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The greatest mistake anyone could ever make was to upset extremely capable Go Fast Guru Harry Firth. The Aust branch of the Ford Motor Company made this exact mistake when they dismissed Harry & replaced him with American Al Turner to run their GT Falcon racing program after Harry had diligently delivered for Ford for several years. Harry immediately signed on with Holden & got busy belting Ford severely with the HDT HT350 GTS Monaro at the annual pinnacle Bathurst event in 1969. Not satisfied that that pounding was enough of a humiliation for Ford, Harry took on Holden's Torana GTR XU-1 racing program & developed the Torana into an angry hornet compact Bathurst weapon of mass destruction in time for the big Bathurst shindig of 1972. The Harry Firth developed LJ Torana GTR XU-1 with a highly tweaked but comparatively tiny 202 cubic inch Holden six & soon to attain legendary status; Peter Brock outgunned a potent armada of massively powerful Ford - 351 Cleveland - TopLoader 4 Speed - 9 Inch Diff - GTHO Falcons at Bathurst. Beating Ford's factory team at Bathurst with a dinky little Holden six was about as brutal as you could get. Typical Harry on a mission of: Here, cop this! On that fateful day, Harry stuck it up his former employers so severely, nothing else can ever compare. Harry was the magician of making cars go fast. No matter what you had or what had been previously done to it, Harry would inevitably make it go faster. Once he got onboard with Holden & his good friend Moffat got into bed with Ford Australia in 1969, a bizarre arms race ensued. These two extremely talented & crafty characters fighting against each other all over Australian Touring Car Racing caused rapid improvement in Aust built high performance cars like nothing before or since. Harry's contribution to our local racing heritage is so immense, it simply cannot ever be completely calculated. He made everything go faster. He had a gift. He demonstrated that gift. There'll never be another Harry Firth.

Hello. Do you have a website. Would love to ask questions and post photos of my Queen Anne. I need help with colors and paper style

Perfect example of the power of street art and how it raises awareness.

This is so awesome

thank you. i noticed the map has indigenous names or words on it. thats awesome. id love to learn places tradtional name

Goofy ah.

Any kids courses?

So beautifully done

What about the huge amount of artefacts that are currently being respected and cared for by current caretakers in private residences and the artefacts that are just there in private hands. Can they contact aca in relation to start the handing back process to the right people and not just a general sort of representative of right people?

Ahead of her time literally xD

here for school?

She was a highly sucessful OnlyMiners girl.

I think it's amazing how they did this 100 to 200 years ago

I happened upon a copy in a book exchange. It is a remarkable piece of work. Joseph's diary dispels many of the myths we are taught about early Australia, the currency lads and lasses and the supposed greatness of our forebears. The image I formed was of a collection of, short sighted and greedy individualists and or religious fanatics who were too ignorant to either build a well for water security or have the common sense to manure the barren land. Jospeh tried in both newspaper articles and in person to educate the people, but all of his efforts seemed to fall on willfully deaf ears. I was so impressed by the man and his diaries that my youngest son has Joseph as his middle name. This work should be mandatory reading in all Australian history courses however it is so contradictory to the narrative, I'm not surprised that it is still relegated to obscurity.

I can’t believe that, im the second commenter

IT WAS GREAT TO SEE HARRY, HE LIVED IN MY STREET, HILLTOP AVE, ALSO WORKED FOR MY FATHER AT A.F HOLLINS WE WERE A MOTOR RACING STREET, INCLUDING ME. 5 PEOPLE.

All this Indigenous history should be taught in schools

I read about Dr Gwen when she died and there was a story in the Melbourne Sun.

I love the peppercorn trees, but I am a bendigoian.

Silver service in the railways reminds me of Mt Buffalo Chalet😅.

The Chinese Knew how to get around Government and Tax compare to westerners, They where excellent at forgery, and to the official all Chinese look the same. they only commerce between Chinese with they own currency. They pay no Gold tax because they keep all the gold they found and never cash it in. Only when back in china where gold was excepted currency. Say they buy a horse they pay gold. think about today how people elude tax well the Chinese where the best at it. This got up the noses of the elite and the elite would start rumour and stir up the gold field egging on by the elite. Like calls of they take our jobs the use our women. You knew the drill. other wise they got on well with the diggers. Read about the 1860,s buggery charge on a Chinese in Darlinhurst courts, Man caught a Chinese with his Chinese mate horse and told his Chinese mate who report him the the police. The Chinese was found not guilty because no penetration could be proved. LOL it a great read.

Vale, Gerry Gill. Such a passionate and thoughtful, eloquent historian, who managed to bring much of our regional history to life through interesting perspectives.

I may have Cohn full bottle 6 12 fl Oz as Schweppes brand happy to donate to museum if req

I am a kid from Moomba I was born to it The family and life was fabulas I got to help with the fire works and in ticket box etc from 1971 I was born in 1970 to 1979 and I went every year just to visit Tom Wittingslow Des Snr Moomba is amazing And the public make the event fabulas.

May Allah bless Dost Mohammad and grant him paradise. Greetings from Pakistan - Canada.

Why don't they use Khan or their tribal surname instead rather than their own names as surname?

We need a return of this show and Ratbags

Dost Muhammads father name jorak khan and resided in Lal baker Hawks Bay karach

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Amazing video, in tragically bad quality

Beautiful cuz thanks leaving this for us your wisdom was always amazing

Love ya cuz thanks for chat

Sounds like your a greeny who would rather let the whole thing grow out of control and than catch fire burning thousands of acres, killing hundreds of thousands of wildlife, the very thing you wish to preserve. Look at black summer. Millions of animals died where as with well controlled back burning and fire breaks created as well as removal of a lot of dead trees the areas that burnt would be a lot smaller. Sure a little habitat would be lost doing such things but that’s not as bad as letting the whole thing burn. Even the aborigines had the forethought to burn off.

The fact that her teeth are so good makes it hard to believe she’s English. Such a great script and performance

Humpty Dumpty was king George the Third. (Who was mad and 'Marched his troops up to the top of the hill and marched him down again.)

This needs a re-releade.

Wonderful work to record the words of some local oldtimers.

homework boring today fr

The old sip good cricketer too from Phil in tas

In Rome my city instead in 1992 the mayor Franco Carraro decided to "clean up" the walls of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni so as not to make a bad impression on Michail Gorbachev and thus canceled a work by Keith Haring, the same did the mayor Francesco Rutelli in 2001 , about ten years after Haring's death, deleting another mural, the one created on the transparent walls of the Tiber Bridge for the jubilee I think .. so as not to offend the faithful. Probably neither of them knew much about art otherwise it would have been enough to cover them up , however the fact remains that the damage done is inestimable as today Keith 's paintings are being auctioned for millions of $ . PS : Carraro in part I can also understand it was 92 , being ignorant of the artist he probably thought he was deleting worthless murals ... but Rutelli in 2001 had no justifications he knew very well who Keith Haring was , a reckless action completely devoid of common sense , as if today someone decided to cancel a work by Barnsky to clean up a wall.

Love listening to these stories, of oppression and resilience, speaking truth... thank you for sharing your memories.🙏

Mark Twain myth at 4:28 and the reality. The myth about the town attached repeated on radio tonight.

elvis costello is playing there next april. i wondered what sort of place would attract an artist like him...and now i know. thank you.

With Ned kelly

I have an old interview from a newspaper of that time

2000 AD? what?

Eeek! Beautiful pieces, but I was a little disturbed to see the older drawing dragged on-top of the clean white Competition Entry. Not much point for white gloves!

3:30 Reg Carr DOB 09. 04. 1932 . Reg was a senior SM in those days ..A Telegraph certificate was difficult to obtain for many assistant SM's & other aspiring SM's ..even Peter Helbig who became Chief Traffic Manager said the telegraph was particularly challenging to obtain. The telegraph requirement was discontinued in later years.

Thanks Volbeat