Eaglehawk Neck is a scenic part of Tasmania, albeit with a brutal, colonial history.

This time, another of the stunning coastal rock formations.

Wave action over millennia, on a crevice which formed in the cliff face, resulted in a huge sea cave, similar to that which formed the neighbouring Tasman’s Arch (see the previous edition post) in which the roof caved in.

At the Devil’s Kitchen, the rock bridge at the seaward end also went, to create a 65-metre high chasm in the coastline.

Photo: Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Fleetwood Mac – Say You Love Me	1976	09:05	0
Smokie – Rock And Roll Rodeo	1995	09:12	0
Sherbet – Rock Me Gently	1976	09:16	3	9/3/2018
Lawson Vallery – Somebody Somewhere	2025	09:21	1	9/2/2025
Crystal Gayle – Crying In The Rain		09:24	0
Backtrack: Steve Cheers – Ten Thousand Ways	2022	09:28	3	25/11/2022
Stavros Xarhakos Orchestra – Life Is Callous		09:35	1	5/7/2020
Larissa Tormey – Kilbeggan’s Heart	2025	09:38	2	23/2/2025	IEJHJ 2500001
By Request Today: Vanessa Bourne – Together But Alone		09:43	5	9/2/2025
BORN 1940  Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A. – Joseph Alfred Souter alias Joe South, singer-songwriter and guitarist, who won a Grammy Award for Song Of The Year in 1970 with his song Games People Play.  He was nominated again in 1972 for his composition Rose Garden.  Died 2012.
Joe South – Games People Play	1969	09:49	5	12/3/2021
By Request Today: Kenny Rogers – Buy Me A Rose		09:52	10	25/10/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Dean Martin – You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You	1965	09:56	2	22/2/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Millie – See You Later Alligator	1965	09:58	1	6/3/2015
Alan Caswell – He Loves His Radio	2024	10:06	2	22/2/2024	AUGBT 2444959
The Lonesome Six – Regina	2025	10:11	0
Bohemian Rogue – Tide	2025	10:15	3	23/2/2025	AUGBT 2488904
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Rock A Teens – Woo Hoo	1959	10:20	0
Peter Salata – My Girl Back On The Land	2024	10:24	3	25/10/2024
Backtrack: Warren Kearney – The Isle of Innisfree	2020	10:27	1	4/4/2021
Percy Faith Orchestra – I Will Follow Him		10:35	5	16/2/2025
Backtrack: Aly Cook – Red Dirt Road Trip	2019	10:37	4	22/11/2019
DIED 2007  Sydney, New South Wales – William Richard Thorpe alias Billy Thorpe, renowned pop singer, songwriter and musician.  As lead singer of Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, he had success in the mid 1960s with Blue Day, Poison Ivy, Over The Rainbow, Sick and Tired, and Mashed Potato.   These were followed in the 70s with Most People I Know Think That I’m Crazy   Aged 60
Billy Thorpe & Aztecs – Poison Ivy	1964	10:43	11	7/6/2024
Engelbert Humperdinck – Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings		10:49	0
Phil Salter – Fields of Dreams	2025	10:56	2	23/2/2025	AUD0K 2500001
Griffin County – Why Don’t You Let Me Go First	2025	11:05	1	16/2/2025	AUMEV 2501403
Backtrack: Gayle O’Neil – Free As A Bird	2015	11:11	6	29/11/2019
Craig Lloyd – The Final Call	2025	11:13	0
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Schabernack		11:19	0
Liz Clarke – Ray Of Light	2025	11:25	0
Anthony Baxter – When You Say Nothing At All	2025	11:29	0
Yannis Markopoulos – Who Pays The Ferryman		11:35	6	3/1/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Vic Dana – Red Roses For A Blue Lady	1965	11:42	7	13/10/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You	1965	11:45	19	23/10/2022
Victoria Eman – Beautiful	2024	11:49	3	21/2/2025	NLJ9A 2400002
Sharon Marie White – Lucky In Love	2025	11:52	0		USCGH 2518609

28 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

1824   BORN St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France – Jean François Gravelet-Blondin, alias Blondin, tightrope walker and acrobat.  He especially owed his celebrity and fortune to his crossing the gorge near Niagara Falls on a tightrope, 335 metres long, and 50 metres above the water, which he accomplished in 1859.
He followed this feat a number of times, with different variations:  blindfolded, in a sack, pushing a wheelbarrow, on stilts, carrying a man on his back, and even sitting down midway while he cooked and ate an omelet. Died 1897.

1931  Western Junction, Tasmania – 20,000 people crowded Evandale Road to see the new Government aerodrome (now Launceston Airport) officially opened.
The aerodrome was opened by the then Controller of Civil Aviation, Colonel Brinsmead, who prophetically said “I can envisage the time when aeroplanes will leave twice or three times a day from mainland capitals for Launceston“.

1942  Sunda Strait, Java – W W 2 – The light cruiser HMAS Perth was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait with the loss of  375 men.  Also sunk was the heavy cruiser  USS Houston which was lost with 693 crew.

1949  Throughout Australia – The radio serial, Blue Hills, written by Gwen Meredith, began its 27 year run on ABC radio.  Centred on the lives of people living in a fictitious country town named Tanimbla, Blue Hills ran for 5,795 episodes, each of 15 minutes’ duration.
The final went to air on 30 September 1976 and the last words, “Good bye” were spoken by veteran Australian actress Queenie Ashton.

1957 Melbourne, Victoria – General Motors Holdens announced the first Holden station sedan, together with a new panel van and utility, all of which were based on the FE series sedans already in production. 

1959  Queenstown Tasmania – The first fixed wing aircraft landed at the town’s new airstrip at 7.30 a.m.  The plane, a single engine Cessna, delivered copies of The Mercury to Queenstown newsagents. 

1964 Longford, Tasmania – An American racing car driver died in a 190 kph crash on the Longford street circuit.  

Valley Sunrise Edition 822
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

. – Today’s photo: Plunging 65 metres to turbulent waters, Tasman’s Arch is another awe inspiring feature at Eaglehawk Neck, in Tasmania’s rugged south-east.

Carved out by waves and weather over millennia, this was originally formed as a huge sea cave, until the roof collapsed, many thousands of years ago. Photographer, Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Phil Salter – Fields of Dreams	2025	06:06	1	7/2/2025	AUD0K 2500001
Charting this day 1973 Elton John – Crocodile Rock	1973	06:13	7	3/11/2024
Charting this day 1973 Loretta Lynn – One’s On The Way	1973	06:16	7	14/4/2023
MaBell & Bob McGilpin – Miss Procrastinator	2025	06:21	0
Dave Cox – Better With You	2024	06:23	1	29/12/2024	QMEU3 2415917
Larissa Tormey – Kilbeggan’s Heart	2025	06:28	1	16/2/2025	IEJHJ 2500001
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked on Haydn		06:34	0
Louise Morrissey – Keeping Time	2025	06:39	1	14/2/2025
Backtrack: Mike Wilkinson – Blue Collar Working Man	2018	06:42	8	9/8/2024
John Clarke – Fred Dagg Medley		06:46	8	26/1/2020
Michael Buble – The More I See You		06:50	4	28/8/2022
Charting this day 1973 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough	1972-1973	06:54	2	14/10/2022
Alan Gardiner Accordeon Band – Banjo Boy~Five Foot Two		06:58	1	31/5/2019
Justin Jones – This Beautiful State Tasmania	2025	07:06	1	21/2/2025
By Request Today: Engelbert Humperdinck – Release Me	1967	07:13	4	19/5/2017
Glenn Levi – Your Key Won’t Fit The Lock	2025	07:17	0		USCGH 2550787
Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – Crazy	2017	07:20	2	1/9/2017
Garry Carson-Jones – Walk On By	2025	07:25	0		AUGGJ 1600055
Percy Faith Strings – Norwegian Wood	2025	07:32	1	25/10/2019
Charting this day 1973 Lobo – I’d Love You To Want Me		07:35	1	31/7/2016
Bohemian Rogue – Tide	2025	07:39	2	16/2/2025	AUGBT 2488904
DIED THIS DAY: 1995  DIED Thirlby, North Yorkshire, England – James Alfred Wight, otherwise known as James Herriot, veterinarian and author best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, which are often referred to by the title of All Creatures Great and Small.  Aged 78. This title was also used in associated film and television productions, set in the late 1930s/early 1940s.
George Formby – Leaning On A Lamp Post	1937	07:43	2	26/5/2017
Charting this day 1973 Carly Simon – You’re so Vain	1973	07:47	3	25/2/2022
Backtrack: John Lecner – There Goes My Everything	2019	07:52	2	6/10/2019
Nina La Vida – Phantom Der Nacht	2024	07:56	3	9/2/2025
Seekers – It Doesn’t Matter Anymore		08:06	11	19/2/2021
Backtrack: Lone Strangers – Rock And Roll Ruby	2015	08:12	0
Barry Owen – Stand Up In The Crowd	2025	08:14	0
By Request Today: Roy Orbison – California Blue		08:22	12	1/12/2024
Kathy Carver – My Country My Australia	2025	08:26	2	14/2/2025
Gunter Noris – Kufsteiner Lied		08:33	0
Warren Kearney – Don’t Close Your Eyes	2025	08:39	2	21/2/2025
Charting this day 1973 Russell Morris – On The Wings Of An Eagle	1973	08:43	0
DIED THIS DAY: 2004 DIED Aventura, Florida, U.S.A. – Luigi Varlaro alias Don Cornell, 1940s and 50s singer, noted for his smooth baritone voice.  He sold over 50 million records including It Isn’t Fair, I’m Yours,I’ll Walk Alone, and Hold My Hand.  Aged 84
Don Cornell – Hold My Hand	1954	08:48	5	23/2/2024
Ames Brothers – Melodie D’Amour	1957	08:52	7	22/12/2023
The Twangtown Paramours – Old Friends	2025	08:54	1	21/2/2025	USB8N 2400009

23 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1945  Verona, Italy – The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was bombed by Anglo-American forces, after which the Academy Philharmonic announced it would try to rebuild the theatre exactly as it had been before.  It was not re-opened until 1975.

1954 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A. – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began.

1970 The inaugural Indian Pacific express train left Sydney for Perth.  Still running today, the Indian Pacific is one of the few transcontinental trains left in the world, with a one-way trip taking around 70 hours.

2010 Villasanta, Northern Italy – Unknown criminals discharged more than 2.5 million litres of oil and other hydrocarbons into the River Lambro. The pollution travelled the entire length of the river and caused an environmental disaster, with considerable damage to wildlife and vegetation.
This was one of the worst environmental disasters in Italy’s history, with it’s effects being evident for many years.

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 457

Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.

Today’s Photo: Eaglehawk Neck, in south-eastern Tasmania, has a brutal past in the early colonial days. The locality also has some impressive rock formations, with sheer cliffs rising from an often-turbulent Tasman Sea.

One, is The Blowhole, which is a tunnel worn through the rock by waves whipped up by strong on-shore winds over millennia. A portion of waves striking the seaward cliff face thunder through this tunnel and emerge out the other end – which we see here, on a recent calm day.
Eaglehawk Neck gains it’s name from the narrow isthmus which links the Tasman Peninsula to mainland Tasmania.

Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Pamela Rooney – Guess Who’s Back In Town	2024	1	0		QZW6A 2400242
Andy Martin – Even The Man In The Moon Is Crying	2025	1	1	16/2/2025
Jade Hurley – Country Is		1	3	23/10/2020
Victoria Eman – Beautiful	2024	1	2	20/12/2024	NLJ9A 2400002
Ron Christopher – The Whole World Cried	2024	1	0		QZWKY 2400270
Backtrack: The Void – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away	2019	1	2	16/2/2025
By Request Today: Hank Thompson – Who Left The Door to Heaven Open		1	1	20/10/2024
Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Somewhere My Love		1	2	19/10/2018
Judy Stone – I’m Confessing		1	0
BORN 1933  Tryon, North Carolina U.S.A. – Eunice Kathleen Waymon alias Nina Simone, singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. Died 2003
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares for Me	1958	1	0
By Request Today: Warren Kearney – Don’t Close Your Eyes	2024	1	1	14/2/2025
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gary Lewis & Playboys – This Diamond Ring	1965	1	12	7/7/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Moody Blues – Go Now	1965	1	4	29/12/2023
Backtrack: Greg Bain – The Mulberry Tree	2021	1	4	11/2/2022
The Heartland Roots Band – Running Out Of Places To Go	2024	2	1	15/12/2024
Dean Perrett – Slim’s Guitar	2025	2	1	7/2/2025	AUZY4 2400030
Slim Dusty – Little Old One Horse Pub	1968	2	3	26/6/2020
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Ruby Murray – Softly Softly	1955	2	0
The Charlesys – Whenever You’re Around	2025	2	2	14/2/2025	CBEYJ 2458063
Backtrack: Graham Rodger – A Little Town West Of The Great Divide	2017	2	7	13/11/2020
James Last & His Orchestra – Flute Tango		2	1	30/12/2018
The Celia Bryce Band – Hours	2025	2	0		UKYPC 2000003
DIED 2019  Mansfield, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Peter Tork, musician and actor best known as a member of the pop group The Monkees, who have sold 75 million records worldwide.  Their international hits include Last Train To Clarksville, Pleasant Valley Sunday, and Daydream Believer.  Aged 77.
Monkees – Daydream Believer	1967	2	9	5/11/2021
Justin Jones – This Beautiful State Tasmania	2025	2	0
Mary Rose – Me And Bobby McGee	2025	2	1	5/1/2025	TCAIY 2492173
Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight		2	3	15/1/2021
Fleetwood Mac – Skies The Limit	1990	3	0
By Request Today: Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime In Alaska	1961	3	8	15/12/2024
Backtrack: Adam Brand – Grandpa’s Piano	2004	3	4	3/11/2024
The Twangtown Paramours – Old Friends	2025	3	0		USB8N 2400009
John Williamson – Old Man Emu	1970	3	9	18/3/2022
Backtrack: Lloyd Back – Strong Love	2021	3	3	20/8/2021
Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra – Anna		3	3	4/3/2022
Jay Justin – Reminiscing	1965	3	3	13/12/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Rogers – Like A Child	1965	3	2	15/2/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Righteous Brothers – You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling	1965	3	4	18/10/2020
Big Cheese Band – I Grew It While I Could	2023	3	1	17/2/2023
Mrs Mills – Five Foot Two		3	1	10/4/2016

Valley Sunrise Edition 821
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Photo: Mt Field National Park. Photographer, Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Lance Friend – My Home Australia	2023	1	4	26/1/2025
Charting this day 1971 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking	1970-1971	1	2	30/7/2023
Charting this day 1971 Dawn – Knock Three Times	1971	1	2	7/4/2017
By Request Today: Elvis Presley – Way Down	1977	1	3	31/3/2024
By Request Today: Surfaris – Wipe Out	1963	1	2	19/7/2020
Matilda Gracie & Sarah Rose – Health Hazard	2025	1	0
Lawson Vallery – Somebody Somewhere	2025	1	1	9/2/2025
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – I Will Follow Him		1	4	29/10/2021
The Gordon-Farleigh-Dill Association – The Passing of Time	2025	1	0		QT3EX 2444367
Wayne Douglas – Hey Dad	2024	1	0
Backtrack: Adam James – Love We Lost	2020	1	5	22/1/2021
Shelly Jones Band – Shop Till I Drop	2025	1	0		AU3FS 2100017
Charting this day 1971 Kevin Johnson – Bonnie Please Don’t Go	1971	1	2	7/4/2023
By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Someday	2017	1	3	7/3/2021
Mountain Rio – Banjo Bill	2025	2	0		USJ3V 1387541
Paul Ricketts – Charlie Crow	2025	2	0		AUZY4 2400031
Backtrack: The Void – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away	2019	2	1	25/10/2019
Foster & Allen – Rambling Rose		2	1	19/10/2014
Andy Martin – Even The Man In The Moon Is Crying	2025	2	0
Charting this day 1971 Freda Payne – Band of Gold	1971	2	9	18/9/2022
Eric Jupp – Cherish		2	0
DIED THIS DAY: 2015 Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. – Lesley Sue Goldstein alias Lesley Gore, singer-songwriter best known for her 1963 hit It’s My Party, which she recorded at the age of 16. She became one of the most recognized teen singers of the 1960s.  Aged 68.
Lesley Gore – The Look Of Love	1965	2	11	21/4/2023
Miguel Rios – Song of Joy	1971	2	4	3/12/2021
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name	2019	2	7	10/12/2021
John Michael Ferrari – Are You Ready For Love	2025	2	1	31/1/2025	TCAAW 1129204
Shavonne  Aliphon – Rose Garden	2017	2	4	23/6/2017
By Request Today: Roy Orbison – Cry Softly Lonely One	1967	2	12	3/1/2025
Griffin County – Why Don’t You Let Me Go First	2025	3	0		AUMEV 2501403
Highway 95 – She Believes	2025	3	1	7/2/2025
Backtrack: Emily Lubitz – Like I Do	2022	3	4	19/1/2024
Charting this day 1971 Maria Dallas – Pinocchio	1970-1971	3	1	27/1/2017
Percy Faith Orchestra & Chorus – Early In The Morning		3	4	4/7/2021
Larissa Tormey – Kilbeggan’s Heart	2025	3	0		IEJHJ 2500001
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Goodbye		3	1	17/7/2016
Billy McFarland – Wonderland by Night	2024	3	4	27/12/2024
Blondie – Heart of Glass	1979	3	0
Bohemian Rogue – Tide	2025	3	1	7/2/2025	AUGBT 2488904
G J A – Panda	2024	3	0		QZWFT 2499192

16 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1983 The Ash Wednesday disaster in South Australia and Victoria occurred with bushfires, propelled by 40-degree heat and gale-force winds, claiming 72 lives, 2,000 homes and over $350 million in damage..

1986 Marlborough Sound, New Zealand – The Russian cruise ship Mikhael Lermontov struck rocks 5 metres below the surface and sank within 20 minutes of the last of its 360 passengers being evacuated.  One crewman was lost and the ship remains where it sank, where it is now popular with scuba divers.

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 456

Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.

Today’s Photo: Retired diesel-electric locomotive, coupled to vintage carriages, awaits it’s turn of duty at the Don River Railway’s 50th Anniversary celebrations this week.

Don River Railway.

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Foster & Allen – Ring of Fire		1	2	28/7/2019
Toni West – Dismissed In A Heartbeat	2025	1	1	2/2/2025	UKBBL 2400012
Steve Cheers – Nobody’s Home	2024	1	2	17/1/2025	AUZV4 2200002
Dave Caley – Too Good To Be Forgot	2024	1	1	31/1/2025	US9BH 2400033
Ray Malcolm – Speak Softly Love	2025	1	0
By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – No One Will Ever Know (By Request)	2019	1	3	23/2/2024
Backtrack: Sarah Kate Landy – When Will I Be Loved	2016	1	5	28/8/2016
Mario Ruiz Armengol & His Orchestra – Palabras de Mujer		1	0
Anne Murray – Where Do You Go to When You Dream		1	0
Warren Kearney – Don’t Close Your Eyes	2025	1	0
Backtrack: Shane Warren – Old Draught Horse	2015	1	3	27/10/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beaumarks – Clap Your Hands	1965	1	6	14/9/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Sue Thompson – Paper Tiger	1965	1	1	26/2/2023
John Gilheaney -The Photos On The Wall	2025	2	1	31/1/2025	TCAJD 2584152
Irish Rovers – Ireland Boys Hooray		2	0
Louise Morrissey – Keeping Time	2025	2	0
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers – Ain’t Misbehavin’	1960	2	0
Kathy Carver – My Country My Australia	2025	2	1	24/1/2025
Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – Am I Losing You	2019	2	3	4/8/2019
Chucho Zarsoza & His Orchestra – Maria Elena		2	0
Smokey Dawson – Cool Water		2	1	19/3/2023
The Charlesys – Whenever You’re Around	2025	2	1	9/2/2025	CBEYJ 2458063
Dave Crimmen – For A Venture	2023	2	1	21/7/2023
Kent Gill – Get Rhythm	2023	2	4	30/6/2023	QZWM3 230001
Sean Delamus – The Dancing Years	2020	2	13	11/6/2023
Slim Dusty – Larrikin’s Landing		3	0
Don Allen – Whiskey And Guitars	2024	3	1	9/2/2025
David Maguire – Inside Out	2025	3	0
Electric Light Orchestra – Livin’ Thing	1977	3	1	26/3/2017
Shelley Minson – Riverbank Red	2025	3	0		AUUHB 2400023
Backtrack: Graham Rodger – Ghosts of the Murranji	2015	3	9	24/1/2025
Mrs Mills – Candy Floss		3	3	16/5/2021
Chamaco Dominguez Orchestra & Chorus – Desafinado		3	2	2/7/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Matt Monro – Softly As I Leave You	1965	3	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gerry & Pacemakers – You’re The Reason	1965	3	1	8/3/2019
Celine Dion – Because You Loved Me		3	0
Inge Augustina – Lambada		3	5	23/2/2024
Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Jumping Jack		3	1	14/4/2024

14 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

1779 – Captain James Cook, British explorer, the navigator and cartographer, who made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to his three expeditions to the Pacific, was speared to death by natives in Kealakekua Bay, Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) at the age of 50.  He had achieved the first recorded European  landings on eastern Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and  made the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. 

1951  Europe – The Brenner Pass and the St. Gotthard railways linking Italy with Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and France, were blocked by snow up to 10 metres (35 feet) deep.

1955  Hobart, Tasmania – The Premier (Mr Robert Cosgrove) announced that a new bridge would be built across the Derwent.  Geologic conditions caused a previous proposal for a tunnel to be ruled out as impossible. 

1966  Decimal currency was introduced throughout Australia.    W

DIED 1988 Palm Springs, California, U.S.A. –  Frederick Loewe, composer who collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, both of which were made into films. (Aged 86)  

DIED 1999 Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A. – Buddy Knox, singer, songwriter and recording star of the 50s and 60s.  (Aged 65)

DIED 2008 Sydney, New South Wales – Herbert Henry Brown, alias Smokey Dawson, Australian country singer and radio serial star, whose career started with his first single in 1941.  His final album was recorded  in 1992, by which time, he was the world’s oldest recording artist.  Smokey Dawson performed and marched in annual ANZAC Day commemorations until his death, a month before what would have been his 95^th birthday

Valley Sunrise Edition 820
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Photo: Hyde Park, London, England, 1981. Photographer, Darrell Smith

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Sara Storer – Under Darwin Stars	2024	1	2	2/2/2025
Charting this day 1978 Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star	1977-1978	1	2	3/12/2017
Charting this day 1978 Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)	1977-1978	1	6	27/5/2022
The Charlesys – Whenever You’re Around	2025	1	0		CBEYJ 2458063
Val Doonican – A Little Bit Of You		1	6	5/5/2023
By Request Today: Kenny Rogers – You Decorated My Life		1	0
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Under The Bridges of Paris		1	1	11/10/2024
Shadows – Heartbeat		1	1	22/1/2023
BORN THIS DAY: 1940 BORN Palmers Green, North London, England – Brian Bennett, drummer, pianist, composer, arranger, record producer best known as the drummer of the British rock and roll group, the Shadows
Carole King – It Might As Well Rain Until September	1962-1972	1	13	9/4/2023
BORN THIS DAY: 1942 New York U.S.A. – Carol Klein alias Carole King, singer, songwriter, and pianist who, with her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which became standards.
By Request Today: Beatles – Yellow Submarine	1968	1	12	2/6/2024
Edward Nass – Memory Lane	2017	1	3	17/1/2025
By Request Today: Vanessa Bourne – Together But Alone	2025	1	4	7/2/2025
Don Allen – Whiskey And Guitars	2024	2	0
Charting this day 1978 ABBA – Gimme Gimme Gimme	1977-1978	2	1	14/5/2017
Eric Diamond – All Of Me	2024	2	2	31/1/2025
Eric Read – Bribie Island Breeze	2021	2	4	11/2/2022
Sarah Riches – We Need To Talk	2024	2	1	3/1/2025
Jade Hurley – It’s Four In The Morning		2	7	6/11/2022
Oscar Volk Orchestra – Excerpt From Faust	1978	2	2	25/12/2016
Charting this day 1978 Kermit the Frog – The Rainbow Connection	1978	2	0
Kamahl – Guantanamera		2	2	12/1/2025
Charting this day 1978 Colleen Hewett – Dreaming My Dreams With You	1978	2	3	20/4/2018
Destiny Band Oz – Missing You	2019	2	6	15/12/2017
Tomas Jackman – Only You	2024	2	1	17/1/2025	IEATQ 2400001
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon	2025	3	0		QT3TB 2425080
Eric Bogle – Aussie Barbecue		3	5	13/10/2023
Bill Haley & His Comets – You Hit The Wrong Note Billygoat	1957	3	1	25/7/2014
DIED THIS DAY: 1981 Harlingen, Texas, U.S.A. – William John Clifton Haley alias Bill Haley, one of the first American rock and roll musicians, credited with popularizing rock and roll in the early 50s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song Rock Around The Clock  (Aged 55)
Lawson Vallery – Somebody Somewhere	2025	3	0
Rein Vallinga – Delilah	2024	3	1	12/1/2025
Joanne & Gillian Vogel – Shut The Gate		3	2	5/2/2021
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – All Alone Am I		3	1	5/7/2019
DIED THIS DAY: 1976 Encino, California, U.S.A. –  Percy Faith, Canadian-born bandleader, composer and orchestra conductor, known for his arrangements of pop standards. He has often been credited with creating the “easy listening” or “mood music” format, which was part of American popular music in the 50s and well into the 60s. Aged 67.
Mills Brothers – Cab Driver	1968	3	2	22/11/2024
Tony Cook – Little Things	2022	3	2	27/5/2022
Peter Allen – I Still Call Australia Home	1980	3	13	26/1/2025
Alex Hood – The Typical Australian Rag		3	2	22/7/2016
Nina La Vida – Phantom Der Nacht	2025	3	2	1/12/2024

9 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1945 Fedje Island, Norway – In a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat, HMS Venturer sank the German submarine U-864 two nautical miles off the coast.  It was later discovered that U-864 was carrying 1,867 steel canisters containing mercury, destined for Japan.

In 2003, it was noticed that the canisters had seriously rusted and that mercury was already leaking from some, contaminating sea life and posing a severe environmental threat.

Although one of the canisters was recovered, removal of the remaining canisters or raising of the wreck is extremely dangerous, because of the unexploded torpedoes aboard.

In 2024 the Norwegian Government decided to retrieve as much of the mercury as possible in 2026, before capping the wreck with 100,000 cubic metres of sand and rock.

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 455

Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.

Today’s Photo: The Queenstown Railway Station, West Coast Wilderness Railway, Tasmania

Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Phil Salter – Fields of Dreams	2025	1	0		AUD0K 2500001
Highway 95 – She Believes	2025	1	0		AUL0G 2400013
Dean Perrett – Slim’s Guitar	2025	1	0		AUZY4 2400030
Change of Key – Digital Highway	2024	1	0
Daniel O’Donnell – Save The Last Dance For Me		1	1	20/5/2018
Backtrack: Tyson Lucas – It’s O K To Be Me	2019	1	3	15/11/2024
101 Strings Orchestra – Perfidia		1	0
Engelbert Humperdinck – South of the Border		1	0
By Request Today: Platters – One In A Million	1957	1	4	1/11/2024
Tony Christie – Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings		1	0
Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – Without Love	2017	1	2	16/11/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Georgie Fame – Yeh Yeh	1965	1	6	26/2/2016
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ray Brown & Whispers – Twenty Miles	1965	1	8	5/11/2021
Col Joye – There Goes My Everything	1967	2	8	5/10/2018
The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn	2024	2	1	6/12/2024	CAGOO 2476787
Bohemian Rogue – Tide	2025	2	0		AUGBT 2488904
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Michael Holliday – Hot Diggety	1956	2	0
Anthony Snape & Ashleigh Dallas – Dearie Me	2024	2	1	29/11/2024	AUL9L 2400005
Backtrack: Smiley Martin – 8.03 to 8.30	2021	2	3	21/1/2022
Les Brown & His Band of Renown – Leap Frog		2	0
Alice Benfer – Everlasting Cactus	2024	2	1	3/1/2025	AUHIB 2300005
Shaza Leigh – Behind Closed Doors	2025	2	0
Jim Reeves – There’s A Heartache Following Me		2	1	10/11/2019
Pete O’Brien – Indiana Girl	2024	2	3	2/2/2025	USY3E 2400250
Julie Healy – My Lovely Glenamaddy		2	7	31/1/2025
Eric Diamond – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	2024	3	1	27/12/2024
Christine Clifford – You Can’t Say	2024	3	2	15/12/2024	AUP6F 2400003
Ron Christopher – Letter to Ramona	2024	3	0		QZWKY 2400267
Seekers – Come The Day	1968	3	9	24/11/2023
Backtrack: Vanessa Bourne – Together But Alone	2021	3	3	10/12/2021
Wayne Newton – Red Roses For A Blue Lady	1966	3	8	9/4/2017
Mantovani – The Skaters Waltz		3	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey	1965	3	19	22/9/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Peter Paul & Mary – For Loving Me	1965	3	7	30/12/2022
Bob Marshall – You Just Can’t See Him From The Road	2024	3	1	13/12/2024
Chloe Sweeney – Good Hearted Woman	2024	3	2	5/1/2025	TCAIZ 2492155

7 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

1938 Melbourne, Victoria  – A propeller blade which fell from an aircraft flying overhead, crashed through the roof over a platform at the Flinders Street Railway Station.  There were no injuries.

1940  Throughout England – The country’s worst known blizzard blocked 2,400 km of railway, stranded scores of trains, brought down hundreds of kilometres of electrical cables, and paralysed the country from Land’s End to John O’Groats with snowdrifts up to 5 metres deep

1952  London, England – The former Princess Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom the day after the death of her father, King George VI.

1964  New York, U.S.A. – “Beatlemania” arrived in the United States with the Beatles receiving a tumultuous reception from throngs of screaming fans at JFK International Airport.   

1967  Southern Tasmania – The Black Tuesday bushfires claimed 63 lives, left thousands homeless and caused millions of dollars of damage. 

1969  Violet Town, Victoria – The Southern Aurora express train collided with a freight train after it’s driver suffered a heart attack, resulting in 9 deaths.   Victorian locomotives were later fitted with a driver-vigilance safety system. 

1979  The planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the first time since either planet was known to science. Pluto returned to its normal outer position in February 1999, and will not move inside Neptune’s orbit again until 2236.

1990  Moscow, U.S.S.R. – The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly on power, paving the way for the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

2009 Northern and Eastern Victoria – The  disastrous Black Saturday bushfires left 173 dead, hundreds injured and thousands homeless.  Property damage was estimated at $1,266 million.

Valley Sunrise Edition 819
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Photo: The Derwent River at New Norfolk.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Allan Caswell – Honey All I Need Is You	2024	1	2	31/1/2025	QMFME 2483340
By Request Today: Kenny Rogers – Through The Years		1	9	11/2/2024
Charting this day 1978 Neil Diamond – Desiree	1977	1	6	7/7/2023
Charting this day 1978 Leif Garrett – Surfing U S A	1977	1	6	17/7/2020
By Request Today: Hot Chocolate – Everyone’s A Winner		1	2	25/8/2019
Nick Berry – Heartbeat		1	19	2/2/2024
BORN THIS DAY: 1944 Wallasey, Cheshire, England – Geoffrey Hughes, actor best known as Onslow in the television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, and as Vernon Scripps in the drama series Heartbeat.  Died 2012. 1956 London, England – Philip Franks, best known as Charlie in the original TV series The Darling Buds of May, and as Sergeant Raymond Craddock in the drama series Heartbeat.  Turns 69.
Richard Clayderman – Woman In Love		1	1	22/10/2021
Tracey Davis & Alan Percy – Help Me Make It Through The Night	2018	1	2	3/1/2025
John Denver – Annie’s Song	1974	1	3	2/11/2018
Past Request: Foster & Allen – Maggie		1	12	17/7/2020
Charting this day 1978 Paul McCartney & Wings – Mull of Kintyre	1978	1	10	21/1/2024
Charley Pride – Millers Cave		1	5	17/1/2025
Anthony Newley – Strawberry Fair		2	0
By Request Today: Johnny Horton – All For The Love Of A Girl		2	6	16/6/2024
Pete O’Brien – Indiana Girl	2024	2	2	31/1/2025	USY3E 2400250
Xani – Dreaming of You	2022	2	3	15/7/2022
Patsy Cline – South of the Border	1961	2	4	5/3/2023
Highway 95 – Ain’t Giving Up On You	2024	2	0		AUL0G 2400008
Charting this day 1978 Bonnie Tyler – It’s A Heartache	1978	2	5	14/2/2020
Henry Arland – Around The World		2	2	12/10/2018
The Lonesome Six – It’s Time I Started Walking	2024	2	0
Past Request: Jimmy Durante – The Bluebird of Happiness		2	10	10/2/2023
Charting this day 1978 ABBA – The Name Of The Game	1977	2	7	20/1/2023
Toni West – Dismissed In A Heartbeat	2025	2	0		UKBBL 2400012
Sara Storer – Under Darwin Stars	2024	2	1	14/6/2024
Geoff Taggart – A Dance For Fools	2025	3	0
Past Request: Frank Sinatra – My Way	1969	3	9	17/1/2025
Warren Kearney – The Pearly Gates Bridge	2020	3	2	26/2/2021
Sarah Rose – Cinderella	2024	3	1	3/1/2025
Johnny Burnette – Dreamin’	1960	3	8	1/8/2021
Dutch Mandolin Orchestra – Stephanie Gavotte		3	1	18/8/2017
Past Request: Isla Grant – Sorry		3	9	21/11/2021
Shadows – Walk Don’t Run		3	2	11/6/2023
Audra Watt – The Good Of It	2024	3	3	19/1/2025
Edward Nass – I Don’t Need Google	2017	3	2	2/2/2018

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 454

Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.

Today’s Photo: Moonrise over the Derwent Valley, 31 January 2018.

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Caroline J Harte – If This Ain’t Love	2024	1	3	19/1/2025	TCAJB 2406935
Allan Caswell – Honey All I Need Is You	2024	1	1	24/1/2025	QMFME 2483340
Andrew Shipp – Still My Number One	2024	1	3	31/1/2025	AUM3N 2400001
Past Request: Merle Haggard – Silver Wings		1	8	1/5/2020
Past Request: Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls	1975	1	9	4/6/2021
Backtrack: Warren Kearney & Peggie Nora – We Don’t Talk Anymore	2021	1	11	22/3/2024
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Scotland The Bravo		1	0
Doris Day – High Hopes		1	0
Pete O’Brien – Indiana Girl	2024	1	1	24/1/2025	USY3E 2400250
Backtrack:  Sandy Rasmussen – Queen of Hearts	2015	1	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965: Canadian Sweethearts – Blowing In The Wind	1965	1	2	10/4/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965: Val Doonican – Walk Tall	1965	1	9	7/11/2021
Eric Diamond – All Of Me	2024	2	1	24/1/2025
Paul Hudnott – On The Prowl	2024	2	2	24/1/2025
Foster & Allen – Nobody’s Darling But Mine		2	10	21/7/2024
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Russ Conway – Side Saddle	1959	2	8	16/9/2018
Giants of Latin – Sometimes		2	0
Backtrack: The English Rain – Need Your Love Tonight	2022	2	4	17/4/2022
Alfred Hause & His Orchestra – Popcorn		2	0
By Request Today: Dean Martin – I Walk The Line		2	4	2/8/2019
Caroline Loberto – Don’t Say Love	2024	2	2	19/1/2025
The Charlesys – She’s Away	2024	2	2	24/1/2015	CALVP 2454180
Clint Bradley – Soul of the West	2024	2	2	12/1/2025
Sonny Morgan – Beach Solution	2024	2	3	19/1/2025
Annette & Kim – Try A Little Kindness		2	2	7/6/2024
Chad Morgan – The Farmyard Yodel		2	2	30/12/2018
Johnny Gregory Orchestra & Chorus – Happy Days Are Here Again		3	0
By Request Today: Chad Morgan – The Tough Cane Cutter From The Isis		3	0
Dave Caley – Too Good To Be Forgot	2024	3	0		US9BH 2400033
John Michael Ferrari – Are You Ready For Love	2024	3	0		TCAAW1129204
Horst Jankowski – A Walk In Bavaria		3	0
Carmel Charlton – Heartwood	2024	3	3	24/1/2025	AUOUL 2400001
Waikikis – Hawaii Tattoo		3	5	1/10/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 P J Proby – Somewhere	1965	3	16	6/10/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gerry & Pacemakers – I’ll Be There	1965	3	10	7/1/2024
Julie Healy – My Lovely Glenamaddy	2019	3	6	10/4/2020
John Gilheaney – The Photos On The Wall	2025	3	0		TCAJD 2584152
Teresa Brewer – Second Hand Rose	1963	3	14	5/12/2023
Orchestral Sounds – Fool On The Hill		3	2	17/9/2021

31 JANUARY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS:

1918 A series of collisions amongst Royal Navy ships on a misty Scottish night, known as the Battle of May Island, led to the loss of over a hundred lives and two submarines, plus damage to another five warships, all of which were on their way to fleet exercises in the North Sea.
Details of the incident, the subsequent investigation and court martial were kept secret, with much of the information not released until the 1990s.

1942  Darwin, Northern Territory – W W 2 – A QANTAS flying boat was shot down by a Japanese aircraft, with the loss of 31 lives.

1953  A combination of a high spring tide, a severe storm and a tidal surge of the North Sea breached sea defences and caused extensive flooding in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and resulted in 1,835 deaths.  

1957  Burnie, Tasmania – Hundreds of people in Burnie saw television for the first time during the evening, when a radio retailer placed a television receiver in his shop window.  The receiver, which was tuned to a Melbourne channel, gave near perfect reception.

1958  Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – Explorer 1, the first successful American satellite, was launched into orbit.  It returned scientific data until May 23rd, 1958, when its batteries died.  Explorer 1 orbited the Earth more than 58,000 times over the following 12 years and ultimately re-entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on March 31, 1970.

1961  Launceston, Tasmania – A fire tore through a timber yard in the eastern suburbs, destroying two sawmills and joinery, plumbing and tinsmithing workshops.  Damage was estimated at £60,000. 

1984  Sydney, New South Wales – After being cornered by police during a bank hold-up, a gunman took 10 hostages, and escaped by car.  A car and helicopter chase ended when the gunman was trapped by the raising of the Spit Bridge. The gunman wounded two police officers before being fatally shot by police.

2003  Near Waterfall, New South Wales – A Tangara intercity electric train derailed whilst travelling at excessive speed, resulting in the deaths of 6 passengers.  An inquiry determined that the driver had previously succumbed to a coronary.

Australia Day Sunrise Edition 818
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

A special programme reflecting Australia Day 2025, on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

The Playlist…

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	HOUR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Wirrinyga Band – Dreamtime Shadows		1	8	26/1/2024
Denis Gibbons – Botany Bay		1	2	23/6/2019
Ryans Fancy – Far Away In Australia		1	8	20/2/2022
By Request Today: John Farnham – The Voice		1	6	28/8/2022
The Bushranger – The Bushranger		1	4	27/8/2021
Jimmy Little – My Country		1	1	25/10/2019
By Request Today: Peter Allen – I Still Call Australia Home		1	12	18/6/2023
Reg Poole – I Love This Land Australia	1987	1	3	25/9/2015
Norma O’Hara Murphy – This Van Diemens Land		1	4	26/7/2020
Colin Buchanan – The Local District Show		1	6	14/7/2023
John Williamson – You Come Back to Tassie		1	4	16/7/2021
John Sidney – Near You		1	2	26/1/2024
Lance Friend – My Home Australia	2023	2	3	19/2/2023
Alisha Smith – Darwin The Big Heart Of The North	2016	2	3	21/7/2017
Runaway Dixie – Territory Skies	2024	2	1	2/8/2024
Penny Davies & Roger Ilott – Beside A Railway Line		2	3	25/8/2023
Col Millington – Jindabyne		2	2	28/7/2023
Chad Morgan – The Party In The Local Hotel		2	4	6/6/2021
Bill Eckelschott – The Dutchman’s Lament		2	3	16/6/2024
By Request Today: Peter Allen – The Tenterfield Saddler	1972	2	4	4/2/2024
Desert Mulga Band – Karnta Nyuntu		2	7	19/5/2024
Bushlark – Tasmania	2021	2	1	13/8/2021
Rod Williams – A Big Wide Country	2020	2	4	28/8/2022
Lee Kernaghan – The Boys From The Bush		2	3	24/12/2021
James Blundell – Kimberley Moon		2	4	2/2/2024
Graeme Clarke – Wrong Road Again		2	9	13/9/2024
Slim Dusty – G’day G’day	1988	3	6	1/3/2024
19 0 1 – Along The Road To Gundagai		3	11	8/12/2023
Ali Mills – Waltjim Bat Matilda		3	7	8/3/2024
Clelia Adams – Looking Forward Looking Back	2022	3	10	29/9/2024
Two Man Band – Hobart Just A Day Away	1983	3	4	24/11/2023
Oodgeroo Noonuccle – Civilisation		3	7	26/1/2024
Bill Goodall – The White Rabbit		3	3	1/9/2024
Lindsay Butler & Barry Thornton – Home Among The Gum Trees		3	0
Jazz Kings – Maria Elena		3	3	4/10/2024
John Williamson – The Boomerang Cafe	2024	3	3	5/6/2022
Paul McNeilly – Australia’s Sunny Soil	2024	3	4	14/6/2024
Slim Dusty – The Band Played Waltzing Matilda		3	4	28/4/2024
Seekers – I Am Australian		3	8	26/1/2024

26 JANUARY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS THIS DAY

1788 Port Jackson, New South Wales – A British fleet of 11 convict ships, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, arrived to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the Australian continent.  

1808  The New South Wales Corps deposed the Governor of New South Wales, Captain William Bligh, during the Rum Rebellion. Bligh, known for his authoritarian rule, was found hiding beneath his bed.

1924 Melbourne’s first radio station, 3AR, commenced transmission, as an “A” Class station, sponsored by public licence fees.  In 1928, the Federal Government-owned National Broadcasting Service took over all “A” Class radio stations in the country.  In 1932, the National Broadcasting Service and the Australian Broadcasting Company, which had been supplying programmes, were merged to form the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

1925 Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales – Radio station 2EU became the first “B”class  radio station in Australia upon its launch. The “B” Class were predecessors to commercial stations.  This station’s call-sign related to the station’s owner, Electrical Utilities, but it was later directed to change to 2UE because, over the air the callsign “2EU” sounded like “who are you?” 

1988 Sydney, New South Wales – Over 1½ million people crowded Sydney Harbour to watch a re-enactment of the arrival of the First Fleet, 200 years previously.  Meanwhile beneath the white cliffs of Dover in Britain, Burnum Burnum, Aboriginal actor and activist, raised the Aboriginal flag claimed Britain for the Australian Aboriginal people.