Australian History

[TheSilentBugler]

Yes and no.

More info please.

 

[TheSilentBugler]

Nobody?

 

[Balmain Bob]

After the painting was finished it was discovered that Mt Townsend was higher than Mt Kosciusko. So as to keep Mt Kosciusko the highest peak in Australia the names were reversed.

http://nga.gov.au/exhibition/turnertomonet/Detail.cfm?IRN=48469

Cheers

Bob

 

[TheSilentBugler]

You got it Bob.

 

[Balmain Bob]

Thanks Mate,

Been sitting on that answer for a few days to see if anyone else was going to respond.

I will be back with a question soon.

Bob

 

[TheSilentBugler]

Heh, that's the problem with this thread, win, and you have to get to work

 

[Balmain Bob]

Although Im not an Australian, I was the first person in the counrty to be credited with this achievement in the early 1900's

 

[Balmain Bob]

This event took place in what is now an outer suburb of Melbourne.

Bob

 

[Magilla]

Harry Houdini is often wrongly credited with the first powered flight in Australia, it took place at Diggers Rest.

 

[Balmain Bob]

Magilla
Thats the Bloke and event that I was thinking of. Houdini made the first controlled powered flight in Australia.

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/early-austn-aviation

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/houdini_bio.html

Who do you recon was the first to be credited with a controlled powered flight in the country?

Over to you for the next question.

cheers

Bob

 

[Zorgs]

Harry Houdini is often wrongly credited with the first powered flight in Australia, it took place at Diggers Rest.

Depends if flight includes landing or crashing!

 

[Zorgs]

Who do you recon was the first to be credited with a controlled powered flight in the country?

Over to you for the next question.

cheers

Bob

It's a conspiracy but it is believed there were 2 flights prior, one of them in 1909 the other the day before Houdini. I believe both crashed though.

 

[Magilla]

Magilla
Thats the Bloke and event that I was thinking of. Houdini made the first controlled powered flight in Australia.

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/early-austn-aviation

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/houdini_bio.html

Who do you recon was the first to be credited with a controlled powered flight in the country?

Over to you for the next question.

cheers

Bob

Colin Defries has been credited with the first Ausie powered flight by the Aviation Historical Society Of Australia as well as The Aero Club of Great Britain. He flew for aprox 100yds at an altitude of 15 feet at a speed of 36 mph. He did then crash but the record was accepted by the relevant authorities. Probably something that will be debated forever.

Another who am I? I suffered from the black dog and was put in one of the most stressful positions in Australia's history.

 

[goldtruck59]

Julian Assange of wikileaks?

 

[DrDuck]

Naa, I reckon it was John Curtin, wartime Prime Minister who was an alcoholic and depressive.

 

[Explorer385]

John Brogden?

 

[Magilla]

The Dr has it, Prime Minister John Curtin. He was the wrong bloke to be put in the position of head of the country at the start of WW2.

 

[the duck]

The Dr is one smart cookie, nearly 450,000 views i think the whole forum is smarter but the questions are getting harder to find

 

[DrDuck]

That one just came to me, just luck. I'd read about him some years ago and thought of him straight away when I read the clue.

Duck, you are sure right that it is hard to think of a new question. I have an idea, but need to research it to frame a question.

 

[DrDuck]

Here is an easy one, as the internet is in and out like a fiddlers elbow tonight.

I came to Australia as a young man early in my career, and went on to become one of the most controversial figures of the Victorian age.

This question should not last long in this company!