Comic books started to appear during the 1930s when the increasingly popular weekly newspaper strips were collected into booklets and resold. The Second World War saw a boom in the popularity of comic books along with the moral outrage against them. Due to the war, the Australian Government enacted the National Security Act of 1939. […]
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Shaped by the Bush
The stockman’s quart pot – a billycan (kettle) with a cup that fits inside it – was a popular kit carried by bush men and women to brew and drink tea. Whether journeying on horseback or by foot, travelling in the dry Australian ‘bush’ was a very thirsty business. A cup of leaf-tea, brewed on […]