This article is contributed. No other nation has attacked Australian soil but the Japanese. My late grandparents, bless their souls as long as I knew them, never forgave the evil invading Japs. The invading bastards were the ISIS of the 1940s. …
The Eureka Flag was first flown by Diggers (White gold mining prospectors) on the Ballaarat goldfields at Bakery Hill on November 30 in 1854. However, the use of the Southern Cross constellation design dates back to the National Colonial Flag of 1823,…
There is no controversy about the Eureka Flag. It is singularly an icon of Australian nationalism since 1854, symbolic of Australian national identity, Australian sovereign independence and of Australian individual freedoms. The Banner of the Ballaarat Reform League of Diggers Upon the…
Australia Day, 26th January, flying our traditional Australian Flag, the mandatory long weekend public holiday fully paid, mandatory speaking English, whatever it’s Aussie time! Australia Day January 26 is so rock solid historically cemented in the cultural psyche of Australians that it…
Just before 10am on February 19, 1942, Darwin was attacked by the Japanese in the first of two air raids under the command of Naval Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who had ten weeks earlier bombed Pearl Harbour. Darwin, the largest population centre in…
