The Old Windmill is a heritage-listed tower mill in Observatory Park adjacent to Wickham Park at 226 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland...

many are no longer operational. Existing time balls include: The Old Windmill, Brisbane, Queensland Fremantle, Western Australia Sydney Observatory, New...

himself. The Land Commissioners surveyed land for a township in the mid 1820s. James Backhouse reported Richmond had a court house, a gaol, a windmill and...

transportation, she arrived in Sydney, Australia, on the Royal Admiral in October 1792. On 7 September 1794, 17-year-old Mary married Thomas Reibey, after he had...

ranked 17th on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The book includes three "stages" of Pip's expectations. Philip "Pip" Pirrip is a seven-year-old orphan who lives...

the buildings, the destruction was furthered by the fires of 1895 and 1897, which destroyed the old prison house, and earth tremors. In place of the Prison...

The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman, and for a time came to be applied in most European maps to the vaunted...

The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western...

one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling Australian penal colony. Bryant was born Mary Broad (referred to as Mary Braund at the Exeter...

settled districts, and the shepherd who came upon him eating a lamb was an old friend. Pearce was inducted into a sheep-stealing ring, and was eventually...

supplies and equipment from the Toodyay store of an old enemy, James Everett. The gang then started travelling east along the explorer Charles Hunt's established...

John Davies (10 June 1814 – 11 June 1872) co-founded the Australian newspaper The Mercury. Davies was a Jew born in London, England. He was transported...

between the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney Cove was the site of the First Fleet's landing on 26 January 1788 and the subsequent...

instructed the Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane, to reoccupy Norfolk Island as a place to send "the worst description of convicts". Its remoteness...

transported to Australia when she was 13 years old. She was the youngest convict aboard Lady Juliana, part of the Second Fleet. Her family grew to include five...

ferry grand old lady as $12m Brooke St Pier makeover is poised to begin". The Mercury. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. "THE MERCURY". The Mercury...

Nathaniel Lucas – one of the first convicts on Norfolk Island, where he became Master carpenter, later farmed successfully, built windmills, and was Superintendent...

convicts, were roughly analogous to British highwaymen and outlaws of the American Old West, and their crimes typically included robbing small-town banks...

Sydney. Many believe that they were the naval officers of the time who had both the time and the training to paint the new environment around them. Thomas...

the confidence of his own party and was behaving irrationally. He was also reluctant to call an election for a legislature that was barely a year old...

The following is a list of Australian penal colonies that existed from the establishment of European presence in the 1780s up until the nineteenth century...

With An Iron Hand". Truth (Brisbane newspaper). p. 38. The Bushrangers, Hobart Town Gazette, 26 November 1825, page 2. The Bushrangers, Colonial Times...

Arthur's Vale Historic Area ("KAVHA"), Norfolk Island. Old Government House and Domain ("Old Government House"), New South Wales. Hyde Park Barracks...

MARGARET DAWSON, Theft > grand larceny, 22nd February 1786". The Proceedings of the Old Bailey. Old Bailey Proceedings online. Retrieved 26 November 2021. "Margaret...

Thomas Brisbane. He remained Treasurer of the Colonial Revenue until the arrival of his replacement, William Balcombe, in April 1824. Brisbane recommended...

the next governor, Thomas Brisbane, in 1822. He continued to follow his profession with little success. In 1835 he was destitute, advertising in the Sydney...

vandals damaged some headstones in the Old St Johns cemetery at Campbelltown. The headstone is now in the care of the Campbelltown and Airds Historical...

Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from central Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of Queensland's most...

he was again caught at his old practices and sentenced to five years' hard labour, but influence secured his release on the condition that he leave England...

shilling per diem to be paid to the survivors of those who came by the first vessel into the Colony. The number of these really 'old hands' is now reduced to...