August
LILLIAN ARMFIELD
First female police detective hauls in Razor Gang; feuding brothel madams of Darlinghurst. Lillian May Armfield — immortalised in the television series Underbelly: Razor — was Australia’s first ‘special constable’, a position that was more of an experiment than a bankable career path,
THE TINGIRA BOYS
An old cargo ship became a live-in training school for “wayward boys”. State and federal governments had refitted the ship and, for twenty years from 1891, welfare departments took delinquents from their families, rehoming them on a floating juvenile detention facility. (Photo: Navy Historic Archive)
HAROLD BLAIR
Ethel Quinn had barely begun her teens when, in 1925, she gave birth to a son, Harold, at a Queensland mission. A determined little fella from the get-go, Harold Blair would later make his mark as a singer, dubbed “The last great tenor of the concert-hall era.”
September
WILLIAM “BILLY” RUSSELL: the charming, singing, devoted bushranger
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