Tuesday So I got past the barricades and visited Batlow in a press convoy. My house is still standing, more, it is almost unscathed. The service station two doors down had gas tanks that exploded. It utterly levelled the house in between mine and the service station. All that remains is rubble and dust. He only bought it a few weeks before Christmas. His house is … [Read more...]
From Diggers to Degenerates
Saturday When the discovery of Australian gold was announced in 1851, the population was just over 400,000. By 1858, just eight short but eventful years later, the population had risen to over 1,000,000. It was the pursuit of gold that established Australia as an immigrant country on a par with the US, and began the process of changing it from a penal colony to a … [Read more...]