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ninglun Yours truly in 1944. My brother Ian on the left, my sister Jeanette on the right. Read More
Dec 1, 2011

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ninglun War Memorial, Canberra 1954 Jeffrey Whitfield, my father 1911-1989 My uncle Keith Christison 1917 – 1982 Marriage of Keith Christison and Ruth Kirby Neil Christison 1925 – RAAF During 1944 I was a member of an Airforce Signals Unit. In April of that year my signals unit did a landing in  Altape, New Guinea. Read More
Apr 24, 2011

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ninglun Oh yes! With apologies to my cousin Pat and her husband Les that’s when we dressed up in flares and body shirts! Read More
Apr 18, 2011

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ninglun It deservedly won the PM’s  Prize in 2010. “Grace Karskens’ The Colony: A History of Early Sydney (Allen & Unwin, 2009) has won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction.  The Colony provides a rich new interpretation of the early life of Sydney.  Supported by a fertile diversity of sources, it is a rich history [...] Read More
Apr 17, 2011

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ninglun I have been beavering away preparing a DVD version for some of my rellies. Here’s a YouTube of that. Read More
Apr 15, 2011

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ninglun Only on reflection do I realise what an emotional experience visiting this place must have been for my father and uncle, especially for my uncle. Less than ten years after the war! Read More
Feb 14, 2011

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ninglun The past is another country. See! Read More
Feb 10, 2011

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ninglun But first a word from our sponsor. 1. Read More
Jan 23, 2011

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ninglun Watching The Queen in Australia again has been a wonderful exercise in nostalgia – see the last video on Being Australian 20: poem and song, images, dreams, nostalgia, England. I remember that train as if it was yesterday, not 57 years ago! Read More
Jan 22, 2011

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ninglun Random, but not quite. Sydney Exhibition Cantata Henry Kendall  1841-1882 Part I Chorus Songs of morning, with your breath Sing the darkness now to death; Radiant river, beaming bay, Fair as Summer, shine to-day; Flying torrent, falling slope, Wear the face as bright as Hope; Wind and woodland, hill and sea, Lift your voices—sing for [...] Read More
Jan 21, 2011

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ninglun See the fake letter to the editor posted earlier. I was born in 1943, 9 July. Read More
Jan 21, 2011

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ninglun On Australian Jews and multiculturalism I mentioned in the previous post in this series that Orthodox Jews see assimilation as a scary monster. Here is an example: “Australia’s Jewish Community: a positive model of Australian Multiculturalism” by Colin Rubenstein. Read More
Jan 17, 2011

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ninglun So I watched Immigration Nation on SBS at 8.30 last night. There was something of a broad brush applied in dealing with the period around 1901, especially compared with the immaculate account to be found in Destination Australia : migration to Australia since 1901- by Professor Eric Richards, but the point emerged clearly enough that [...] Read More
Jan 9, 2011

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ninglun The shocking news I alluded to earlier is that Ian Smith, aka The Dowager Empress of Hong Kong, died about a week ago. He was a 78-er, that is a participant in the first Sydney Mardi Gras, so he is somewhere here: At Lord Malcolm’s funeral in 2007 Ian read this: Death Is Nothing At [...] Read More
Dec 26, 2010

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ninglun Filed under: English literature, history, poetry Read More
Nov 10, 2010

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