Almanac Teams: A Real Bushrangers’ Australian Test Cricket Eleven

November 5, 2021 by 9 Comments

As cricket season is now here, KD puts forward an Australian Test cricket team of historical bushrangers, as a companion piece to his Almanac post where he selected a real bushrangers’ football team.

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Almanac Life Lessons: I must not argue with the umpire

October 11, 2021 by 6 Comments

E.regnans recalls being unfairly dismissed from a game of primary school “Cutter’s Out”. Oh, the injustice!

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Almanac History – Ned Kelly the Fugitive: Three Newspaper Articles from 1880

September 3, 2021 by 11 Comments

This Friday’s column from KD is an historical piece highlighting three highly interesting 1880 newspaper reports connected to the Kelly Gang’s activities – especially Ned’s – after the Stringybark Creek murders of October 1878. One report concerns Ned and Joe Byrne being seen together in women’s clothing!

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