Australiana

Exploring central Australia in 1873, William Gosse stubbed his toe on a half-buried gibber and cursed Sir Henry Ayers out loud for not cleaning up. So for a century hence Australians called their desert landmark

Mr. C. Spencer, of New York City, opened a season at Adelaide Theatre Royal on Saturday night with his Theatrescope, worked by the only female operator in the world, namely, Senora Spencer. Theatrescope belongs to

The Gadfly went for a mix at Largs Bay on Tuesday night of last week with his sisters, collective aunts, and others, the party totalling up to five strong. The Gadfly and its family went

One can still offer boiled sweets through the bars, you know NSW Minister for Education Verity Firth said $10 million would see 42 schools become securely fenced this year. Schools provided with security fencing have

Before the laying of a great telephone cable Australians developed a truly odd argot. Long isolation had deprived them of verbal reassurances from the Fatherland. From this uncertainly came a canting cadence that is not

Ancient insistence greets weary travelers with food, conversation and warm company. Like-minded, Australia (‘Straya) generously extends camaraderie to strangers peering curiously this way… perhaps puzzling at our enigmatic blend of lofty alacrity sans moral means. 

A nation is a vector of its citizens’ clamour. As we more cynical and paranoid know, that vector is easily, and usually, subjugated by an elite. Such forces wag Australia’s tongue-politic, confusing and worrying our

From The Gadfly 28 February 1906 Mr. J. Harcourt Giddons’ weather chart for the next thousand years having just come to hand, it has been studied with considerable interest in this office. The Gadfly has

The name Oztralya is derived from two roots: "Oz" a transform of Uz, meaning fertile land, and "tralya" from the Pacific phyla of shell species "Tralia." Uz (Hebrew: ‘Uwts) was an ancient land where Job

A city hospital nurse confessed to me that she had become hardened like many of the other girls. She told me now, one night, one of the nurses in her hospital was watching by the