Australian History

[headbut]

Yeah Duck I saw that link above while looking for an answer. But the XXXX brothers bit sounded suss .
So i looked at the history of XXXX? That info is just wrong.
No such thing as XXXX Brewery, It's made by Castlemaine .

What about the esky it's all BS

The Esky
First called the 'Inuit', it was initially used to transport donors' organs from fatal accident sites to hospitals and waiting patients. It was not until some St John's Ambulancemen participated in a national Where do you get it? advertising campaign, that its great potential for transporting beer was understood.

 

[The Green Wanderer]

Yep its Castlemaine, the sales team in cairns have a shed 2 doors down from us. They also answer to the trading name Lion Nathan.

 

[the duck]

That page could all be lies the vegimite one doesnt sound real either

okay time to get harder, What channel between 2 major islands was formed by a shipwreck carrying explosives around 1894

 

[headbut]

Cambus Wallce , Jumpinpin channel

 

[headbut]

Nth & Sth Stradbroke

 

[the duck]

A channel in the general area of Jumpinpin may have formed and silted up several times over recent millennia, however, the most recent formation of the channel is generally blamed on two events. The first of these was the wreck of the Cambus Wallace, a 75 m steel barque of 1534 tonnes built in 1894 at Port Glasgow. In the early morning of 3 September 1894, the Cambus Wallace ran aground in heavy seas near what was then a narrow stretch of Stradbroke Island called Tuleen. Most of the crew managed to swim to shore, but six men drowned and were buried on the beach. The ship broke up where she struck and most of the cargo was washed ashore and plundered by local residents. During the subsequent cleanup, explosives from the cargo were piled up and deliberately detonated on the beach leaving large craters. The explosion is credited with severely damaging the beach and weakening the loosely vegetated sand dunes. Following gradual erosion of the seaward side of the island over the next two years, the second event to ultimately generate the channel at Jumpinpin was the arrival of a cyclone in 1896. Thomas Welsby, writing in 1921, noted, "Within two years (1896) the southeast gales threw again their power and fury on the very spot whereat the Cambus Wallace had come to grief, drove the rollers and breakers against the sandy hillside until it conquered and made passage into Swan Bay. Once the entrance was established, the heavy seas and strong tidal currents were sufficient to enlarge the channel from 20 feet to more than a mile and a quarter by 1898

Thought this would be a hard one your go headbutt

 

[headbut]

Good one Duck , learning some Aussie history I had no idea about is stimulating. Question soon

 

[Dogmatic]

Geez, that was quick. Gotta make them harder for headbut

 

[headbut]

Hey, Duck is the wiz here

OK , who was the only Bushranger to become a policeman

 

[Ramjet]

Yeah nice one Duck. Thanks

 

[headbut]

New question above

 

[Ramjet]

Martin Cash, (1808-77), so-called 'gentleman bushranger', does not deserve this reputation. Often described as a Robin Hood who robbed only the well-to-do, in narrating his story he had selective memory: that police and robbery victims were cowards, that females were always treated kindly, that he led his gang.

Born in Ireland, Cash was transported to Sydney aged eighteen for housebreaking. He arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1837, and his de facto wife Elizabeth probably worked as a prostitute. Seven years was the sentence Cash received for larceny in 1840. Between 1840 and 1843, Cash became a 'notorious bushranger', on the run from authorities. After shooting a policeman in Hobart, Cash spent ten years on Norfolk Island. Returning to Tasmania, he became a policeman, and retired to Montrose.

 

[Dogmatic]

Well don Ramjet

 

[Ramjet]

Ok an easy one cause it's late...
Who took " The swim that needs no towel" and what is the memorial built to him ?

 

[Dogmatic]

Harold Holt. The memorial to him is the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool.

The then Australian PM Harold Holt disappeared while swimming off the Melbourne coast on December 17 1967. The fact that the 59-year-old Mr Holt was a keen swimmer, and the failure to find a body - or even any trace of one - despite a three-week search of the coastline led the case to be described as the Australian equivalent of the Kennedy assassination.

 

[Ramjet]

Correct Dog
Only put it up cause I thought a memorial of a pool for a drowning victim was amusing

 

[Dogmatic]

It is rather ironic isn't it. Surprised that anyone actually agreed to the naming of it.

 

[Dogmatic]

A strike by a group of Australian workers in 1894 brought violence, death, arson and even piracy! What type of workers went on strike?

 

[Ramjet]

Shearers Strike and the burning of my namesake paddleship The Rodney?

 

[Dogmatic]

Well you did that pretty easily. Going to have to work on some hard ones for you 2.

A strike in 1891 was partially resolved, but the shearers were not happy. The catalyst was the attempt by the Pastoralist Association to reduce wages, and to have the control of the shearing crews given to the station owner. Contract labour (scabs) were brought into play, and were being shipped to the sheds on the steamer 'Rodney'. Unionists stormed the boat on the Darling River, the scabs lost the ensuing brawl, and the ship was put to the torch. The situation was exacerbated by the shooting death of a young shearer, Billy McLean, and emergency legislation had to be introduced by Parliament. This was the start of unionism in Australia, and also inspired A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson to write the famous 'Waltzing Matilda'.