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...
Louis Vigouroux © Warren Nunn September 2004. See notes below.* THE old man sat astride a low stone seat and lovingly caressed the ancient-looking instrument’s strings. He readily greeted a passing couple and in a smiling, gracious manner, spontaneously put on an...
Nerida De Jong ©Warren Nunn, 2004 IF ever there were an artist’s utopia, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is it. Perched on the cliffside overlooking the Lot River in southwest France, the once-deserted village first became a haven for struggling artists in the 1950s. More recently...
Don and Pixie Lowe ©Warren Nunn 2004 A group of Australians has made a bold assault on a chateau at Figeac about 70km from Cahors in France’s southwest. Two years after former Tasmanians Don and Pixie Lowe and some partners bought the rundown Chateaux De Saint...
Espedaillac workers’ restaurant ©Warren Nunn 2004 If you visit the French countryside, a not-to-be missed experience is eating at a traditional workers’ restaurant. It will cost about 12 Euro ($A24) but a more filling and challenging menu will be hard to find. The...
Chris Souilijaert Version Français ©Warren Nunn 2016 Exotic birds – scores of them in glorious watercolors – stand as a measure of certainty and permanence in our fleeting, digital age. Despite that digital age, we are still mesmerised, enchanted and encouraged by the...
Les Nomades du Vent Chris Souilijaert, artiste-illustrateur. Les oiseaux exotiques – dont nombre d’entre eux font l’objet d’une série de magnifiques aquarelles – représentent un monde réel, permanent à l’époque actuelle où priment le virtuel et l’éphémère. Malgré le...
Callaghan Park and thoroughbreds Warren Nunn, September 1983 ROCKHAMPTON.- Not too many racegoers would know much about the deeds of the former galloper First Demon. But a photograph of the 1893 Rockhampton Handicap winner is a prize possession of the Central...
What to make of it? © Warren Nunn It is 2017 and there a number of matters consuming the world at this point in time arguably the worst of which is the dreadful and ongoing carnage in the Middle East and elsewhere in which individuals or groups use violence to...
Henry Peter Brougham Warren Nunn Astute readers will sometimes complain that something has been taken out of context, particularly—but not exclusively—in newspapers. It can be the result of a misunderstanding or it can be done to mislead people. Henry Peter Brougham...
©Warren Nunn, September 1983 “Waddya cryin’ for” is a phrase that local, state and test cricketers around Australia would have heard over the years from Sully… probably the nation’s No 1 barracker. Few know the man as anything other than Sully, but he is Alaric...
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