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Canberra was born on March 12th, 1913. Until the 1890s Australia consisted of six separate colonies. They had their own parliaments and their own administrations, with different policies and different tax rates. They ran their own separate armed forces. They issued different postage stamps, built their railway lines on different gauges and set their clocks to different times. At the borders between them officials collected import duties and a family that moved from one state to another risked having to pay duty on some of its belongings. Not surprisingly a strong federalist movement had devel...

David Leslie: High-tech forestry operations 60 years after the Muckle Storm By David Leslie Updated: May 12, 2021, 3:23 pm © Supplied by James Jones & Sons L The Burnroot sawmill near Aboyne. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up On a wild night in January 1953, later  known as The Muckle Storm, trees crashed to the ground in their tens of thousands. Across the north-east, many mobile sawmills were drafted in to pr...

Fire department recruits participate in water rescue training IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Recruits from the Idaho Falls Fire Department dove into the Snake River on Thursday. The recruits took on the frigid temperatures to help them prepare for life as an EMT. "We're really excited for these six new recruits," said IFFD Paramedic Captain Scott Wetzel. "This is the first hire we made in two years, and they really help our staffing and get us back up. With our call volume going up, it really helps us to get these new recruits on the ground." The water rescue training is part of a ten week cou...

Has the 120-year-old mystery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's deteriorating health finally been solved? Antarctic explorer had to return home after voyaging close to the South Pole in 1901 due to a bout of 'beriberi' and NOT scurvy, new study claims Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton came close to the South Pole in 1901 The explorer had to return home after struggling with deteriorating health  Previous theories suggested was linked to scurvy or a congenital heart defect A team explored the health condition of others on the same 1901 expedition  US researchers say their findings suggest t...

Advertisement Fascinating previously unseen photographs taken by a British naval officer who travelled the world while serving on a Royal Navy ship 120 years ago have come to light. Henry Taprell Dorling served on cruiser HMS Terrible in the Second Boer War in South Africa before heading on to the Far East. The war was the first major conflict of the 20th Century, claiming more tens of thousands of lives on both sides and signalling the birth of the modern British Army.  The images of the conflict show the crew on board the vessel as well as blown up bridges and encampments as Dorling was in...