MOTHER’S DAY Our History – Our Christian Connection. Mother’s Day. Mothers have been celebrated over the centuries in varying forms and traditions since possibly before Roman times. In the 1600s’ the Church of England...

ANZAC – BATTLE of BEERSHEBA and the Christian Connection. Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel. The horses were restless, pawing the ground in the relentless heat. A shimmering haze hung over the desert, taunting the...

First Australian Chaplain to die at Gallipoli – Andrew Gillison and the Christian Connection. The convoy of nervous soldiers sailed towards ANZAC Cove. The plan was to storm the peninsula and defeat the Turks....

PEARL HARBOUR and the Christian Connection. Captain Mitsuo Fuchida Fuchida was more excited than usual as he awoke that morning. As general commander of the air squadron, he made some last-minute checks on intelligence...

The QUEEN and the Christian Connection. Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen who ‘looks both ways’. God’s servant. Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II had two ceremonies to mark the beginning of her public...

FATHER’S DAY Our History – Our Christian Connection SONORA DODD  In 1909, John and Sonora Dodd attended the Mother’s Day service (http://www.diduno.info/mothers-day/) at their church. As Sonora listened to the sermon and heard the...

NAIDOC and the Christian Connection. William Cooper. NAIDOC  represents the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee and is celebrated each year.. NAIDOC WEEK is a very significant event in the Aboriginal and Torres...

THE EMIGRANT’S FRIEND and the Christian Connection. Caroline Chisholm. “The richest and most powerful Government of the world, master of India and a million men, failed in the colony, where a single woman succeeded...

KRISTALLNACHT and the Christian Connection. William Cooper the activist. With a single swift swing the sledgehammer exploded through the window, sending splinters of glass flying through the air. The young storm trooper wielding the...

The SAO and the Christian Connection? Arthur Smith Arnott Australians have always had a curious attitude to their favourite biscuits. Eating them is not enough. We have to play with them. Long before someone...

WILLIAM DAMPIER and the Christian Connection. Who are they? The dark skinned Aboriginals could not believe what they were seeing. They look human but they look so pale, so ghost like, they are so...

The FIRST FLEET and the Christian Connection. The animals were taken on board two by two. Sound familiar? Well would you believe, this is what happened as Captain Arthur Phillip prepared to come to...

SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA and the Christian Connection. Bob Mellows. A smouldering fire in a timber pumphouse deep underground led to one of the greatest mine disasters in Australian history. It also led to one...

CADBURY and the Christian Connection John Cadbury. ‘What to bring when you’re told not to bring a thing.’ It’s Cadbury Favourites of course. Yep, the big purple box with its treasure of miniature confections...

Cadbury’s Grand Daughter Helen and the Christian Connection. Helen was only twelve when she went with her father, Richard Cadbury, and sat at the back of the hall watching the volunteers talking with the...

World Teacher Day and the Christian Connection. Thomas Shadrach James. A most unlikely man was engaged in education in the early days of Australian schooling. Even more improbable is the fact that he said he...

TERRA AUSTRALIS and the Christian Connection Pedro Fernandez de Quiros No one was sure that Australia existed, except for the Aborigines who were living here. In other parts of the world there were stories...

THE CAPTAIN and the Christian Connection Captain James Cook He was standing at the water’s edge facing advancing Hawaiian warriors. Unfortunately at that crucial moment some of his men started shooting from the boats....

EXPLORER STURT and the Christian Connection. Charles Sturt, 1795—1869 Death seemed imminent.  Sturt and his men were stranded on a sand bar at the Murray- Darling river junction. Confronting them on the bank were...

THE TWENTY DOLLAR NOTE and the Christian Connection.  The Reverend John Flynn. By the 1950’s, the Royal Flying Doctor Service was acknowledged by former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies as “perhaps the single greatest...

THE FIFTY DOLLAR NOTE and the Christian Connection. David Unaipon. Whirr–whirr–whirr–whirr–whirr… the boomerang sang as it began to circle back through the air towards David’s hand. He caught it with a single deft flick,...

LABOUR DAY and the Christian Connection. William Guthrie Spence. The crack as the first musket went off was like a clap of strange thunder. ‘Gid doon, boyo! Thair feering…’ A rough hand thrust Bill...