On this day, 4 August 1929, the first passenger train departed Adelaide on the Ghan railway line, beginning its long journey north to Alice Springs. The inaugural service marked a major milestone in opening Australia’s interior, connecting remote communities and laying the groundwork for one of the nation’s most iconic rail routes. What began as a rugged, unpredictable journey through desert and floodplain would beco…

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Australian Natives' Association
@AusNativesAssociation
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906subscribers
+8 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001522078362 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @AusNativesAssociation |
| Created | 23 June 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 5 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 5 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AusNativesAssociation |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Sept 2026, 14:16 | 906 | +2 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 23:26 | 904 | -1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 12:05 | 905 | +2 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 06:14 | 903 | +5 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 14:17 | 898 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:53 | 898 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 14 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 3 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
On this day in 1856, Alfred Deakin was born. A man whose quiet intellect and steady conviction helped build the foundations of modern Australia. Before politics, Deakin was a journalist and spiritual thinker. In public life, he became one of the most influential voices of Federation, helping unite the colonies into a single Commonwealth. As Prime Minister, he championed national development, social reform, and the cr…
Alf Traeger was born on this day in 1895. Traeger was an Australian engineer and inventor, mostly know for his pedal radio. His radios were small, durable, cheap and easy to operate. His radios had an immediate impact for people in isolated areas. Traeger's invention was also instrumental in the success of the Royal Flying Doctors Service and the School of the Air.
On this day in 1872, George Augustine Taylor was born. Taylor was an Artist, cartoonist, inventor, publisher, town‑planning visionary and one of the earliest champions of wireless communication in Australia, Taylor spent his life pushing boundaries. He helped pioneer Australian aviation experiments, promoted modern urban planning, and used his publications to spark national conversations about technology, defence, an…
Today we look back at the life of the "Father of the Australian Constitution" William Charles Wentworth, one of the most powerful figures in early colonial Australia. Born aboard the HMS Surprize in transit to Australia in August of 1790. Wentworth's mother was a convict and his father avoided a prosecution for highway robbery by accepting a position as surgeon in the colony of New South Wales. Wentworth overcame the…
There is no doubt an existential crisis before us in terms of demographic and political change. This does not excuse us however from our duty to carry the torch of our forebears. To continue in the advancement of Australia’s heritage, to grow it and widely sow it into the minds of the next generation of Young Aussie kids out there who are being told they have no history (or if they do, it’s only marked by terrible ab…
On this day in 1900 Western Australian voters gave their approval to join the Commonwealth of Australia.
On this day in 1923 Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge began.
On this day in 1973 the Numbat was proclaimed the animal emblem of Western Australia.
https://ausnatives.org/podcast/snowy-mountains-hydro-scheme/ In this episode Trent and Jamie give the nativist perspective on the legacy of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme and its modern counterpart, Snowy 2.0. Exploring why these nation shaping projects were built, what they’ve delivered, and how the new expansion stacks up against the original vision.
Tom Dougherty at the Trades Hall
Dougherty was regarded even by his enemies as a very effective trade union leader, and he built the AWU up to be largest and wealthiest union in Australia, with 180,000 members in the 1950s. He helped to make Australian shearers the highest paid in the world. The AWU's industrial muscle kept Communist influence out of the union and made both employers and other unions wary of antagonising the AWU. Dougherty stated in…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @AusNativesAssociation. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Cite this entry
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“Australian Natives' Association” (@AusNativesAssociation), 906 subscribers as measured 5 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AusNativesAssociation.
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