by Nichole Overall* He was the man responsible for the creation of that uniquely parochial sport, Australian Rules Football (AFL), and yet Thomas Wentworth Wills is a name few recognise. His connection with this region is even less widely known but yet another intriguing component in a fascinating story. Given his remarkable
People Profiles
Queanbeyan resident on the trail of international money laundering!
by Maria Taylor On a quiet street in Greenleigh, Queanbeyan, international crime busting work is going on. John Walker’s one-person crime trends consultancy has him in demand from Amsterdam to Milan and from Canberra to Washington, crunching the statistics on the huge international flow of money being laundered by crime syndicates. He’s
Top pastry skills come to Bungendore
Top pastry skills come to Bungendore from Manila via Jeddah and Braidwood by Maria Taylor It took Nerson Cuevas on an interesting journey to get himself and family to a business in Bungendore from his home country of the Philippines, via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Braidwood. But now the master pastry chef is
Young refugees and migrants: thinking outside the square
Farz Edraki sits down with ANU research fellow, Dr. Sean Perera Imagine if instead of spinning the same “stop-the-boats” message, the government focused on ways new arrivals can contribute to Australian society? That’s precisely what Sean Perera, Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the
Australia’s master cabinet maker and his masterpiece
by Stan d’Argeavel Geoffrey S. Hannah is pure Australian. It’s in his humour, his easy-going manner but also in his meticulous dedication to his craft. This life-long northern NSW resident has devoted his mature years to producing a unique series of cabinets that leave the viewers of his work spellbound and
Vintage cars at Wamboin, Bungendore, all around the region
by Karen Lovatt Humans always seem to have had an obsession with history. The names of long-dead kings and queens learned by rote. Important moments that turned the tides of long-ago wars, their dates engraved in the memory. Presidents, prime ministers, states, peoples, languages, conquests, falls ...and, of course, cars. Vintage cars have
Jenny Bowker – Quilt artist & people person
By Stephanie L Anderson Having spent 15 years living in the Middle East, Canberran Jenny Bowker [pictured below] has experienced things many of us will never know. Her memories of Syria, Jerusalem, Egypt and Jordan are expressed through her artwork. Originally trained as a painter at the ANU Bowker later turned
One hundred years of community nursing
by Shirley Sutton At the beginning of 1911, Canberra, the national capital, was on its way in a modest, yet determined fashion. The federal parliament had decided that the Yass-Canberra site would be the capital’s home. Surveyor Charles Scrivener and his team had completed the job of identifying the borders of