THE HASTY TASTY CAFE, KINGS BLOODY CROSS

I was researching the Australian realist artist Herbert Badham when I came across his wonderful painting of customers in the Hasty Tasty cafe at Kings Cross, during World War II. Note the presence of soldiers and sailors,  including the black GI with his white, female companion. It

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CHRISTMAS IN THE ANTIPATHIES!

CHRISTMAS IN THE ANTIPATHIES!

  CHRISTMAS DOWN-UNDER John O’Grady once wrote a best selling  book called, They’re a Weird Mob.  It was about Australians and yes….we are a bit strange.  What do you expect when we live in an upside down world? Alice in Wonderland described our fair country as; WHERE

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