Thumbs down 27/2/25
Thumbs down to the woman pushing a baby in a pram on the Jack’s Creek road wearing headphones. I had to stop to let a car coming in the other direction pass before I could go around her. She didn’t even hear me.
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Thumbs down 27/2/25
Thumbs down – what’s happening with the Boggabri pool not being open? One person drove 30 minutes into town to go to a swimming club meeting, after paying for a season ticket and swimming club fees and another driving for...
Read MoreTopical 27/2/25
“Come to Colour”, that was the slogan the ABC used when colour television was introduced to Australia at midnight on March 1, 1975. Other networks used similar slogans – “Seven Colours Your World” (Channel 7), “Living...
Read MoreTopical 27/2/25
The purchase of a colour television set at the time was quite the luxury. A colour TV in the 70s typically cost between $1000 and $1300 – as much as almost $10,000 in today’s prices.
Read MoreTopical 27/2/25
Television in Australia traces its official beginning in the 1950s, however, test broadcasts stretch much further back. Australia started experimental TV broadcasts as early as the late 1920s. Experimental transmissions...
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