O’Malley, the mercurial King of contradictions
A bounder or a visionary? NICHOLE OVERALL talks to author Brian O'Malley about the unbelievable backstory of maverick King O'Malley, the 'Yankee dandy' at the heart of Canberra's foundation.
History
St Andrew’s Presbyterian church, at 1 State Circle, Forrest, one of Canberra's oldest buildings, is celebrating its 90th anniversary. NICHOLE OVERALL looks at the proud history of the cathedral that wasn't.
Frank and Sylvia Manley were out for a spin in their new silvery-green HQ Monaro coupe. Driving across the 1025-metre, four-lane Tasman Bridge was to be a moment forever frozen in time, writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
The Mint is turning 60 in February. Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks back to the day it was opened by Prince Phillip and the controversy of its being built in Deakin.
History
St Michael’s is Queanbeyan’s ‘divine secret’
"For almost 60 years, the neat, red brick church has remained something of a divine secret in Queanbeyan. Most passers-by barely register its presence, tucked back from the street as it is," writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
History
When the ‘people’s champion’ got walloped
In Brisbane on March 17 1948, Australia's only Communist Party MP Fred Paterson was savagely smashed from behind by a policeman. The assault became known as The Great St Patrick's Day Bash. ROSS FITZGERALD tells the story.
History
Out came kilts for kirk’s big day
It was a “kilt-wearing occasion” 150-years ago today when the unadorned timber doors of the coppery-coloured stone church opened to all comers as a rather rare Presbyterian “kirk” in the Canberra region, writes NICHOLE OVERALL.
Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks at how the fear from the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 made it to the backyards of Canberra.
In this short history of lawn bowls, Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL pays tribute to the survival of the Queanbeyan Bowling Club, which turns 90 this month.
"Known from its inception as the Queanbeyan and District Soldiers’ Memorial, as country town monuments go, at 11 metres high, it’s an impressive one," writes "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
Social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL shares the story of Queanbeyan's Boer War memorial and its long journey from Monaro Street to the Moore Park Memorial Rose Garden.
"I think it is regrettable there isn't in Canberra a memorial dedicated specifically to the men and women from the ACT who have served our nation in war. This is an omission I feel deeply we should address," writes JON STANHOPE.
Meet Ivy Wallace, born in Captains Flat and the inaugural president of the Women for Canberra movement, who proved to be a “remarkably effective force for... Australian unity”. NICHOLE OVERALL looks at the life of this forgotten activist.
‘He was horrific!’: Nearly two thirds of family historians are distressed by what they find – should DNA kits come with warnings, asks SUSAN MOORE.
"All I can say is that it would be a sad day when a boy of 16, because of what he sees on television, would ever descend to the crime of shooting one of his loved ones,” said the judge, in 1965. It's another "Yesterday" column from NICHOLE OVERALL.
Excavations on the site of Queanbeyan’s planned Civic and Cultural Precinct have uncovered a well potentially dating as far back as the 1800s, opening up new questions about the heritage status of the location.
In a change of pace, columnist JON STANHOPE salutes the teenager who went off to wat at the age of 16.
"Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL reflects on the history of the early, first steps of the development of the Woden Valley.
IT'S another sad sign of the times when history repeats to see the annual History Week curtailed in the region for the second year running.
