by editor | Aug 31, 2020 | Australia's Forgotten Showman
The Days of Martini’s Buckjumping Show © Chris Woodland [back to contents] Family. Other than his birth at Araluen, where his father was gold mining, little is known of young Martin’s earlier life. His father, William, had arrived in Sydney at the age of 20 years... by simplyoz | Jun 23, 2018 | Poetry
Inside the dusty brick kiln, Outside the pelting rain, Four young blokes wiping raindrops from their heads, We had rushed up from the river, Where our sleep had been curtailed, No more the river grasses for our head. We acknowledged with a nod, Each others presence in... 
by simplyoz | Aug 21, 2009 | People
The most audacious, death-defying…Ella Zuila? Nobody knows her – but she was the most famous Australian public entertainer in the world in the last two decades of the 19th century. Like her near contemporary and compatriot Nellie Melba, she assumed a...