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Post by Barney » June 23, 2021, 5:17 am

ON THIS DAY – 23rd June

1810 – Governor Macquarie opened Australia's first post office. The first postmaster of Sydney was Isaac Nichols, an ex-convict who took up the post in 1809. Australia's first post office was opened the following year by Governor Macquarie, on 23 June 1810, and was situated on Circular Quay, Sydney. Mail continued to be delivered by coach and messengers on horseback to outlying areas of New South Wales. Australia's first delivery postman was a private servant of George Panton, then Sydney Postmaster, in 1828.

1860 – Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, the first person to study Australia anthropology, was born in Britain.

1950 – The Parliament of Australia passed the Communist Party Dissolution Bill, effectively banning the operation of the Communist Party of Australia.

1961 – Australia signed the Antarctic Treaty.

1979 – New South Wales Premier Neville Wran opened the Eastern Suburbs six-station railway line which runs from Sydney city to Bondi Junction. The railway line had been a source of continuing controversy since work on it began. In 1976, Neville Wran referred to the project as probably "the most monumental financial scandal" in the state's history.

1981 – The Queensland Government approved sand mining on Moreton Island.

1982 – Himmy, of Australia, weighed in at a domestic cat record 20.7 kg. Guinness World Records has since retired the title to discourage deliberate overfeeding.

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Isaac Nichols home and First Australian Post Office (Twisted History) – Top
British botanist and anthropologist Walter Baldwin Spencer [1860-1929] (Wiki) – Bottom Right
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by pipoz4444 » June 23, 2021, 11:25 am

With regards to a "How Does..............?" thread,( posted elsewhere), to those certain naïve individuals who post on it, this should tell you something :-k
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » June 23, 2021, 12:30 pm

I'm struggling to see the connection between the funeral of a Sydney gangster, and the establishment in 1948 of the state of Israel.

Unless you are referring to the wanton violence leading up to both events.

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Post by Barney » June 25, 2021, 10:25 am

ON THIS DAY – 25th June

1847 – Melbourne, capital of Victoria, was proclaimed a city by letters patent of Queen Victoria.

1852 – The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, NSW killing 89 of the population of 250. Torrential rain had been falling in the Snowy Mountains for most of the month of June 1852 but despite the rising river, many people chose to wait out the floods in the lofts of their houses rather than evacuate, as they were familiar with floods. However, in the early hours of 25 June 1852, a torrent swept down the Murrumbidgee valley. Houses collapsed and people were swept away. A punt sent out to rescue people capsized, its occupants thrown into the raging waters. Two Aborigines, Yarri and Jackey Jackey, showed great courage and heroism as they took their canoes out into the torrent to rescue people stranded in trees and the water. Although they rescued 49, another 89 were killed in the Gundagai flood.

1867 – Bushrangers the Clarke brothers were executed in Sydney. Brothers Thomas (c. 1840 – 25 June 1867) and John Clarke (c. 1846 – 25 June 1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales. They committed a series of high-profile crimes which led to the enacting of the Felons' Apprehension Act (1866), a law that introduced the concept of outlawry in the colony and authorised citizens to kill bushrangers on sight. Active in the southern goldfields from 1865 until their capture, Thomas and John were joined for a time by their brother James and several associates. They were responsible for a reported 71 robberies and hold-ups, as well as the death of at least one policeman; they are also suspected of killing a squad of four policemen looking to bring them in. The Clarkes also murdered one of their own gang members and a man they wrongly assumed was a police tracker, and shot several other victims. They were captured during a shoot-out in April 1867 and hanged two months later at Sydney's Darlinghurst Gaol. Their execution ended organised gang bushranging in New South Wales. Some modern-day writers have described the Clarkes as the most bloodthirsty bushrangers of all, and according to one journalist, "Their crimes were so shocking that they never made their way into bushranger folklore — people just wanted to forget about them."

1908 – Art Gallery of Western Australia opened.

1912 – Landscape gardener and botanist William Guilfoyle died. William Robert Guilfoyle (8 December 1840 – 25 June 1912) was a landscape gardener and botanist in Victoria, Australia, acknowledged as the architect of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne and was responsible for the design of many parks and gardens in Melbourne and regional Victoria.

1967 – The ABC participated in the historic Our World broadcast, the world's first live, international, satellite television production.

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John Skinner Prout, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 1847, lithograph and watercolour, 22.5 x 35.6 cm (The University of Melbourne Art Collection) – Bottom Left
Yarri Monument Plaque (Monument Australia) – Top
The Clarke brothers apprehended in Braidwood Jail, May 1867. Thomas (right) is shot in the arm. (SLNSW) – Bottom Right

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Post by Barney » June 26, 2021, 9:02 am

ON THIS DAY - 26TH June

1797 – HMS Reliance arrived in Sydney from the Cape of Good Hope, carrying stores ordered by Governor Hunter and merino sheep imported by John Macarthur.

1800 – Major Joseph Foveaux was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island.

1803 – John Macarthur wrote the ‘Statement of Improvement and Progression of Fine Woolled Sheep in New South Wales’.

1858 – Explorer John McDouall Stuart found Chambers Creek, later to be renamed, Stuart Creek.

1861 – A rescue party led by Alfred Howitt left Melbourne to search for explorers Burke and Wills, who are long overdue from their attempt to cross Australia from south to north.

1880 – Bushrangers, the Kelly Gang, executed police informer Aaron Sherritt, shortly before they themselves were captured.

1916 – William Jackson was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in a raid near Armentières, France. Jackson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916 for selfless courage under heavy fire while rescuing his comrades near Armentières in France during the First World War. Jackson is the youngest Australian to have been awarded a Victoria Cross. His was the first VC to be won by an Australian on the Western Front.

1918 – The Australian steamer Wimmera was sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf. Twenty-six of its 151 passengers and crew were killed.

1945 – Dr H. V. Evatt signed the United Nations Charter on behalf of Australia.

1950 – Twenty-eight die in one of Australia's worst aviation disasters when an ANA Skymaster crashes near York, Western Australia. One passenger survived the crash.

1980 – Australian Richard Thorp, of the United States firm Mitchell, Giurgola and Thorp, won the competition for the design of the new Parliament House, Canberra.

1988 – The Australian Recording Industry Association compiled the first ARIA Charts.

1998 – The Marree Man geoglyph appeared in the desert near Marree, South Australia.

2006 – The world's first successful triple organ transplant was performed in Australia.

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Portrait of Alfred William Howitt (SLV) – Bottom Right
Portrait of Sherritt wearing his hat in the "Greta mob" fashion with the chin strap resting under his nose (SLV) – Bottom Left
Private John William Alexander Jackson (AWM) – Top
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by tamada » June 27, 2021, 10:30 am

No, Greg Hunt didn’t say no one had died from COVID-19 in Australia

https://www.aap.com.au/no-greg-hunt-did ... australia/

But he did make public comments that were so disjointed that they were easy fodder for the conspiracy theorists to take out of context and mangle for their followers. Certainly got this bloke in a lather.

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by pipoz4444 » June 27, 2021, 11:55 am

I am so surprised that Facebook would allow a Non Factual (Lie) to be posted and not be removed :-k :-k

Personally I think it is time that the Facebook's, Instagram's and Twitter's of the world, are held financially accountable when they allow false narratives and edited videos to be uploaded and allowed to stay on their Platforms. [-(

Now the Facebook's, Instagram's and Twitter's know who the Account Holder(s) of the doctored or edited Videos are, so why are they not as a first step, cancelling that Persons social media account, after they become aware that the Video is false and passing that information to an Authority if need be. [-(

Why are the Facebook's, Instagram's and Twitter's not issuing a retraction and or apology if need be for the doctored or edited Video on their Platforms. =; :-k

If the Facebook's, Instagram's and Twitter's wish to play God as social media outlet, then they should be held financially accountable for their actions or inactions, in accordance with the Law of the land. They should not be exempt from Financial Penalty, when they participate in the propagation of False or Edited Narratives and or Video's. So let's have a Law that keeps the Facebook's, Instagram's and Twitter's, in check and accountable for abuses on social media.

To use a similar expression "ignorance of the law is no excuse".

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A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » June 27, 2021, 1:24 pm

I’ve seen a few of his online rants and he certainly has now ramped up the use of the colourful adjectives used by Aussies, normally only one at a time, but he has gone obove and beyond this time. Hope he feels better getting that off his chest.
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Post by pipoz4444 » June 27, 2021, 3:07 pm

Hi Barney,

Do get me wrong I am no fan of any Politician these days.

It's just the principle of the Social Media Owners/Elite, that believe they have a right to can act like a Newspaper and allow anything to be published on their Platforms, , but then advocate that they are not accountable or responsible, from their side.

Even Newspapers Retract and or issue Apologies from time to time, when proven wrong in their Articles, be it in fine print at the ar..se end of the news papers.

Speaking of colorful adjectives being used by Aussie Politicians, have you seen that Michaelia Cash in action, in Parliament, in question time. What a piece of works. Fancy having to be married to that. It's enough to drive you to drink 24/7 :-k \:D/ \:D/ or worst still, she would bite your C..ck off. [-( [-(

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Post by Barney » June 27, 2021, 7:03 pm

No worries
I’m only commenting on the video rant.


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Post by Barney » June 27, 2021, 7:33 pm

But better sunshine out of Australia just now is NSW smashing the cane toads in game 2.
2 games and 76-6 score line and counting.


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Post by Barney » June 28, 2021, 7:06 am

ON THIS DAY – 28th June

1790 – John Macarthur, with his wife Elizabeth and new born son Edward, arrived in Sydney. John Macarthur arrived in Port Jackson as a lieutenant in the New South Wales Corps on 28 June 1790. Under Commanding Officer Major Francis Grose he was appointed paymaster for the colony and later promoted to Inspector of Public Works.

1836 – Snow fell in Sydney in the only significant snowfall event to occur in that city to date.

1894 – A Colonial Conference, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, resolved to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia.

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, bringing Australia's involvement in World War I to an end.

1967 – Judy Amoore-Pollock broke Ann Packer's world record (2:04.3) in the women's 800 metres, clocking 2:01.0 at a meet in Helsinki, Finland.

1981 – Painter Russell Drysdale died. Sir George Russell Drysdale, AC (7 February 1912 – 29 June 1981), also known as "Tass Drysdale", was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for Sofala in 1947, and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1954. He was influenced by abstract and surrealist art, and "created a new vision of the Australian scene as revolutionary and influential as that of Tom Roberts".

1982 – The Nine Network premiered its new breakfast TV show, ‘National News Today’, which was later shortened to ‘Today’.

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Post by pipoz4444 » June 28, 2021, 12:26 pm

Re. 1967 – Judy Amoore-Pollock broke Ann Packer's world record (2:04.3) in the women's 800 metres, clocking 2:01.0 at a meet in Helsinki, Finland.

54 Years on, and the World record for the Woman's 800m is now 1:53.28 by Jarmila Kratochvílová, less than 7 seconds quicker

So, an excellent effort by the girls back in in 1967, given the fact that, footware has improved, running tracks are better/more kind, and the athletes are now professional full time.

I bet these two girls were only part timers, back in those days

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ON THIS DAY – 29th June

1835 – The Port Phillip Association was formed for the purpose of settling land in the area that later becomes Melbourne.

1868 – The lighthouse was lit at Bustard Head, the first lighthouse constructed after Queensland separated from New South Wales, and the scene of many tragedies.

1888 – Birth date of Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor (29 June 1888 – 27 October 1927) was an Australian gangster from Melbourne. He appeared repeatedly and sometimes prominently in Melbourne news media because of suspicions, formal accusations, and some convictions related to a 1919 violent gang war, to his absconding from bail and hiding from the police in 1921–22, and to his involvement in a robbery where a bank manager was murdered in 1923. Taylor enjoyed a fearsome reputation in 1920s Melbourne. A "spiv", described as the Australian equivalent of the 'American bootleggers', his crimes ranged from pickpocketing, assault and shop breaking to armed robbery and murder. He also derived income from sly-grog selling, two-up schools, illegal bookmaking, extortion, prostitution and, in his later years, is believed by some to have moved into cocaine dealing.

1927 – Charles Kingsford Smith and his co-pilot Charles Ulm completed a round-Australia flight in ten days, five-and-a-half hours.

1942 – General Thomas Blamey reorganised the army for the defence of Australia.

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Lighthouse keeper, M. J. Rooksley in front of the lighthouse and the original cottages, 1902 (Wiki) – Top
Photograph of Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor on his release from Pentridge Prison in December 1924 (published in Police Gazette [Victoria], 1924-25) – Bottom Right
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ON THIS DAY – 30th June

1825 – German Australian Sir Ferdinand von Mueller was born; some claim that he was Australia's greatest scientist of the 19th century. Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG (German: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants.

1861 – Explorer Robert O'Hara Burke died on the banks of Cooper Creek.

1861 – Lambing Flat Riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales, began.

1899 – Jack Hearne took a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley.

1922 – The Industrial Court of Appeal rejected the concept of equal pay for women.

1934 – The Commonwealth rejected Western Australia's case for secession.

1941 – WWII - HMAS Waterhen sunk off Libya – the first Australian naval vessel lost in the war.

1947 – The Australian government assumed control of Qantas.

1965 – At a speech to the Australian Club in London, PM Sir Robert Menzies declared that Australia was in a state of war in Vietnam.

1972 – The Ord River Irrigation Scheme in Western Australia was officially opened by Prime Minister William McMahon.

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Baron von Mueller (National Library of Norway) – Bottom Right
The Burial of Burke, painting, by William Strutt (SLV) – Top
The Roll Up banner around which a mob of about 1,000 men rallied and attacked Chinese miners at Lambing Flat in June 1861. The banner is now in Young (Wiki) – Bottom Left
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ON THIS DAY - 1st July

1812 – The settlements at Port Dalrymple and Hobart Town are merged into a single colony of Van Diemen's Land, administered from Hobart.

1836 – Australian explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell found the Loddon River in Victoria.

1841 – The convict assignment system was abolished in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land and was replaced by the probation gang system.

1851 – Victoria Victoria separated from New South Wales, becoming a separate colony.

1865 – Stamp duty was introduced in New South Wales with the Stamp Duties Act of 1865.

1879 – The Daily Telegraph newspaper was first published in Sydney.

1888 – "The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women" was first published by Louisa Lawson, in Sydney.

1902 – The first Australian postage stamps were issued, replacing pre-federation colonial stamps.

1915 – Australia began Commonwealth Lighthouse Service.

1915 – Australian Survey Corps became part of the Military Forces.

1932 – The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was established.

1935 – The Australian Associated Press (AAP) news agency was established.

1936 – Australian National Airways was registered as a company.

1942 – Australia's worst maritime disaster occured when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed by the American submarine USS Sturgeon. In January 1942, Japanese forces landed in Rabaul on the island of New Britain, now part of Papua New Guinea. There, they established a defence base, launching offensives against Australian troops. Prior to the invasion, there were an estimated 1400 troops in the region. Of these, around 400 managed to escape. The remaining 1000 were taken as prisoners of war (POWs), along with more than 200 civilians. One group consisting of almost 80 Australian officers and Army nurses was successfully moved from the base to Japanese territory. The next group, made up of the remaining POWs and civilians, was transferred to the Japanese transport ship Montevideo Maru to be taken to Hainan, off the southern coast of China. The carrier left Rabaul on 22 June. The Montevideo Maru was not marked as a POW carrier. On 1 July 1942, the ship was torpedoed by the submarine USS Sturgeon. It sank off the coast of the Philippines, near Luzon. All 845 POWs and 209 civilians were killed, locked in the ship’s hold as it went down. The Australian public were unaware of the tragedy until after the war.

1945 – The Australian 7th Division commenced operations in the Battle of Balikpapan. Operations were completed by 21 July.

1947 – Real estate company L. J. Hooker was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

1948 – The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was introduced.

1959 – "Mr Squiggle" first aired on ABC TV in Australia.

1967 – The postcode system of postal address coding was introduced throughout Australia.

1968 – The Copyright Act 1968 replaced the existing 1911 copyright legislation.

1970 – Melbourne Airport was opened at Tullamarine, Victoria.

1974 – Australia's road signs switched from imperial to metric.

1975 – Medibank was introduced, Australia Post and Telecom were formed from the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG).

1977 – The Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman is established.

1978 – Northern Territory of Australia became self-governing.

1979 – Commonwealth death duties were abolished.

1979 – Responsibility for education in the Northern Territory was transferred from the Federal to the Northern Territory Government.

1980 – Women were allowed to join surf clubs as full members.

1983 – High Court blocked construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania in the Tasmanian Dams Case.

1995 – Telecom Australia changed its domestic trading name to Telstra.

1996 – The Northern Territory legalised voluntary euthanasia. The legislation would later be repealed by a conscience vote in the federal parliament in 1997.

1997 – The telecommunications market was deregulated, allowing the entry of competitors other than Telstra and Optus.

1997 – Prime Television came to Mildura, ending a monopoly on commercial television held by STV-8 since 1965.

2000 – The Goods and Services Tax was introduced.

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Front page of The Dawn, vol. 1, no. 1, 15 May 1888 (Trove) – Top Left
The £2 stamp in the Kangaroo and Map series 1913 (Wiki) – Top Right
The Montevideo Maru (AWM) – Bottom Right
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Re. The £2 stamp in the Kangaroo and Map series 1913

Just wondering who could have afforded to pay 2 Pound for a stamp in 1913.

Can't be many around. Such a stamp must be rare as "Hen teeth"

At $ 138,000, now, it would have been a very good investment to buy one 109 years ago? Wish I had known that, as I would have ran out and bought 10 of them. \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/

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ON THIS DAY - 2nd July

1805 – John Barton Hack (2 July 1805 – 4 October 1884) an early settler in South Australia, prominent farmer, businessman and public figure, was born. He lost his fortune in the financial crisis of 1840 and despite his best efforts, never regained anything like his former influence and prosperity. His son Theodore Hack, younger brother Stephen Hack and nephew Wilton Hack were all figures of some significance in the history of the Colony. Some say Hack was too soft-hearted to be a successful pioneer; he paid high wages, gave generous credits and neglected to cover himself. Although he became a Wesleyan Methodist he was a Quaker by upbringing; he befriended Aboriginals and ex-convicts, advocated temperance, presided over the Mechanics' Institute, looked after James Backhouse and George Washington Walker during their Adelaide visit, and gave land in Pennington Terrace for a Friends' meeting house.

1851 – The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce elected their first Chairman, William Westgarth, and Deputy Chairman, J.B.Were.

1858 – Possible birth date of individual O'Malley, one of the more colourful characters of the early federal period of Australian political history. He claimed to have been born in Canada which would have made him a British subject, if he was born in Vermont, as was likely, he would have been ineligible for a seat in Australian parliament.

1900 – Snow fell to extremely low levels in New South Wales, being recorded as low as Forbes.

1907 – Trunk telephone cables connecting Sydney and Melbourne were completed.

1949 – A MacRobertson Miller Aviation DC-3 aircraft crashed on take-off from Perth Airport, killing all 18 on board.

1965 – Secondary school teachers in Victoria staged a strike, the first teachers' strike in Australia since 1920.

1968 – Fifty students were arrested during an anti-Vietnam War protest in Martin Place, Sydney.

1993 – Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop died. Colonel Sir Ernest Edward Dunlop, AC, CMG, OBE (12 July 1907 – 2 July 1993) was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II.

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John Barton Hack ca.1870 (SLSA) – Top Left
Portrait of individual O'Malley (NLA) – Top Right
O'Malley at the naming of Canberra ceremony (Wiki) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY - 3rd July

1797 – Following Aboriginal attacks on farms in the Hawkesbury region, Hunter dispatched a party of soldiers from the New South Wales Corps to protect settlers there.

1851 – Australian cricketer, Charles Bannerman was born. Charles Bannerman (3 July 1851 – 20 August 1930) was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he played for the New South Wales cricket team. Later, he became an umpire. He is most famous for facing the first ball ever bowled in Test cricket, scoring the first run in Test cricket and making the first Test century. This innings of 165 remains the highest individual share of a completed team innings in Test cricket history, despite more than 2,000 Test matches being played since that first Test. Ironically in another first, he was forced to retire hurt; when a ball broke his finger.

1915 – A medical report from Anzac Cove noted the increasing incidence of dysentery among the troops.

1922 – Queensland abolished capital punishment, the first state in Australia to do so.

1943 – Singer, songwriter and musician Judith Durham was born. Judith Durham AO (Judith Mavis Cock; born 3 July 1943) is an Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963. The group subsequently became the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States, and have sold over 50 million records worldwide. Durham left the group in mid-1968 to pursue her solo career. In 1993, Durham began to make sporadic recordings and performances with The Seekers, though she remains primarily a solo performer. On 1 July 2015, she was named Victorian of the Year for her services to music and a range of charities.

1947 – Sugar rationing ended following World War II.

1994 – Death of Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player.

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1st CCS then known as 1st Casualty Clearing Hospital at Gallipoli (BirtwistleWiki) – Top Right
Entrance to Boggo Road Gaol, ca. 1936. The Boggo Road Gaol was where 42 people were put to death by hanging. It was also the jail where Ernest Austin was executed in 1913, the last such execution in Queensland. (John Oxley Library, SLQ) – Bottom Right
Lithograph of Charles Bannerman (1851–1930), Australian cricketer (NLA) – Top Left
Judith Durham in 1970 (Allan Warren) – Bottom Left
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ON THIS DAY - 4th July

1918 – WWI - John Monash led an attack on Hamel, regarded as one of the most prepared battles of the entire war.

1951 – Australian politician and former professional tennis player, John Alexander was born. As a tennis player, Alexander reached a career-high singles rank of No. 8 in the world in 1975. He reached the semifinals of the Australian Open singles on three occasions, and won the doubles in 1975 and 1982. He also played in the Australian team that won the 1977 Davis Cup. After the end of his playing career, Alexander worked as a tennis commentator and managed various sports-related businesses. Alexander won the Division of Bennelong for the Liberal Party at the 2010 election, and retained the seat in 2013 and 2016. He resigned effective 11 November 2017 due to constitutional ineligibility arising from his dual citizenship of the United Kingdom. He renounced his UK citizenship and stood as the Liberal Party candidate at the by-election, held on 16 December 2017, which he won.

1968 – Three thousand protesters against the Vietnam War rallied outside the US Consulate in Melbourne.

1980 – Newcastle's Sun newspaper ceased publication.

1991 – Leading Sydney heart surgeon Dr. Victor Chang was shot and killed near his home in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. His murder was the result of a bungled kidnapping and extortion attempt.

1996 – The AFL teams endorsed a merger between the Fitzroy Lions & the Brisbane Bears.

Pictured:
Australian and American troops dug in together during the Battle of Hamel (Wiki) – Top
Dr. Victor Chang (Wiki) – Bottom Right
John Alexander at the 1970 International Dutch Championships in Hilversum (Nationaal Archief) – Bottom Left
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