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Australia Post Souvenir Covers - Pre-paid envelopes

Australia:  Airmail 1931  |  Australia in Space 2024   | Souvenir pre-paid covers |  Rare Covers  |  Souvenir Covers 1970-1997 + Varieties  |  Souvenirs Covers 1997+  |  World Youth Day 2008  |  WWF 50 Years  | Contents Introduction Examples    ---------------- 1. Introduction In the listings of Australia post official souvenir covers (also known as special event covers) from 1970 to the present available here and here , the current writer excluded pre-paid envelopes or covers which were of a souvenir nature, and of which there were few. This was in accord with the definition of souvenir covers as applied by Noel G. Almeida, author of the catalogues published from 1982 through to 1997. However, in December 2025 the author noticed that Australia Post had appeared to no longer issue souvenir covers, in favour of Postal Numismatic Covers (PNCs), with the last appearing during 2019-2020. However, the following ...
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"The first Islamic terrorist attack in the West" - Holy War at Broken Hill, Australia, 1915

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Islam | Battle of Broken Hill 1915 | Muslim Brotherhood in Australia |  Rational fear of Islam | Sam Byrne, First World War: Turks fire on picnic train, Broken Hill, Jan. 1st. 1915 , oil on canvas, c.1965, National Gallery of Victoria. ---------------------- Daily Herald , Adelaide, 2 January 1915. The first Islamic terrorist attack in the West was the so-called Battle of Broken Hill [Australia] where two [Afghan] Muslims answered the call of Jihad in 1915 to obey the Calif of the Ottoman Empire and randomly began shooting Australians while they were having a picnic on the 1st of January 1915. So this is not new..... ( The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters , London, 16 December 2025) ---------------- Abstract : On the public holiday of Friday, 1 January 1915, two Muslim men from Afghanistan - Mullah Abdullah (c.1855 - 1915) and Badsha Mahomed Gül (c.1875 - 1915) - attacked with rifles approximately 1200 innocent Australians travelling on an open wagon picnic train...
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