Featured Image: Photo by Andrew Watson, Palm Cockatoo, Chilli Beach, Iron Range National Park, Cape York Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 December 2025 Cape York Birding 2025, Lakefield and Iron Range National Parks Main Points Preamble Introduction Inala Nature Tour Day 1 Cairns to Musgrave Roadhouse, Golden-shouldered Parrot Day 2 Lakefield National Park, Red Goshawk, Star Finch Day …
Norfolk Island Postcard
Featured Image: Vista to Bird Rock from Captain Cook Monument Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 July 2025 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series …
The Search Conference Fred Emery
Featured Image: Merrelyn Emery Ed. Searching: for new directions, in new ways for new times, Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University 1976. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 August 2022 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was …
Clive Purcell WWI Soldier
Featured Image: Frank Hurley, Infantry Marching in Single File to the Front Line, Western Front 1917, State Library NSW Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2022 Also see the article about Clive’s sister Annie Purcell WWI nurse. Clive Purcell WWI Soldier, Gallipoli and France/Flanders, 1915-1919 Main Points What was the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) in World War I (WWI)? …
Postcard from Lake Tabourie, Australia
Featured image: Crampton Island at Twilight Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 16 January 2018 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so far are: 1 Boudhanath …
Secret City Trilogy Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 November 2016 A few of my more random reviews of terrific books are: 1 Roy Lewis The Evolution Man (also Sci Fi), 2 Sean Dooley (on birds), 3 Giulia Enders Gut, 4 Marie Kondo Tidying, 5 Secret City (Canberra spy series), 6 Atoms, Bytes, Genes (21st C convergence in science), 7 EM Foner Union …
Sean Dooley: The Big Twitch
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 17 January 2016 A few of my more random reviews of terrific books are: 1 Roy Lewis The Evolution Man (also Sci Fi), 2 Sean Dooley (on birds), 3 Giulia Enders Gut, 4 Marie Kondo Tidying, 5 Secret City (Canberra spy series), 6 Atoms, Bytes, Genes (21st C convergence in science), 7 EM Foner Union …
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