June 28 Australian History without the cricket bits

1790 Slightly cracked and half past a pool noodle, John Macarthur rocked up in Sydney for the first time.
His wife, Elizabeth, did a lot for the sheep industry with Merinos.

1836 Snow fell in Sydney all over the shop and scared the two-legged wildlife.

1847 The Right Reverend Charles Perry was consecrated as the first Bishop of Melbourne (29 June).

1848 The Right Reverend Charles Perry was installed in the Cathedral Church of St James.

1880 Bushranger Ned Kelly was caught by the police after throwing a tanty that resulted in a number of people being not alive.

1880 Melbourne became the first city to install a commercial telephone when engineering firm Robison Bros hooked up their Melbourne office to their South Melbourne foundry.

Book-ending the bloody mess called The First World War

1914 The assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, kicked off 4 years of mayhem.
1919 Billy Hughes signed the Versailles Treaty on behalf of Australia; the Treaty of Versailles officially brought an end to the war.

Sources - I accidentally closed some of the tabs and I'm getting tired, cranky and snarky, so I'll do it tomorrow.
Or something.

June 28 Australian History with a side serving of cricket

 On this merry wee date in history a few things all cricket flavoured happened.

1882 The Australian Cricket Team took on the United South of England at Chichester and made a tidy little score.
Source:
Australia V United South England

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1915 Australian cricketer Victor Trumper was farewelled at the too-young age of 37.
Source:
Victor Trumper

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1938 Australian cricketer Don Bradman scored 102 at Lords.
Source:
Don Bradman

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2006  Keith Miller's Baggy Green cricket cap was auctioned for $35,000 more than 50 years after he wore it.
Source:
Keith Miller

The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin

 This exceedingly well-researched biography paints a clear picture of the life of both women in the theatre, and of those who dared try to exist outside its confines.

But, actually, that is not entirely true as it was the likes of Dickens and his mates who strove to paint pretty little dovecotes in which to imprison their ideal woman, keeping her saintly, pure, out of politics, art, and certainly not allow her any agency of her own. 

Trollope, of the Anthony variety, was brother-in-law to two or more such females of the species who had intellect, ability for writing, journalism, languages, sciences, and yet...

And yet they died in poverty.
They always die in poverty.
Languishing in the dust of disinterest and ignorance these difficult women, who will not fit neatly or quietly in those pretty prisons, await to be discovered decades or centuries after the male has sated his fill of publicity, after the male ego has been patted enough to silence his fangirls for a couple of years.
These women are never promoted by these males, these so-called bastions of literature who have been studied endlessly in secondary schools, in books where they paint women as less than males.
And we wonder why there is War on Women...!
Charles Dickens was dodgy AF.
Giving the bugger serious side-eye re his wife's sister...well, I should say "sisterS".
Women in his books are never nice, normal, independent, intelligent people - they are always "less", sex-worker Nancy in Oliver Twist, Oliver's mother herself a fallen saint, Great Expectations, I mean to say!
And let's not forget the statement that his poor, long-suffering wife was 'insane' when he decided to have his mid-life crisis but wanted to keep the good PR rolling along.
Remind me again - exactly WHY do we think these 'masters' of literature are the best for our kids to study before they venture into adulthood?
My takeaway review - 
A MUCH OLDER MARRIED wealthy bloke got his own way by beginning a sexual relationship with a TEENAGER whose family consisted of a widowed mother, 2 sisters and NO INCOME.

Journalism 1903 King Dick Wins Again

 Ahh, back in the old days...

Source; https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/234793345?searchTerm=sydney%20%20king

Teacher's Pet podcast, Missing Wife, Missing girls

 Hmm.
Seems that a "missing wife" is more than just a missing woman.
Yeah, yeah, WE all know that but it seems the penny has just dropped for some law people in Australia; if Teacher's Pet has taught us anything it's that WE SHOULDN'T JUST RELY ON THE HUSBAND.

Just a small, slight consideration that hasn't jumped up and slapped a whole gender in the face, apparently.

I digress.
Pottering amidst the glories of archived news at Trove, I've often come across "missing wife" or "missing wife and children" headlines and sometimes I go looking to see if the wife and/or kids turned up in the births/deaths/marriages.
Most times, there's a further trace of them.
But sometimes there's not a speck.
One of the "missing wife and children" was one of those that never, ever showed a sign of life: hubby didn't report the disappearance for at least 4 weeks, and no follow-up news reports.
Likewise with searching "Missing girls" in the Sydney area during the early days of The Great Depression; I was following a hunch regarding a certain serial killer I'd been researching and, worryingly, I was unable to trace a good number of the reported "missing girls" - any number over zero is too fucking many.
But few police or news follow-ups, while casual trawling through the NSW Birth/Deaths/Marriages found gaps.

How many family trees have sudden stops on people's lives..."born 1922 disappeared 1945" ... 

And the odd thing I've noticed is - 

when a bloke goes missing in the news archives he usually turns up again, whereas women don't.