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Australian History: Brilliant stories from Australia's past.
When the Japanese entered the Second World War at the end of 1941, the impact on Australia was almost immediate. Singapore fell and a great...
In this final episode of the series we follow Flinders as he attempts his return to England in the hope of acquiring a better ship to more t...
After a quick resupply in Port Jackson Flinders again heads out to undertake the second leg of his circumnavigation. This time they began by...
This episode we see Bass undertake his speculative business ventures, no longer in the company of Flinders, but his timing meant his returns...
George Bass and Matthew Flinders undertake an important mapping journey to confirm the existence of what will soon afterwards become known a...
George Bass and Matthew Flinders arrived in New South Wales in September of 1795, with grand plans to "explore more of the country than any...
Naval men who arrived in NSW in September 1795, Bass & Flinders were both intent on undertaking exploration and charting sections of New Hol...
Waltzing Matilda is described as 'the people's song'. More well known than the real Australian National Anthem around the world, Banjo Pater...
In the 1950s Australia hosted a number of British nuclear weapons tests. The very first one took place on the Montebello Islands, off Austra...
Maria Island is a UNESCO World Heritage listed Tasmanian convict site, with a long and varied history, and a number of spectacular natural a...
From a land with no native domesticated dogs, nearly 230 years after colonists’ brought their first pets & hunting dogs on the first fleet,...
Presbyterian Minister John Flynn had a desire to bring "a mantle of safety" to those living in the remote areas of Australia. WWI Australian...
In this final episode on Buckley & the Wathawurrung, we hear about what happened after Buckley made contact with Batman's party from the Por...
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 man...
William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived amongst the Wathawurrung people for more than 30 years. Adopted as Murrangurk, he had the o...
We talk about 'Telegraph Todd' and the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line, built through the largely unsurveyed and vast centre of...
In this final episode on Alexander Pearce we hear about his second escape attempt from Macquarie Harbour, with fellow convict Thomas Cox. Th...
We continue the story of Alexander Pearce as he and his fellow convicts continue their escape from Port Macquarie. They have found themselve...
Alexander Pearce was one of our more notorious convicts, and one of very few convict escapees from Macquarie Harbour, who survived attemptin...
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...
The 'Great Ocean Road' is it one of Victoria’s, indeed Australia’s, most well known international tourist attractions, and a favoured coasta...
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 unf...
We reflect on the reforms Bligh had introduced and note the rising aggravation amongst the 'trading group', who were beginning to lose some...
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 Gov...
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 Governo...
Australian Rules Football and the earliest clubs formed to compete, are said to be the oldest established football clubs in the world. Start...
Early in World War 2, German Raiders were laying sea mines around Australian & New Zealand coastal waters. Here we tell the story of one shi...
In Part 2 we will follow William Swallow and his fellow mutineer convicts on the commandeered ship, the Cyprus. Swallow and his men were del...
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...
As an appendix to Episode 44, Henry Lawson, today's episode presents two final readings, two more humorous offerings. We read a Banjo Paters...
This episode is an appendix to Episode 44- Henry Lawson. We read poems that contributed to the 'Bulletin Debate', discussed in the earlier e...
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 t...
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 a...
In 1796, the Calcutta merchants Campbell & Clark, sent a boat load of attractive goods, including much needed home and personal wares, and m...
This episode concludes the series exploring the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme; the vast hydro electric, and irrigation project, that...
Today we turn our attention the workers' arrangements. At the peak of construction, over 1959/60, there were 7300 people employed on the pro...
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme began construction at Guthega, with a Norwegian contractor, and before too long, power was being d...
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme was underway. Now they Authority had to acquire the land across the Alps, and recruit a workforce,...
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, took nearly 30 years to complete in the post war period, and was an astounding engineering feat....
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 opport...
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 st...
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 c...
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 e...
With the rebellion at the Eureka Stockade ended, the authorities moved the main players to Melbourne to be tried for treason. In the days im...
With no positive response to their delegations, pleading & petitions, the Ballarat miners determined they must boycott the corrupt system al...
Relations between the authorities and the diggers on the Ballarat goldfield continued to deteriorate, and despite the reports of corruption...
We turn our attention to the Ballarat Goldfield. The road to the Eureka Rebellion here was actually quite long, and contained a myriad of gr...
Gold miners built the Eureka Stockade at the Ballarat goldfields in December 1854, but trouble between the miners and the authorities had st...
Australia has a number of massive continuous barrier fences, built by farmers and pastorlists from the late 1800's, to try and control the m...
We’re continuing our look at the convict era, in particular, the experiences of women convicts who passed through the Cascades Female Factor...