SEARCHING FOR HISTORIC IMAGES OF THE PUNT
Does anyone have any original photographs of the Darlington Point punt?
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A punt operated on the Murrumbidgee River from the 1860s until the bridge was opened in 1905.
In my research into local history, to date I have found only pictures from newspapers, such as the one shown (Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 3/6/1903). Press pictures do not copy well, and result in an inferior quality image.
If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please contact me by email, heritagedp@hotmail.com
If you do not have the facilities for a high resolution scan, I can arrange to do the scanning myself. Your assistance in this matter will of course be acknowledged in the event of the picture being published or put on display.
Mona Finley, Darlington Point
HOW CAN ABORTION BE JUSTIFIED?
A life and death at stake tragedy is unfolding in the NSW Parliament of epic proportions.
If abortion is the the direct and intentional killing of an innocent human being, how can it be justified in the modern world?
Has society entered a new dark age when wrong seems to be right?
Is it progress to legitimize and legalise abortion which by other names is the brutal dismembering, decapitating and disemboweling of the bodies of unborn babies?
The abortion bill/debate currently before the NSW parliament sounds more like legalising a holocaust than legitimate healthcare.
Since when did "killing" become "healthcare" anyway? Can convenience trump conscience by a process of rationalisation?
God save NSW because nothing will save 'unwanted' unborns if this Bill is passed. It's unbelievable!
Father Peter Stojanovic, Yoogali
NO IRREFUTABLE FACTS IN HISTORY
For some, history is a set of facts. If the fact is common knowledge or documented then it must be correct. But is this always so? Who documented that fact? Where did the author source the 'fact'?
It was an accepted 'fact' that Australia had a large inland sea. That is, until Charles Sturt followed the Murray River down to the sea. Great grandpa was a free settler. That is, until his name was found as a convict aboard the Aurora, 1833.
Historians use a winnowing process, the 'facts' are refracted through the mind of the recorder.
Whoever originally writes or states the fact is influenced by his/her own bias. A Griffith bankrupt Soldier Settler in 1925 would give a different version of MIA history than the Commissioner, Mr Evatt. Churchill's history of World War II would be very different from Hitler's.
In 1930 a Griffith school teacher, listening to stories of the early Yenda days, said "This is history! You should write it down". But the men didn't wish to return to the bad days. They weren't interested in writing history. They were more interested in who had been sleeping with who.
In about 1980 a Griffith group tried to construct a map of Bagtown. People were interviewed. These people had been young children in 1912-1920 when Bagtown was a village.
Mr A said the baker's shop was next to the blacksmith. Mrs B said it was near the dress shop. Mrs C said there was no baker's shop - the bread came from Whitton. No said Mrs D, the bread came from Leeton.
Mr E owned that farm. No Mr F did. Perhaps E sold it to F, so both histories could be correct.
Memories differ. This is often the case when oral history is passed down through the generations.
There are no irrefutable facts when writing history.
Anne Gribble, Griffith
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