Written in 1997 after Tony Joe appeared on the show Club Buggery with comedians Roy and HG Warren Nunn Tony Joe White had an interesting encounter with two of Australia’s more eccentric comics when he appeared on the Club Buggery show on Saturday, April 12,...
The sad case of Gerard Krefft and how the Australian Museum spins his story (and history) ©Warren Nunn (First published 29 January 2016. Updated 9 October 2016. Further update 30 July 2018) Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft was a dedicated and celebrated scientist who...
© Warren Nunn, 1983 ROCKHAMPTON.— Stan Alberts, 50, loves cricket so much he does not want to think about retirement. Many years ago he was injured while fielding and his wife asked him to give the game away. “I’ll retire when my boots wear out,” he told her. They...
Ted did it the hard way ©Warren Nunn, December 1983. ROCKHAMPTON. —E.R. (Ted) Price looked over the Kenrick Tucker Velodrome and imagined how it might have been for him to have raced on such a surface in his heyday. But Ted rode in a different era on dust, bitumen and...
©Warren Nunn, May 1991 HAVE you ever wondered what people are talking about when they say they are suffering from the dreaded lurgi? Perhaps most use the term because they heard it from a family member. The fact that it came from The Goon Show, a radio comedy that...
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