“No invention of the twentieth century has had such a profound impact on Australian culture and society as the automobile. Motor garages and service stations are evocative symbols of a motorized people …[and] The Big Garage is significant as an …
A hand-picked rifle team travelled to England in 1897 – not for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in particular, but in a quest for one prize above all, the Kolapore Cup. The Kolapore Cup was created from a £100 donation …
Rugby Union is a sporting code that has been played by generations of service people since the earliest days of Australia’s armed forces. The story of Rugby Union in the Australian Army is an important component of the services rugby …
In this frank and detailed history of the development of the rifle club movement and its national councils, historian Andrew Kilsby has unravelled the reality behind the traditional ties through war and peace between the movement and Australia’s defence. With …
1888 was a particularly busy year in the life of the nascent Militia forces in Victoria. Formed in 1885 to replace in large part Volunteer forces which had been in existence since the mid- 1850s, Militia involvement in the social, …
The end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s saw the concept of Citizen/Reserve service increasingly challenged. Circumstances were such that many felt not only within the command structure but also in the Parliaments and community that the …
