They were absentee landowners, colonial gentry, fraternising with their peers, making deals, raising capital and writing letters to public officials and newspapers. They paid an overseer to manage their holding.
Category: Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Connections and the Australian Dream
I ask myself: why did my Aunt Meg, an openhearted, gregarious woman, who set me on the path of family history, and recorded so much of it, not tell me about my Aboriginal connections?
Land, Lots of Land
It was a familiar scene: a rough dirt road, dry creek bed, scrubby bushland. I saw no evidence of cultivation or construction, just shadows, silence, rustlings. But overwhelmingly I felt a sense of connection. I belonged there. I had sprung from this spot.
Roaming Around the Long Paddock
It might surprise you to learn that TSRs are part of Kandos history.
Further Along the Castlereagh Highway
It seems to me Capertee, population 145 at the last census, punches above its weight.
Along the Castlereagh Highway
The highlight of the highway route, but also the part that causes a tinge of anxiety for me, is that sliver of road cut into the side of Blackman's Crown, in early days referred to as the Crown Ridge.
Australia Day or Dispossession Day?
When are we going to acknowledge the truth about Aboriginal custodianship of the land? And what has that got to do with Australia Day?
Kandos History 