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Graham McDonald

Press Service International

Graham McDonald is the President of Diduno

  • ANZAC – Montgomery and the Christian Connection

    Field-Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery and the ANZACs - ‘Hello, Monty, glad to see you.’ The governor of Gibraltar, Rusty Eastwood, held out his hand as the car door opened and a distinctive black beret became visible.

  • ANZACS WAR HORSES and the Christian Connection

    The horses were restless, pawing the ground in the relentless heat. A shimmering haze hung over the desert, taunting the waiting riders and their thirsty stead with the promise of water. In the distance, a pall of dust obscured the fighting.

  • Bill Ferguson (1882-1950) – Inspiring Aboriginal Civil Rights Leader

    Furious at being ignored by both political parties, Bill Ferguson resigned from the Labor Party and stood as an Independent for Dubbo in the 1949 Federal elections.

  • Kristallnacht and the Christian Connection

    Diduno (Did you know) is a ministry of which I am President in which we provide a wide range of important historical information (for schools, universities, publications, on-line) and this is one of these and the information itself came Diduno's Annie Hamilton.

  • Charles Sturt, 1795—1869

    Death seemed imminent. Sturt and his men were stranded on a sand bar at the Murray- Darling river junction. Confronting them on the bank were nearly 600 Aboriginals, painted, armed and making menacing gestures to their war-song. This was Sturt’s second exploratory journey into the outback. Would it be his last?

  • The Dunkirk Evacuation – the Christian Connection

    On May 10th 1940 Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (a violent surprise offensive) against the Low Countries and France. By the second week of May the French defences had been broken. Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division with lighting speed advanced across France and Belgium. Very soon the British Expeditionary Forces found themselves encircled at Dunkirk.

  • FROMELLES and the Christian Connection - John Ridley

    “After passing over rough ground covered with the bodies of the dead and wounded, strewn with barbed wire and pocked by shellfire, the nineteen-year-old sergeant led his men into a water-filled ditch which had at one time passed for a German trench.

  • The Father of the Nation

    Two men were walking down a street in Melbourne CBD late one afternoon in 1878, deep in conversation.

  • The QUEEN and the Christian Connection - Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen who ‘looks both ways’

    God’s servant  -  Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II had two ceremonies to mark the beginning of her public office?

  • Mother's Day - Diduno - the story of Ann Jarvis

    Mothers have been celebrated over the centuries in varying forms and traditions since possibly before Roman times.