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Ian MacWilliams is the producer of the a Mildura based history project Frames of History, where film and video tape from Sunraysia’s past is being collected, restored and published. With more than 50 years media experience, Ian commenced his career at Mildura’s STV8...

Bruce McLean came to Mildura as an 18 year old beginning his media career as an announcer with Radio 3MA With the start of television in 1967, Bruce changed to the new medium as a newsreader and compered the first live variety show.  In 1974 he was appointed to...

Weighing in at 10.5lb., I was born in 1947 at Bordertown SA, a seventh generation Australian on my fathers side and a Belgian mother who were married in Belgium a month or so after WW2 ended. A Studentship beckoned at Geelong Teachers’ College which I attended in 1966...

A name synonymous with Mildura’s early history is the name de Garis. The de Garis family, who were French speaking Wesleyan Methodists, migrated to Australia from Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1854. Elisha de Garis (Mary’s father) was just three years old. He was...

Author Bill Dolence Author of A brief History of the life of George Chaffey George Chaffey in California 1882. The San Gabriel Mountains are situated in the southern part of California. The highest peak is Mt. San Antonio – known also as Mt. Baldy, and its snow-capped...