University of Queensland Photo Walk
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Read MorePosted by keith | Jul 28, 2015 | Photography, University of Queensland |
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Read MorePosted by Ernest Wilson | Jul 14, 2015 | Geology |
I picked up the phone and was told that there had been an explosion at the Cinema Centre in Canberra and that a man had been killed. We were asked to investigate. The picture below shows the Old Cinema Centre in the centre of...
Read MorePosted by Ernest Wilson | Jul 12, 2015 | Community, Places |
Robert Menzies was prime minister of Australia from 1949 to 1966, and was Australia’s longest-serving prime minister. Gough Whitlam led the Labour Party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He went...
Read MorePosted by Ernest Wilson | Jul 8, 2015 | Geology, Places |
My first job in Canberra with the Bureau of Mineral Resources was logging drill core during the investigations for a dam that would turn the Canberra floodplain into a lake as envisaged by Walter Burley Griffin. The Canberra...
Read MorePosted by Ernest Wilson | Jul 1, 2015 | Geology, Places |
Googong Dam lies to the south of Queanbeyan, NSW, and is a water supply dam for Canberra. Googong Dam is a minor ungated earth and rock fill dam with a clay core and a concrete chute spillway plus a nearby 13 metres (43 ft) high...
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