Monday, September 30, 2024

Wild Magpies Singing & Rocking Out

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Wild magpies were regular visitors to my garage recording studio at Wakki Beach, NSW. They'd invite themselves in and sing along to craz...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Climate Change Exhibition At Sydney Museum, 2009

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A selection of images from a Climate Change Exhibition at Sydney Museum in 2009.  About 70% of Australians supported actions to lessen clima...

Australian UFO History: February, 1947: 'White Egg-Shaped Objects Moving At Incredible Speed'

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'WHITE EGG FLYING OBJECTS' REPORTED IN AUSTRALIA IN EARLY 1947 What a surprise. There is no mention of UFOs, spacecraft, aliens or f...
Monday, September 16, 2024

The Whitlam Coup And The CIA In Australia

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A republished story on an incredibly important era of Australian history. The links to this old piece are dead now.  Rob Cobb's 1972 car...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Rupert Murdoch Was Sent To Oxford University In 1950 To Dodge Australian Military Service

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 Rupert Murdoch Was Sent To Oxford University In 1950 To Dodge Australian Military Service Sydney Tribune, June, 1950:  "Wealthy press ...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Magpie In Wakki Records Studio

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Photo By Darryl Mason  Magpies hung around Wakki Studios at Wakki Beach, New South Wales, so often they ended up singing on songs.  Like thi...

Green Turtle Tracks At Dawn

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Photo By Darryl Mason  Green turtle tracks at dawn. Photo by Darryl Mason

Never Get Out Of The Boat

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Northern Territory, 2008. Still have nightmares about my boot sinking into that mud and the mud not letting go, felt like it was pulling me ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Angus In The Outback - A.I. Art by Darryl Mason

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By Darryl Mason 'Angus In The Outback' began as a fun prompt on the first A.I. Art software I got to trial in 2020. I liked the idea...
Friday, February 28, 2020

MARCH 1789 BREAKING NEWS ABOUT 1788: 40 DEAD IN EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAY

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By Darryl Mason In images below, you will find the first lengthy newspaper report published in London, in March 1789, of the First Fleet a...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

A Guide To The Australian Pandemic - The Last One And This One

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What To Expect In An Australian Pandemic: Villages, Towns, Cities Quarantined...Churches, Schools, Workplaces Shut Down...Social Chaos...Fo...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Twitter Flashback: 2010 - The Age Newspaper Sacks "Outrageous" Columnist Over Logies Tweets

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Twitter Flashback. THE AGE NEWSPAPER FIRES MOST POPULAR COLUMNIST BECAUSE SHE UPSET RUPERT MURDOCH'S THUGS AND GOONS May, 2010: The ...
Monday, May 06, 2019

Old Media Rages Against Twitter Raging Against The Election

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'Why Are You Yelling At Me On Social Media When I'm Only Trying To Wind You Up And Make You React Angrily So I Can Report How Abusi...