Podcasts by Australian Histories Podcast

Ep 67 Maria Island: Australian History from 2023-09-18T15:00:07

Maria Island is a UNESCO World Heritage listed Tasmanian convict site, with a long and varied history, and a number of spectacular natural and geological places of interest. 

From its ori...

Ep 66 Australian Dogs: Australian History from 2023-06-27T11:41:01

From a land with no native domesticated dogs, nearly 230 years after colonists’ brought their first pets & hunting dogs on the first fleet, Australia now has one of the highest rates of dog owne...

Ep 65 Royal Flying Doctor Service: Australian History from 2023-04-29T20:20

Presbyterian Minister John Flynn had a desire to bring "a mantle of safety" to those living in the remote areas of Australia.  WWI Australian fighter pilot John Clifford...

Ep 64 Buckley&Wathawurrung Pt 3: Australian History from 2023-01-31T22:21:20

In this final episode on Buckley & the Wathawurrung, we hear about what happened after Buckley made contact with Batman's party from the Port Phillip Association.

Moving back into his ori...

Ep 63 Buckley&Wathawurrung Pt 2: Australian History from 2022-12-11T10:55:06

In Part 2 of William Buckley's story, living amongst the Wathawurrung people who adopted him, we hear how he adapted and learned a great many skills.  He was able to record many of the practices...

Ep 62 Buckley&Wathawurrung Pt 1: Australian History from 2022-11-12T10:14:09

William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived amongst the Wathawurrung people for more than 30 years.  Adopted as Murrangurk, he had the opportunity to participate in, witness and later recor...

Ep 61 The Overland Telegraph Line: Australian History from 2022-08-22T15:34:20

We talk about 'Telegraph Todd' and the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line, built through the largely unsurveyed and vast centre of Australia.  Only one group of British explorers had, t...

Ep 60 Alexander Pearce - Cannibal Pt 3: Australian History from 2022-07-03T15:38:56

In this final episode on Alexander Pearce we hear about his second escape attempt from Macquarie Harbour, with fellow convict Thomas Cox.  They planned a less difficult route for their escape bu...

Ep 59 Alexander Pearce - Cannibal Pt 2: Australian History from 2022-06-08T20:49:09

We continue the story of Alexander Pearce as he and his fellow convicts continue their escape from Port Macquarie.  They have found themselves in the wild west country, exhausted mentally & phys...

Ep 58 Alexander Pearce - Cannibal Pt1: Australian History from 2022-05-09T18:59:51

Alexander Pearce was one of our more notorious convicts, and one of very few convict escapees from Macquarie Harbour, who survived attempting to reach the settled districts.   As the last man st...

Ep 57 Macarthur&Wool: Australian History from 2022-03-28T15:07:48

John Macarthur was a divisive character in the first decades of the New South Wales penal colony and he was instrumental in the overthrow of Governor Bligh (see the Bligh series Eps 52-55), alon...

Ep 56 Great Ocean Road Memorial: Australian History from 2022-01-11T08:37:37

The 'Great Ocean Road' is it one of Victoria’s, indeed Australia’s, most well known international tourist attractions, and a favoured coastal town drive for locals, dotted as it is with beautifu...

Ep 55 Bligh&the Rum Rebellion - Part 4 - Final: Australian History from 2021-12-10T21:53:42

This episode is the final in the Bligh-Rum Rebellion series, and we take a closer look at how the day developed, how the arrest of Bligh unfolded at Government House, and what followed on from t...

Ep 54 Bligh&the Rum Rebellion - Part 3: Australian History from 2021-10-23T10:33:09

We reflect on the reforms Bligh had introduced and note the rising aggravation amongst the 'trading group', who were beginning to lose some of their previous dodgy incom...

Ep 53 Bligh&the Rum Rebellion - Part 2: Australian History from 2021-09-13T13:06:03

This episode looks at William Bligh's background and his reputation as a Naval Captain.  He had some very difficult tasks ahead of him as Governor of the troubled NSW colony, and we need to cons...

Ep 52 Bligh&the Rum Rebellion - Part 1: Australian History from 2021-08-02T21:33:49

William Bligh, the very same Captain probably best known for the mutiny on the Bounty, was to be recruited in his later life, as the Governor of the Colony of New South Wales. But it seems his d...

Ep 51 Australian Rules Football: Australian History from 2021-06-20T19:19:19

Australian Rules Football and the earliest clubs formed to compete, are said to be the oldest established football clubs in the world.  Started in the late 1850s, initially based loosely on the ...

Ep 50 WW2 Salvage Operation: Australian History from 2021-04-30T20:22:14

Early in World War 2, German Raiders were laying sea mines around Australian & New Zealand coastal waters. 

Here we tell the story of one ship that was sunk by those mines, and the except...

Ep 49 Convict Mutineers - Part 2: Australian History from 2021-03-31T22:57:22

In Part 2 we will follow William Swallow and his fellow mutineer convicts on the commandeered ship, the Cyprus. 

Swallow and his men were delighted to be heading into the Pacific, away fr...

Ep 48 Convict Mutineers - Part 1: Australian History from 2021-02-26T15:23:59

In part one of Convict Mutineers, we learn about a felon who just could not bear the idea of a life in exile, willing to take all necessary risks to try to return to England.  And his efforts we...

Ep 47 Final Readings - Henry Lawson EXTRA: Australian History from 2021-02-12T07:19

As an appendix to Episode 44, Henry Lawson, today's episode presents two final readings, two more humorous offerings.  We read a Banjo Paterson poem, called 'The Man from Ironbark' which I menti...

Ep 46 Debate Poems - Henry Lawson EXTRA: Australian History from 2021-01-29T19:03:55

This episode is an appendix to Episode 44- Henry Lawson.  We read poems that contributed to the 'Bulletin Debate', discussed in the earlier episode.  We include Banjo Paterson's 'Clancy of the O...

Ep 45 Drovers Wife - Henry Lawson EXTRA: Australian History from 2021-01-21T17:30:26

Following Ep 44 on Henry Lawson, this episode will be a reading of Henry Lawson's short story (or sketch), The Drover's Wife, published in the Bulletin, July 1892.  Please listen to Ep 44 first,...

Ep 44 Henry Lawson: Australian History from 2020-12-30T17:34:07

Henry Lawson was a 'bush poet' and writer from the 1880s-1890s.  One of a number of writers that were focusing on the Australian experience and fostering a pride and understanding of the emergin...

Ep 43 Shipwreck&first contact: Australian History from 2020-11-30T19:53:15

In 1796, the Calcutta merchants Campbell & Clark, sent a boat load of attractive goods, including much needed home and personal wares, and much desired rum, to sell to the isolated people in the...

Ep 42 Snowy Hydro Scheme - Pt 5 - Completion: Australian History from 2020-10-26T06:05

This episode concludes the series exploring the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme; the vast hydro electric, and irrigation project, that began in 1949 and was under construction for 25 years...

Ep 41 Snowy Hydro Scheme - Pt 4 - Working environments&safety: Australian History from 2020-09-28T06:05

Today we turn our attention the workers' arrangements.  At the peak of construction, over 1959/60, there were 7300 people employed on the project.  So that’s a lot of people to keep fed & watere...

Ep 40 Snowy Hydro Scheme - Pt 3 - Contractors&townships: Australian History from 2020-08-24T06:18

The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme began construction at Guthega, with a Norwegian contractor, and before too long, power was being delivered to the people. 

Workers and families...

Ep 39 Snowy Hydro Scheme - Pt 2 - Getting Land&Workers: Australian History from 2020-08-06T15:32:25

The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme was underway.  Now they Authority had to acquire  the land across the Alps, and recruit a workforce, to survey, plan and construct the many parts of the...

Ep 38 Snowy Hydro Scheme - Pt 1 - Inception: Australian History from 2020-06-29T06:01

The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, took nearly 30 years to complete in the post war period, and was an astounding engineering feat.  It remains one of the “engineering wonders of the wor...

Ep 37 Lady Jane Franklin - Explorer: Australian History from 2020-06-01T08:27:13

Lady Jane Franklin was an unusual woman.  In the late 1830s, as the wife of Van Diemen's Land Governor Sir John Franklin, she took the opportunity to explore the new settlements and wilds of Tas...

Ep 36 Jandamarra: the Bunuba Warrior Pt 2: Australian History from 2020-04-27T06:30

PART 2:  Jandamarra was a Bunuba man, from the Kimberly region in Western Australia, who has been called both an outlaw and a hero.  It’s a story of conflict between the indigenous peoples, and ...

Ep 35 Jandamarra: the Bunuba Warrior Pt 1: Australian History from 2020-04-27T06:10

Jandamarra was a Bunuba man, from the Kimberly region in Western Australia, who has been called both an outlaw and a hero.  It’s a story of conflict between the indigenous peoples, and the new c...

Ep 34 The Great Emu War: Australian History from 2020-03-30T06:10

In the early 1930s the post WW1 Soldier Settlers in Western Australia were doing it hard, trying to make a living growing wheat in a tough economic climate. 

When the native Emus descende...

Ep 33 Eureka Pt5: Eureka Trials: Australian History from 2020-02-28T13:22:59

With the rebellion at the Eureka Stockade ended, the authorities moved the main players to Melbourne to be tried for treason.

In the days immediately following, the people of Victoria wer...

Ep 32 Eureka Pt4: Eureka Stockade: Australian History from 2020-01-31T06:30

With no positive response to their delegations, pleading & petitions, the Ballarat miners determined they must boycott the corrupt system all together and physically resist when the troopers cam...

Ep 31 Eureka Pt3: Ballarat Reform League: Australian History from 2019-12-31T14:41:06

Relations between the authorities and the diggers on the Ballarat goldfield continued to deteriorate, and despite the reports of corruption and violent behaviour being reported to the senior gov...

Ep 30 Eureka Pt2: Ballarat goldfield: Australian History from 2019-12-30T18:25:39

We turn our attention to the Ballarat Goldfield.  The road to the Eureka Rebellion here was actually quite long, and contained a myriad of grievances & triggers, which finally came to an unhappy...

Ep 29 Eureka Pt1: Gold: Australian History from 2019-11-29T06:05

Gold miners built the Eureka Stockade at the Ballarat goldfields in December 1854, but trouble between the miners and the authorities had started pretty much with the gold rush in 1851.  Before ...

Ep 28 The Dingo Fence: Australian History from 2019-10-25T06:15

Australia has a number of massive continuous barrier fences, built by farmers and pastorlists  from the late 1800's, to try and control the movement of native and introduced pests that were thre...

Ep 27 Convicts and Cascades Pt 2: Australian History from 2019-09-24T06:05

We’re continuing our look at the convict era, in particular, the experiences of women convicts who passed through the Cascades Female Factory, in Hobart, Tasmania.

After serving their se...

Ep 26 Convicts and Cascades Pt 1: Australian History from 2019-08-30T06:02

We’re going to look at the female convicts who passed through the Cascades Female Factory, in Hobart, Tasmania, and reflect on the different experience the women convicts may have had, to those ...

Ep 25 Mawson: Antarctic Explorers Pt 5: Australian History from 2019-07-26T06:05

Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition concluded, and the last of the expeditioners arrived back in Adelaide in February, 1914.  A lot had happened, both on the frozen continent and ...

Ep 24 Mawson: Antarctic Explorers Pt 4: Australian History from 2019-06-28T06:03

Douglas Mawson’s expedition was well underway, and the teams from the Cape Denison base had returned, after completing their various research programs. 

All except Mawson and his team.  ...

Ep 23 Mawson: Antarctic Explorers Pt 3: Australian History from 2019-05-31T10:12:44

After returning from Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition and despite rejecting any idea of returning to Antarctica, the trauma of his polar trekking faded and Douglas Mawson began to consider all the...

Ep 22 Mawson: Antarctic Explorers Part 2: Australian History from 2019-04-26T06:01

Douglas Mawson, who would later become the leader of Australia’s first Antarctic expedition, undertook his first trip to Antarctica as part of Ernest Shackleton’s “Nimrod Expedition”,  1908.  Th...

Ep 21 Mawson: Antarctic Explorers Part 1: Australian History from 2019-03-22T06:05

Australia’s first formal expedition to Antarctica in 1911, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was led by Douglas Mawson, a geologist from Adelaide University.  This episode we’ll look at wha...

Ep 20 Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge: Australian History from 2019-02-22T06:10

The iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge: After a surprisingly long gestation, it’s path to construction threads through the history, of growth & colonial settlement in Sydney, including the political m...

Ep 19 Platypus Controversy: Australian History from 2019-01-25T06:00

We're retelling the story of the first encounters of the new British arrivals, in Australia in the 1780s onwards, with our wonderful Platypus, the kerfuffle caused when Platypus specimens were s...

Ep 18 Kellys: Kellys End: Australian History from 2018-12-24T11:07:15

Ned Kelly, the only surviving member of the Kelly Gang, was tried and found guilty of murdering the police at Stringybark Creek.  His young life draws to a close and we look at the aftermath of ...

Ep 17 Kellys: Neds Trial: Australian History from 2018-12-14T15:45

Three of the Kelly Gang died at the Glenrowan siege. Ned was captured and taken to Melbourne to stand trial.  Victoria sees the end of the “Kelly Outbreak”, but there are still many questions th...

Ep 16 Kellys: Glenrowan Pt 2: Australian History from 2018-11-30T10:30

The Kelly Gang “declared war” in the Jerilderie Letter, and set themselves up for an armed and armoured confrontation with the authorities at Glenrowan, in Victoria’s North East.  Plans did not ...

Ep 15 Kellys: Glenrowan Pt 1: Australian History from 2018-11-16T06:01

The Kelly Gang “declared war” in the Jerilderie Letter, should Ellen & the others not be released.  Now they prepare themselves for the inevitable violent confrontation with Police and with the ...

Ep 14 Kellys: Jerilderie: Australian History from 2018-11-02T06:15

The Kelly Gang take over Jerilderie, staging another bank holdup – but this time they hope to take full control of their PR, intending to self publish their story. The holdup brings in some fund...

Ep 13 Kellys: Euroa Pt 2 Australian History from 2018-10-19T06:16

The Kelly Gang rides from Faithfulls Creek to hold up the Euroa National Bank. They take the opportunity to try and explain their past actions and warn of future trouble, should the government n...

Ep 12 Kellys: Euroa Pt 1 Australian History from 2018-10-05T06:15

Having been outlawed, the Kelly Gang now need to raise funds to help their sympathisers and to make plans for their future.  They decide on a bank hold up at Euroa.  Preparing for the robbery th...

Ep 11 Kellys: Mansfield& sympathisers Australian History from 2018-09-21T06:01

Following the gang’s devastating Stringybark Creek confrontation with police last episode, we’ll look this time at the impact it had on Mansfield and the general public.  We’ll also have a close...

Ep 10 Kellys: Stringybark Ck Pt 2 Australian History from 2018-09-07T06:03

Ep 10 - Stringybark Creek Pt 2, we continue the story of the Police/Kelly confrontation, and the following events set in motion, once McIntyre made it back to Mansfield and to raise the alarm. <...

Ep 9 Kellys: Stringbark Ck Pt 1 Australian History from 2018-08-24T06:03

Ep 9, Stringybark Creek Part 1, begins looking at the notorious Stringybark Creek confrontation with police, which leads to fatalities and the formation of the Kelly Gan...

Ep 8 Kellys: Fitzpatrick incident Australian History from 2018-08-10T06:01

This week will focus on the “Fitzpatrick incident” – the catalyst which set off the chain of events - the so called “Kelly Outbreak”.

In Episode 8, we continue our detailed exploration o...

Ep 7 Kellys: after prison Australian History from 2018-07-27T06:01

After a 3 year spell in prison, Ned returns to Eleven Mile Creek to note some changes in his absence.  He begins a period of independence from the family, working honest jobs and mostly keeping ...

Ep 6 Kellys: Greta Pt 2 Australian History from 2018-07-12T06:00

The Kelly family, having selected a small holding near Greta in North Eastern Victoria, embed themselves in the local community, but petty crime brings them to the atten...

Ep 5 Kellys: Greta Pt 1 Australian History from 2018-06-28T06:00

The Kelly family relocates to Greta in the North East of Victoria, where we begin to see difficulties with the local authorities develop and young Ned becomes involved w...

Ep 4 Kellys: Avenel&early life: Australian History from 2018-06-15T06:26

We explore the family’s move to Avenel, Victoria, and note some amazing & pivotal life events that occur there for Ned.  

In Episode 4, from the Bushranger theme, we continue our detailed...

Ep 3 - Kellys: Beveridge&childhood Australian History from 2018-06-08T06:01

We begin our detailed exploration of Ned Kelly & the notorious Kelly Gang.  Ned and the Kelly Gang were bushrangers operating mainly in North East of Victoria, in the 1870’s. 

In Episode...

Ep 2 Kelly story overview 1878-1880 Australian History from 2018-06-01T00:01

Episode 2: An overview of the whole Kelly story - Victorian bushrangers from the 1870s. The detailed history of Ned Kelly and the Gang will unfold in detail over the coming episodes. 28 mins.  w...

Ep 1 - AHP Series Introduction from 2018-05-31T17:44

Australian Histories Podcast series introduction. 6 mins.

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