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Australian actor Dieter Brummer was found dead on Saturday, 24 July 2021, at his family home in Glenhaven, a northwestern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, having committed suicide at the age of 45. Police attended after receiving a report of concerns for the welfare of a person, and discovered his body at the property. Brummer was most well-known for Read more...
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Sixteen men died during the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1923 and 1932. Seven were employed on the bridge structure itself, of whom two died falling from the bridge, seven worked at associated workshops, and two died in accidents at the rock quarries in Moraya supplying granite for the bridge pylons. Many more workers were left with injuries Read more...
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Coffin Bay was named by British naval explorer Lieutenant Matthew Flinders after Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, the Resident Commissioner of Sheerness Naval Dockyards in England, where Flinder’s survey ship, HMS Investigator, was fitted out. The bay was identified in 1802 by Flinders and his crew on board the Investigator during the first ever circumnavigation of Australia by ship. Originally named Read more...
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Dirk Hartog Island, off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast, can be reached by vehicle-carrying barge, boat or small plane. The privately-operated landing barge operates daily on-demand for transporting one four-wheel-drive vehicle and trailer at a time from Shelter Bay, Steep Point. Pre-booking the barge in advance is advisable as the island has a limit of 20 vehicles at any one time. Read more...
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The memorial plaque for the workers killed in the West Gate Bridge collapse is mounted on one of the bridge’s supporting pedestals at the accident site, where Hyde Street runs under the bridge in Spotwood, Melbourne. During construction on 15 October 1970, a 112-metre steel box-girder span gave way and fell into the mud and water of the Yarra River. Read more...
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