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April 2023
Ettie – The Story of Her Life
Ettie Darlington raised six children in outback Queensland after her husband left her in the 1930's. Granddaughter Patsy Brown will tell us about her struggles to raise a family.
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Foundation of the Native Police
Patrick Collins has written vividly of the history of Queensland.
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Marooned in Moreton Bay
In 1823 three ticket-of-leave convicts and one full convict set out from Sydney in an open sailboat to buy timber for their employer from the Illawarra. Their boat was swept out to sea in a storm and ended up on Moreton Island, 900 kilometres north of their intended destination. One died but the three survivors travelled the area by foot and canoe as far north as the Sunshine Coast and were the first Europeans to discover the Brisbane River. Chris…
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The Breed Apart
Tom Schulz has lived almost all his life in Wynnum, attending Guardian Angel Primary School and Iona College. For more than thirty years, until his retirement in 2013, he was General Secretary of the Bacon Factories' Union of Employees, Queensland (BFUE).. His talk will cover the many and varied people who worked in the thriving food processing industries in the south east suburbs of Brisbane. The Wynnum Manly area…
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