Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
By Roger Garwood: - Bill Bright featured in Off Like Flies, the book published by Roger Garwood and Trish Ainslie thirty years ago. Both Outback Family History and the WA State Library have featured some of the stories and pictures. This is the … [Continue reading]
Contributor of the week - Jenni Hodge Violence, Murder, and Dispossession - The Human Cost of the Australian Gold Rush - By Outback Family History reader, Jenni Hodge Rushing for gold makes a few individual fortunes, and breaks the hearts and … [Continue reading]
Southern Cross Times 31 May 1919, page 2 The Prospector's Daughter Proud of gait, grandly tall, Dainty of hand and foot withal Graced with the glorious length of limb That thro' the ages poets sing. Graceful of form, bewitching … [Continue reading]
The day dawned still and sure, as the first day might have dawned. No wind whispered across the white dust. This was a day like any other. But she knew it was not! By Frannie HOPKIRK The woman had slept fitfully through the hot night. Her slumber … [Continue reading]
In 1913 (and for many years after), having an abortion was a criminal act in Western Australia. Both the woman and the person carrying out the operation could face severe penalties. However, this didn't stop the many deaths of young pregnant women … [Continue reading]
