Social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL shares the story of Queanbeyan's Boer War memorial and its long journey from Monaro Street to the Moore Park Memorial Rose Garden.
The Shellal Mosaic once formed the floor of an ancient Christian church, centuries before it was dug up from the Palestinian desert, packed in crates and shipped to Australia as a war trophy.
The statues of John Curtin and Ben Chifley in the parliamentary triangle.
“Those of us fretting about having foisted on us yet another statue of some boring, old, white geezer should relax. It is extremely unlikely to happen in our lifetimes,” writes JON STANHOPE in a brilliant column about… statues.
I HAVE followed with interest and a sense of deja vu recent commentary about the commissioning of statues of former Prime Ministers.
Jon Stanhope.
The latest debate was kicked off by the installation late last year of a statue of Black Jack McEwen in the Parliamentary Triangle.
McEwen was prime minister for three weeks following the death of Harold Holt. He was at the time deputy PM and leader of the Country Party and certainly, for a couple of decades before that, one of the most powerful and influential politicians in Australia.