Tag: As it Happened

The rise and rise of wages over the decades is in the fabric of our history. But cutting wages? It happened! At the hands of...

An airforce jet touched down at Perth airport and a specially-built Mercedes eased its way out onto the tarmac at 1.30pm on Sunday, 30...

This month, in 1875, the design of Western Australia’s flag with its black swan was confirmed in despatches by Governor William Robinson. It began...

In 1960, groups of boys in different parts of the world, but most notably England, got together with their cheap musical instruments. Barely teenagers,...

Crocodile Dundee, the movie, was only forming in the mind of John ‘Strop’ Cornell when we met at his Byron Bay pub about 40...

The years 1801-1803 is the standout period on the international cultural calendar. That was the year Greece lost its Marbles.  In one of the world’s great...

Several years ago, Normie Rowe was called to Perth for a television pilot, being produced by Johnny Young, with a script I’d written. We assembled...

Twenty-nine years ago, we media monitored every move by the Queen, on her fourth visit to Western Australia. And the crowds came out as...

One hundred years ago, Australia felt a political shock that led to significant social changes. The sole cause was WA’s Edith Cowan who, in becoming...

Fifty-five years ago, when I arrived in Albany from Perth to start a journalistic cadetship, the town stank. The stench from whale slaughter wafted across...