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<< UN RAPES IGNORED ~ MAIN ~ HAIL MUGABE >>

HISTORY IN PICTURES

This is Australia. Enjoy the first in a weekly series of click-to-enlarge images from The Bulletin’s massive photo archives.

1. Roma is in South Western Queensland

   Posted by murph on 2005 02 15 at 08:50 PM • permalink



2. “Bald no more!”
   Watched by the largest chorus line to ever leave New Zealand’s shores.

   Posted by slatts on 2005 02 15 at 09:08 PM • permalink



3. “Warning: this site may contain images of deceased Aborigines”

   Oookay…

   We have these trees all over Miami. (They are native to Madagascar, I think.) I haven’t seen any in Orlando, so maybe they don’t grow in the deep freeze of Central Florida.

   Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 15 at 09:21 PM • permalink



4. Andrea: this sort of warning is common on just about anything (books, TV…) that might contain Aboriginal images or speech from deceased Aboriginal people.

   Posted by Villeurbanne on 2005 02 15 at 09:39 PM • permalink



5. Traditional Aboriginal Australians (some language groups) mustn’t look at images of deceased people, nor speak their name. I’ve taught in situations where kids in the class had their names changed overnight when a relative with the same name died. Made record-keeping fun. I’ve also seen a whole town—generating station, houses, store—deserted because someone died in the town. Everyone just walked away—and the town/houses couldn’t be used again until a certain number of years was up.

   Love the 1982 photo of the Melbourne Cup belles. My God—what were we thinking??

   Anyone else struck by the preponderance of smokers in the last photo—Tennant Creek in the 50s???

   Posted by BIWOZ on 2005 02 15 at 09:47 PM • permalink



6. Victoria Silverstedt = Crikey!

   Note to self: watch Logies more often.

   Posted by blandwagon on 2005 02 15 at 09:50 PM • permalink



7. Very cool. But someone needs to color-correct #A18, the street scene. Unless the brutal Australian sun makes everything look like a faded Kodak snapshot, in which case I withdraw my objection.

   Posted by Lileks on 2005 02 15 at 11:24 PM • permalink



8. Ah, the magic of Australia. It’s a wonderful country, give or take the inhabitants.

   Posted by harry hutton on 2005 02 15 at 11:41 PM • permalink



9. Love the shots.  Can’t wait to see the next instalment.

   Posted by youngy on 2005 02 16 at 12:20 AM • permalink



10. kisdim001: oh, I see. It just looks so odd.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 16 at 12:30 AM • permalink



11. Lileks: the picture I linked to (with the poinciana tree) looks kind of washed-out too; I wonder if they came from the same batch of old photos. I kind of like the off-color look.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 16 at 12:32 AM • permalink



12. And to think I’m still weirded out by candy bar wrappers that say “Caution: May contain peanuts”... thanks for the explanation on the Aborigines warning, guys.  I suspected that it would be something like that but I’d never have asked for fear of looking silly (thanks Andrea ;) ).

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 02 16 at 12:51 AM • permalink



13. I’ve never had any fear of looking silly. Because it’s impossible! (Well, what were you all thinking????)

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 16 at 01:21 AM • permalink



14. Oh, I am so ashamed to be an Australian. Where are pictures of our ethnic minorities? Where are the pictures of our racist detention centres? Why isn’t there a picture of Mamdouh and David? Why is there not a photo of my Hommous cum latte bar?

    Sorry, just channeling the SMH letters page.

    Posted by Nic on 2005 02 16 at 01:44 AM • permalink



15. Tim, did you write the captions? They seem to be your style.

    Posted by Stephen Dawson on 2005 02 16 at 01:55 AM • permalink



16. Great Pictures!
    I love this - hope there is a lot more to come.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 02 16 at 05:27 AM • permalink



17. Marksteyn.com is back online.

    Posted by rbresca on 2005 02 16 at 05:29 AM • permalink



18. Off topic—Now it’s Larry Adler emulating those dastardly American’s attempting to kill journalists. On tonight’s ABC news—‘A News Cameraman was hit by Mr Adler’s car” accpmpanied by dramatic footage depicting said failed entrepreneur speeding away from the court…
    ’

    Posted by crash on 2005 02 16 at 07:34 AM • permalink



19. Technical matter : links with blanks in the name don’t work in Netscape 4.0 (the software thinks that any whitespace terminates the URL), so use _ or run the words together, for example.

    There’s nothing great about Netscape 4.0 except that it’s the last browser small enough to work on a 32mb ram win95 machine, which one might be reluctant to give up because of other working software (MKS Korn shell) that would not work on an upgrade.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 02 16 at 08:01 AM • permalink



20. Insert Korn joke here. (Actually I have some sympathy for rhhardin; I kind of miss Netscape 3.0; it was a neat, fast, small browser and its email program was snazzy.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 16 at 09:47 AM • permalink



21. There’s nothing great about Netscape 4.0 except that it’s the last browser small enough to work on a 32mb ram win95 machine

    Too bad there aren’t any other browsers (coughOperacough) in the world. <g>

    Posted by Paul_in_NJ on 2005 02 16 at 11:52 AM • permalink



22. Lileks - the irony is, that faded photo sports a prominent advertisement for “Spectrocolor.”  Still, it’s over 40 years old, so it’s in reasonable shape.

    Y’know, you have a beautiful country there, Tim.  I’d give real money to escape from February in New Jersey and sit under that tree in A-3, and preferably beside someone who looks like Ms. A-16.

    Posted by Nightfly on 2005 02 16 at 03:10 PM • permalink



23. I wonder what Tim thinks about the sharp fall in the Bully’s circulation last year, especially since it ceased being a serious business news source and started hosting Tim.  Obviously they have put him under orders to direct more flow back to their pages.  What next?

    Posted by Salim_Ahmed on 2005 02 17 at 09:55 PM • permalink



24. Ah. A troll. I knew it. Buh-bye, troll.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 17 at 11:28 PM • permalink



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