Australian History

[goldtruck59]

Yep too easy Doc I knew you would get that quickly.
It is indeed Vegemite.
It will be a bit harder next time !!!

Over to you Doc

GT

 

[Ramjet]

Smashed it Doc. I have been away from this topic for too long. Love my Aussie history.

 

[DrDuck]

It was just one of those questions that I knew the answer to right away, without having to google it.

I have visitors tonight, and will be up at 5:00 am tomorrow to spend the next three days working in Sydney, so maybe someone else could take it up.

 

[DrDuck]

In coming home a day early, so will post a new question tonight!

 

[DrDuck]

Sorry for the delay, it's becoming hard to think of new questions.

For a change, I thought I'd give a fair bit of information about my latest subject, and see how you go.

I was born in Sydney, and educated in a number of schools, including at Goulburn.

I worked in the clothing industry, and later went to America where I was an extra and some times a stunt performer in movies.

Returning to Sydney after a failed marriage, I appeared in a couple of Australian films, before travelling to Europe and the USA, during which time I had a column about my travels in an Australian Newspaper.

I became a war correspondent for the paper during WW2, and was interred by the Japanese after being captured.

After the war, I gave speeches about my experiences, and resumed my job as a journalist.

I was a society favorite, and appeared on early ABC television.

I remember this person and their distinctive catch phrase on Sydney Radio back in the late 60's.

Who to you reckon I am?

 

[Mackka]

Jack Davey

 

[xcvator]

Jack was a KIWI

 

[Mackka]

Thanks XCV, my bad.
Mackka

 

[DrDuck]

Not Jack.

 

[goldtruck59]

Is it Dorothy Hetty Fosbury Jenner

Great question Doc and a tricky one too!!!

GT

 

[7.62marksman]

Damien Peter Parer

 

[xcvator]

Is it Dorothy Hetty Fosbury Jenner

Great question Doc and a tricky one too!!!

GT

OK, I've got to ask, just how did you come up with that answer ?

 

[DrDuck]

GT is correct. That's a great get. She went by the name Andrea on the radio in the 60's. Her catch phrase was "hello mums and dads," and I remember it well from when I was a kid.

I thought I'd have to give a hint or two, at least that I was not looking for a man!

She really did have an amazing life.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jenner-dorothy-hetty-fosbury-andrea-12697

 

[goldtruck59]

Is it Dorothy Hetty Fosbury Jenner

Great question Doc and a tricky one too!!!

GT

OK, I've got to ask, just how did you come up with that answer ?

Well its like this. Ive been playing this game for 4 years or so with the Doc and I have got used to his cryptic clues.
Doc is all things NSW and in particular his home town of Goulburn.
Simply typed into Google - War correspondent-newspaper columnist-and the key word -Goulburn
10 minutes reading and scrolling and the clues pointed straight to a very non male Dorothy. It was a great question in deceit.

GT

 

[goldtruck59]

GT is correct. That's a great get. She went by the name Andrea on the radio in the 60's. Her catch phrase was "hello mums and dads," and I remember it well from when I was a kid.

I thought I'd have to give a hint or two, at least that I was not looking for a man!

She really did have an amazing life.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jenner-dorothy-hetty-fosbury-andrea-12697

Thanks Doc,

Great question as usual.

Ok lets try a bit harder and more obscure target famous in his time.

who am I?

Clue 1

I was born in pretty impoverished conditions very early in the 20th century in Central Australia. I pretty much spent most of my time between there and SA and particularly around the Murray river area and tried many vocations. I even had a stint as a steward on a paddle steamer.

GT

 

[DrDuck]

I thought the mention of Goulburn might have been a bit generous, but I did not test the various key words in Google!

 

[Northeast]

Jimmy James 1902 - 1945 ??

 

[goldtruck59]

Jimmy James 1902 - 1945 ??

Well bugger me dead. Unbelievable get mate WELL DONE.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/james-jimmy-10607

I wont ask how you got it so quick but I will say the next question I ask will be a lot bloody harder LOL

Over to you North East

GT

 

[Northeast]

Thanks GT. I have poked my head into this thread a few times. First time I've had a dip at it though.

I'm not going back through the previous 296 pages so unsure if this person has already been done...

I was born at the very start of my life on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

The child of a piscatorial capture expert.

Pre-teens I moved to a cow ranch in south central Queensland and spent much of my childhood there.

Whilst still schooling I became engrossed in the ocean and those that explored it.

I returned to the Sunshine Coast in my teens and was the top student at my local high school.

I then studied Zoology in Queensland's capital city.

After my studies I ventured overseas to countries north of Australia, in Africa and the Middle East.

In Africa I continued the work of another pioneering ocean scientist and my interest in pearls grew.

I eventually returned to Australia after hearing of the passing of a friend and took on the running of the biggest farm of its kind in Australia at the time.

Since the mid 1970s I have been based in the Capital of the Kimberley and have run a very successful business there.

In recent years have been recognized with an OAM.

Who am I?

Have fun :Y:

 

[DrDuck]

Was it pearler Nick Paspaley, JR?