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…

Channel
Australian Natives' Association
@AusNativesAssociation
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
903subscribers
+5 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 | 15 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 15 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AusNativesAssociation |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 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 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 31.7%
- avg views ÷ 903 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 286
- 19 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 19
- of 20 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 3 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (14 July 2026 – 3 August 2026) |
| Views total | 5,438 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 6 Aug 2026, 14:17 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
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.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 576,206 of 1,478,351entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 15 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Australian Natives' Association” (@AusNativesAssociation), 903 subscribers as measured 15 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AusNativesAssociation.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.