Author Archives: rsmalley

Trivial Pursuit was big at the time. Here is an alternative version. I think it came from a UQ publication, but I could be wrong.

As FM 104 was setting this up I guess it was a more main stream event. I was in grade 11 at high school and have a vague memory of wearing my uggs as it was winter and a little wet. Ugg boots were NOT a trendy fashion item of the day, quite the opposite. […]

My membership card of the Creperie Liberation Organisation. The Creperie being a cafe on UQ campus. A few of the other members feature on this blog now and then.

Here are a couple of random photos from Brisbane in the 1980s/90s.

I moved to the UK in the lates 1990s. Here is an invite and flyer from that period.

If you were out protesting and thought you might get arrested there was a card you could carry round that would remind you, and the police, of your rights. Handy little thing in the right circumstances. I found a ‘certificate’ I must have filled in to get into a club/pub in 1984. I was not […]

Political & social issues stickers were a big thing. Here are a couple that never got stuck to anything. The lid of my turntable ended up espousing a number of social issues of the day (now in my neice’s possession), as did the fridges. The last photo was taken after the cyclone that hit the […]