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Australian history through the lens of migration.
On 27 October 1857 a party of Yiman warriors killed 12 people at Hornet Bank Station. On 16 October 1861 another massacre of settlers took p...
Vera Deakin is one of those great women in Australian History that you have probably never heard of. However, if your family has roots that...
We wrap up our four part series on the Australia First Movement. There's one final inquiry, led by Justice Clyne, to investigate the internm...
Following the internments of Australia First members, there is disquiet about why, in a democracy, people could be detained without trial. S...
The security forces, police and political leaders take a close interest in Australia First members. After WWII is declared the Publicist cea...
On 9 March 1942 four people were arrested in Perth on suspicion of a plot to contact the Japanese armed forces to help with a Japanese invas...
Australia Day is celebrated on 26 January each year. But how much do you really know about the history of Australia Day? 26 January is not t...
On 8 September 2022 Queen Elizabeth II died. In this episode we explore what it meant for Australia. Oh, and I also rave on a little about c...
It's ANZAC Day and we commomorate those Australians who served on HMAS Perth which was sunk in the Battle of the Sunda Strait on 1 March 194...
Learn about the amazing story about Oskar Speck a man who paddled his kayak from Germany to Australia, starting in 1932 and taking 7 years t...
In the 1930s the inner suburbs of Sydney were in turmoil as rival gangs fought it out for supremacy in what was called the Razor Gang Wars'....
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this episode mentions the names of people who have passed away. Governor Macqu...
We wrap up our coverage of the 1971 Springbok Tour. The Sprinboks arrive in Australia and are met with protests wherever they go. Email me a...
The 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was controversial. Protests erupted against the South African policy of apartheid and in...
The wetlands around Koo Wee Run in Victoria had a long Indigenous history before they were drained for agricultural use. Email me at jamesda...
Ernest Fisk may be a name you have never heard of. But, as the man who bought radio to Australia, he has had a huge impact on your life. Als...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this episode mentions the names of people who have passed away. Things hot up...
Mary MacKillop founded the Sisters of St Joseph, the first Catholic order founded by an Australian. She and her order established schools an...
James Hardy Vaux was an English-born convict transported to NSW. He is probably the dodgiest convict ever and was, in fact, transported thre...
Aboriginal and Torres Islander people are warned that this episode mentions the name of people who have passed away. Pemulwuy may have been...
Reg Saunders was a war hero who won the Military Medal. He was also the first Indigenous Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the...
Australia has had censorship since Captain Arthur Phillip planted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove in 1788. During the mid 20th century Austral...
We finish our look at Malcolm Fraser, the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. Why did he turn his back on the Party he led did he become a lef...
In this and the next episode we look at the life and career of John Malcolm Fraser, the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. Malcom Fraser was...
On Tuesday 18 January 1977 a crowded commuter train derailed and careered into the supports of the Bold Street Bridge in the Western Sydney...
The conflict on the Cumberland Plain and along the Hawkesbury River ramps up. Pemulwuy takes it to the colonists and leads his band of warri...
In this episode we learn about Tilly Aston, the blind Australian writer and educator, who founded The Victorian Association of Braille Write...
On Remembrance Day I want to bring you the story of two best friends - Harold West and George Leonard. Private Harold West and Private Leona...
In June 1826 local Campbelltown farmer Frederick Fisher disappeared. Four months later John Farley ran into the local pub claiming to have s...
On 15 October 1970, 50 years ago, workers were busy constructing a new bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne. Suddenly the bridge started...
On 1 January 1915 Badsha Mahommed Gool and Mullah Abdullah shot dead four people and wounded seven more just outside the western NSW mining...
In this episode we are a taking a look at two eccentrics who lived in Sydney in the early and mid 20 th Century - Beatrice Miles and Arthur...
The Bathurst Rebellion of 1830 was the strangest rebellion of the convict era. It took place around Bathurst about 170 kms to the west of Sy...
On 13 August 1940 a Royal Australian Airforce Lockheed Hudson aircraft crashed near the Canberra airport, killing all 10 passengers and crew...
From 1950-53, 17,000 Australians in the Army, Navy and Air Force fought in the Korean War. In this episode we delve into some of the battles...
June 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The Korean War is often called the forgotten war. But, from 1950-53, 17...
It's back to bushrangers. In this episode were are focusing on Frank Pearson also known as 'Captain Starlight' and James Alpin McPherson who...
In this episode we take a gander at one of Sydney's most iconic landmarks – the Sydney Opera House. Sitting on Bennelong Point, the Sydney O...
Francis Greenway was an English-born architect who was transported to New South Wales as a convict for the crime of forgery. He was the colo...
In this episode we learn about Douglas Grant, an Indigenous man who served in the trenches in World War I. He was treated as an equal in the...
The conflict between the British settlers and the local Indigenous people is heating up. The settlers push into the extremely fertile river...
In 1813 Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth made the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains. Or did they...
On 17 February 2020, General Motors announced the end of the Holden brand. This has shocked the nation and it truly is the end of an era. Wa...
On Wednesday 26 May 1971, a man calling himself "Mr Brown" telephoned saying that Qantas Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong was carrying a...
Today we are into Aussie cryptozoology; the Bunyip and the Blue Mountain's Panther. Do they really exist? Well yes!. There is a real Bunyip...
The local Sydney people continue to find it tough going after the arrival of the British. A smallpox epidemic breaks out killing many Indige...
Nancy-Bird Walton was one of the great pioneers of flight in Australia. Learn about her remarkable life and achievements. A youtube video ai...
Episode 100! I never dreamed I would still be going after 100 episodes and 6 years. In this episode we cover Australia becoming a nation. Wh...
In this episode we cover the history of the Sydney Harbour Bridge – or as local Sydney-siders call it, the coat hanger. The Sydney Harbour B...
In this episode we finish our look at Ben Chifley. Chifley spends many years in the political wilderness before being re-elected to Parliame...