The Scone Advocate
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
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Flashback Friday: BHP closure, 24 years on | photos, video
1915: Bloom Mill Shears.
Families finally get chance to 'honour the courage' of WWII warship victims
Steve Evans
Les Drew, 90, and the picture of his brother Ken who died on the Montevideo Maru. Picture by Keegan Carroll
Join me on an after-dark mission to see if scorpions glow in the dark
Tim the Yowie Man
Lauren Ogden, left, and friend Robyn Hall carefully search under rocks for scorpions, inset. Pictures by Tim the Yowie Man, Lauren Ogden
Oh mummy, $1.6b worth of Egyptian artefacts on display
Bray Boland
The Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs exhibition will be staged at the Australian Museum, Sydney. (Belad Al-Karkhey/AAP PHOTOS)
Inside the unknown soldier's 'moving' journey home from France
Steve Evans
Richard Reid in front of a quilt given him to commemorate his work as a historian. Picture by Elesa Kurtz
Remember the fight to keep Trove? Here is how it's doing now
Karen Barlow
The National Library of Australia. Picture by James Croucher
Largest ancient cemetery ever discovered in Gaza
Issam Adwan (associated Press)
Archeologists say the tombs reveal a great deal about Gaza's population more than 2000 years ago. (EPA PHOTO)
'We crash-landed in a field': stories of heroism mark 50 years since Vietnam War
Peter Brewer
Barbara Sutherland, who was part of Australia's little-known civilian medical humanitarian effort during the Vietnam War. Picture by Gary Ramage
Opinion
The forgotten generation of Australians we need to honour
Luke Gosling
An Australian member of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary - called Kiaps - holds a baby in PNG in 1948. Picture AAP
Ancient Indigenous cutting tools found off WA coast
Phoebe Loomes
Ancient Indigenous cutting tools have been found during a dive off the coast of Karratha in WA. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)

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