Kerem Doruk

Feb 11, 2024 | canberratimes.com.au | Kerem Doruk

As a form of work experience, 11 students from Marist, Merici and St Clare's and Daramalan colleges joined Canberra pioneers to drive 600 sheep across the Murrumbidgee River. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsWhile students these days prefer to do their work experience in air-conditioned offices, in 1988 the students spent their days on horseback learning to build traditional sheep breaks.

Feb 10, 2024 | canberratimes.com.au | Kerem Doruk

A spectacular solar halo that eclipsed a total eclipse of the moon made headlines on February 11, 1990. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsAccording to the Bureau of Meteorology, the phenomenon occurred in Canberra only once every two to three years. The halo came only hours after a total eclipse of the moon, which was visible before dawn, the day before.

Feb 9, 2024 | canberratimes.com.au | Kerem Doruk

A rescue operation of a man wedged 43 metres underground in a cave in Bungonia made headlines in 1985 after Goulburn police spent four hours trying to free the man. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsThe man and three or four friends had abseiled into the cave, named Blowfly or B52 in Bungonia National Park, intending to climb out by another route.

Feb 8, 2024 | canberratimes.com.au | Kerem Doruk

An automatic lighting system installed at Goulburn airport only six weeks before the incident saved one of Masling Aviation's most expensive aircraft from certain destruction and its occupants from death, The Canberra Times reported on this day in 1977. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsThe Masling Beechcraft Queen Air was on a routine freight flight from Melbourne to Sydney with three people aboard when at 1.54am the pilot advised Sydney that both his engines had cut out.

Feb 6, 2024 | canberratimes.com.au | Kerem Doruk

Indonesian president Suharto made his first visit to Australia on this day in 1972. He arrived at Fairbairn RAAF base where he was greeted with a 21-gun salute and a crowd of about 300 people. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsAustralia's relations with Indonesia predate European settlement with hundreds of fishermen sailing each year from Makassar on the island of Sulawesi to the Arnhem Land coast to trade trepang with Aboriginal people.