History

Pollies see coal for themselves

Contributor: TOM REARDON AS ANY researcher of historical facts knows, the search for accuracy is often clouded by people’s memories of events. As my Irish grandmother used to say, “there is your story. There is my story. And there is the...

26 May 2023

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Collie coal discovery mystery

History

Contributor: TOM REARDON IN THE late winter of 1889, the S. S. Roy Roy sailed into Fremantle port. It was powered by steam, using 10 tonnes of Irwin coal. Then sailing from Fremantle south, the ship caused much excitement when it berthed in Bunbury...

26 May 2023

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Ill-fated battalion remembered

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Contributor: Grahame Old A PREDOMINANTLY Western Australian battalion, the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, was raised at the end of 1940 as one of the support units for the ill-fated Eighth Division of the Second AIF. The 2/4th was formed with men from...

26 May 2023

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Chamber ‘rails’ for Collie coal

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Contributor: TOM REARDON “WESTERN AUSTRALIA having decided to enter the Commonwealth, it behoves everyone to bestir themselves to set their house in order and to make ready for the great change which may be expected in our affairs now that...

25 May 2023

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Two died, two decorated in Vietnam

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Contributor: GRAHAME OLD THE Vietnam war was the most controversial in Australian history since the conscription controversy of the first world war. National Service, a ballot system of conscription, was introduced in 1964. Young men suddenly found...

25 May 2023

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Peace disturbed by an ill man

History

Contributor: EDWARD PAXTON IN OCTOBER, 1929, the peace of Collie streets was disturbed by a man we today would say was suffering from some kind of mental illness. This is the account of what happened. Several complaints from residents were received...

25 May 2023

By Bulletin News