But for Broken Hill that New Year’s Day, war was not 12,000 miles away; it was just over a ridge a mile or two along the track, where a couple of Afghans had raised the Turkish flag over an ice ...

This was published 10 years ago. Broken Hill, New Year's Day, 1915 was Australia's first terrorist attack Depending on your point of view, Alma Cowie was the first Australian to be killed by the ...

Broken Hill nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the Banka Island massacre, in which 60 soldiers and 21 nurses were killed. It's hoped that one day, she'll also be a household name.

Broken Hill's Picnic Train Attack is a "harrowing story" about two men opening fire on 1,200 civilians, killing four people. ... The violence, which came during the World War I years, ...