Australian History

[Sarn]

Dame Phyllis Frost?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Frost

"Dame Phyllis Frost AC DBE JP (14 September 1917 30 October 2004) was an Australian welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to causes, such as helping prisoners. She chaired the Victorian Women's Prisons Council for many years, established the Keep Australia Beautiful movement, worked for Freedom from Hunger and raised millions of dollars for charity."

 

[mando1463]

Nice one Sarn over to you

 

[Sarn]

Who was thrown out of his marital home by his wife for failing to pay for the wedding and for stealing livestock?

 

[the duck]

Harry Harbord Morant

 

[Sarn]

Nice one duck, correct over to you

 

[the duck]

Who surveyed port philip bay in 1803

 

[richo966]

Charles Grimes

 

[Dropbear!]

Charles Grimes and James Fleming

 

[the duck]

No ill give you a hint he was with collins

 

[mando1463]

Charles Robbins

 

[the duck]

He was a first lieutenant initials were J H T he was on the calcutta

 

[mando1463]

James Hingston Tuckey

Tuckey was born at Greenhill, near Mallow, August 1776. He went to sea at an early age, and in 1793 was received into the navy. From the first he saw a good deal of active service, and he was more than once wounded. He was engaged in expeditions to the Red Sea, and in 1802 he helped expand the British colony of New South Wales in Australia as first-lieutenant of the Calcutta. Amongst other services, he made a survey of Port Phillip District. On his return to England he published an Account of the Voyage to establish a Colony at Port Phillip

 

[Wintersnake]

Thought id try this ill select first question whoever gets it right can ask the next question we all may learn something

The first European agricultural farm in Victoria was where?

Sorrento.

Was also the first European settlement in Vic.

 

[the duck]

Correct mando over to you

 

[mando1463]

How old is the first recorded cremation in Australia

 

[DrDuck]

Mando, this is a trick question, by memory it was Mungo woman. I checked and it is the first known cremation in human history, at 40,000 years ago.

 

[mando1463]

It wasn't meant to be a trick question but yes mungo woman was the answer I was after all yours doc

 

[DrDuck]

No probs, Mando, I thought that most people would go looking for an early colonial cremation, or even one done by the Dutch or Portuguese explorers in WA or somewhere, not that the question was deliberately misleading. All good questions have a distractor or confuser in them!

I'll have to put my thinking cap on. Stay tuned for the next question!

 

[DrDuck]

This person of African heritage was the first of a series of Australians who engaged in a disreputable occupation.

 

[mando1463]

John Black Caesar first bushranger