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Geoffrey Norman Blainey, AC, FAHA, FASSA (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator.. Blainey is noted for his authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including The Tyranny of Distance. [1]
A popular version of this story was included in The Book of the Bush by George Dunderdale, in 1898, as follows: In January, 1836, Captain Smith, who was in charge of the whaling station at Port Fairy, went with two men, named Wilson and Gibbs, in a whale boat to the islands near Warrnambool, to look for seal.
Warrnambool (/ ˈ w ɔːr n ə m b uː l / ⓘ; Maar: Peetoop or Wheringkernitch or Warrnambool) [2] is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census , Warrnambool had a population of 32,894. [ 1 ]
Maclean was born on 27 May 1966 in the Sydney suburb of Caringbah, [2] as the youngest of three children. [3] His parents had emigrated from Scotland in July 1965. [4] His mother, Avril, had schizophrenia, [5] and he was initially raised in foster homes; Avril's social worker wrote in relation to John that his mother "told sister she didn't mind the other children but can't bear the baby, aged ...
The Shire of Warrnambool was a local government area located about 260 kilometres (162 mi) west-southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,605 square kilometres (619.7 sq mi), and existed from 1854 until 1994. Warrnambool itself was managed by a separate entity; the City of Warrnambool.
The Warrnambool railway line is a railway serving the south west of Victoria, Australia. Running from the western Melbourne suburb of Newport through the cities of Geelong and Warrnambool , the line once terminated at the coastal town of Port Fairy before being truncated to Dennington (just west of Warrnambool).
Clark never paid the $20,000 compensation to Stingel and, as of 2013, owed more than $300,000 to her lawyers. Although Clark declared bankruptcy in 2009, which was extended by five years in June 2012, he made an unsuccessful $1.25 million bid in June 2013 for a hotel in Warrnambool. [10]
The book begins with Dick sitting in gaol, with just under one month before his scheduled execution for his crimes. He is given writing material, and begins documenting his life's story. He starts with his childhood, with a father (Ben) who is prone to violence, particularly when he has been drinking; his mother, his sister (Aileen) and brother ...