![04/1962. Even little Rodney, a young patient at the Royal Children's Hospital, seems pleased with his weight as he is put on the scales by Sister Margaret Richmond.Rodney has just had an operation and he is getting the best of care until he recovers.You, too, can help the young patients by giving to The Sporting Globe-3DB- Good Friday Appeal held in aid of the hospital.[Herald 7/4/1962]Nurse. Nurses. Royal Childrens Hospital. Melbourne. (hsretro instagram 07/04/2023)](https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/dcad86a22735cad1cd1419a8ead1b17f?width=650)
How the Good Friday Appeal began
Every year Victorians unite to raise money for sick children on Good Friday. Today, on the 93rd Good Friday Appeal, we explore the closely linked histories of the fundraiser and children’s hospital.
In Black and White
How the ‘Japanese Schindler’ saved an Aussie author’s life
Australian author Linda Margolin Royal says she is alive today thanks to a selfless Japeanese hero, who saved 6000 Jews from the Nazis.
The shipwrecked adventurer who set sail to Australia 7300km away
Shipwrecked in violent seas, young Norwegian captain Anders Harboe-Ree mounted a daring rescue bid to save his crew.
The bungling diamond thief who became a Eureka hero
Before he became one of the Eureka rebellion leaders, Edward Thonen’s path took him from high-stakes robbery to high-seas adventure.
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Trailblazing squad who paved the way for the Matildas
Australia’s “first Matildas” ran car washes and appeared on a TV dating show to fulfil their dream of competing on the world stage.
Was this rich settler Australia’s greatest environmental idiot?
Thomas Austin built a mansion fit for royalty but he will forever be remembered for one of history’s biggest bungles: not keeping the rabbits out.
The colourful life of old Melbourne’s larrikin boozy bard
Born into wealth and power, Marcus Clarke never adjusted to life as a working man after the family fortune vanished into thin air.
How stowaway became first Aussie woman in Antarctica
Artist Nel Law made history after she was smuggled aboard the Magga Dan, and captured her adventure in watercolours and oils.
‘The Souvenir King’ of WWI who looted enemy trophies
It was rumoured Anzac ‘Wild Eye’, aka, John “Barney” Hines’ light-fingered antics drew the ire of the monarch of Germany himself.
How Aussie nurses overcame horrors of POW camp
Rather than let imprisonment drag them down, a group of brave WWII nurses banded together to lift morale in a surprising way.
Alarm bells ring after swaggie brutally kills cook
As the world was gripped by fear about where Jack the Ripper would strike next, panic hit western Victoria when a swaggie claimed he was the notorious serial killer.
The Melbourne murders with notorious London killer’s MO
When three women were brutally killed in Collingwood, locals feared a copycat was at work – or even Jack the Ripper himself.
Coffee lounge one of nation’s first gay and lesbian venues
In a dark decade for the gay and lesbian community in Melbourne, one young woman decided to build a haven.
Mary Bligh’s attempt to thwart military coup with parasol
The enduring image of the Rum Rebellion is of William Bligh hiding under a bed, but it was his daughter who owned the hour.
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