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Yesterday Stories Download our free app to watch all the stories. Get access to short video histories linked to real landmarks and locations. Australian local and real histories!

Yesterdaystories.com or on the App store. We encourage everyone to upload their personal stories, family histories, cultural legacies, and more. Connect them to location and share them with the world. Create your own digital legacy to last for generations. Our Brand Values:
Truth - to strive our best to be factual and to search for our truth through our history. Equality - we have the knowledge an

d understanding that stories from every community are equally important. Courage - we are willing to stand up for stories that are important to everyday people and communities, regardless of obstacles.

25/06/2026

Two families, two backyards, one decadeslong friendly rivalry. Frank stays up past
midnight watching football and is still out in the garden the next morning. The Smiths next door watch the pizza-making and salamicuring happen over the fence, trade plants and tips, and put up with Frank's cat digging up the garden. No real arguments, just neighbours who've been swapping advice and produce for years.

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Italian Social Welfare Organisation Wollongong (ITSOWEL)

09/06/2026

Since 1886, the Cornwall coal mine ran on family.
Grandfathers, fathers, brothers, sons — all of them
underground.

Pick and shovel, candles for light, cold tea in an old long-neck beer bottle. Pit horses smart enough to count their own skips and refuse to budge if you
added an extra. If your mate was struggling with his load, you filled it without being asked. After 40 years underground, the one thing this miner missed when he left was the people.

Mining & Energy Union Tourism Industry Council Tasmania
Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania .tasmania
Trust of Tasmania

📌Download the Yesterday Stories app!Home to community stories so you can see the history before you get to the place - a...
08/06/2026

📌Download the Yesterday Stories app!

Home to community stories so you can see the history before you get to the place - and enjoy it better!

Indigenous histories, Colonial histories, Our different communities, Sites and Landmarks, Military, Industrial and more.

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07/06/2026

Convicts on the Tasman Peninsula compared their situation to slavery. They weren't wrong.

Harnessed like animals, three pulling and one pushing with their head and hands to move coal from underground to the surface. Teenage boys punished twice as heavily as adults. Solitary confinement meant bread and water — below the calories needed just to sleep. The British minted two million extra man-years of labour through transportation. Colonial Australia was built on their backs.

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05/06/2026

508 kilograms of coal. Half a tonne. Shovelled into anelevated hopper in 24.3 seconds — a Guinness World Record, broken five times by the same man.

In the 1980s, Tasmanian coal miners competed in world-recognised shovelling and roof-bolting titles. Training every day, competing across New Zealand and beyond. These weren't just competitions — they were massive family festivals for the whole miningcommunity.

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stories: www.yesterdaystories.com.au

Mining & Energy Union
Discover Tasmania


03/06/2026

Australia's first strikes didn't happen in a factory. They happened at the bottom of a coal mine.

In the 1830s, convict miners in Tasmania were flogged, buried alive in solitary cells dug into the mine, and pushed coal carts naked in the heat. They still organised — 40,000 convicts across Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales refusing to work, protesting rotten rations, standing together.

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Mining & Energy Union
Discover Tasmania




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