tiabunna's photos

For Macro Mondays group 20/11//2023, topic #336. "Tablets (pills)." If getting this image had given me a headache, at least a cure was nearby. :-)

In the passenger terminal at Canberra Airport (see also PiP). I can only presume that these statues must have been fully dressed when they arrived, but that they disrobed after an airconditioning failure while they have waited for their flight! Wishing everyone a Happy Bench Monday and a good week to follow.

Flowering now. They're not very big, so I needed a macro lens for this.

Courtyard wall. It's Wednesday Wall time again, I hope everyone is having a good week. Also wishing everyone a Happy Fence Friday and a good weekend to follow.

This grevillea bush seems to stay in flower year-round. View large for detail.

Following on from my previous documentation about the 1891 Shearers' strike and its unlikely setting in the little township of Barcaldine. The shearers met at the railway station and had their meetings under the shade of the nearby "Tree of Knowledge". A short while after the arrest of the Shearers' Union leaders, the other shearers gathered and formed the Queensland Labour Party (see PiPs 1,2) which became the start of the Australian Labor Party (the current national government in Australia). In 2006 someone poisoned the venerable "Tree of Knowledge" and the Queensland Government later had its remains treated with preservative, also erecting the large monumental structure over the top (see also PiP 3). The bench is in the background of the main image and in PiP 1. HBM, everyone.

One of the best known of Australia's "Big things", the Big Merino has been a popular visit for travellers (such as these) for many years. I must admit a coat of paint seems due!

A coastal lake fed by a creek, sometimes open to the ocean.

This statue is holding the remains of a Eureka Flag (since the 1853 miners' uprising at Eureka the "go to" flag for protests in Australia - 1st PiP). Forgotten by many, the second largest uprising in Australia was, of all places, set in the little town of Barcaldine in 1891, when the shearers formed a union and refused to take pay cuts imposed by the large pastoralists. There were opposing marches through towns by shearers and the Queensland militia, some wool sheds were burned, and finally the pastoralist-led Queensland government had the strike leaders arrested (see PiPs) while scab labourers were imported from southern states. You can read more about it here, but maybe faster to listen to this song which tells the story. Wishing everyone a Happy Fence Friday and a good weekend.