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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 2005

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

Date PublishedWT NumberTitle
2005.01.04805Australia’s First Lottery (Gambling In Australia)
2005.01.11806The “Prince” Of Australia (The Life and Times of John Piper)
2005.01.18807Ferreting Out The “Ferret” (The Story of a Stolen Steamer)
2005.01.25808First Australia Day (The First Fleet in Sydney Cove, January 26,1788)
2005.02.01809A Dynasty of Artistic Endeavour (The Life and Times of Georgian McCrae and Family)
2005.02.08810Searching for the Southern Cross (The Uses of the Southern Cross)
2005.02.15811Loving Husband, Amoral Marine (The Lieutenant Ralph Clark Story)
2005.02.22812A Drunken Judge Advocate (The Richard Atkins Story)
2005.03.01813Making a New Life (The stories of Mathew Everingham, John Ramsay, William Reid)
2005.03.08814Monster of Norfolk Island (The Career and Death of John Price}
2005.03.15815Lambing Flat Racial Riots (The Chinese Against the Goldminers)
2005.03.22816Dressing Up for Easter (The Easter Parade and Fancy Dress Balls)
2005.03.29817Adventure on the High Seas (The Story of William and Mary Bryant)
2005.04.05818Thomas Arndell, Surgeon and Farmer (The Life and Times of Thomas Arndell & Family)
2005.04.12819A Legacy of Australiana (David Scott Mitchell & The Mitchell Library)
2005.04.19820Robert Campbell, Pioneer Merchant (The Life & Times of Robert Campbell)
2005.04.26821Panic in the Streets (The 1942 Japanese Bombing of Darwin)
2005.05.03822Their Chastity in Doubt (Elizabeth Needham and her Life and Times)
2005.05.10823Piracy for Profit (William Campbell-Pirate)
2005.05.17824Pioneer Parson and Farmer (The Richard Johnson Story)
2005.05.24825Early Irish in Australia (Irish convicts, the “Queen”, and Irish notables)
2005.05.31826All’s Fair in Love and Crime (The Death of Marine Thomas Bulmore)
2005.06.07827Dearest Elizabeth, Wife and Mother (The Life and Times of Elizabeth Macquarie)
2005.06.14828Garden Palace Exhibition (First Australian International Exhibition Sydney)
2005.06.21829Mary Roberts, A Respected Landowner (The Life and Times of Mary Roberts)
2005.06.28830From Purser to Landed Gentry (Life and Times of John Palmer, First Commissary NSW)
2005.07.05831Capturing a Colony in Colour (The Life and Times of Thomas Watling)
2005.07.12832David Lennox, Bridge Builder (The Building of the Lennox Bridge)
2005.07.19833John White, Surgeon and Naturalist (The Life and Times of Surgeon General John White)
2005.07.26834A Day By The Sea (Surfing and Swimming in Australia)
2005.08.02835Henry Kable—Rags to Riches (The Life and Times of Kable Family)
2005.08.09836The State Theatre, an Opulent Complex (History and Design of the State Theatre Building Complex)
2005.08.16837Full Steam Ahead (The First NSW Railway)
2005.08.23838Australia’s First Brickmaker (James Bloodworth and Sarah Bellamy)
2005.08.30839A Crucial First Year (Life at Sydney Cove in 1788)
2005.09.06840The Rise and Fall of William Bradley (The Career of Rear Admiral William Bradley)
2005.09.13841Olga Deane—The Mustard Seed Lady (The Life and Times of Publicist Olga Deane)
2005.09.20842The Matriarch of Elizabeth Farm (The Life and Times of Elizabeth Macarthur)
2005.09.27843Law and Order in Early Mudgee (The Story of the First Mudgee Gaol)
2005.10.04844Strange Mudgee Gaol Stories (The Story of Gaoler/Governor Dick)
2005.10.11845Gallows Legend of Rope and Pulley (Story of George Rope and George Pitt)
2005.10.14845aMudgee Public School Sesqui Centenary (History of 150 years of Mudgee Public School)
2005.10.18846Cartoons, Satire and Comic Strips (published as 848 and renamed) (The History of Cartoons and Jimmy Bancks)
2005.10.25847The 1930s—A Decade of Contrasts (published as 846) (Growing Up in the 1930s)
2005.11.01848Mudgee Centenary Celebrations (published as 847) (Events of March 6-12, 1921)
2005.11.08849The Origin of the Damper (How the Damper and variations came about)
2005.11.15850Daniel Cassin – A Life of Service (The life and Public Service of Daniel Cassin)
2005.11.22851Advertising and Henry Lawson (Advertisement for Heenzo)
2005.11.29852Mudgee’s Yesterdays (Mudgee Town in the early 1900s)
2005.12.06853Creating With Clay (Early potters in Australia and Mudgee potters)
2005.12.13854The Great South Land (Sydney as seen by Convicts)
2005.12.20855The Spirit of Christmas (Traditions, stories, etc)


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