The Australian bush is known for eccentric, resourceful characters; particularly in the pioneering days when Europeans first settled in remote areas. Paddy the Flat, as he was known, had a bakery, store and unlicensed pub at Nullagine in the Pilbara region of Western...
By Warren Nunn The first week of July 1972 is deeply etched into my memory mostly because that is when I started in newspaper journalism at the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin. July 1 was a Saturday and I was groomsman at my sister Denise’s wedding to Mel Morgan at...
Published in Gympie Times newspaper, 19 Apr 1986, p. 11. There could be some ducking and diving for cover by the Federal Government over the contents of a book about Ayers Rock, written by local author Peter B. English. “Storm Over Uluru – The Greatest...
By Warren Nunn Me: Goodbye my friend. John: Goodbye Warren. Hooroo. Me: I love you John. John: I love you too Warren. Bye. These are the last statements of my final conversation with John Watson, my friend of 47-plus years. He passed from this life on Thursday, 15...
And with wacky words – The Flintshire Observer, 1 May, 1857: “IN DYING, HE REMEMBERED HIS FRIENDS.”- Dr. William Dunlop, of Western Canada, left behind him an eccentric will. His silver tankard he bequeathed “to the eldest son of old...
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