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The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture PortalMerchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...
Gp Capt Eaton Charles, CO RAAF Station Darwin. Image courtesy of the Charles Eaton Photographic Collection and Peter Dunn's Australia @ War. Eaton entered Australian aviation legend when commanding the air searches for two lost aircraft, the Kookaburra ...
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The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation Portal )Merchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...
The plans were for Piddington to collaborate initially with Dr D.F. Martyn, then a member of the Radio Research Board, who had left Sydney six months earlier. With war imminent, the Australian Government established the CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory (RPL)...
Professor David Craig Theoretical chemist President of the Australian Academy of Science 1990-94. Interviewed by Professor Bob Crompton in1998. My primary education was at Knox Grammar School, at Warrawee on the North Shore line of Sydney, and the seconda...
The following year, White was visited by D.F. Martyn, who had won international recognition for his ionospheric research in Sydney with Professor J.P.V. Madsen's section of the Australian Radio Research Board (RRB). For this work the Council for Scientif...
Compiled by Eleanor Galvin, AIATSIS Library, June 2004 1 Selected bibliography of Published materials on the Tiwi Language and Peopleheld in the AIATSIS Library Books Local call number: B A155.25/ A1 Principal Author: Tipiloura, Emmie Title: Aboriginal st...
Master 10 Performer speaker s : Sue Martin Napangardi Topsy Nelson Napurrula Eileen Rory Bardungkamara Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Milliewanga Willi Martin Jaylama Jess James Garalnganjag Larry Dolly Bullawatitj Charlie Arriu Subject keywords History Oral hist...
Ms 284 McCONVELL, Patrick [ Mudbura texts: tape transcriptions. Berrimah, Pigeon A1; B2 Hole, Wattle Creek, N. T. , 1974- ] pts. Contents: ( 1) Texts 1- 4: Old times ( 1.1- 3) ; Rat kangaroo, women and kangaroo myths ( 1.4- 10) ; Sentences testing verb...
26 June 2008 - The 2008 Queensland Reconciliation Awards for Business were announced in Brisbane recently, with a unique business that promotes the contribution of Torres Strait Islanders to the war effort during WWII taking out the top prize. The awards ...
The plaque is one of a series commemorating various units who served in Darwin during World War II. They are set at ground level next to a fence overlooking the harbour and in close proximity to Darwin Cenotaph. A TOTAL OF 242 JAPANESE AIRCRAFT BOMBED AND...
Sculpture > Human figures>>+ 113A Old Japanese Figure of Kwan Yin of ... > + A136 Terracotta human figure, Japanese (... Figure 'Shou Lao', carved pinite, maker unknown, China, [early 19th century], excavated in Doctor's Gully, Palmerston, Port Darwin, No...
SLQ - Travelling for Love - War Brides talk - Robyn Arrowsmith. gov. au 1Travelling for love: journeys of WWII war brides By Robyn Arrowsmith My talk today will be based on research for my PhD thesis at Macquarie University. My study is focused on the e...
THE AUSTRALIAñ CHINA FREE- TRADE AGREEMENT The department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has invited submissions from the public on the proposed Free Trade Agreement between Australia and China. I have entitled my articleDANCING WITH WOLVESî The wol...
The Ambon Memorial was constructed on the site of a former prisoner of war camp, and commemorates over 440 officers and men of the Australian forces who have no known grave. Ambon War Cemetery (known locally as the Australian Cemetery) is on the opposite...
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Sculpture > Human figures>>+ 113A Old Japanese Figure of Kwan Yin of ... > + A136 Terracotta human figure, Japanese (... Figure 'Shou Lao', carved pinite, maker unknown, China, [early 19th century], excavated in Doctor's Gully, Palmerston, Port Darwin, No...
Citation>Government House is a landmark building sitting on a cliff top above Darwin harbour. It is directly associated with the settlement and governing of the Northern Territory over many years; in particular with the Government Residents and Administr...
Citation>Government House is a landmark building sitting on a cliff top above Darwin harbour. It is directly associated with the settlement and governing of the Northern Territory over many years; in particular with the Government Residents and Administr...
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