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Norman McVicker's column Tales from along the Wallaby Track is published in the Mudgee Guardian on Monday every week.

List of Wallaby Track columns for 2004

Year: 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

Date PublishedWT NumberTitle
2004.01.06754Australia Gets a Conscience (The Story of Bas Wie—Sabunese Stowaway)
2004.01.13755Dames and Principal Boys (The History of Pantomime in Australia)
2004.01.20756More Than a Headline (Australian Early Newspapoers)
2004.01.277571788—And All That (Currency Lads and Lasses)
2004.02.03758Queen of Tragedy (The life and career of Dame Judith Anderson)
2004.02.10759Daisy Bates—A Spectacle of Wonder (The life and times of Daisy Bates)
2004.02.17760Bring Your Own Bread (The story of famine in Sydney Town 1790s)
2004.02.24761Robert Torrens—Land Title Reformer (The life and times of Robert Torrens and Land Title Reform)
2004.03.02762Doris Fitton—Theatre Icon (The life and times of Dame Doris Fitton)
2004.03.09763An Extraordinary Man (The life and journals of Watkin Tench-1788
2004.03.16764The Bushman’s Bible (The story of the early days of the “Bulletin”
2004.03.23765A Literary Hoax (The Story of the “Ern Malley” Poems)
2004.03.30766A Ghostly Affair (The Story of Fisher’s Ghost and Murder of Fisher)
2004.04.06767A Great Australian (The Life and Times of Sir Howard Florey and Penicillin)
2004.04.13768The Symbols of Easter (The Symbols, Traditions and Folklore of Easter)
2004.04.20769The Stuff of Legends (The Life and Death of Harry “The Breaker” Morant)
2004.04.27770A Man and His Donkey (The Story of ANZAC Stretcher Bearers and Pte J. Simpson)
2004.05.04771A Cargo of Women (The Second Fleet and the Women of the “Lady Juliana”
2004.05.11772War Correspondent—Military Historian (The Life of C.E.W Bean)
2004.05.18773Go Fly a Kite (The History of Kites and Kite Flying)
2004.05.25774A “Hair” Happening (The History of the Love-Rock Musical “Hair”
2004.06.01775From Theatre Icon to Legend (The Life and Theatre Career of May Hollinworth)
2004.06.08776The Iceman Doesn’t Come Anymore (From Meat Safe to Refrigerator)
2004.06.15777Unmasking a Mudgee Myth (The Life and Career of Robert Hoddle)
2004.06.22778Ride ’Em Cowboy (The Zane Grey Story)
2004.06.29779Overture and Beginners Please! (Vaudeville/Variety Acts- The Napier Family Story)
2004.07.06780Orphans in the Wilderness (First Orphanage in Australia)
2004.07.13781The Flying Pieman (The Story of William Francis King)
2004.07.20782A “Pipeclay” Pianist (The Life and Times of Marguerite de Pachmann-nee Okey)
2004.07.27783A Forgotten Olympic Hero (The Life and Career of R.L.”Snowy” Baker
2004.08.03784A Distrustful, Irascible Governor (Governor Phillip Gidley King)
2004.08.10785A Governor’s Ladies (The Stories of Ann Inett and Anna King)
2004.08.17786Cheating the Executioner—or Not. (Thomas Barrett, Bowers Family & Joseph Samuels)
2004.08.24787King of the Cattle Duffers (The Story of Harry Radford)
2004.08.31788A Quaker Chemist Murderer (The Life and Crimes of John Tawell)
2004.09.07789A Courageous Stowaway (The Round the World Voyage of Rose de Freycinet)
2004.09.14790Friends, Foes and Wild Cattle (The Cowpastures Herd of Wild Cattle)
2004.09.21791Judge and Poet (The Life and Times of Barron Field)
2004.09.28792A Wild White Man (The Life and Times of John Wilson)
2004.10.05793Gardening To Survive (The First Gardens in Australia)
2004.10.12794A Forgotten Diva (Life and Times of Strella Wilson)
2004.10.19795Blood, Sweat and Tears (The Story of the Carters’ Barracks)
2004.10.26796When “Rum Affairs” Were Legal (The Story of the Rum Monoply)
2004.11.02797Australia’s First Bank (The Story of the Bank of NSW)
2004.11.09798Forgotten Merchant Princes (Family Stores and Anthony Horderns)
2004.11.16799“Bailed Up” By Bushrangers (The Bushranger Frank Scott- Captain Moonlite)
2004.11.23800The Vanishing “Oz” Language (The Great Australian Adjective)
2004.11.30801A Caretaker Prime Minister (The Life and Career of Francis Michael Forde)
2004.12.07802Sold For Less Than a Song (Early Land Grants)
2004.12.14803Early Literature and Writers (Early Writers and Poets. Miles Franklin, Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson).
2004.12.21804Christmas As In Older Times (Colonial Christmas Days and Events)


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