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Cover Photo
Amanda Hill is a local Artist and Art Therapist who has worked on a
number of projects at Redhead Public School where her children
attended.
Amanda’s mural commemorates the spirit of the ANZACs - comradeship,
sacrifice and bravery and was inspired by the ‘Ode of Remembrance’. It is
a traditional image covering the west wall of the storage building facing
the Memorial Garden and close to the school’s assembly hall.
The Redhead Public School’s Memorial Garden is a very appropriate area
for the new murals and new plaques as it also contains the lone pine,
rosemary bushes, and the flag pole for the Australian flag that is
indicative of Australia’s sovereignty. The railway tracks are symbolic of
the development of Redhead through the mining of coal and connection,
by rail to other mining suburbs of Newcastle and the port of Newcastle.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Note that the term “Redhead” in the title refers to soldiers who have been
connected, by previous plaques and certificates to “Redhead” and not
solely those whose address in the primary sources is listed as “Redhead.”
REDHEAD
Redhead is a seaside suburb to the south of Newcastle in the City of Lake
Macquarie, New South Wales. It lies between Dudley to its north and the
suburbs of Jewells and Belmont North to the south. It is surrounded by the
Awabakal Nature Reserve, a significant natural reserve.
Redhead was named after the prominent red colouring of the headland
that dominates the Beach that stretches southward to Swansea.
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