OPINION BY GREG RAY To be insulted by a man credibly accused of fraud and war crimes is a badge of honour. To hear Israel’s widely loathed prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assert with a straight face that history will harshly judge his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, is frankly surreal. This piece of Trumpian drivel was […] The post Does Palestine have a right to exist? appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
In the 1950s Britain was upset that the USA wouldn’t share its atomic bomb secrets. The Brits decided to build their own bombs and they chose to test them in Australia. Nobody will ever know how much sickness and premature death of Australians in the years that followed can be attributed to exposure to radiation […] The post Radioactive bomber at RAAF Williamtown appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
IN 1971 writer Joan Long was researching a documentary about Australian cinema in the 1920s. She wrote a letter to newspapers in a number of regional centres, trying to flush out stories and photos relevant to her work. The letter was picked up by NBN television in Newcastle which interviewed Long about her research. Among […]| Photo Time Tunnel
An unusual photograph album, featuring images of the making of the film Eureka Stockade near Singleton in 1947, has prompted me to do some research into the interesting production. The album of photos, credited to photographer Ronald Fuller, was owned by Mrs Doris Parsons and provided by her grand-daughter, Krys Eyre. After World War 2 […]| Photo Time Tunnel
OPINION BY GREG RAY Well, as expected and dreaded, the attack on Iran has materialised and now the dice of war are rolling in a new direction. As always they are heavily loaded, but the element of uncertainty is always present. No matter how the dice fall many more innocent people must suffer and die. […]| Photo Time Tunnel
Popular Newcastle bookseller David McLean came to Australia from the US with his parents in 1963, fleeing the shadows cast by the Cuban missile crisis. Here are some of David’s recollections: David McLean was in his second-last year of high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, when then US President John F. Kennedy appeared on television to […]| Photo Time Tunnel
COMMENT BY GREG RAY Suddenly something changed. The first big sign came when the conservative English media outlet, the Financial Times, published an editorial under the heading: “The West’s Shameful Silence on Gaza”. And just like that, it was suddenly acceptable to criticise Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign of territorial expansion in occupied Palestine. Up until […] The post What is the West’s game plan on Gaza? appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
Joan Dawson is losing count of the people who’ve made a point of telling her they now believe she was right after all. She says it’s nice to hear them say it, but it’s small consolation to the woman who was, for years, the face of local resistance to the State-sponsored juggernaut intent on removing […] The post Any regrets? Joan Dawson looks back on rail fight. appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
Noted Newcastle teacher and activist Joan Dawson recalls her mother with a mixture of gratitude, awe and admiration. Ivy Lavinia Oliver was six in 1911 when her family moved from Cornwall, England, to settle on a small property at York Lea, near Casino, on the NSW North Coast. Her mother died when Ivy was 15. […] The post Inspired by her remarkable mother appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
As a major global port with an extraordinary maritime history, one might suppose that Newcastle would have a maritime museum as a matter of course. Some years ago you would have been right, but not any more. Newcastle Maritime Museum once occupied one of the old Lee Wharf sheds on Newcastle’s harbour-front, restored from dereliction […] The post Buried treasure: Newcastle’s “Maritime Museum” appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
The mistake was made – in all innocence – back in the 1970s. That at least is how Peter Evans, the president of Newcastle’s Show Committee, sees it. According to Mr Evans, it was in the 1970s that the Newcastle Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Association was incorporated. “That’s when the committee should have ensured that […] The post Newcastle Showground’s past and future appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
