Topic | Relevant Location | Description. |
ABC | Our | Origins of the ABC's Radio National and Local Radio networks. |
Aboriginal | Western Australia | Mary Ellen Cuper - first Aboriginal postmistress (New Norcia) |
Australia | Telegram from Stan Davey to Prime Minister Harold Holt. | |
Cable to England | Use of numbers of aboriginals in population totals by Colony | |
Administration | The principle of combining Post & Telegraph Offices | |
Advertising | Australia | Booklets with sample ornamental telegram forms. |
Colonial/Australia | Suggestions to advertise on envelopes and forms | |
Australia | Slogan postmarks promoting telegrams. | |
Cars and motor oil | 1932 (Chevrolet), 1934 (oil) | |
Australia | People on board ships in port | |
Age (of a person) | Australia | Age required to be a Telegraph Messenger. |
Aerograms | Coastal Radio | Transmitting messages from T.A.A. aircraft. |
Afghans | Western Australia | Assistance with the Menzies to Lawlers line in the Goldfields. |
America, U.S. | War | Threat of invasion of Normanville, South Australia during 1860s. |
Animals | Koalas | Inspecting the telegraph line at Toowoomba. |
Geese | Knocking over a telegraph pole at Rokewood, Vic. | |
Insect/Worm | Burrowing into the undersea cable - see paragraphs 194-202 of the Report. |
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Antartica | Australia | Telegraphic communications from Antartica. |
Arnott's Biscuits | New South Wales | Established at Morpeth 13 years before the telegraph opened there. |
Articles | See Bibliography (from the left hand Site home menu above) for each administration. | |
Assistance | Western Australia | Instances when telegraph poles and lines were relied on in attempts to save lives. |
Digging his own grave near the telegraph line from Dundas to Balladonia. | ||
Atlantic Cable | USA | |
Auctions | Victoria | Possibly the first auction of a property in Australia using the Telegraph. |
Australind, S.S. | Western Australia | The ship which carried so much cargo and so many passengers to the Pilbara and Kimberley districts. |
Aviation | Darwin | The arrival of Ms Amy Johnson and her telegram |
The arrival in England of James Mollison and his telegram back to Hon. Latham in Australia. | ||
Wyndham, W.A. | View of Wyndham as an airport held by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm. | |
Trans Australia Airlines | TAA and telegrams with telegram to Chairman Norman Watt from Lester Brain. | |