GIRT: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt

Do you like a laugh? Then read Girt. Our National Anthem tells us that Australia is “girt by sea” but did you know that girt is an old-fashioned word for “encircled”? Hunt explains this with humorous overtones. Did history classes at school bore you because you had to learn about the Tudors and the Stuarts rather than about Australia? Then read Girt and learn about Macarthur, a couple of Wentworths, Flinders and others. Hunt informs us that Captain James Cook did not “discover” Botany Bay! He was a mere 40-year-old …

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Celebrating a Singer/Songwriter

It’s hard to believe it is Robin Mann’s “50 years of songs”! My husband and I were part of a “Sing Out” group back when his songs first started to filter into our church services. There were around 20 of us ranging in age from mid-teens to mid-twenties, who enthusiastically learned these “new” songs and took them to congregations across Adelaide. We even spent a weekend travelling to other parts of South Australia: the Barossa, …