Christmas Greeting – 2018

I would like to thank all of the Outback Family History Blog readers for all their support and comments throughout this past year. We have some interesting projects and articles in the pipeline for 2019 so I hope you will stay with us. See you … [Continue reading]

The Asplin Brothers:-

Jo Roelofs has very kindly shared the following photographs from the family album of her Great Grandfather Thomas Asplin and his brother Jack:- … [Continue reading]

Christmas Camp – by Dryblower Murphy

The miles are long in Mulgaland, Beyond the beaten pad, Today is Christmas, but no hand Grips mine in greeting glad. Yet, though this stinted meal I make Burlesques the festal board, It strums upon the strings that wake A long forgotten … [Continue reading]

Amid the Smoke and Smoulder – a verse

… the demise of Pitman and Walsh In an era of the Charleston, she’s roaring out Kalgoorlie way The war’s over, gold’s in demand, and the miners are on good pay Then greed overtakes good fortune, miners’ fingers soon hit the till Gold stealing … [Continue reading]

Shattered Ideals and Fractured Identities – Book launch

Shattered Ideals and Fractured Identities: Western Australia to Yugoslavia and back 1948 - 1955 On the 17 Nov 2018, at the Spearwood Dalmatinac Sport and Community Club, Dr Criena Fitzgerald, well know history author, launched her latest book … [Continue reading]