Destination Fishermans Bend
My journey began on Liardet St, Port Melbourne. The bus stop stands on the former Sandridge Lagoon. With the 606 only running every 40 minutes, I was unduly early for the timetable
Elections
Writer Gideon Haigh warns that “fossicking in the basket of past events”1 is not history. Through making old newspapers available online, Trove2 makes such fossickin
Flinders Bank
John Lack, the historian of Footscray, bemoans the quality of today’s local papers.1 He wonders where future local historians will find the detail of the debates in councils
Stony Creek
Will the herons return? Just one week after the fire in Montague, a thick black smoke plume visible across the Bay signalled a fire in the west. Shortly after 5 am on Thursday 30