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Captain Thunderbolt - songs

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Captain Thunderbolt : 1951 film | 1968 documentary | Annie Rixon | Copyright | Historical References | Mary Ann Bugg | Script | Song | Thunderbolt, 45" single cover. During August 2025 the writer came across on eBay two undated 7 inch vinyl 45 rpm single recordings of a song entitled Thunderbolt and sung by Australia-born Jimmy Parkinson . The title referred to the Robin Hood-like bushranger Frederick Ward who operated under the pseudonym Captain Thunderbolt in the Armidale region of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, during the 1860s. The other well-known Captain Thunderbolt was the fictional Irish highwayman and rebel, who was partnered by a Captain Lightfoot, made famous in the 1955 Hollywood film Captain Lightfoot starring Rock Hudson and based on the 1954 novel by W.R. Burnett. One of the Australian recordings was on the Festival Custom Recording label, and the second on the Prestolympic label. Both labels were yellow, and it ap...
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Alexander Berry and the Māori Amootoo (1825-1900)

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Shoalhaven: |  Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Cornelius O'Brien | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Kangaroo Valley | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | Amootoo 1891 Contents Boyd massacre Amootoo Somerville thesis Waitangi refugee?  References -------------------- Abstract : Māori man Amootoo - also known as John Amatto (1825-1900) - was originally born in Coromandel, New Zealand. During 1843 he was listed as an employee of the Alexander Berry Estate in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, Australia. Amootoo subsequently married Sydney-born Aboriginal woman Susannah Mitcham (1832-1920) and together they became members of the local Shoalhaven Indigenous community. The couple went on to reside ...
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The Tiki Coffee Lounge murder, Wollongong 1971

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From Brothel to Barittos - Murder in the 'Gong! Illawarra Mercury , 27 July 1971. Contents Introduction Players Tiki Coffee Lounge Murder Trial Aftermath References --------------- 1. Introduction The Illawarra region during the 1960s and 1970s was not generally known as a centre of criminal activity. Such a tag was usually associated with the dark alleys of Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, The Rocks, and the nearby dockyards of Sydney, Australia. However, the brutal, cold-blooded murder of Charles Berry at the Tiki Coffee Lounge, Keira Street, Wollongong, early in January 1971 by 'Big John' McHannigan brought local criminal activity to public attention like never before. The brutal mutilation slaying of Wilhelmina Kruger at Wollongong's Piccadilly shopping centre in January 1966 had shocked the nation, but the Berry murder was right out of a 1930s Hollywood gangster movie, with allegations of police corruption and a local police sergeant later...
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Jeff Buckley and Australia 1995-6

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Jeff Buckley: Australia 1995-6 | Forget Her 1993 | Live! 1991-1997 | Tim Buckley - London 1968 | Contents Introduction Australia Releases Tours Reminiscences Videos 1995+ Live tracks Interview at the Butterfly House References ---------------------- 'Till the next time, and the next time, and the reunion tour...... (Jeff Buckley, Sydney, 1 March 1996) Abstract : American singer, songwriter and musician Jeff Buckley (1966-97) had a special relationship with Australia, touring there in 1995 and 1996. The latter Hard Luck tour would prove to be his final series of concerts with a band, before descending into a morass of drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness which stifled his talent and ability to record a follow up album to his landmark Grace . Released in August 1994 to widespread critical acclaim internationally, it has gone on to become a classic of the era. Buckley's tragic death by drowning in Memphis on 29 May...
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