The Guyra Ghost – Part Two: Portal for a Poltergeist?
The investigation into the mystery of Minnie introduces a hard-charging cop and a spiritually minded scribe. Our quest for answers takes us...
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The Guyra Ghost – Part One: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Halloween Special! Just over 100 years ago, Australia was spooked by strange happenings at a farmhouse in northern NSW. Showers of stones! B...
The Runaway Plane – Part Two: “Shoot It Down!"
With the Auster Archer over Sydney, and everyone freaking out, the RAAF scrambles to do something… anything… but their responses are 100% in...
The Runaway Plane – Part One: “There’s No Pilot!”
In August 1955, Sydney was suddenly under threat from a rogue plane. Had it really taken off by itself? Would it crash into the city? What w...
Introducing Australia Murder
I'm launching a new true crime podcast called Australian Murder. Here's the lowdown. Check out Australian Murder wherever you get your podca...
Talking History – Musquito: The Real Story of a Legendary Colonial Warrior
Who was Musquito, the Aboriginal warrior feared by colonists in Sydney and Tasmania? Historian Naomi Parry Duncan's new book takes us behind...
Australian Frankenstein – Part Two: The Infernal Machine
Having successfully toured Australian cities with Frankenstein, Professor Hornburg invents a new machine man that uses a new energy source....
Australian Frankenstein – Part One: The Steam Man
Just as the Iron Outlaw Ned Kelly is going to the gallows, Australians are astonished by a walking automaton called ‘Frankenstein - The Stea...
Mysteries of the Sea – Part Three: Beyond Human Knowledge
In March 1912, Australia was stunned to learn that Koombana was missing in nearly identical circumstances to Yongala. In this final episode,...
Mysteries of the Sea – Part Two: Dead Unlucky
Alongside Yongala, the Adelaide Steamship Company prided itself on its luxury vessel Koombana, designed especially to work the Western Austr...
Mysteries of the Sea – Part One: More Haste, Less Speed
In March 1911, with the loss of the ship Waratah still fresh in memory, a big passenger liner went missing in a cyclone off northern Queensl...
Short – The Mystery of the Waratah
I’m re-releasing this short as background for the new miniseries, Mysteries of the Sea. In July 1909, the world wondered what had become of...
Short – Good Evening and Welcome to Television: The Real Story Behind An AI Slop Promo
This week marks the 70th anniversary of regular television broadcasting in Australia. Channel Nine recently 'recreated' the 'Good Evening an...
Talking History – Blackbirding: A Reckoning With the Australian Slave Trade
Blackbirding – A Reckoning with the Australian Slave Trade. We talk about the practices and policies that led to a staggering death toll – a...
Australia’s Slave Ship Massacre – Part Three: Confessions of Mass Murderers
Dr James Patrick Murray kidnaps and kills more people, and goes mad and is nearly murdered himself, before returning to Australia to be accl...
Australia’s Slave Ship Massacre – Part Two: Shoot Them All
Dr James Patrick Murray takes the brig Carl to the sunny South Seas and into a heart of darkness beyond the imagination of even Joseph Conra...
Australia’s Slave Ship Massacre – Part One: Doctor Evil
Dr James Patrick Murray ranks as one of the most evil characters in Australian history. In September 1871, he ordered the massacre of 70 men...
The Last Gasp: Stubbing Out Ciggie Commercials – Part Two
From 1972, Paul Hogan was the Australian tobacco industry’s most formidable marketing weapon, the Winfield warrior in a new era of mandatory...
The Last Gasp: Stubbing Out Ciggie Commercials – Part One
Fifty years ago this week – 1 September 1976 – tobacco commercials were banned on Australian television. So, it was goodbye to Paul Hogan, S...
Short - Our Forgotten Crime Fiction Mastermind
Aussie writer Charles Shaw came from the school of hard knocks to create a true-blue noir antihero in a series of novels that were internati...