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• High-country living, the Coolamine Homestead - Kosciuszko National Park [AH012]

  Coolamine Homestead is a wonderful example of a heritage homestead and it can be found on the Cooleman Plains in Kosciuszko National Park. It is a rare, surviving example of a permanent pastoral outstation that retains hand built slab buildings and yards. National Parks info - https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/historic-buildings-places/coolamine-homestead Artisans of Australia, film about the restoration work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoTnER4Efg All modern photographs of the site © Andrew Hennell, used with permission.  

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• NSWGR 6029 Beyer Peacock Garratt steam locomotive [AH016]

  6029 is a four-cylinder, simple, non-condensing, superheated, articulated 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt steam locomotive, of the AD60 class, built by Beyer, Peacock and Company, Manchester, England, for the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR).  

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• Destroyed - The rise and fall of Australia's Wonderland theme park [AH015]

  Australia's Wonderland officially opened on 7 December 1985. Over the next 18 years it grew to be one of Sydney's most popular and loved attractions, before the new owners simply closed it. Find out how and why, and leave a comment if you ever visited Australia's Wonderland.  

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• War comes to Australia - the Japanese attack on Sydney and Newcastle [AH014]

  In late May and early June 1942, during World War II, Imperial Japanese Navy submarines made a series of attacks on the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. Visit Australian War Memorial - https://www.awm.gov.au/visit Royal Australian Navy Naval Heritage Centre - https://www.navy.gov.au/ran-heritage-centre Fort Scratchley - https://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/fort-scratchley/fort-scratchley-home More information Navy - https://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/japanese-midget-submarine-attack-sydney-harbour Sea Museum - https://www.sea.museum/2017/06/14/midget-submarine-attack-on-sydney-31-may-1-june-1942 ANZAC Memorial - https://www.anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au/our-stories/our-stories/japanese-submarines-sydney-harbour Woolahra council - https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library/local_history/world_war_2/stories_from_woollahra/shelling_of_the_eastern_suburbs A brilliant book on the subject is ‘A Very Rude Awakening - The Night The Japanese Midget Subs Came To Sydney Harbour’ by: Peter Grose - https://amzn.to/3HrFJy0  

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• From sheep farm to leading astronomy centre - Parkes radio telescope [AH013]

  The CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on a former sheep farm in 1961. It was the most advanced radio telescope on the planet at the time, with many innovative features that have since become standard in all large-dish antennas, and it has maintained it’s cutting edge technology and research ever since. Based in part on an article by John Sarkissian, CSIRO, first published in The Conversation, and on our own research. Visitors Centre - https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/atnf/parkes-radio-telescope/parkes-observatory-visitors-centre/hours-location How the Parkes dish works - https://research.csiro.au/pulseatparkes/parkes-radio-telescope/ Parkes shire visitors centre - https://www.parkes.nsw.gov.au/tourism  

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