WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[drodgers34]

Pat Cash Pat Rafter or another tennis player.

Or see how many bogans there are in Warneys tree

[Ruskie]

 

... he wouldn' know what gene ... geane ...genna .... geenel ...
.... family history is, would he?

[PrueM]

Oooh Pat Rafter would be good! 

NO, not Lllllllleyton Hewitt please!  And no pollies - we get enough of them every day anyway. And at the risk of offending 90% of the population, no Michael Leunig 

Warren Brown is a good idea, nudge, he's obviously interested in history.

[Ruskie]

No Prue? I didn't know he was THAT popular  !

Agree about politicians but am wondering if maybe Gough Whitlam would have a story to tell? Also be nice to see an old person's family history traced (as most of them have been on the younger side). Alexander Downer has posh roots so may be interesting to see how they made their money and if he has any ag labs further back  .

[deeiluka]

Here's a start, Ruskie.....

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/A-journey-into-Downers-dark-past/2005/05/31/1117305617682.html

It's quite a way down the page.....not sure they would want to go down that track......

....dee

[trish251]

Here's a start, Ruskie.....

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/A-journey-into-Downers-dark-past/2005/05/31/1117305617682.html

It's quite a way down the page.....not sure they would want to go down that track......

....dee

Hi Dee
An interesting read.

Seems to show we all have family secrets      I'm always amazed that they have been kept secret for so long. Much practice in Govt circles I guess! We learn from our masters.


Trish

[deeiluka]

I am sure there is a skeleton of some sort to be found in everyone's closet if you look hard enough and long enough, Trish!   

.....dee

[Ruskie]

Perhaps not Mr Downer then ....

[tropicalj]

And what is it we learn of this distinguished family history in Roberts's book on this country's ruthless savagery by 19th-century pastoralists towards indigenous people? On pages 133 and 134 Roberts recounts how the notorious Constable Willshire, at his Port Augusta acquittal on multiple murder charges in 1891, was defended by the Foreign Minister's grandfather, "Sir John Downer, QC, former attorney-general and premier, with funds contributed by more than 60 supporters from Central Australia

surely  we all have relatives  in  our past  that  did stuff we  might cringe at. 

However  everyone one is entitled to be defended at trial........  after all  this is Australia

It would appear  that  the Downer family  may  very  well  have contirbuted  to  the early  formation  of  South Australia.


regards Jenn

oh  ps  I  cannot stand the man. (Alexander Downer)