Fossicking through a box of road directories, maps and other guides at a church garage sale and who should pop up but the 1987 Queensland Minister for Local Government , Main Roads and Racing, Russell Hinze , top , known as the Minister for Everything , lover of mud crabs and Four X , in the rotten Joh Bjelke-Petersen Government which was run off the road by the Fitzgerald Inquiry. A cartoon portrayed him as a bulldog with dark glasses and a white cane outside a Valley , Brisbane , brothel , saying he did not know it was there .
The silverfished Ken Done adorned Sydney visitors map includes an advertisement for long gone Ansett Airlines. Also silverfished, the Gregory's guide around Sydney , with a full page advertisement for Halvorsen's cruisers , brought back memories of teenage acne days when this writer had a weekend job cleaning out hire boats at the Norwegian boatshed at Bobbin Head.
Loosely inserted in the New York pocket atlas were three colour postcards of the Big Apple -printed in Spain and France . There is an opening for Donald Trump to make the American postcard printing industry great again.
The guide to Melbourne public transport proudly boasts it has Australia's only extensive tram service . In the case of the circa 1980 Canberra guide it points out that a new parliament house is expected to be built by 1988 , for the bi-centenary .The three column carillon bell tower illustration on the front was a gift from the British government to mark Canberra's 50th anniversary . Under construction was the Australian National Gallery to house the $50 million collection .
A fold out map of the Queensland mining centre of Mount Isa -beryllium , copper, lead, silica, silver, uranium and zinc- shows the many mines in the area , with a variety of names - Tin Lizzie , Miami , Labour Day, Shooting Star , Flat Tyre, Folderol , Mothers Day, Never Can Tell , Bambino , Spinning Wheel , Hidden Treasure, North Star, Doolan's Hope , Cabbage Patch, New Ring , Parsons Knob , Lucky Break , Martha, Theresa , Millicent , Early Bird , Hilton, Skippy Janelle , Pauline, Anne and Pamela .
A fold out map of the Queensland mining centre of Mount Isa -beryllium , copper, lead, silica, silver, uranium and zinc- shows the many mines in the area , with a variety of names - Tin Lizzie , Miami , Labour Day, Shooting Star , Flat Tyre, Folderol , Mothers Day, Never Can Tell , Bambino , Spinning Wheel , Hidden Treasure, North Star, Doolan's Hope , Cabbage Patch, New Ring , Parsons Knob , Lucky Break , Martha, Theresa , Millicent , Early Bird , Hilton, Skippy Janelle , Pauline, Anne and Pamela .
