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Bundaberg Court House was designed by George St Paul Connolly, acting Queensland Colonial Architect in the Queensland Department of Public Works. Connolly joined the Department in 1872 and worked on both public and private buildings, under the direction of Colonial Architect F.D.G. Stanley. The Bundaberg Court House followed the "T" shape design developed during the nineteenth century. The major consideration in the design and planning of the Bundaberg Court House was the allowance for the correct movement of people in the building and the separation of the different groups involved in the judicial process. The verandahs at the rear of the building allowed for specifically delineated entrances to the buildings. Jurors and barristers entered the courthouse by an alternative route to the public on their way to the public spaces. The judges had a private entrance and lobby via the rear verandah. The prisoners would be brought directly from the police cells to the courtroom through the side verandah door, from the nearby police reserve. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundaberg_Police_Station#:~:text=Bu....

Amazing. Hollywood always forgets to include bicycles in period films of this era.

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Australian shearer's bicycles which came into use in the late 1890s were more than a form of efficient transportation. When it caned hard with rain and the sheep were too wet to shear, work-horse bicycles became racing bikes, on other days races for shearers were organised events at local race tracks. The rim of one dispirited shearer's bicycle became a place for him to scratch his epitaph. Traversing vast distances on dusty outback tracks over thousands of kilometers, sometimes across more than one state was the norm for many shearers. For others, the bicycle was the means to get to the shearing shed the nearest home, and back each day. Bicycle riding shearers drew the attention of the small town of Wanaaring's correspondent in northwestern New South Wales in 1899. Shearers choosing bikes as their chief mode of transport were becoming the majority over horse riding shearers, even in a town which is today considered "remote" - "I notice this season very few shearers with horses. The bicycle has superseded them. On a rough calculation, I should say that over £2000 in bikes have been spent in the district this shearing, and consignments arrive by every coach from Bourke." Source: veloaficionado.com/blog/australias-bicycle-riding-shearer...

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Sexualised image for the 1890s ' According to Ms Hunter there was great resistance to women riding bicycles in Australia. "There'd been the idea that woman had to preserve all their energy so that the best of them would go to their children. If they expended energy in physical activity, they'd run the risk of [being infertile] or having weak children". It did not matter if women were riding for pleasure or necessity, the action of riding a bicycle was seen as improper for women, and — worryingly for men — it gave them the freedom to travel independently. "There was a lot of fear about it because suddenly women could just disappear up the street without chaperones and control," Ms Hunter said. But in the WA goldfields, the records show there was some tolerance for female cyclists, like Cissie Colreavy, who competed in races. "Often, when women did try and race, the reports would be really derisory and making fun of them and just trying to shame them out of doing it," Ms Hunter said. Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-13/women-cyclists-outback-aus...