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Australia live news update: Victoria records 1,188 new Covid cases and 11 deaths; 337 cases in NSW; Labor sets emissions reduction target

Australia live news update: Victoria records 1,188 new Covid cases and 11 deaths; 337 cases in NSW; Labor sets emissions reduction target: Follow all the day’s developments .... Read More at: "Gauteng" - BingNews Omicron variant at least 2.4x more likely to re-infect people who have already HAD Covid, scientists reveal: OMICRON is at least 2.4 times more likely to reinfect people who’ve already had Covid, scientists have revealed. The variant has a “substantial” ability to swerve immunity …

Pretoria Image: Adelaide. The oldest theatre building in Australia built as the Queens Theatre in 1840. From 1877 to 1928 was a Bazaar as the sign says. Was the Royal Victoria Theatre 1850 to 1868.

This #State Theatre tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by denisbin George Coppin the main developer of Sorrento was a very interesting character. He was actually a comic actor and investor. He left England and arrived in Sydney in 1843. He produced shows in Melbourne, Adelaide (the old Queens Theatre off Hindley Street) etc in the 1840s. In 1850 he bought the Queens Theatre and reopened it as the Royal Victoria …

Pretoria Image: Houghton South Australia. Bristol House a fine stone Georgian style house erected around 1845 as a residence and butcher shop.

This #Union Buildings tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by denisbin Houghton and Inglewood. A private town was created in 1841 on some land leased by John Richardson from Sir John Morphett. Richardson named his property Houghton Lodge and then he subdivided some of it into Houghton village. At the centre of his village he laid out an English style green. It was planted with English trees- Elms, Oaks etc. The first …

Pretoria Image: Murray Park House built for the wealthy pastoralist Alexander Borthwick Murray in 1884. Now part of the Magill Campus of the University of South Australia.

This #Union Buildings tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by denisbin AB Murray (1816-1902), as he was often known, actually came to SA to help a fellow Scot James Malcolm who owned Poltalloch Station on Lake Alexandrina as well as leases at Mt Crawford. (The Lake Alexandrina property was later bought by the Bowmans and the WEA runs a history tour to Callington and this station once or twice a year.) AB Murray had …

Midnight Oil – Live @ The State Theatre, Sydney, Australia – August 22, 2000

A MyPTA.co.za selected video for you: http://www.facebook.com/MidnightOilFanPage *taken from the Bootleg CD - The Dreaming 01. Spirit Of The Age 02. Short Memory 03. Warakurna 04. The Last Of The Diggers 05. Blue Sky Mine 06. Beds Are Burning 07. Tell Me The Truth 08. Truganini 09. Feeding Frenzy 10. Say Your Prayers 11. The Real Things 12. King Of The Mountain 13. Tin Legs And Tin Mines 14. Cemetery In My Mind 15. No Time For Games 16. US Forces 17. The Dead …

Pretoria Image: Image taken from page 187 of ‘[La Maison John Bull et Cie.] John Bull & Co. The Great Colonial Branches of the Firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa’

This #Blue Bulls tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "[La Maison John Bull et Cie.] John Bull & Co. The Great Colonial Branches of the Firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa" Author: O'RELL, Max - pseud. [i.e. Leon Paul Blouet.] Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10025.de.6." Page: 187 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: …