Australian farming women have been on the land as long as men, but they’ve been largely ignored by the history books.

Our photo from the past this week is the Riverine Club on the corner of Sturt and Tarcutta Streets about 1900. The Club opened in 1881 and is still trading today.

The commandant of the Army Recruit Training Centre at Kapooka, Colonel Steve Jobson CSC, says the death of 26 soldiers in the 1945 training accident was as a much a loss for the Wagga community as it was for the army.

Take a look at what was going on in Wagga this time 20 years ago. There are lots of familiar faces – is yours one of them?

This is a website containing the history of all the places in Victoria (Australia) that have now or once had a population over 200 at any time since the establishment of Victoria as a British colony.

AAA FM 107.1 (Wagga Wagga’s community radio station), have a special 2 or 3 times a year programme, called “Wagga Wagga’s Music Music”.

Will be held Thursday, 21st May at the dedicated Memorial Site located on the Kapooka Road commencing at 2pm. Further details are available from 6933 8214.  

Heroes of Gallipoli contains the only known filmed scenes of the Allied involvement in the Gallipoli Campaign. It is an edited version of an earlier film, With the Dardanelles Expedition.

Thomas Trembath Lennon (1908-1992) was born in Sydney. He was a commercial and portrait photographer, operating his studio at 64 Victoria Road, Drummoyne, NSW during the 1930s and 1940s.

These are biographical documentaries which focus on Tom Lennon, who was the photographer for the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser in the 1950’s and 60’s.