Sorry, I've been on the road today. Have to think of a question - it's getting hard. Won't be too long.
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Who first drove from Bathurst to Melbourne, and what did they drive?
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In August 1899 a young Melbourne engineer, Herbert Thomson, announced Australia's first practical steam car, which he had designed and built in a small Armadale workshop over the previous three years. After exhibiting the car at the Royal Melbourne Show, Thomson and his cousin Edward Holmes took it by steamship to Sydney and, in an inspired publicity stunt, drove the car from Bathurst back to Melbourne on a pioneering 790-kilometre overland road trip.
You got it Mando, although the reference below has a slightly earlier date for the manufacture of the car. 1899 sounds about right for the trip:
"The first true cars made in Australia were steam cars. The first of these steam cars, the Phaeton, was made in 1896 by Herbert Thomson and Edward Holmes of Armadale, Melbourne. It was exhibited in 1900 using the first pneumatic tyres made in Australia by Dunlop. The 5 horsepower single cylinder steam carriage which is now in the Institute of Applied Sciences, Melbourne, was reliable and durable enough to take Thomson and a friend to 493 miles from Bathurst to Melbourne at an average speed of 8.7 mp/h."
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"The first true cars made in Australia were steam cars. The first of these steam cars, the Phaeton, was made in 1896 by Herbert Thomson and Edward Holmes of Armadale, Melbourne. It was exhibited in 1900 using the first pneumatic tyres made in Australia by Dunlop. The 5 horsepower single cylinder steam carriage which is now in the Institute of Applied Sciences, Melbourne, was reliable and durable enough to take Thomson and a friend to 493 miles from Bathurst to Melbourne at an average speed of 8.7 mp/h."
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Suffragettes 1902?
Was it the Australian Natives' Association?
The Australian Natives Association was a middle-class mutual insurance friendly society formed in Melbourne in 1871 to 1872 with membership restricted to the native-born.
The Australian Natives Association was a middle-class mutual insurance friendly society formed in Melbourne in 1871 to 1872 with membership restricted to the native-born.
How about the Federal League movement of the 1890's?
we weren't a 'nation' until 1/1/1901 so I am guessing its after that date - or am I splitting hairs. I am still recovering for my Australian beats Switzerland with Dim Sims and Chiko Rolls refusal. I thought 'more snow' was a bit of a woozy answer. Did I mention we have better lamingtons as well?
My next guess - anything to do with Temprance Leagues?
My next guess - anything to do with Temprance Leagues?
Richard Heales (1821-1864), politician and temperance reformer, was born in London, son of Richard Heales (1801-1882), an ironmonger who migrated to Victoria, and his wife Elizabeth. He served an apprenticeship as a coachbuilder in London and at 19 married Rhoda, ne Parker; in February 1842 they arrived at Melbourne as bounty emigrants in the Himalaya. At first unable to find work except as a day labourer, Heales was by 1847 listed in the almanacs as 'coachbuilder, Collins Lane'; later he had a business in Lonsdale Street.
A fervent believer in temperance, Heales had probably been active in the cause in London, and soon became its most energetic leader in Victoria. In February 1843 he was made secretary and his father president of the newly-formed Total Abstinence Society. Heales was mainly responsible for the building of the Temperance Hall in 1847 and by 1850 was widely known as a temperance speaker. In November he entered the Melbourne City Council, defeating John O'Shanassy in Gipps ward. He had told his constituents that he hoped the time was near when 'the nomination and the poll would no longer be the arena of vice and intemperance, but when the election of the candidate would be the pure result of the people's choice', and proposed, successfully, that the practice of holding council elections in public houses be discontinued. This success, his support for secret ballot, anti-transportation and early closing, together with his temperance work, won him repute as a democrat and reformer dedicated to the social and moral improvement of the working classes.
A fervent believer in temperance, Heales had probably been active in the cause in London, and soon became its most energetic leader in Victoria. In February 1843 he was made secretary and his father president of the newly-formed Total Abstinence Society. Heales was mainly responsible for the building of the Temperance Hall in 1847 and by 1850 was widely known as a temperance speaker. In November he entered the Melbourne City Council, defeating John O'Shanassy in Gipps ward. He had told his constituents that he hoped the time was near when 'the nomination and the poll would no longer be the arena of vice and intemperance, but when the election of the candidate would be the pure result of the people's choice', and proposed, successfully, that the practice of holding council elections in public houses be discontinued. This success, his support for secret ballot, anti-transportation and early closing, together with his temperance work, won him repute as a democrat and reformer dedicated to the social and moral improvement of the working classes.
Was it the Australasian Anti-Transportation League?
Great question, by the way.
Great question, by the way.
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1848 the British government tries to restart it convict transportation process to mainland Australia, the response was public outcry and sparked the creation of the first popular national movement the Anti Transportation League to protest and oppose this, and it also created the first prototype national flag featuring the union jack and the southern cross
Nice one doc
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Nice one doc
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Loamer, I agree that our achievements in all spheres are greater than those of the yodelling nazis, particularly when it comes to tasty things like chicko rolls! And good god, those bastards gave us the fondue. Anyone old enough to have been to dinner parties in the 70's will remember them with horror, particularly those where the hostess relied on the recipe out of the Women's Weekly. I went to one where one of the dipping sauces was sate made from peanut butter with a bit of soy sauce mixed in.
Now I have to think of another question. It is getting hard.
Now I have to think of another question. It is getting hard.
Which medal was one of the earliest inspirations for the Australian Coat of Arms?
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