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  • Natural Rhythms of Main Beach

    by John Tilston ...
    Main Beach Queensland, is a virtual island at the northern tip of the Gold Coast, Australia's holiday playground.It is well known for its high-rise apartment blocks and the upmarket restaurants and boutiques that line its high street, Tedder Avenue. Yet once you venture to its fringes, to the golden sands of its beaches to the east and tranquility of MacIntosh Island to the south, to the bustling ... Read more

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  • In the Footsteps of Captain Patrick Logan

    by John Tilston ...
    In 1824 Captain Patrick Logan of the British Army's 57th Regiment of Foot was chosen to be the commandant of the harsh new penal colony of Moreton Bay, the forerunner of Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, because he was thought to be of strong character and impeccable credentials. He was by official reports, a very successful overseer of the fledgling settlement, and may ... Read more

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  • The Ghosts of Great Zimbabwe: An imagined journey

    by John Tilston ...
    Great Zimbabwe is an enigma. We know so little about central and southern Africa before 1500. Archaeologists have had to pore over scraps of old pots, glass beads, iron tools and carbon date old bits of wood. Some have searched for hints in rock paintings. Anthropologists have sought a window into a past that is more than 600 years old through wondering how modern day cultural practices have ... Read more

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  • Bull Market: The rise and eclipse of Australian stock exchanges

    by John Tilston ...
    Stock exchanges were crucial in developing Australia by greasing the often-creaking wheels of investment. Their spluttering into life in the 1880s was fractious and disorganized, but fledgling stockbrokers couldn’t ignore the need for marketplaces to trade stocks and shares in the burgeoning mining industry. They struggled through the great economic distress of the Federation Drought in the 1890s ... Read more

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  • NIMBY! Aligning regional economic development practice to the realities of the 21st Century

    by John Tilston ...
    Times have changed for regional economic development. Back in the not-so-far-ff good old days, announcements of a new factory setting up in town of the approval granted for a new large apartment block would have been widely accepted and even applauded by communities.Now mostly they are not.NIMBY has become the standard cry. Not in my backyard now extends to so many areas beyond nuclear plants, ... Read more

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  • How to Explain Why You're a Vegetarian to Your Dinner Guests

    by John Tilston ...
    Journalist John Tilston often got tongue tied when trying to explain to dinner guests why he was vegetarian. He decided he'd better find out whether his gut feelings about vegetarianism were right, so he embarked on an exploration of the reasons for not eating meat and whether they stacked up.He casts his eye over the environmental, health and ethical reasons most often cited by vegetarians as ... Read more

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  • Meanjin to Brisvegas: Snapshots of Brisbane's journey from colonial backwater to new world city

    by John Tilston ...
    In just one generation Brisbane has changed beyond recognition; it has grown from country town to vibrant modern metropolis. Yet it had a tough start. Until the last decade of the 20th Century it was a blue collar town, struggling under the weight of its history.Prior to European settlement - as Meanjin - it was a busy meeting place for the many indigenous clans in the Moreton Bay region. Almost ... Read more

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  • Churchill's Mole Hunt

    by John Tilston ...
    Winston Churchill, reappointed as First Lord of the Admiralty in September 1939, suspected there was a mole operating at the heart of the Admiralty during the first months of World War II. Did he leak critical information about naval defenses at the Royal Navy’s British base at Scapa Flow that lead to the sinking of the Royal Oak and the loss of 836 men in an audacious raid by a German U-Boat?And ... Read more

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  • Australians (Volume 2): Eureka to the Diggers

    Eureka to the Diggers

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    In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, artists and hard-nosed radicals, politicians and soldiers all populate this richly drawn portrait of ... Read more

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  • Snorkel the World: Red Sea Coral Reef Guide

    The snorkellers' guide to the marine life of the Red Sea reefs

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  • Girt

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