Christopher Dawson

A Grave Scandal in Ipswich and Goodna

Why are Goodna and Ipswich cemeteries the only ones in the world to allow commercial ghost hunting in them?

Written in 1893, this is a look back at the many different floods to have hit Brisbane and Ipswich before that time.

Fascinating accounts of day-to-day life in 1841 at the first (non-convict) European settlement in the Moreton Bay region.

Fascinating accounts of day-to-day life in 1841 at the first European (non-convict) settlement in the Moreton Bay region.

Did Johnny Cash really play a concert at Brisbane’s Boggo Road Gaol? Read about the facts behind the story here.

Were bodies once buried within the grounds of Boggo Road prison? Find out here.

A vivid description of the Brisbane River as it was circa 1830, at the height of the local convict era.

Doubts have emerged over a tragic story told to customers on a Brisbane ghost tour. Was a youth really crushed to death in an old Printing Office?

Is it time for a change of management at the Boggo Road heritage prison, and to create a Heritage and Arts Hub there?

A discussion about some of the demands for big spending to improve a Brisbane cemetery.