Vernon Graham

PRIVATE Billy Jackson, his right arm dangling by a piece of skin, wasn't about to let his wounded mates be blown to bits by the vicious German artillery shell blasts ripping across no man's land.

THOSE Australian travellers who like to collect souvenirs on their journeys would have loved John "Barney" Hines.

THE Land of November 15, 1918, summed up the end of the Great War with the headline on its editorial, "Justice Triumphs over Barbarism".

CHARLES Bean left Australia a legacy that is almost certainly unique in modern military writing - a history of a nation's involvement in a major war written by a person who witnessed almost all the biggest battles.

FRANK Daniel shot to national prominence in late December, 1985, when he drove one of his trucks to the front of old Parliament House in Canberra and dumped 25 tonnes of wheat on the roadway.

THE current push to develop Vietnam as a major new global wool processor won't have much impact on Australia's current heavy reliance on Chinese mills.

THE Salvation Army’s Maree Strong dreams of re-opening the store at Carinda in the North West which was shut last August.

WALLABY legend and 1991 World Cup-winning captain, Nick Farr-Jones, will be the guest speaker at a dinner to cap celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Warren Rugby Club.

THE Australian farm and agribusiness sectors will need an injection of $180 billion during the next 20 years to fully exploit the Asian dining boom.