Use History to pick your Melbourne Cup Winner

Tips for Melbourne Cup Barrier 11 is the luckiest barrier and barrier 18 is the unluckiest, no-one has ever won from barrier 18. On average the favourite wins the Melbourne cup every five years. (This means that in the hundred and fifty three years of the race running there have …

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Ten interesting Australian history facts

After Ned Kelly was hung,  his head was cut off and people took parts as souvenirs. What was left of Ned was buried in a mass grave in the prisoners yard. In 2011 some scientists examined 34  skeletons and they identified Ned Kelly’s headless skeleton.   The oldest convict transported …

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