Australian History

[Tathradj]

the duck,
You got it.
Re:, Sydney University
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MB BS 1958 MSurgery 1969 Ph D Med 1970 MD 1989 FRCS (Edinburgh) FRCS (England) FRACS Hon MD (Hanover) Hon MD (Sydney) Hon DSc (Wollongong) Hon DEng (CYC Taiwan) Hon LLD (Monash) Hon FAudSA Hon FRCS (England)

One of our most distinguished alumni in the field of Otolaryngology is Professor Graeme Milbourne Clark, foundation Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne and pioneer of the multiple-channel cochlear implant, the bionic ear.

Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the multiple-channel cochlear implant which has brought hearing and speech understanding to tens of thousands of people with severe-to-profound hearing loss in more than 80 countries.

Graeme Clarke graduated from Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1958 and became Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH), Sydney. In 1960, he also became Lecturer in Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine. By 1961, he had graduated to being Registrar in Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology at RPAH. He went to London in 1962 and was appointed Senior House Surgeon of the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital in London. He remained in England for four years, working at Bristol General Hospital and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.

When he returned to Australia, Graeme first went to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he was the first Assistant Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon, later becoming Senior Honorary ENT Surgeon. In 1967, he again lectured at the University of Sydney, this time in physiology. In 1969, he served as a Senior Research Officer of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

 

[the duck]

He was a great man
Name one of the british army units that served in australia before we had our own army, so pre boer war

 

[Magilla]

73rd (Royal Highlanders) 1810 to 1814.

Google makes things so easy to look up now.

 

[the duck]

well done your question

 

[Magilla]

This one will be a bit harder to find, I tried to see if it would come up with a Google search but it didn't.

What task was given to the Department Of Main Roads NSW (and maybe other states) during WW2 to slow the expected invasion by the Imperial Japanese Army?

 

[stevo]

Would it of been taking down or changing the road signs.

 

[Jaros]

On 26 July 1940 the Army approached the governments of NSW, Queensland and South Australia for advice on how to build a gravelled all-weather road from Tennant Creek to Birdum in the Northern Territory. The road was needed to fill the gap in the rail link from Darwin to Adelaide.

 

[loamer]

How was the main roads department going to slow down the Japanese?

Sub-contract their road repairs to the Loddon Shire Council or the Central Goldfields Shire Council. That way you would get drainage channels dug ACROSS the roads, nothing repaired, nothing built and all our rate $ spend at Wedderburn or Maryborough. That's how.

 

[Magilla]

Would it of been taking down or changing the road signs.

Not the one I' looking for.

 

[Magilla]

On 26 July 1940 the Army approached the governments of NSW, Queensland and South Australia for advice on how to build a gravelled all-weather road from Tennant Creek to Birdum in the Northern Territory. The road was needed to fill the gap in the rail link from Darwin to Adelaide.

Not this one either Jaros.

 

[Magilla]

How was the main roads department going to slow down the Japanese?

Sub-contract their road repairs to the Loddon Shire Council or the Central Goldfields Shire Council. That way you would get drainage channels dug ACROSS the roads, nothing repaired, nothing built and all our rate $ spend at Wedderburn or Maryborough. That's how.

That might have been on their reserve list. :lol:

 

[goldtruck59]

destroy crops and livestock, poison water etc destroy anything that could sustain them

 

[Goldpick]

To build alternative special defence routes should the main corridors out of Sydney be severed?

 

[Magilla]

Getting close but no cigar just jet.

 

[Goldpick]

The Yooroonah tank barrier, built to slow any advance of japanese force on the Ebor/Armidale Rd. MAny other tank traps were built round the state (around 50), but the Yooroonah one still exists today, with most others dismantled after the war?

 

[Magilla]

The Yooroonah tank barrier, built to slow any advance of japanese force on the Ebor/Armidale Rd. MAny other tank traps were built round the state (around 50), but the Yooroonah one still exists today, with most others dismantled after the war?

Very interesting, I hadn't heard about that. Not what I am looking for though.

 

[Magilla]

I think if anyone had heard about this they would have posted by now.

The task that the DMR was assigned was to undermine all the roads running from the coast to inland NSW at suitable locations and then with the assistance of the army place large amounts of explosives under the roads. In the event of an invasion the explosives could then be detonated delaying any attempt by the Japanese to strengthen their position.

I was informed about this by an old mate. He was living at Nowra NSW when the war broke out and when he went to get his Food Stamps (dole) from the local police stn he was informed there was a job for him in the army. He was transported to Sydney where he was housed with about a thousand other "volunteers" in preparation to be sent to war.

While he was there the commanding officer addressed the group and asked for volunteers to stay behind to work with the DMR on the South Coast. Most of those there put their hands up and my mate was one of the few that were picked out. It possibly saved his life.

He was returned to the South Coast where he was taken to a mountain top on Braidwood Road just above Nerriga. He was then given the job of tunneling under the road and hollowing out a cavern about the size of a bedroom from solid rock. The position was chosen because it would be the hardest damage to repair.

The army engineers were not sure how much explosive would be needed so another cavern was hollowed out on the other side of the mountain and a test charge was set. The damage from this explosion is clearly evident when pointed out now. I am not sure of the amount of explosive used but apparently the cavern was almost filled with it.

My mate said that all the strategic roads that led from the coast received the same treatment, luckily it was never needed.

It is still clear where the cavern has been bricked up on the Braidwood Road as you start the decent down to Nerriga or it was the last time I went through there. The road upgrade may have changed things a bit, I might go that way next time I am down there and check it out.

New question.

An easy one for the Ned Kelly fans. What was the name of the Stationmaster's wife at Glenrowan when the siege took place?

 

[goldtruck59]

Mrs Stanistreet

 

[Magilla]

First name?

 

[goldtruck59]

EMILY