Thirty years ago,the women in the life of Brett Whiteley arrived at the Supreme Court to contest his estate. Multiple wills didn’t help the process.
In 1993,a mapping error resulted in the destruction of a prime habitat of one of Victoria’s rarest mammals,the endangered Leadbeater’s possum.
Thirty years ago,Sydney’s first automatic train ticketing machine went into operation without a hitch,despite threats of bans from union members.
In 1988,just hours after Melbourne released details of its proposal for the 1996 Olympic Games,the New South Wales Premier,Nick Greiner,announced Sydney would make a rivalling bid.
The Herald met Kerry Grima and Jenny Faulkner,two young designers from Tasmania whose hard-times fashion was starting to turn heads.
In 1998,it was the end of a photographic era,when Kodak announced it would stop manufacturing the Instamatic 126 film cartridges and disc film in Melbourne.
Sixty years ago,the streets of Birmingham,Alabama were the setting for the “most violent and explosive civil rights crisis America has seen for years”.
80 years ago,25 people were killed when a bus carrying Australian Army personnel from Bonegilla to Albury for recreation leave was hit by a train near Wodonga.
With the bright colours and exuberant activity of the Aquarius Festival shaking up the once-sleepy northern NSW town of Nimbin,the times they were a-changing.
On this day in 1958 Spike Milligan arrived in Melbourne on his first trip to Australia. Over the years he returned so often that he became known as Woy Woy’s most famous adopted son.
Sixty years ago,the latest (and smallest) generation of portable television sets were set to hit the market (and the road) in Australia.