1900 – The Mount Garnet races were held on Saturday, last, and proved a great success in every way, begins a newspaper report on the first ever such event at the Far North Queensland mining town. It’s not until the end of the story that the story mentions two deaths and one serious injury. GrantedContinue reading “Inaugural races a success – apart from the deaths”
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Rain damps fire too late for firefighter
As the shearer’s dispute of 1891 raged around him, a union carrier named Mark Cavanaugh was burned to death helping to put out a bushfire. The strike, which sparked the development of the Australian Labor Party, was over the use of non-unionised shearers. From February until May that year, central Queensland was on the brinkContinue reading “Rain damps fire too late for firefighter”
Way to go Australia 