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...

Tungamull train off the rails

Reporting then and now … Warren Nunn A railway accident at Tungamull more than a century ago and the matter-of-fact way in which it was reported highlight how both the media and society have dramatically changed. The historical image tells more of the story than...

Ted Price’s toughness

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...

Sully’s stumped some of the best

©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...