SUMMER 2005: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Australia on the map 1606-2006 p4. The rescue of Callington Mill, Oatlands, Tasmania p5. Werris Creek Railway Station, NSW p6. Glengallan Homestead, Warwick, Qld p8. Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre, Ararat p11. Australian kelpies (kelpie dog) p14. Shenandoah (ship) p16. David Unaipon: storyteller of the dreamtime p18. Dame Edith Cowan: first woman of the West p19. Governor Phillip and a man named Bennelong part 1 p21. Douglas Mawson: love letters from Antarctica p25. French explorer, La Perouse p29. Australia's French names p34. Henry Sutton, inventor p36. The Macleays of Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney p40. John Glover, amiable artist p44. The Kuranda Railway [Cairns-Kuranda rail line, Qld]: an engineering masterpiece p49. When copper was king: the copper rush that saved South Australia p53. Our earliest gardeners: the Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm and Camden Park p57. His Majesty's Theatre, Perth p62. Consuelo Tableland, Carnarvon Gorge, Qld p66. Blue Mountains tracks, NSW p71. The copper trail from Kapunda to Burra, Clare Valley, S.A. p76. Kapunda p76. Riverton p77. Auburn p78. Mintaro p78. Martindale Hall p79. Burra p80. Matthew Flinders private journal p82.

AUTUMN 2006: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Who named Australia? p4. Adelaide City to Port Adelaide Railway p6. Betty King - first white woman in Australia? p8. Westgarthtown p9. Exiles and emigrants: journeys of destiny p12. Sir Henry Parkes 1815-1896: father of Federation p15. Catherine Helen Spence 1825-1920 p17. On the tracks of Cobb and Co. p21. Augustus Pugin, architect p29. Emma Withnell, mother of the North-West, W.A. p36. From ambition to ashes: the Clarkes of Rupertswood [Clarke family] p41. Australia and the Dutch East India Company p48. Abel Tasman: navigator of the unknown p53. Hill End, NSW: echoes of a boom town p56. Ludwig Becker: artist of the 'ghastly blank' p61. Sands of time of Fraser Island p67. Shipwrecked on a tropical island: Eliza Fraser p72. Rabbits in Australia p74. Bennelong: ambassador of the Eora part 2 p79. The Huon Pine getters p86. Australia's National Trust p91.

WINTER 2006: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Place names p6. Art of the Northern Territory p7. Farina: ghost town on the gibber [South Australia] p10. St Mary's of Bethany Anglican Church at Goyder and William Kingsnorth Mallyon of Redhill p14. The battle of Vinegar Hill, Parramatta 1804 p16. [John] Flynn of the Inland p19. Mary Reiby p22. Torres and the Spanish quest for Terra Australis p24. Captain from Connecticut: Isaac Pendleton: last voyage [whaling and sealing] p29. Paddle-steamers of the Murray-Darling Rivers p35. Map: Murray-Darling river system p36. River rivals: William Randell and Francis William Cadell p38. Boom days of the paddle-steamers p43. New Norcia Spanish Monastery, Western Australia p49. Thomas Mitchell and the Wellington fossils p55. Mechanics' institutes: halls of learning / Pam Baragwanath p61. Ferdinand von Mueller p66. Joseph Lycett: convict artist p72. The enigmatic platypus p77. William Stawell: architect of the Victorian constitution p84.

SPRING 2006: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Duyfken p4. Struan House, near Naracoorte, S.A. p5. A return to horsepower [horses] p7. Burra: a fossil treasure trove [palaeontology] p9. Captain James Cook: Pacific encounters p12. Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson p15. John Bowen's Hobart [early history] p18. The wreck of the Sydney Cove (ship, shipwrecks) p23. Richard Bourke: a governor of goodwill p28. Beyond Hell's Gates: Sarah Island p33. Sketches from the life and journals of Mary Morton Allport p39. George Wyndham and family of Dalwood, Wyndham Estate Winery, Hunter Valley, NSW p44. Meditations on the scenic rim [border of NSW and Qld] p49. Tracking Australia's tramways [trams] p57. Eel farmers of the Mount Eccles lava flow [aborigines, Lake Condah] p62. The Holden [Company] sage [automobiles, cars] p68. Australia's early coinage [money, coins] p74. Trials of the north: the settlement of Port Essington p79. Early exploration of Arnhem Land p83. Elizabeth Fulloon: emigrant by appointment p86.

SUMMER 2006: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Tamworth Waler Memorial [horse statue] p4. Horse troughs and George Bills p4. Francois Peron's voyage to the South Lands 1801-1803 p7. Meridian Arch at Marulan, NSW p11. Wolston House, Estate, Qld p13. Lighthouses p16. Rippon Lea p20. The brief age of steam cars p23. Mary Gilmore: poet of passion p25. Brisbane, early history and as a prison [Moreton Bay Prison] p29. Gregory Blaxland: pioneer farmer p35. Brush Farm House p38. The forgotten explorers of the Blue Mountains p40. William Dawes 1789 p40. William Paterson 1793 p41. Matthew Everingham 1795 p42. John Wilson 1798 p43. Francis Barrallier 1802 p44. George Caley 1804 p44. Quarantining the fever ships: the story of Point Nepean p45. Exile of the young Irelanders [Irish political prisoners transported to Tasmania] p51. The tragedy of the New Guinea prospecting expedition p56. The wonders of Ningaloo Reef and Cape Range, W.A. p61. Ben Boyd: colonial fortune hunter p68. The demise of the thylacinid [Tasmanian tiger] p73. Arthur Esam: the drover who painted the outback p79. Sailing, yacht races in late 19th and early 20th century p83.

AUTUMN 2007: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The Otago [ship] p5. Breastplates of honour p6. Holding the line: George Woodroffe Goyder p9. 'The Briars' (house), Mount Martha p15. Lawrence Hargrave: a soaring mind p20. The Black Ball [Shipping Line] and the White Star [Shipping Line] (Clipper ships) p24. Settlement of the Swan [River]: the birth of Perth p30. Eliza Forlong: pioneer of Australian Fine Wool p39. The origins of the merino p43. Polar pioneers: Australians in the Antarctic p44. The wild days of the Hodgkinson goldfields [York Peninsula, North Queensland, gold] p52. Hume and Hovell: explorers at odds p58. Cooma Cottage, near Yass, NSW p63. Paint and passion: Ethel Carrick and Emanuel Phillips Fox p64. Koala: survivor against the odds p69. The story of pearling in the north-west p75. Elizabeth Parsons: an English painter in the antipodes p83.

WINTER 2007: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Who was Tullamarine? p4. Hand sewing at Government House, Parramatta p8. Aboriginal legends and Daisy Bates p12. Amy Sherwin: nightingale of Tasmania p15. Sydney views 1788-1888 p17. A commander of precision: General Sir John Monash p21. Adelaide: 'a grand experiment in the art of colonization' p26. Edward Gibbon Wakefield p32. Colonel William Light p33. The story of Robert Fowler and Pierre Bernard Milius p34. Encounters on Kangaroo Island p41. Heritage secrets of Kangaroo Island p49. Captain Baudin and the convict maid p50. Jandamarra of the Kimberley and the Bunuba Uprising p54. Tom Wills: spirit of the game [football] p60. Welcome Stranger [gold nugget] p65. C.Y. (Charles Yelverton) O'Connor, designer of Perth-Kalgoorlie pipeline, W.A. p69. Macadamia: kernel of the rainforest p76. The Wollumbin Caldera [Mount Warning, NSW] p81.

SPRING 2007: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The aboriginal whaling men of Trowernna / Kaye McPherson p9. Agnes the bullock driver / John Wright p11. Houdini's greatest illusion (Harry Houdini) / Merv Collins p13. Grass trees: spiky characters of the Australian bush / Mark Kellett p16. A celebration of women's work / Jenny Springett p18. Alberto Zelman and the birth of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Stella M. Barber p21. Sporting horses / Lisa Loader p25. A life of pain and poetry: Adam Lindsay Gordon p28. Red cedar: treasure of the rainforest / John McPhee p32. John Batman: aspirations of a currency lad / Rosalind Stirling p38. A tale of two shipwrecks [James Johnson] / Peter Maiden p44.Sturt's retreat [Captain Charles Sturt] / Ivan Rudolph p49. Australia's first goldrush: the Daisy Hill story / Josie Flett p55. Ellis Rowan: adventures of a flower hunter / Rosemary Johnson p60. John Gould: chronicler of Australia's fauna / Mark Kellett p67. The misadventures of John Gilbert / Mark Kellett p74. The ship that would not die (The Great Britain) / Frank Colyer p75.

SUMMER 2007: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Niobe Hill and the darkness beyond (Adelaide Botanic Gardens) p6. Duelling p8. John Duigan and aircraft p11. Fossils, Yea p13. Dr Isobel Clifton 'Cookie' Cookson p14. 'The Harriet McGregor' (ship) p15. Christmas p17. Amusement parks, circuses, Melbourne p20. Don Bradman p25. Frederick George Copeland, Vicar of Zeehan p29. Bush tucker (food) p35. John Batman part 2 p41. Melbourne: a tale of treaties and good intentions p47. George Langhorne p53. Edward Hargraves: spin doctor of the goldrush p54. The Great Barrier Reef p59. Torres Strait p66. The building of the Yan Yean Reservoir p73. The story of New Italy p77.

AUTUMN 2008: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Remedies on the run: pharmacy, pharmacies, pharmacists in Australia / Warren Rout p6. Australia Day 1915 / Alan Jackson p9. The bells of Bathurst / Daryl Taylor p12. Purrumbete: / Kim Coverdale p14. A plea for our bush chapels / James W. Gibson p19. J.F. Archibald: the old chief of the 'Bulletin' / Rosalind Stirling p22. Voices from the past: George Dunderdale [Bendigo goldfields] p27. Darwin: a triumph over adversity / Kathy De La Rue p31. Norfolk Island: island of changing fortunes / Brian Hubber p39. From Norfolk Island to Van Diemen's Land / Reg A. Watson p47. Lady Nelson H.M. [ship]: pioneer of the Australian coastline / Irene Schaffer p52. Golden mountain: the story of Mount Morgan / Pat Barron p58. Fire and the Australian bush / Mark Kellett p63. The Vergulde Draeck [ship, shipwreck] / Graeme Henderson p71. Pirate's treasure: Benito Bonito and his haul of Peruvian gold / Barry McGowan p76.

WINTER 2008: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Genyornis: giant bird of the dreamtime / Mark Kellett p6. Flying boats: Sydney's golden age of aviation / Matthew Holle p9. Chiltern remembers Henry Handel Richardson / Graeme Charles p11. Set in stone: the Mount William story p13. The Eugowra story: the violent birth of the NSW Police / Greg Powell p15. Railway through the wilderness [West Coast Wilderness Railway between Strahan and Queenstown in Tasmania] / Ros Stirling p21. A century of weather watching [meteorology] / David Day p24. Clement Wragge, Queensland Government Meteorologist from 1887 (portrait) p26. George Fife Angus: speculator of influence and ethics / Jeff Nicholas p28. A journey to the goldfields / Ellen Clacy p33. Canberra: newcomers in the country of Kamberri / Rosemary Johnson p39. Elizabeth Throsby: a dramatic life / Ian Macdonald p45. James Tyson: big man of the outback / June Young p49. Macquarie Island: world heritage sanctuary from beneath the earth / Rosalind Stirling p57. Captain James Kelly: currency lad, master mariner, explorer and pioneer 1791-1859 / Anthony Brown p63. Pandora [ship] and the bounty hunters / Stephen Wilson p70. To defend a city: guardians of Port Phillip Bay [Cerberus, Victorian Navy] / Matthew Stirling p75.

SPRING 2008: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The Hume Weir / Bill Peach p3. A different time: the expedition photographs of Herbert Basedow 1903-1928 / David Kaus p5. September 11, 1914: the day the Great War began for Australia / Alan Jackson p9. HMQS Gayundah: flagship of the Queensland Navy [ship] / Ian and Margaret Harding p12. Mrs Macquarie’s landscape legacy [Elizabeth Macquarie] / Colleen Morris p17. In the spirit of adventure: re-enacting the voyage of the Mystery [ship] / Patrick Stirling p21. Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane: star-gazing Governor / Bruce Warren p25. Voices from the past: a lady on the goldfields / Ellen Clacy p31. Famous Flemington [Racecourse] / Andrew Lemon p36. Dalgety or Canberra?: choosing the site for Australia’s capital city / Susan Mary Withycombe p43. Canada’s rebels in Van Diemen’s Land / Reg A. Watson p50. Taming the Murray [River]: recollections of life on the locks / Ross Stirling, photos by Max Pearson p56. The Jardine legacy [Frank Jardine expedition through the Cape York wilderness] / Ron and Viv Moon p64. The rise and fall of the prickly pear / Tom Neales and Barry Osmond p69. A long and winding road: the story of circus in Australia / Mark St Leon p75.

SUMMER 2008: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Back on track: Loco 3642 fires up for action / Ros Stirling p6. The fossil fish of Gogo, Kimberley region / Mark Kellett p8. Sydney's Lookout and Signal Station / Robin Derricourt p12. Private Robert John Bruce and his grave in Will Will Rook Cemetery, Broadmeadows / Ken Wright p16. Discovery of gallery of rock art in western Arnhem Land / Ros Stirling p17. Assassination attempt on Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, Sydney 1868 / Warwick Hirst p22. The ships built on Norfolk Island / Col Gibson p27. The forgotten Henry Kendall / Michael Ackland p31. Cyclomania: cycling rage in 19th century / Rosemary Johnson p36. Mystery of the Venus (ship) mutineers / Anthony Brown p41. Charles Dickens, his sons who lived in Australia / Elisabeth Neales and Elna Estcourt p47. Coober Pedy / Anne Johnson p52. The Muslim cameleers (Indians) / Philip Jones and Anna Kenny p58. Trials of the Tammar wallaby / Mark Kellett p64. Dyke's Farm: Dight family, Durham Bowes / Derek Parker p69. C. Blunt, boatbuilder of Williamstown / James Smith p74.

AUTUMN 2009: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The missing 'Ferret' (ship) John Wright p6. [Charles] Darwin in Australia / Dr Michael Pickering p9. Adelaide's York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library / Kelly Henderson p13. Hans Heysen / Rebecca Andrews p17. Dame Nellie Melba / Peter Maiden p23. William Throsby Bridges: father of the AIF / Ian Macdonald p26. The tragedy of the 'Centaur' (ship) / Warren Mann p28. Matthew Flinders in the Gulf of Carpentaria / Anthony Brown p33. Windows on the southern sky: Australia's early observatories / Nick Lomb p41. The Bank of Australia robbery / Carol Baxter p48. Newcastle on the Hunter / Rosemary Johnson p53. The Australian Agricultural Company: pioneers of wealth / Pennie Pemberton p56. Shark Bay: a heritage treasury / Rosalind Stirling and Mark Kellett p62. The natural wonders of Shark Bay / Mark Kellett p68. The expeditions of George Grey in Western Australia / Derek Parker p71. Cane toad (toads): the ugly invader / Mark Kellett p76.

WINTER 2009: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The slashing adventure of Captain Francis de Groot p6. Boomerang: behind an Australian icon [boomerangs] p10. Cascades Female Factory, Hobart p13. Solomon Wiseman, King of the Hawkesbury p16. Old Poltalloch Station, SA p19. Trams and tramways, Sydney p22. Margaret Catchpole p29. William Redfern, convict, surgeon, reformer p32. Matthew Flinders and the naming of Australia 1801-1814 p35. John McDouall Stuart p43. Melbourne Zoo [Zoological Gardens] p49. Lord Howe Island p58. Queensland: a separate colony p65. London-to-Australia air race 1919 p71. Captain Moonlite [Andrew George Scott] p77.

SPRING 2009: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The beginnings of Australian television / Bill Peach p3. The origin of Darwin p4. 150 candles for Wilson's Promontory Lighthouse p5. New dinosaur fossils found in Queensland p5. Pioneer storekeepers of Jindera p6. State Car no's 4 and 5 [railway carriages for royalty] p6. CSIRAC - our pioneer computer / David Demant p7-9. Australia's oldest theatre: the Hobart Theatre Royal / with assistance of Greg Clarke p10-11. The St Leons: a family circus saga [St Leon family] / Mark St Leon p12-15. Queensland's Old Government House / Katie McConnel p16-18. Australian [Port Leschenault, Western Australia]: echoes of a grand dream / Meryl Gardiner p19-20. Sir Leslie Morshead: leader of the Rats [of Tobruk] / Matthew Stirling p23-7. May Gibbs: creator of the gamut babies p28-32. Convict life on the Archer estates [convicts, Woolmers Estate and Brickendon Estate, Tasmania] / Rosemary Johnson p33-9. The secrets of Lake Mungo / Ros Stirling p40-7. Conrad Martens: artist of fortune / Warwick Hirst p48-54. Mackay [Queensland] and the Melanesians [workers in the sugar industry] / Henry Reynolds p55-60. The forgotten beginnings of Australian television / Chris Long p61-67. [Philip Parker] King and the Mermaid [ship] / Robert Tiley p68-73. Bungaree: voyager between two cultures p74. Ernest Giles: explorer of the heartless deserts / Valmai Hankel p75-81.

SUMMER 2009: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. The unlikely origins of Healesville Sanctuary p4. Jumping puddles in Noorat [Alan Marshall] p4. Waverley electric car p5. Komodo dragon connection with Australia p5. Dromkeen p6. Heavy Harry [H22 locomotive] p6. Ostrich farming, South Australia p7. The mystery of the Zuytdorp [ship] / Phillip Playford p8-11. Brisbane's old windmill [Spring Hill] p12-14. Joseph Perry: God's filmmaker [Salvation Army] / Merv Collins p15-17. Driving where no road goes [Harry Dutton and Murray Aunger cross the Australian continent to Darwin 1908] / Alison Russell p18-20. AE2 - treasure of the Sea of Marmara [submarine] / Vecihi and Hatice Basarin p21-3. An instant in stone: the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument / Mark Kellett p24-5. The Clarke Gang: our deadliest bushrangers / Greg Powell p26-8. Georgiana Molloy: pioneer botanist of the West / Bill Lines p31-4. William Charles Wentworth: father of Australia's freedoms / Andrew Tink p35-41. Vaucluse House: a magnificent retreat p40-1. The Daintree: nature's incubator [Daintree Rainforest] / Mark Kellett p42-9. William Barak and the struggle for Coranderrk / Bruce Pascoe p50-55. The Van Diemen's Land Company / Rosalind Stirling p56-61. The last voyage of HMS Beagle / Robert Tiley p62-7. The Chinese trek to gold: Robe to the Victorian goldfields / Fiona Ritchie p68-73. Cowra: a town like no other / Harry Gordon p74-9. Book reviews p80.

AUTUMN 2010: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Clarke gang p4. Van Diemen's Land Company p4. Lark Quarry p4. Centaur [ship] p5. A forgotten chapter in the story of the Theatre Royal, Hobart / Gwen Friend p6. Gosse's Bluff Crater p7. Flightless plane of Antarctica [Vickers no.1] p7. Origin of left hand driving p8. Mammalodon - first of the filter feeding whales? p8. Hobart's founding father: Lieutenant Governor David Collins p9. Allan Davidson: prospector in the Central Desert / Valmai Hankel p10. The Abbey, Annandale, Sydney p13. The Barwell boys / Lydia McLean p16. Bunyip: mystery of the deep [Bunyips] / Josie Flett p20. Fremantle Prison / Luke Donegan p24. An enterprising gardener: Carl Axel Nobelius / Jo Jenkinson p29. D.S. [David Scott] Mitchell: founder of a library [Mitchell Library, Sydney] / Paul Brunton p33. Joseph Reed: a city's greatest architect / David Dunstan p39. Caroline Chisholm: a life of caring / Carole Walker p45. Coolgardie or bust [Albert Gaston, early miner on the Coolgardie goldfield] - condensed extract from his memoirs p50. The Chaffey brothers: irrigation pioneers [George and W.B. (William) Chaffey] / Glenn Miller p56. The General and the spy: Harry Chauvel of the Light Horse and T.E. Lawrence / Roland Perry p64. Reward for labour: the eight hour day / Rosalind Stirling p70. The arrival of the telegraph in Australia / Ann Moyal p76.

WINTER 2010: Peach's Musings [Bill Peach is a presenter of the ABC TV program 'This Day Tonight'] p3. Author of 'Mary Poppins' Helen Lyndon Goff (P.L. Travers) born in Maryborough, Queensland p7. Locks of hair from Napoleon p7. The return of Australia's oldest surviving film [Humorous roller skater] p8. An Aussie tyrannosaur? P9. Federation window at the Science Exchange, Adelaide p9. The Catalpa rescue / Sandra Murray p10. The pilots of Port Phillip Bay / Matthew Stirling p14. St Paulus: a plane of many missions / Pat Studdy-Clift p19. Red-back spiders: an Aussie outhouse icon / Mark Kellett p22. In search of Sir George Hubert Wilkins / Roderick Eime p25. Lachlan Macquarie: a governor of vision / Warwick Hirst p30. The fossil fish of Burrinjuck / Mark Kellett p36. Thomas Huxley and the voyage of the HMS Rattlesnake / Iain McCalman p42. The bombing of Darwin / Warren Mann p49. The great rabbit debate [rabbits] / Stephen Dando-Collins p57. The Chirnsides of Werribee Park [Chirnside family] / Rosemary Johnson p62. The overland telegraph line / Rick Moore p69. Lake Killalpaninna: contact and culture shock / Valmai Hankel p75.