The Harlem Blackbirds
In 1955 Australia was visited by the "Harlem Blackbirds", a troupe of performers from the United States. The group of 32 performers was billed as "Australia's first all-coloured revue" and…
Back to flattening the curve
This round of Covid-19 has got me thinking about how things were when it began. When we speculated - wrongly - that the virus was easily transmissible from surfaces, that…
A Greek boy in Mayfield: Mike Trypas remembers
Mike Trypas still wonders what made his mother decide to uproot her family from the Greek island of Kos and transplant it in the foreign soil of distant Australia. His…