Category: History
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Dunera Museum Hay New South Wales
Dunera Museum Hay New South Wales The Dunera Museum in Hay explores one of Australia’s most unusual wartime stories. It sits in a restored railway station that once received more than two thousand refugees from Europe in 1940. These men travelled on the HMT Dunera after Britain sent them abroad as “enemy aliens.” However, most… Read more
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Tree of Knowledge Loxton South Australia
Nestled along the riverfront of Loxton in South Australia’s Riverland region, the Tree of Knowledge stands both as a living natural monument and a compelling record of the mighty fluctuations of the Murray River. What makes the Tree of Knowledge so unique is that its enormous trunk has metal plaques indicating the heights reached by past… Read more
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Yanga Woolshed Balranald New South Wales
The Yanga Woolshed stands beside the Murrumbidgee River, near Balranald in south-western New South Wales. Once part of a vast pastoral empire, it tells the story of Australia’s wool industry and rural endurance. The woolshed formed the heart of Yanga Station, which at its peak covered more than half a million acres. Sheep grazed across… Read more