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Read more about the article Alexander Galloway, Hunter photographer and composer

Alexander Galloway, Hunter photographer and composer

The entrepreneurial Alexander Galloway was a prolific photographer and amateur musician who composed some popular pieces of music in the early years of last century. He left an impressive legacy of photographic images of the Hunter Region's Coalfields district, a large number of which were recovered in 2010, in the form of hundreds of glass plate negatives, from beneath a house in Weston. Rescued by the diligent volunteers at the Edgeworth David Museum, these plates have been scanned and are now available through the University of Newcastle's online database. Alexander, Amy and William Galloway. Born on…

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Read more about the article Notes from the frontier wars, NSW, 1848
Unrelated illustration from The Town and Country Journal, December 14, 1872. Indicates how white people viewed the frontier wars.

Notes from the frontier wars, NSW, 1848

Ten years ago I was loaned two fascinating letters, which I was told had been written from the NSW settlement of Stroud in 1848. The letters are of great interest since they bear very strongly on the conflict between indigenous people who had been living in the area near Gloucester and the white settlers who were moving into their territory to claim the land as their own private property. For a long time I had no idea who wrote the letters, having been told they may have been written by somebody named "Robert Scott". Since the…

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Read more about the article King Coal’s loyal foot-soldiers on the job
Left to right: Joel Fitzgibbon, MP, ALP Federal Member for Hunter; Stephen Galilee, CEO, Minerals Council of NSW; Mark Latham MLC, NSW One Nation Party leader; John Barilaro, NSW National Party leader. Photo from Joel Fitzgibbon's Twitter account.

King Coal’s loyal foot-soldiers on the job

Opinion by Greg Ray The photo tells you much about the coal industry in NSW. A bunch of political bottom-feeders in uniform for the fading but still wealthy King Coal. You’ve got old mate Fitzy on the left, still in shock from nearly losing his seat at the most recent election. The nominally Labor Member for the federal seat of Hunter wants to blame everybody but himself, and perhaps figures if he cosies up to King Coal and gets himself on the op-ed writing roster for Mr Murdoch’s media stable he might be able to future-proof…

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