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By Art and Architecture, mainly on Dec 9, 2022 in: Australia, Brisbane, history, literature
Joh and Flo Bjelke PetersenCourier Mail, 1996The STATE politician Johannes Joh Bjelke-Petersen (1911-2005) served as Queensland Premier for 20 years. He was born in New Zealand and immigrated with his Danish Lutheran pastor fa...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Nov 1, 2022 in: Australia, Brisbane, history, photography
Australia is a continent that is arid over 70% of the land. Even in the 30% with rivers and trees, it is mostly known for its constant, very dangerous bush fires. But now we have to examine the three main types of flooding Australia has had. Tow...
By Boing Boing on Jun 27, 2021 in: Video, brisbane
In what could be used as a Matthew McConaughy or Sandra Bullock rom-com plot, Angie Yen woke up from tonsil surgery with an Irish accent, even though she lives in Brisbane, Australia (they have Australian accents there) and has never traveled to Ire...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Jun 5, 2020 in: Brisbane, literature, Melbourne
My goal years ago was to travel on every long, luxury rail trip in the world. And to write each experience up in this blog, achieved so far for Australia, Canada, USA, Japan, Southern China, Singapore, India, Spain, France and Britain.Since then, I r...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Jan 27, 2020 in: Australia, Brisbane, Melbourne, New Zealand, photography, women
The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) was initially believed to be too tall and not athletic enough to succeed at ballet, yet still graduated from the Imperial Theatre School in St Petersburg in 1899. In 1906 she was promoted to prima ball...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Dec 17, 2018 in: Australia, Brisbane, Britain, paintings, women
Frances Vida Lahey (1882-1968) studied painting at the Brisbane Technical College. In her early 20s (1905–09), she travelled south to Melbourne and studied at the National Gallery School with Bernard Hall. It was conventional training for a young A...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Jun 13, 2017 in: Australia, Brisbane, history, literature
Three men believed that aviation could benefit the outback communities of rural Queensland. They were Hudson Fysh (1895-1974), Paul McGinness (1896-1952) and Fergus McMaster (1879-1950). Based on their air force experience in WW1, McGinne...