As the train ambled into the Albury train station in 1983, it was met by a motley crew of excitable children and adult circus performers. An admittedly off-kilter marching band announced the arrival of the Nanjing Acrobatic Group as they cautiously stepped onto the platform and eager clowns rushed to greet them. One attendee wore […]
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Chifley liked to knit. On the wall of her rendered brick cottage at 10 Busby Street, Bathurst, nearby the comfortable sage green armchair where she often sat to pursue her craft, this beautiful Chinese scroll had been hanging since about 1948. Lizzie was Prime Minister Ben Chifley’s wife, and this was their home, […]
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