Alice Anderson was one of Australia’s first female mechanics and her ideas and inventions were ahead of her time. But Alice’s life came to an untimely end on a Friday evening in the back of her garage, with a gunshot to the head. Was it an accident or suicide? We speak with Loretta Smith, author of ‘A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s first all-girl garage.’
The young letter writer
The death of the Clarke brothers
The grave with no bodies
The Gravedigger of Dead Island
The Flynns of Tasmania
The plane that flew into a cyclone
The Giantess and the Freak Show
The man on the advertising poster
Murder in the Botanic Garden
The Bradman of Billiards – Walter Lindrum
The Murder of Chrissie Venn
Death on the beach – the Somerton Man
Play on - Leo Rosner, the Jewish musician saved by Oscar Schindler
The One Who Got to Live – George Witton
Ladies of the Lighthouse
The plague comes to Australia
Death comes to Gracie's store
The Box Flat mine disaster
Bohemian Bea - from the asylum to the streets
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