This is the research blog of Janine Rizzetti, history postgraduate student at La Trobe University. I am writing my thesis on Justice John Walpole Willis, the first Resident Judge of Port Phillip, but in my own little way I am “resident” in Port Phillip myself, and my Myers-Briggs score tells me that I love to judge! This blog includes my observations about Port Phillip in the early 1840s when Willis was resident and my observations about Port Phillip (i.e. Melbourne) and 21st century life today.
You can contact me at ResidentJudge@gmail.com
3 responses so far ↓
draabe // July 30, 2008 at 12:35 am |
Great looking blog – I especially like the picture up top.
chris saliba // December 29, 2008 at 7:43 am |
I believe the North Melbourne lake was around where the North Melbourne rail station and train lines now are, stretching up to Arden Street, where the football oval and pool are.
There are quotes from white settlers around the 1850s, in Mr Hannan’s book, which attest to its beauty. It was pumped full of human waste and was eventually deemed unsanitary by the North Melbourne (then Hotham) council, and hence drained.
There were huge sanitary problems (and deaths) in the area due to human waste (feces).
Ann oDyne // December 26, 2009 at 6:13 am |
My Myers-Briggs assessed me as a researcher!
I could have told them that beforehand.
Bearbrass!