Reflecting on Anzac Day Dawn Service

By Warren Nunn For more than 100 years, Australians have been gathering in multiple locations on Anzac Day, April 25, to remember those who served our nation. Initially it was to honour those who fell in World War 1, particularly on the beaches of Gallipoli. I joined...

Gordon David (Bunny) Nunn, family man and extraordinary athlete

(First published 8 Jan 2015; updates—21 November 2015, 30 January 2016, 5 April 2016, and 2 September 2022). Bunny Nunn was one of Australia’s leading sportsmen of the 1940s and 50s. He excelled at the highest level and left a lasting legacy.  Born in Ipswich,...

Christmas generosity blesses struggling villagers

Warren Nunn A few lines in an English newspaper highlight the extraordinary generosity of a gentleman that blessed several Suffolk villagers who may otherwise have had a miserable Christmas. In December 1852 (and again the following year), William Francis Farmer,...

Swamp Fox Tony Joe White passes into eternity

Warren Nunn (Updated 4 Nov 2018 with links to tributes. Scroll to bottom of article) It’s a hot October morning in Brisbane. I open my email program to a message that Tony Joe White has died at 75. It’s only a handful of weeks since I received in the mail...

Links to articles published elsewhere

Since having been made redundant from Queensland Newspapers in 2013, I have been writing part-time for two Christian organisations … Creation Ministries International and radio station 96five. There follows links to articles I have had published with them:...

Retracing my tracks across the Nullarbor Plain

Warren Nunn Long rail journeys such as the trek across the Nullarbor Plain used to be something one had to “suffer” to travel throughout Australia. It now takes about 41 hours (including stops) on the Indian Pacific to travel the 2669km between Adelaide and Perth...