Fallout still being felt across Australia
Almost two centuries after Britain sent the First Fleet to Australia with the refuse of its prison system, they began sending us their nuclear fallout as well, writes Grantlee Kieza.
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As the ongoing coronavirus epidemic means more Queenslanders are being encouraged to holiday at home, we take a look back at the Sunshine State’s emergence as a tourism destination, and the man who pioneered the holiday package deal.
Nation stalls on news of Holden’s demise
The year 1968 came into memory this week with the death notice for Holden. It was the year it had its first victory in the Bathurst 1000 motor race. But things we took for granted in 1968 such as typewriters, milkmen, public phone boxes and Brisbane trams are just about all gone.
‘My plane almost crashed over India’
Retracing aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler’s monumental first solo flight from England to Australia almost killed Brisbane adventurer Lang Kidby.
When a deadly pandemic hit Brisbane
Carried by troops returning from World War I, the poisonous branches of the Spanish flu twisted around the globe, stretching from Australia to the Arctic. A quarter of the earth’s population were taken ill and as many as 100 million people died.
Tszyu: I’m faster and hungrier than Horn
Ahead of his big fight with Jeff Horn on April 22, Tim Tszyu talks to Grantlee Kieza about growing up with his famous father, the moment he realised he could beat Jeff Horn, and who he believes is the best fighter he’s ever seen.
Ng won’t be showing Valentine any love
Undefeated Gold Coast lightweight Jacob Ng knows how to make a grand entrance in the boxing ring, and it will be no different when he takes on Japan’s Valentine Hosokawa in his toughest fight yet.
Horn’s plan to expose Tszyu’s questionable heart
Three years ago Jeff Horn and Tim Tszyu came together for the first time as Australia’s hottest fighter and the kid with the famous name – and to Horn, that’s all Tszyu is.
O’Connell v Eagle – mother of all title fights
Shannon O’Connell, a 37-year-old fitness trainer, will be fighting two divisions above her normal 55kg division but is confident she has the speed and top-shelf experience to beat the Sydney model and fighter Lauryn Eagle
Spar wars for Olympic gold hope
Twenty-year-old Justis Huni is considered Australia’s best amateur big man since Kyogle dairy farmer Athol McQueen, who decked the great Smokin’ Joe Frazier at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.
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