It's Sunday night, I'm in Wagga Wagga and I'm killing time, ahead of catching the XPT back to Sydney. Though I've gone first class on travel, I've booked economy for accommodation for my brief visit back to Wagga. I've been staying at Romano's. Co-incidentally, it's the place where I stayed for my first week in … Continue reading Twenty-Four Hours in Wagga Wagga
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Wagga Wagga aka Wagga is a city of around 60,000 people in Southern NSW. I lived there for over three years, from the end of 1991 to the beginning of 1995. I have many fond memories of my time there.
Having worked as a journalist and broadcaster for over thirty years, I've got to know a LOT of politicians. In my view, some of them have been very good people, and some of them have been arseholes. On one side of politics, I've had the son a politician threaten me with physical violence over a … Continue reading The Boy from Boree Creek
Having spent a few years in the early 1990s, living in Wagga Wagga, I was well aware of the story of Captain Moonlite, the bushranger, and the hold-up at nearby Wantabadgery Station in 1879. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Moonlite What I wasn't aware of until the mid 1990s, was the suggestion he had been involved in a same-sex relationship … Continue reading Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt