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Louisa Seddon, New Zealand’s secret ‘queen’
Richard and Louisa Seddon married on 13 January 1869, and were one of New Zealand’s great power couples. Richard, who became New Zealand’s longest-serving and most famous prime minister (known as ‘premier’ in New Zealand), is known as ‘King Dick’, bu
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The Dashed Hopes Of The Aldershot Smelter
In July 1888 in London, the Queensland Smelting Company was formed to treat the refractory ore that was resistant to standard gold recovery methods available at Gympie, and the newly discovered goldfields west of Maryborough. The capital behind the c
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Crown Street Women’s Hospital, Sydney
The Women’s Hospital, as it was originally known, was founded by Scottish-born physician Sir James Graham in 1893. Located in a four-roomed house on Hay Street in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, the hospital was initially funded by public subscript