnGUVwTgPL5oquhq3svO4TvxxzoiAAXLuKI_53a4r2WMB9OSu3kCLpNrowjtwLteB0eIDnKd_-lu7Ysy40AEPa6eHoGXA-iPLaJ53aTn0gKfRUAOk&__tn__=EHH-R

21.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/Innerwestcouncillibraryandhistory/videos/299273617792989/

20.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.16418976045/1472992659574830/

20.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 13th February 1832 The King's School opened in Parramatta. 1848 The first non-British ship, the Goddefroy, carrying immigrants from Germany ar...rived in Victoria. Many of those on board were political refugees, known as the Forty-Eighters, who had participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe. In the German states, the Forty-Eighters had favoured unification of the German people, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human rights. 1896 The Brisbane River ferry Pearl capsized, killing 28. 1907 The Northern Territory was transferred to the Commonwealth by South Australia. 1938 Nineteen people died when the Sydney ferry ‘Rodney’, carrying 150 passengers, capsized in Sydney Harbour while farewelling US Navy cruiser USS Louisville. 1954 Mawson Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory was established. 1978 Terrorism arrived in Australia for the very first time with the Sydney Hilton bombing killing 3 people and injuring 11 others. 1995 Two thousand people rallied at Sydney Airport causing disruption, protesting aircraft noise following the opening of the new runway in November 1994. Pictured: The King’s School Parramatta, date unknown (History and Heritage, City of Parramatta) Top Rodney, moments before she capsized and sank, showing many people on the top deck and few on the lower deck (Wiki) Middle Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, the scene shortly after the bombing (Wiki) Bottom

20.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3723684174327366&set=p.3723684174327366&type=3&eid=ARCENvMYIXHSfrjBHBgoBD22GuplgWTtAk5zhBGKae4GkIMMNGCz7nt44VBOlbTtcfiy81xePOcdHJj4

20.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 23rd January 1796 The distilling of spirits was prohibited. 1833 Bathurst was gazetted as a town.... 1942 WWII - Battle of Rabaul: Japanese attacked an Australian air-base in Rabaul, New Britain. 1948 De Havilland Australia conducted the first flight of its 3-engined Drover transport aircraft at Bankstown Airport. 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California). 1990 The industrial tram dispute continued as 250 trams blockade the city of Melbourne. 1991 Fierce storms lashed Adelaide and Melbourne. 1991 Billy Joel arrived for his Australian Tour. 1992 The Australian movie Spotswood starring Anthony Hopkins, Russell Crowe and Toni Collette was released. Pictured: Parafrag bombs falling in Rabaul harbour, New Britain (2EyesWatching) Top de Havilland Australia DH(A)-3 Drover VH-DHM airborne at Royal Australian Navy Air Station HMAS Albatross near Nowra, New South Wales (Wiki) Bottom Right Billy Joel - Live @ Entertainment Center, Sydney, Australia, 1991 (LiveBootlegConcert) Middle Right Spotswood (Alchetron) Bottom Left

19.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/824054118340558/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D

18.01.2022 GETTING IT RIGHT! The First Fleet of 11 vessels carried over a thousand settlers, including 778 convicts (192 women and 586 men). A few days after arrival at Botany Bay the fleet moved to the more suitable Port Jackson where Phillip established a settlement at the place he named Sydney Cove (in honour of the Secretary of State, Lord Sydney) on 26 January 1788. This date later became Australia's national day, Australia Day. The colony was formally proclaimed by Governor Phillip on 7 February 1788 at Sydney. Sydney Cove offered a fresh water supply and a safe harbour, which Phillip famously described as:

17.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207399320378852&set=gm.4259254047448928&type=3&eid=ARCl1RJN49EpAOYlHHMwH8bZbt0EN_7Zyck2mp7KT_sSuqFlp3KcxWptet8y1H4UxnuW5Lms78dhKlKx&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARB6Hc8NekJXAcacbgHqSu4608K6R6fCXeL_GJ4hyTRUac9Qi4b1hZZ2xxQTgCAnN_KviRLG2edEEE18co8N5A8B5o5aAcYlfdrsVTNnhbzIdZht2aKiwaR9OG_ZbuCY99nYUWccnDqDtxlPcK7qKkpEjzEa5gkWWbKi8odXK_-BqdPBKfgkgqjOJOQSwDPd8-u_VbLx-F8prFMcFfdsP0-FVw-DVC_66BNAi0Iw_RzbuB0QHF1judUO82X1rZDGXIpxEgszRREbggFo34_NEVEuRRaOqVfwVhNyYgXl8_-rUi8shKMYKMg&__tn__=EHH-R

17.01.2022 4. The 1840s Depression Bryan Fitz-Gibbon and Marianne Gizycki October 2001...Continue reading

16.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.53488034672/1495097620701380/

16.01.2022 HERITAGE TALK 90.1 FM Hart, William Ewart (Bill) (18851943) by Keith Isaacs This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983...Continue reading

16.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 29th January 1817 NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie signed the charter to incorporate Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales. 1850 L...awrence Hargrave, Australian inventor of the box kite, was born. 1939 Academic, writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer was born in Melbourne. 1964 The Royal Australian Air Force took delivery of its first two Mirage fighter jets. 1969 Sheahan & Connolly hung on for exciting draw Australia v West Indies. 1985 Federal Cabinet endorsed an earlier decision to provide refuelling facilities to the United States aircraft monitoring MX missile tests in the Pacific. The strong anti-American and anti-nuclear reaction soon forced Prime Minister Bob Hawke to withdraw the offer. Pictured: Receipt issued by the Bank of New South Wales to Gregory Blaxland, 5 April 1817 (State Library of NSW) Bottom Right Lawrence Hargrave portrait (Monash University Engineering Faculty archive website) Bottom Left Hargrave (seated) and Swain demonstrate the manlift kites (labelled A, B, D, & E), sling seat and spring balance in the parkland behind Stanwell Park beach, November 1894 (Wikipedia) Top

15.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.14058204360/3759254890756393/

15.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//teddy-sheean-victoria-cr/12550210

14.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.1015018783/10159965105703154/

14.01.2022 https://www.theleader.com.au//tribute-for-norm-and-beryl/

13.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.18076466226/4191434647597878/

13.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/Innerwestcouncillibraryandhistory/videos/1029397654179967/

13.01.2022 http://liverpoolchampion.com.au///to-honour-our-cabrogal/

11.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/PRIME7NewsCentralWest/videos/4004016999668756/

11.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//nasa-spacecraft-snaps-cl/12465066

09.01.2022 https://www.sbs.com.au//why-are-packets-of-mystery-seeds-f

08.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/sydneymorningherald/videos/739883560184298/

08.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/Innerwestcouncillibraryandhistory/videos/600228700861660/

07.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/WHO/videos/1345563375641366/

07.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.15532034451/3162576357122430/

06.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 24th January 1788 French ships were noted outside Botany Bay just two days before Captain Arthur Phillip takes formal possession of New South Wa...les. 1903 The Golden Pipeline, a massive engineering undertaking bringing vital water to the Western Australian goldfields, was opened. 1908 The Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club, now known as the Sydney Roosters, was formed at Paddington Town Hall. 1967 Members of 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam made contact with the enemy for the first time in the area of the Bien Hoa. 1968 Operation Coburg, an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War, began. 1974 Cyclone Wanda made landfall near Double Island Point. Large parts of South East Queensland, particularly Brisbane, and northern New South Wales were flooded. 1980 The first section of Melbourne's underground railway loop was opened. 1988 Network Ten unveiled its new logo, the "X" logo. 1990 A fireworks explosion occurred at an amusement park on the New South Wales Central Coast. 1991 Ford announced plans to retrench 1,600 works at its Geelong and Broadmeadows factories. 1999 A full-size replica of the Duyfken, built by the "Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation" and the Maritime Museum of Western Australia, was launched in Fremantle. Pictured: Botany Bay. Sirius & Convoy going in: Supply & Agents Division in the Bay. 21 Janry. 1788 (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) Top Laying the golden pipeline from Perth to Kalgoorlie. (National Trust WA) Middle Looking over South Brisbane during the floods, 1974 (John Oxley Library, SLQ) Bottom

06.01.2022 https://youtu.be/-YmOnJim5wU

05.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//miles-franklin-winner-ta/12459046

05.01.2022 https://www.smh.com.au//if-i-kneel-down-i-ll-never-get-up-

04.01.2022 GOOD READS BY ANDREW TAYLOR. Over the last month or so have been engrossed in the James Marwood series set in the reign of King Charles II. James is the son of a former Fifth Monarchist, who was imprisoned for his religious view and becomes an agent for the Restoration Government. Through the four books we meet an architect working with Christopher Wren who built London after the Great Fire. Commencing with "Ashes of London" then "The Fire Court" , "The King's Evil" and finally "The Last Protector", the series gives a historic understanding of a time which we probably would not like to live through in "Merrie Old England" Recommend reading. First three are available through Georges River Council Libraries.

04.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/SydneyWater/videos/809702492899348/

04.01.2022 https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-m/resources/eight-hour-day

03.01.2022 https://theconversation.com/carbon-emissions-are-chilling-t

03.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/LachlanValleyRailway/videos/1703740986468039/

02.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.13914790644/2504877079802983/

01.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.13914790644/2498916960398995/

01.01.2022 https://www.theleader.com.au//flashback-leader-ads-over-/

24.12.2021 ON THIS DAY 11th February 1799 The gaol in Sydney was burned by arsonists. 1851 Tasmania played Victoria in the first inter-colonial cricket match.... 1861 Burke and Wills reached the northern coast but were unable to actually reach the sea, due to mangrove swamps. 1965 Mt Isa Mines suspended all operations as a result of industrial dispute. 1979 The Australian 60 Minutes began on the Nine Network. 1984 The Nine Network's Hey Hey It's Saturday moved from Saturday mornings to the 9:30 pm timeslot and renamed Hey Hey It's Saturday Night. 1985 Ray Martin took over Mike Walsh's old daytime slot, replacing The Mike Walsh Show with Midday with Ray Martin. 1986 Joan Child became the first female Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. 1986 More than 100 bushfires burned across the state of Victoria. Pictured: Some members of a Tasmanian team which played Victoria in 1867 (UTAS) Top Hey Hey It’s Saturday Night Newspaper Advertisement (The Age Feb 18, 1984) Bottom Left Beginning on 11 February 1979, 60 Minutes marked a new era for current affairs on Australian commercial television. (Television AU) Bottom Right