Been There Done That

12 Nov 2014

Whaling, Ned Kelly, Flight, QANTAS, Alice, Fantasia & Wine

Gay, History, Icons, Lesbian

We talk about the origins of the whaling industry in Western Australia on 1791, the hanging of Ned Kelly in Melbourne Goal on 11 Nov 1880, the first manned flight with Australian Lawrence Hargrave in 1894 using box kites and the founding of QANTAS in 1920.

In 1862 Lewis Carroll started writing the ‘Alice’ stories – what was he taking to release his mind with such fantasies? You could also ask the same of Disney, regarding the film ‘Fantasia’.

We end with a short history of the origins of grape and wine production in the new colony of Australia.

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