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Latest episode is live. This one is about Stafford Bullen, a man who had just too many lions (CW: Suicide, lion mauling)

Bibliography below (part 1)

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Bibliography Primary Sources “Advertising,” The Canberra Times, 12 June 1971, p. 9, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131811992. “A crossing smash,” Kalgoorlie Miner, 4 Dec 1945, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95607153. “A roar of lions at Warragamba,” The Australian Women's Weekly, 5 June 1968, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47227471. Allison, Col, “Lions' Cage Was Forced Open,” Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 1995. Allison, Col, “Boffin Sees Off The Moggy From Hell,” Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1995. Bailey, Paul, “I think I’ll soak up the ambience for awhile,” Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 1991. “Canberra boy, 2, bitten by jackal at animal park,” The Canberra Times, 5 June 1978, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131857001. “Circus Accident,” Bundaberg News-Mail, 13 May 1943, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/283624785. “Circus Lions, Tigers In Mail Train Smash,” The Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec 1945, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248034769. “Decision deferred on ‘elephant walk’,” Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 5 November 1969, p.1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/281633961 Dempsey, Shelley, “Lion park’s sad sale,” Sun Herald, 21 April 1991. “Elephants not to walk at Ebenezer, Says Colo Shire Council,” Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 3 Dec 1969, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/281630702. “Elephant, taxi, boy in mix-up,” Brisbane Telegraph, 6 Sept 1951, p. 12, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211949796. “Freed Tiger Licks A Girl's Face,” The Daily News, 24 Nov 1953, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/266142310. “Girl, 19, recovering after lion attack,” Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 5 July 1974, p. 6, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/250474612. Herde, Chris, “Croc Hunter introduces his new cats,” Australian Associated Press General News, 25 December 2003. “I read between the lions,” The Australian Women's Weekly, 11 September 1968, p. 94, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46186195. “In Brief,” The Canberra Times, 12 Aug 1981, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127063268. “In brief,” The Canberra Times, 26 Jul 1982, p. 3, Page 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126886162. “Industrial News,” The Canberra Times, 28 Aug 1974, p. 8, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110725703. “Leopard skin for £2300 car,” The Daily Telegraph, 8 May 1949, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248245298. “Lion Gave Circus Crowd Extra Thrill,” The Age, 11 Sept 1950, p. 6, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205375243. “Lions escape, kill goats, hurt donkey,” The Canberra Times, 7 June 1977, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110849181. “Lions kill, eat man near Brisbane,” The Canberra Times, 9 Oct 1973, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110751233. “Man dies after mauling, drug reaction,” The Canberra Times, 13 Sept 1971, p. 6, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110677164. “Migrants bring the circus back,” Good Neighbour, 1 Nov 1967, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/176531767. “Monkey hurt,” The Canberra Times, 29 Nov 1974, p. 9, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110790319. “Monkey plan opposed,” The Canberra Times, 30 May 1978, p. 11, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131855943. “Mr Bullen's Disneyland,” The Canberra Times, 21 Jan 1969, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107074118. “New laws for private zoos,” The Canberra Times, 12 Aug 1995, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130557110. “Peter Zarkovic,” Find a Grave, accessed: 1 November 2025, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213727513/peter-zarkovic. “Peter Zarkovic,” Find a Grave, accessed: 1 November 2025, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213727513/peter-zarkovic. “Question 136”, Legislative Council Questions and Answers, NSW Parliament Tuesday 5 May 1998, https://web.archive.org/web/20110706121838/http://parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/lc/lcpaper.nsf/0/107A5359DC4ED27BCA256EEF00396CE4/%24file/34-QUESTIONSANDANSWERSTUESDAY5MAY1998.PDF. “Roar of protest,” The Canberra Times, 4 Oct 1968, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131674877. “Romance blossomed under the big top,” The Sun, 8 Sept 1953, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230756232. “Sackings,” Tribune, 6 July 1983, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259567339. “Stole goose from circus,” Brisbane Telegraph, 10 Apr 1952, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/216504438. “Tiger in Bedroom,” The Herald, 24 Nov 1953, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245029356.
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Episode 19 is now live! This week we're talking about Eric Campbell, arguably Australia's most successful and famous fascist (who was neither famous nor terribly successful).

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As always bibliography is attached
Bibliography Primary Sources “Part XVI Religion”, Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 30 June 1933, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2110.01933 “Bridge Incident,” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 22 March 1932, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136874174 Campbell, Eric, The rallying point: My story of the New Guard, Melbourne University Press, 1965. “Campbell Launches Centre Party”, Liberty, 1:20, 19 December 1933, p. 7, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-772172776/ “Conscription referendums, 1916 and 1917,” National Archives of Australia, accessed: 17 September 2025, https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/fact-sheets/conscription-referendums-1916-and-1917 “De Groot Case,” Lithgow Mercury, 1 April 1932, p.1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/219680305/24318458 “Mr Lang’s Speech,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1932, p. 11, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16849511. “Police powerless in wild Bankstown Riots,” The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 1932, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246546701 “The De Groot Incident,” The Cairns Post, 31 Mar 1932, p. 8, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41127385 Secondary Sources Alder, Baron, “The Ideology of the New Guard Movement”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 82 Part 2, 1996, pp. 192 - 209, https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.970606441. Amos, Keith, The New Guard Movement 1931 - 1935, Melbourne University Press, 1975, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3326426489/view?partId=nla.obj-3326429849#page/n8/mode/1up. Amos, Keith, “Campbell, Eric (1893–1970)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/campbell-eric-5487/text9331, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 16 September 2025. Blackton, Charles, “Review: The Rallying Point: My Story of the New Guard by Eric Campbell, in The American Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, 1966, Oxford University Press, p. 274, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1848341 Cunningham, Matthew, “Australian Fascism? A Revisionist Analysis of the Ideology of the New Guard, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 13:3, 2012, pp. 375-393, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2012.701188 Evans, Richard, “‘A Menace to this Realm’: The New Guard and the New South Wales Police, 1931–32,” History Australia, 5:3, 76.1-76.20, 2016, https://doi.org/10.2104/ha080076 Evans, Richard, W. J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910-1948: A Dangerous Man, Springer International Publishing AG, 2022. Love, Gary, “‘What’s the Big Idea?’: Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists and Generic Fascism,” 2007, Journal of Contemporary History, 42:3, pp. 447–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30036457. Moore, Andrew, “The New Guard and the Labour Movement, 1931-35”, Review in Labour History, No. 89, 2005, pp. 55 - 72, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27516075 Moore, Andrew, “Discredited Fascism: the New Guard after 1932”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2011. Moore, Andrew, “An Uncomfortable Past, Historiographical Refections on Fascism and Interwar Australia,” Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, 1st Edition, 2022, Routedge. Rutland, Suzanne, “The long, dark history of antisemitism in Australia”, The Conversation, 24 November 2023, https://theconversation.com/the-long-dark-history-of-antisemitism-in-australia-217908
October 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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800 listens across 18 episodes! A lot of people said "nobody wants to listen to a podcast about Australian history, Liam". And I... well... I didn't prove them wrong, but almost!
September 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Episode 18 of Dead Bunyip Society is now live. This episode is the second in our series on the Australian Genocide, this time we're talking about Tasmania.

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Bibliography Primary Sources Bonwick, James, The Last of the Tasmanians, 1870, London: Samson Low, Son & Marston, via Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Tasmanians Calder, James, Some Account of the Wars, Extirpation, Habits, &c., of the Native Tribes of Tasmania, 1875, Hobart Town: Henn & Co Printers, via Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Some_Account_of_the_Wars,_Extirpation,_Habits,_%26c.,_of_the_Native_Tribes_of_Tasmania Collins, David, An Account of the English Colony of NSW Vol 1, 1798, London: Printed for T Cadell and W Davies in the Strand, via Project Gutenberg, https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00010.html Collins, David, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2, 1802, London: Printed for T Cadell and W Davies in the Strand, via Full Text Archive, https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/An-Account-of-the-English-Colony-in-Newx2025/ “Colonial Times,” Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 1 December 1826, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2448994 “Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes,” United Nations, accessed: 7 August 2025, https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition “Government notice,” The Hobart Town Gazette, 2 December 1826, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8790535?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FH%2Ftitle%2F22%2F1826%2F12%2F02%2Fpage%2F679603%2Farticle%2F8790535 “Government Notice,” The Hobart Town Courier, 21 August 1830, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4207892/642518 “Government Order,” The Hobart Town Courier, 27 Feb 1830, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4210061/642337 “Government Order,” The Hobart Town Courier, 25 Sept 1830, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4206949/642570 “Public Meeting,” Colonial Times, 24 Sep 1830, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8645368 “Statistics on the Indigenous Peoples of Australia,” 1991, updated 2012, Australian Bureau of Statistics, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/3d68c56307742d8fca257090002029cd/8dc45512042c8c00ca2569de002139be!OpenDocument “The Courier,” The Hobart Town Courier, 14 Jan 1832, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4200377/643124. “The Natives,” Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 6 July 1827, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2450488/679329 Van Diemen's Land: copies of all correspondence between Lieutenant-Governor Arthur and His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the military operations lately carried on against the Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, 1831, House of Commons, via Austlii, https://austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/1831/2.pdf West, John, The History of Tasmania, Volume 1, 1852, Launceston: Henry Dowling, via The Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FskRAAAAYAAJ/page/n275/mode/2up West, John, The History of Tasmania , Volume II, 1852, Launceston: Henry Dowling, Launceston (First Edition), Launceston: J. S. Waddell (Facsimile Edition, 1966), via The Project Gutenberg eBook, 2007, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22849/22849-h/22849-h.htm Secondary Sources “1384.6 - Statistics - Tasmania, 2005,” Australian Bureau of Statistics, 13 September 2002, https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/F6FA372655DCC15FCA256C3200241893?opendocument Barta, Tony, “‘They Appear Actually to Vanish from the Face of the Earth.’ Aborigines and the European Project in Australia Felix,” 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:4, pp. 519–539, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520802447768?scroll=top&needAccess=true Browning, Christopher, “Yehuda Bauer, the Concepts of Holocaust and Genocide, and the Issue of Settler Colonialism,” 2022, The Journal of Holocaust Research, 36:1, pp. 30-38, https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2021.2012985 Connor, John, Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838, 2002, Sydney: UNSW Press. Cox, Robert. Breakout! : The Tasmanians Who Terrorised Victoria, 2024, Wakefield Press Pty, Limited, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mqu/detail.action?docID=31974471. Curthoys, Ann, “Raphaël Lemkin’s ‘Tasmania’: an introduction. Patterns of Prejudice,” 2005, 39:2, pp. 162–169, https://doi.org/10.1080/00313220500106212 Dwyer, Philip & Ryan, Lyndall, “Reflections on genocide and settler-colonial violence, History Australia”, 2016, 13:3, pp. 335-350, https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2016.1202336
September 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Episode 17 is now live. This week I am talking about the Australian Genocide. This is intended as the first in a multi-part series, this episode covers the years from 1788 to 1810 in NSW.

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Bibliography below
Bibliography Primary Sources “2021 Census All persons QuickStats,” Australian Bureau of Statistics, accessed: 7 August 2025, https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/AUS Collins, David, An Account of the English Colony of NSW Vol 1, 1798, London: Printed for T Cadell and W Davies in the Strand, via Project Gutenberg, https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00010.html Collins, David, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2, 1802, London: Printed for T Cadell and W Davies in the Strand, via Full Text Archive, https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/An-Account-of-the-English-Colony-in-Newx2025/ “Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes,” United Nations, accessed: 7 August 2025, https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition “Hawkesbury, May. 31,” The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 2 Jun 1805, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/626797 “Statistics on the Indigenous Peoples of Australia,” 1991, updated 2012, Australian Bureau of Statistics, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/3d68c56307742d8fca257090002029cd/8dc45512042c8c00ca2569de002139be!OpenDocument Secondary Sources Bradshaw, Corey, et al, “Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul,” 2021, Nature Communications, 12: 2440, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21551-3 Connor, John, Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838, 2002, Sydney: UNSW Press. Gapps, Stephen, The Sydney Wars Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817, 2018, Sydney: UNSW Press, Kindle Edition. Grewcock, Michael, “Settler-Colonial Violence, Primitive Accumulation and Australia’s Genocide,” State Crime Journal, 2018, 7:2, pp. 222–250, https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.7.2.0222 Karskens, Grace, People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia, 2021, Allen & Unwin, ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mqu/detail.action?docID=6308796. Kiernan, Ben, “The First Genocide: Carthage, 146 BC,” Diogenes, 2004, 51:3, pp. 27–39, https://journals-sagepub-com.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1177/0392192104043648 Macintyre, Stuart, “Coercion, 1793–1821,” A Concise History of Australia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. 35–52, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/concise-history-of-australia/coercion-17931821/3FB32F7E6A8BCB244493996C41A4CCE5 Mear, Craig, “The Origin of the Smallpox Outbreak in Sydney in 1789,” 2008, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 94:1, pp. 1–22, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200806636 Pickering, Michael, “Where are the Stories?” 2010, The Public Historian, 32:1, pp. 79-95. 10.1525/tph.2010.32.1.79. Ryan, Lyndall, Debenham, Jennifer, Pascoe, Bill Smith, Robyn, Owen, Chris, Richards, Jonathan, Gilbert, Stephanie, Anders, Robert, Usher, Kaine, Price, Dan, Newley. Jack, Brown, Mark & Craig, Hugh, "Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930", 2025 https://doi.org/10.26193/L0WEID, ADA Dataverse, V1 Hawkesbury (1), https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=561 Hawkesbury (2), https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=562 Ryan, Lyndall, “Untangling Aboriginal resistance and the settler punitive expedition: the Hawkesbury River frontier in New South Wales, 1794–1810,” 2013, Journal of Genocide Research, 15:2, pp. 219–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2013.789206 “Smallpox epidemic,” National Museum of Australia, 28 September 2022, https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/smallpox-epidemic “The Killing Times,” The Guardian Australia, 23 February 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars Turbet, Peter, The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788-1816, 2011, Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited, ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mqu/detail.action?docID=933085. Williams, Alan, “A new population curve for prehistoric Australia,” 2013, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0486 Walsh, Gerald, “The English Colony in New South Wales: A.D. 1803,” New Zealand Geographer, 1962, 18:2, pp. 149-169, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.1962.tb01149.x
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Incisive commentary by one of our most respected historians of Australia. Bottom line: “Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD after Britain.”
August 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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August 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Episode 16 is now live, today we're talking about how a group of plucky eighteenth century colonists built Australian capitalism…but clubbing seven million seals to death.

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As always, bibliography attached.
Bibliography Primary Sources “Died,” Family Notices, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 30 January 1840, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2551546 Bigge, John, Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry on the state of agriculture and trade in the colony of New South Wales, 1823, State Library of NSW, https://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE3732195 Scammon, Charles, The Marine Mammals of the North Western Coast of North America, 1874, San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Company, https://whalesite.org/anthology/1874%20-%20Scammon%20-%20Marine%20Mammals.htm#Page_141 Secondary Sources Brett, André, “Australia and the Secretive Exploitation of the Chatham Islands to 1842,” 2017, Journal of Australian Studies, 41, pp. 96-112. 10.1080/14443058.2016.1275745 Conroy, Elizabeth, "Building Settlements, Towns and Cities," Thematic History - Former City of Botany Bay, 2017, https://www.bayside.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-05/Conroy%20-%20Botany%20Thematic%20History-part-5.pdf Dyster, Barrie, “Bungling a Courthouse: A Story of Convict Workplace Reform,” 2007, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 93:1, pp. 1–21, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200706029. Hainsworth, David Roger, “Iron Men in Wooden Ships: The Sydney Sealers 1800-1820,” Labour History, 1967, 13, pp. 19–25, https://doi.org/10.2307/27507873. Hainsworth, David Roger, “Simeon Lord (1771–1840),” The Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1967, 2, published online in 2006, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lord-simeon-2371 Hainsworth, David Roger, The Sydney Traders Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries 1788-1821, 1971, Sydney: Cassell Australia. Ihde, Erin, “To bank or not to bank: Edward Smith hall on free trade and the commodification of money in early New South Wales”, 2004, Journal of Australian Studies, 28:83, pp. 13-23, DOI: 10.1080/14443050409387970 Jose, Arthur, “LORD, SIMEON (1773-1840),” Builders and Pioneers of Australia; Historical Records of Australia, pp. 569-575, https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogL.html#lord1. Mills, John, “The Contribution Of The Whaling Industry To The Economic Development Of The Australian Colonies: 1770-1850,” 2016, University of Queensland, https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_478405/s374458_phd_thesis.pdf Pendavingh, Richard, “The Demons of Macquarie Island,” The Unravel, 27 January 2024, https://theunravel.com.au/the-demons-of-macquarie-island Robinson, Albert, “Review” of The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries, 1788–1821, in The Journal of Economic History, 1973, 33:2, pp. 483–484, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700076828 Shoemaker, Nancy, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji, 2019, Cornell University Press, Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68570. Sinclair, William, “The Sydney Traders" (Book Review), by David Roger Hainsworth, Business History Review, 1972; 46:4, p. 489 Smith, Andrew, "Piracy against the Sambas "pirates"? The case of Captain Burnside--and what happened to him afterwards in the antipodes," The Free Library, 2009, accessed 4 August 2025, www.thefreelibrary.com/Piracy+against+the+Sambas+%22pirates%22%3f+The+case+of+Captain...-a0228122202 Smith, Philippa Mein “The Sealing Industry and the Architecture of the Tasman World”, 2019, Fabrications, 29:3, pp. 317-337, DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2019.1672010
August 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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This is very good
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jul 28
8. Historians are good for highlighting that things people now think have been around for ages are more recent than you think…

Or conversely, things that people think are only recent phenomena have actually a lot older history
July 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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July 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Episode 15 is now live! This week we're talking about Wittenoom, the site of Australia's largest ever industrial disaster which has taken the lives of at least 2,000 Australians

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Bibliography below as always
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July 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Episode 14 is now live. This week we're talking about the Japanese Invasion Myth. Shout out to the work of the great @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social on this one.

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As always bibliography below.
Primary Sources “Bank notes from Japan,” The Argus, 24 September 1942, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11996889 Curtin, John, “Australia declares war with Japan – excerpt of Prime Minister John Curtin's address to the nation”, National Archives of Australia, 2010, https://www.naa.gov.au/students-and-teachers/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/war/world-war-ii/australia-declares-war-japan-excerpt-prime-minister-john-curtins-address-nation Churchill, Winston, “Motion of Confidence in His Majesty’s Government”, Hansard, UK Parliament, 29 January 1942, vol. 377, cc. 927-1019, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1942/jan/29/motion-of-confidence-in-his-majestys Churchill, Winston, “War Situation,” Hansard, UK Parliament 27 January 1942, vol. 377, cc. 569-690, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1942/jan/27/war-situation “Federal Government ready to meet invasion,” Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, 31 January 1942, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/152806598 “Japan’s problems,” The Cairns Post, 30 January 1942, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42329831 “Possibility of invasion of Australia,” Burnie Advocate, 24 February 1942, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68755366 “Singapore was the Dunkirk of Australia”, Canberra Times, 17 February 1942, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2564512 “Will Japan try invasion of Australia?” Morning Bulletin, 19 February 1942, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56110760 Secondary Sources Dewar, Mickey, “Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942” by Peter Stanley, [Book Review]. Journal of Northern Territory History, 2009, 20 pp. 113–15, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.794280019351919. Frei, Henry, Japan’s Southward advance and Australia From the Sixteenth Century to World War II, 1991, Carlton: Melbourne University Press. Grey, Jeffrey, A military history of Australia, 1999, Cambridge University Press: New York. Hasluck, Paul, “Chapter 2 - The Enemy at the Gate, February-March 1942,” Volume II – The Government and the People, 1942–1945, 1st edition, 1970, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1070214 “Japanese invasion a myth: historian,” Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2002, https://www.theage.com.au/national/japanese-invasion-a-myth-historian-20020601-gdu9c8.html Matchett, Stephen, “Get over it, we weren't at the heart of World War II,” The Australian, 30 July 2008, https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/get-over-it-we-werent-at-the-heart-of-world-war-ii/news-story/816c5d8bd3957a9833e66d90332dfe90 O'Lincoln, Tom, "Battles over the War," Overland, 193, 2008, pp. 83 - 85, https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-193/ Rechniewski, Elizabeth, “Remembering the Battle for Australia,” 2010, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 7, https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/1153 Richardson, Andrew, Review: “The Shadow Men: The Leaders Who Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam; Scorched Earth: Australia’s Plan for Total War under Japanese Invasion in World War II,” Australian Historical Studies, 2018, 49:2, pp. 283-285, DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1454281 Riseman, Noah, “4. Guerillas for the White Men: Formal Papuan and New Guinean Fighters,” Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War, 2012, University of Nebraska Press, https://muse.jhu.edu/book/19826. Stanley, Peter, “He’s not coming south, the invasion that wasn’t,” in From a hostile shore : Australia and Japan at war in New Guinea, Bullad, Steven & Keiko, Taumra (Eds), 2004, http://ajrp.awm.gov.au/ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/Web-Pages/HostileShore?OpenDocument Stanley, Peter, “Scorched Earth: Australia’s Secret Plan for Total War under Japanese Invasion in World War II [Book Review],” 2017, ISAA Review, 16:1, pp. 105–107. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.549031889129584. Stanley, Peter, “Threat Made Manifest,” Griffith Review, 2005, 9, pp. 5-15, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.418994920107030. Stanley, Peter, “Dramatic myth and dull truth: Invasion by Japan in 1942,” in Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, Stockings, Craig (Ed), 2010, UNSW Press, pp. 140-160, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkmcj “US Ship Force Levels,” US Naval History and Heritage Command, 17 November 2017, https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/us-ship-force-levels.html Wurth, Bob, “Know Thy Enemy & Thyself: Understanding the Gravity of our Japanese Threat,” Australian Army War Journal, 2009, 6:1, https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/australian-army-journal-aaj/volume-6-number-1/know-thy-enemy-thyself-understanding-gravity-our-japanese-threat
July 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Episode 13 is out and this time we're breaking the rules to talk the Iraq War of 2003. We also cover 8,000 years of Iraqi history (badly).

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Primary Sources Bush, George, “President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln”, The White House, 1 May 2023, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030501-15.html Cole, Terrence, “The Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme”, Volume 1, Department of Attorney General, November 2006, via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20110322231553/http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/www/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(22D92C3251275720C801B3314F7A9BA2)~Volume+I+(21Nov06)-CD.pdf/$file/Volume+I+(21Nov06)-CD.pdf Palazzo, Albert, “The Australian Army and the War in Iraq 2002-2010,” 2010, Directorate of Army Research and Analysis, https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2017/pdfview/ViewerJS/#../The_Australian_Army_in_Iraq.pdf “Revisiting Halabjah: Survivors Talk About Horror Of Attack, Continuing Ordeal,” Radio Free Europe, 14 March 2008, https://www.rferl.org/a/1079637.html Volckher, Paul, Goldstone, Richard, & Pieth, Mark, Manipulation of the Oil-For-Food Programme by the Iraqi Regime, Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, 27 October 2005, via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20130823070841/http://www.iic-offp.org/documents/IIC%20Final%20Report%2027Oct2005.pdf Secondary Sources Ackland, Richard, “This inquiry is only half the job”, 15 April 2006, Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/this-inquiry-is-only-half-the-job-20060414-gdnd36.html Al-Qazzaz, Ayad, “In the Cradle of Civilization - A Brief Outline of Iraq's History,” 2004, Peace Magazine, Oct-Dec 2004, page 11, https://peacemagazine.org/archive/v20n4p11.htm Banta, Benjamin, “Just War Theory and the 2003 Iraq War Forced Displacement”, Journal of Refugee Studies, 21: 3, September 2008, pp. 261–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen027 Barratt, Paul, “The case for an Iraq War inquiry in Australia”, 2014, Global Change, Peace & Security, 26:3, pp. 325-336, DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2014.916668 Blaxland, John, “Final Reflections,” Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001–2014, Blaxland, John, Fielding, Marcus & Gellerfry, Thea (Eds), 1st ed., ANU Press, 2020, pp. 325–34, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1d5nm2f.29 Carter, Robert, & Philip, Graham (Eds.) Beyond the Ubaid Transformation and Integration in the Late Prehistoric Societies of the Middle East, 2010, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/saoc63.pdf Chiam, Madelaine, “Public Debate in 2003: The Iraq War,” International Law in Public Debate, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 41–88, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108588584.004 “Collateral Damage The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq”, MedAct, London, 12 November 2002, https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2016/07/Medact-2002-The-Health-Environmental-Costs-of-War-on-Iraq.pdf Cox, Lloyd, and O’Connor, Brendon, “Australia, the US, and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars: ‘Hound Dog, Not Lapdog,’” 2012, Australian Journal of Political Science, 47:2, pp. 173–187, doi:10.1080/10361146.2012.677004. Doig, Alan, Pfiffner, James, Phythian, Mark, and Tiffen, Rodney, “Marching in Time: Alliance Politics, Synchrony and the Case for War in Iraq, 2002–2003,” 2007, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61:1, pp. 23–40, doi:10.1080/10357710601142484. Effeney, Libby, “Iraqis Exiled in Australia since 2003,” 2014, Australian Journal of Political Science, 49:4, pp. 662–676, doi:10.1080/10361146.2014.969394. Goot, Murray, “Questions of Deception: Contested Understandings of the Polls on WMD, Political Leaders and Governments in Australia, Britain and the United States,” 2007, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61:1, pp. 41–64, doi:10.1080/10357710601142492 Greber, Jacob, “PM vows full release of 2003 Iraq War cabinet documents,” Australian Financial Review, 3 January 2024, https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-vows-full-release-of-2003-iraq-war-cabinet-documents-20240103-p5euv0 Horner, David, The War Game : Australian War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq, Allen & Unwin, 2022. Hurst, Daniel, “Cabinet papers from Iraq war period show Howard government saw access to Middle East oil as a key national interest,” The Guardian Australia, 14 March 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/14/cabinet-papers-iraq-war-john-howard-liberal-government-oil-middle-east Hyland, Tom, “A dangerous game,” Inside Story, 5 April 2017, https://insidestory.org.au/a-dangerous-game/ Kandela, Peter, “The history and ancient civilisations of Iraq,” The Lancet, 356, 8 July 2000, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(00)02460-0/fulltext Kevin, Tony, “Australia’s Secret Pre‐emptive War against Iraq, 18–20 March 2003,” 2004, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 58:3, pp. 318–336, doi:10.1080/1035771042000260101. Lee, David, “Release of ‘missing papers’ from 2003 shines a light on how Australian troops were sent to fight the Iraq War,” The Conversation, 14 March 2024, https://theconversation.com/release-of-missing-papers-from-2003-shines-a-light-on-how-australian-troops-were-sent-to-fight-the-iraq-war-225650
July 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Episode 12 is now live. Today we're talking about Bill Leak, a controversial artist and political cartoonist who died in 2017 and generated a national controversy with his reactionary cartoons.

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Bibliography is attached
Bibliography Media reporting Blanco, Claudianno, “Woman behind Bill Leak cartoon complaint dropped charges due to 'harassment',” NITV, 18 November 2016, https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/woman-behind-bill-leak-cartoon-complaint-dropped-charges-due-to-harassment/abrdwp2we Duffy, Connor, “Bill Leak backs #IndigenousDads movement after penning controversial cartoon,” 7:30, ABC, 28 December 2016, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/bill-leak-backs-indigenous-dads-movement/7710308 “Govt condemns 'tasteless' cartoon,” 1 April 2006, ABC World News, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-04-01/govt-condemns-tasteless-cartoon/1721766 Manne, Robert, “‘As vicious as anything I had ever seen’: Robert Manne on being News Corp’s target,” Crikey, 2 December 2024, https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/robert-manne-a-political-memoir-extract-the-australian-news-corp/ McLeay, Ben, “For Bill Leak's benefit: Why it's not okay to compare gay people to Nazis,” SBS Comedy, 21 September 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160922145347/http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/09/21/bill-leaks-benefit-why-its-not-okay-compare-gay-people-nazis Rundle, Guy, “Rundle: an obituary for Bill Leak, and his monstrous exploitation by The Australian,” Crikey, 13 March 2017, https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/03/13/rundle-an-obituary-for-bill-leak/ Rundle, Guy, “Rundle: how the right turned Bill Leak into a victim”, Crikey, 24 March 2017, https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/03/24/rundle-the-rights-18c-putsch-and-their-exploitation-of-bill-leak/ Sparrow, Jeff, “Johannes Leak follows in the footsteps of his father, but can only go so far,” Crikey, 17 December 2019, https://www.crikey.com.au/2019/12/17/johannes-leak-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-his-father-but-can-only-go-so-far/ Wilson, Peter, “Leak in the clear over Tintin,” News.com.au, 4 June 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20070714171915/http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C23599%2C21842711-2%2C00.html Primary Sources Leak, Bill, Hansard, “Freedom of Speech in Australia”, Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, 1 February 2017, https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommjnt%2Fbf6877ca-d923-4b09-b0bc-30d78d59f9db%2F0014%22 Racial Discrimination Act 1975, Federal Register of Legislation, accessed: 19 June 2025, https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00274/2015-12-10/text Triggs, Gillian, “Freedom of Speech in Australia”, Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, 12 December 2016, https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommjnt%2F8cee83ef-31be-4aad-9696-55de0c602a09%2F0001%22 Secondary Sources Carlson, Bronwyn, Jones, Lani, Harris, Michelle, Quezada, Nelia, and Ryan Frazer, “Trauma, Shared Recognition and Indigenous Resistance on Social Media,” 2017, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 21 (July), https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v21i0.1570 “Cronulla Race Riots”, National Museum of Australia, 18 September 2024, https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/cronulla-race-riots Hobbs, Mitchell & Owen, Stephen “Stifling dissent: the Murdoch press and its campaigns against its ‘critics’,” 2016, Communication Research and Practice, 2:2, pp. 137-158, https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1185925 Kean, Jessica, “Coming to terms: Race, class and intimacy in Australian public culture,” 2018, Sexualities, 22:7-8, pp. 1182-1196. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460718770452 Leak, Bill, “Drawing Blood,” The Sydney Papers, 11:1, pp. 96–105, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.764981727943039 Leak, Bill & McCosker, Anne, “Fitting the Bill”, inform, 21 February 2000 Manning, Heydon, “Political Arts”, 2005, Meanjin, pp. 114 - 121. Pawle, Fred, “A portrait of Australia,” Institute of Public Affairs Review, 73:4, pp. 36–41, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20220404065033 Pawle, Fred, Die Laughing The Biography of Bill Leak, 2021, In… Phiddan, Robert, “The scalpel and the axe,” Inside Story, 5 November 2021, https://insidestory.org.au/the-scalpel-and-the-axe/ Power, John, “Drawing the line: Australia is debating free speech, one cartoon at a time. Cartoonist Bill Leak interviewed just before he died”, 2017, Index on Censorship, 46:1, pp. 85-87, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306422017703622 Prehn, Jacob, Baltra-Ulloa, Joselynn, Canty, Justin, & Williamson, Matthew, “What Is the Best Thing About Being an Indigenous Father in Australia?”, 2021, Australian Social Work, 75:3, pp. 358–371, https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2021.2004180 Roe, Amanda, “Graphic Satire and Public Life in the Age of Terror”, 2004, Media International Australia, 113:1, pp. 55-65, https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0411300108 Sengul, Kurt, and McSwiney, Jordan, “Far-Right Political Humor in Australia: Culture, Coloniality, and Exclusion,” in Communicating Political Humor in the Media, Feldman, Ofer (Eds), 2024, pp. 145-161, Springer: Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0726-3_7 Shevlin, Alicia and Gill, Peter, “Parental attitudes to the Australian anti-bullying Safe Schools program: a critical discourse analysis”, 2020, Social Psychology of Education. 23, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341271697_Parental_attitudes_to_the_Australian_anti-bullying_Safe_Schools_program_a_critical_discourse_analysis Swannie, Bill, “Racially derogatory cartoons and racial vilification laws: Where to draw the line?”, 2020, Alternative Law Journal, 45:4, pp. 291-297, https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X20918663 “Truth and Cancer”, Australian Bookseller and Publisher, August 2005, p. 16.
June 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Episode 11 is now live!

Today we're talking about the Children of God, an evangelical Christian group from which 140 children were removed in 1992 in the largest ever single children removal activity in Australian history.

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Goodstein, Laurie, “Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult,” New York Times, 15 January 2005, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/us/murder-and-suicide-reviving-claims-of-child-abuse-in-cult.html “Kirner must apologise for joke: union,” Canberra Times, 22 May 1992, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132381231 Kyriacou, Kate, “Child survivors of sadistic sex cult face ‘unfair’ battle for compo,” The Courier Mail, 24 February 2024. “Media Release: Cult survivors deserve government support,” Knowmore, 19 February 2024, https://knowmore.org.au/media-release-cult-survivors-deserve-government-support/ “Sect nurturing too limiting, says witness,” Canberra Times, 4 Aug 1992, p. 12, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137169159 “Seized children's cases to be taken into court today,” Canberra Times, 18 May 1992, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132380206 “Welfare interviews children taken from sect,” Canberra Times, 17 May 1992, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132379956 Wilmoth, Peter, “Meet The Family,” Sunday Age, 9 May 2004. Wilkinson, Peter, “The Life & Death of the Chosen One, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2005, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/children-of-god-cult-messiah-chosen-one-182272/ Secondary Sources Borowik, Claire, “Digital disruptions and identity renegotiations: From the Children of God to TFI Online,” 2024, Religion Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12508 Boyer, Edward “Obituaries : Rev. Fred Jordan; Founded Skid Row Mission in 1949,” Los Angeles Times, 26 April 1988, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-26-mn-1632-story.html Bozeman, John, “The Family/Children of God Under the Love Charter,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 1998, 2:1, pp. 126-135, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.1998.2.1.126 Chancellor, James, Life in the Family : an oral history of the Children of God, 2000, Syracuse University Press: New York, https://archive.org/details/lifeinfamilyoral0000chan/page/n21/mode/2up Cowan, Douglas and Bromley, David, Cults and New Religions: A Brief History, 2015, Second Edition, Kindle Edition, Wiley Blackwell. Doherty, Bernard, "Strange Gods in a Great Southern Land: A Preliminary Survey of the Australian "Cult Controversies" 1960–2000," Nova Religio, 24:1, 2020, pp. 5-30, https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article-abstract/24/1/5/111025/Strange-Gods-in-a-Great-Southern-LandA-Preliminary?redirectedFrom=PDF Goddard, Chris, “Governing the 'Family': Child Protection Policy and Practice and the 'Children of God',” Just Policy, 1, 1994, https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.950807836 Hanslowe, Thomas, “Musical Life in New Religious Movements and the Construction of Cults,” 2023, UCLA, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48c2k035 Introvigne, Massimo, “The Abe Assassination. The Word “Cult” Is A Tool for Discrimination,” 2022, Bitter Winter, https://bitterwinter.org/the-abe-assassination-the-word-cult-is-a-tool-for-discrimination/ Introvigne, Massimo & Melton, J. Gordon, “Review: Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 3:1, 1999, pp. 160-163, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.160 Kent, Stephen, “Reviewed Work(s): Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God by James Chancellor”, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religion, 2004, 8:1, pp. 108-112, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2004.8.1.108 Richardson, James, “New Religions in Australia: Public Menace or Societal Salvation?”, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 4:2, 2001, pp. 258-265, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2001.4.2.258 Ruth, Michael, “The Family International (new religious movement)”, EBSCO Research Starters, 2024, https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/family-international-new-religious-movement Scott, Dorothy, & Swain, Shurley, Confronting Cruelty: Historical Perspectives on Child Protection in Australia, 2013, Kindle Edition, Melbourne University Publishing
June 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Episode 10 is up. This week I'm talking about the "Rum Rebellion", drinking culture and landlords.

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As always see bibliography here
Bibliography Primary Sources From Terra Australis to Australia, State Library of NSW, accessed 25 May 2025, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/terra-australis-australia/overthrow-and-aftermath Global status report on alcohol and health and treatment of substance use disorders, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2024, https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/377960/9789240096745-eng.pdf Secondary Sources 1808 Bligh’s Sydney Rebellion, Historic Houses Trust & State Library of NSW, 2008, https://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/events/exhibitions/2008/politicspower/docs/bligh_guide.pdf Allen, Matthew, “Alcohol and Authority in Early New South Wales: The Symbolic Significance of the Spirit Trade, 1788–1808,” 2012, History Australia, 9:3, pp. 7-26, https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2012.11668428 Allen, Matthew, “Distilling Liberty: Reconsidering the Politics of Alcohol in Early New South Wales,” 2019, Australian Historical Studies, 50:3, pp. 339-353, https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2019.1604776 Atkinson, Alan, “The Little Revolution in New South Wales, 1808,” The International History Review, 1990, 12:1 pp. 65-75, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40106133 Auchmuty, James, “John Hunter (1737–1821),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, 1966, 2006 (online), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hunter-john-2213 Auchmuty, James, “The background to the early Australian governors,” 1954, Australian Historical Studies, 6:23, pp.301-314, https://doi.org/10.1080/10314615408595000 Bennett, John, “Richard Atkins (1745–1820),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, 1966, 2006 (online), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/atkins-richard-1723 Evatt, Herbert, Rum rebellion: a study of the overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps: including the John Murtagh Macrossan memorial lectures delivered at the University of Queensland, June 1937, 1945, Fourth Edition, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/rumrebellion0000unse/page/n313/mode/2up Frame, Tom, “Who'll watch guardians when ex-officers rule us?”, The Australian, 23 January 2008, in The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20080612085541/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23092593-7583,00.html Lisle, Phillip, “Rum beginnings: Towards a new perspective of the Grose years”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2005, 91:1, pp. 15 - 28, https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.200506524 Fletcher, Brian, “Francis Grose (1758–1814),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, 1966, 2006 (online), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grose-francis-2130 Fletcher, Brian, “Joseph Foveaux (1767–1846)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, 1966, 2006 (online), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/foveaux-joseph-2062 Hill, R. Maurice, “A short history of the New South Wales Corps 1789-1818”, 1934, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 13:51, 135–140, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44221611 Hopkins, Darren, “Governor king and the Illicit distillers, 1800-1806,” 2019, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 105:2, pp 159-179, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.927778609239219 Karskens, Grace, & Waterhouse, Richard, “'Too Sacred to Be Taken Away': Property, Liberty, Tyranny and the 'Rum' Rebellion,” 2010, Journal of Australian Colonial History, https://www.academia.edu/45691378/Too_Sacred_to_Be_Taken_Away_Property_Liberty_Tyranny_and_the_Rum_Rebellion McAskill, Tracey, “An asset to the colony: the social and economic contribution of corpsmen to early New South Wales,” 1996, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 82:1, pp. 40–59, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.961000224 McMahon, John, “Not a rum rebellion but a military insurrection,” Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2006, 92:2, pp. 125–144, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200700420 Murphy, Matt, Rum A Distilled History of Colonial Australia, HarperCollins Publishers, Kindle Edition, 2021. Neville, Richard, “The Arrest of Governor Bligh: Pictures and Politics,” Australiana, May 1991, pp. 38-42, https://australiana.org.au/magazine/?issue=1193 Shaw, Alan, “William Bligh (1754–1817)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, 1966, 2006 (posted online), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bligh-william-1797 Scott, Ernest, “A Rum Go,” The Australian Quarterly, 1938, 10:3, pp. 52-56, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20629559 Spigelman, James AC, “Bicentenary of the coup of 1808,” Australian Bar Review, 2008, 30, https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/AULegHist/2008/9.html Steven, Margaret, “John Macarthur (1767–1834),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2 , 1967, 2006 (published online), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macarthur-john-2390
May 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Episode 9 is up. This one is all about Magdalene Homes and the treatment of women and girls in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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As always bibliography below
Bibliography Primary Sources “A Product of Rome”, The Watchman, 4 August 1906, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111964484 Cuskell, Maureen, “The nuns thought we were criminals,” 19 August 2011, Inside, Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions, National Museum of Australia, https://insideblog.nma.gov.au/2011/08/19/the-nuns-thought-we-were-criminals/ “Final Information Update”, Royal Commission into Instiutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2012, https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/final_information_update.pdf “Industrial Court”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October 1919, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15852379 Konstantinidis, Janice, “Life in ‘The Mag,’” 28 February 2011, Inside, Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions, National Museum of Australia, https://insideblog.nma.gov.au/2011/02/28/life-in-the-mag/ “Religious institutions”, Royal Commission into Instiutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2012, https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/religious-institutions Rudd, Kevin, “National Apology”, Australian Parliament, 16 November 2009, https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/community_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/national_apology/index “Our convent Laundries”, Freeman's Journal, 16 October 1919, p. 24, (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932) View title info Thu 16 Oct 1919, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116769770 Sutton, Wendy, “In the beginning,” 19 April 2011, Inside, Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions, National Museum of Australia, https://insideblog.nma.gov.au/2011/04/19/in-the-beginning/ “The Abbotsford Convent and the Magdalen Asylum, Kilmore Free Press, 13 October 1881, page 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57701643 “The Magdalen Refuge at Tempe,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 1890, page 9, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28276773 Towards Healing Principles and Procedures in Responding to Compla… Secondary Sources Abela, Donna & Kelsey-Sugg, “In Australia's Magdalene laundries 'fallen women' worked in harsh conditions for no pay”, ABC Radio National, 13 Jan 2024, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-13/magdalene-laundries-and-the-free-labour-of-fallen-women/103235648 Abella, Donna, “The Missing Magdalens”, ABC Radio National, 8 August 2023, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-history-listen/the-history-listen-magdalen-laundry-tempe-catholic/102620008 Cooper, Paul, “The almost unknown founders of the Sydney Magdalen Asylums Philanthropy and Philanthropists in Australian Colonial History,” Colonial Givers, 2020, https://colonialgivers.com/2020/07/25/the-almost-unknown-founders-of-the-sydney-magdalen-asylums Forgotten Australians A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children, 2004, Community Affairs References Committee, Australian Senate, https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/community_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report/index Franklin, James, “Convent slave laundries? Magdalen asylums in Australia,” Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 2013, 34, pp. 70-90, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Convent+slave+laundries%3f+Magdalen+asylums+in+Australia.-a0401094767 Gill, Allan, “Bad girls do the best sheets”, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 April 2003, https://www.smh.com.au/national/bad-girls-do-the-best-sheets-20030424-gdgnfl.html Kildea, Jeff, “'The Missing Magdalens': the ABC resurrects a 'hidden story' discredited more than a century ago,” Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 44:42, https://www.academia.edu/111454709/The_Missing_Magdalens_the_ABC_resurrects_a_hidden_story_discredited_more_than_a_century_ago Kizilos, Katherine, “Keeping the faith,” Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 2006, https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/keeping-the-faith-20061218-ge3tj3.html Monk, Joanne, “Cleansing their Souls: Laundries in Institutions for Fallen Women”, Australian Women's History Network, 1996, 9, https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3316/informit.495914974262590?download=true Russell, Emma, Burridge, Andrew, Markham, Francis, Blatman-Thomas, Naama, & Osborne, Natalie, “Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?”, UNSW, 23 January 2025, https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/01/prisons-dont-create-safer-communities-so-why-is-australia-spending-billions-on-building-them Swain, Shurlee, “The Victorian charity network in the 1890's,” 1976, PhD thesis, Department of History, The University of Melbourne, https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/items/9fec1ea0-ff0b-538f-a3cb-515161a727c4 Toole, Kellie, “‘Innocence and Penitence Hand Clasped In Hand’: Australian Catholic Refuges For Penitent Women, 1848-1914,” April 2010, Thesis Discipline of History in the Department of History and Politics University of Adelaide, https://www.academia.edu/71844260/_Innocence_and_penitence_hand_clasped_in_hand_Australian_catholic_refuges_for_penitent_women_1848_1914
May 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Episode 8 is now live. This week we're talking about Dr Harry Bailey, Australia's worst psychiatrist.

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Bibliography is below.
Bibliography Primary Sources “AGY-6764 | Royal Commission into the former Chelmsford Private Hospital and Mental Health Services in New South Wales [known as Chelmsford Royal Commission]”, NSW State Archives, accessed: 4 May 2025, https://search.records.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay/ORGANISATIONS1006226/61SRA Bailey, Harry, Dowling, John, Swanton, Cedric, Davies Evan “Studies in depression, . Cingulo-tractotomy in the treatment of severe affective illness,” Medical Journal of Australia, 1971, January, 2:1, pp. 8 - 12, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5100547/ Mental Health Tribunal Annual Report 2023-24, 30 August 2024, https://www.mht.vic.gov.au/annual-reports Royal Commission on Matters Affecting Callan Park Mental Hospital - Report, NSW Government, 1961, version 4, Victor C. N. Blight, Government Printer, Sydney, https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/other/nsw/NSWRoyalC/1961/1.html Secondary Sources Carney Terry, “Regulatory dividends of scandal--the Chelmsford legacy?”, Australasian Psychiatry, 2013 21:3, pp. 220-223 doi: 10.1177/1039856213486704 Ellard, John “Chelmsford and its aftermath,” Psychiatric Bulletin, 1991, 15, pp. 686-688, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/chelmsford-and-its-aftermath/FDAE70489A18E4554DDF27F2EC6CE567 Garton, Stephen, “Harry Richard Bailey (1922–1985)”, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17 , 2007, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bailey-harry-richard-12162 Geason, Susan, Dark Trance Dr Harry Bailey & the Chelmsford Private Hospital Scandal, From The Wayback Machine, 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20130326060209/http://www.susangeason.com/ Grey, Samantha Kohl, “‘Anomaly’: psychiatry and homosexuality in 1970s Australia”, History Australia, 2022, 19:2, pp. 267-284, DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2022.2050467 Hornery, Andrew, “Dark side of the rainbow: Drugged, shocked and jailed for being gay”, Sydney Moring Herald, 11 May 2024, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/dark-side-of-the-rainbow-drugged-shocked-and-jailed-for-being-gay-20240502-p5fobk.html Jones, D. Gareth, “Contemporary Medical Scandals: A Challenge to Ethical Codes and Ethical Principles,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 1990, 42, pp. 2 - 14. Walton, Merrilyn, “Deep sleep therapy and Chelmsford Private Hospital: have we learnt anything?”, Australasian Psychiatry, 21:3, pp. 206–212, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1039856213486703 Ware, John, "Psychosurgery in Australia," Camp Ink, 1973, 3:4, p. 8. link.gale.com/apps/doc/QUKIAQ434745288/AHSI?u=macquarie&sid=summon White, Richard and McGee-Collett, Martin, “A portrait of prefrontal lobotomy performed at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney by Dr Rex Money,” Australasian Psychiatry, 2016, 24:5, pp. 428–430, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1039856216635906 White, Richard and McGee-Collett, Martin, “The advent of psychosurgery in Australia—with particular attention to its introduction into Sydney,” Australasian Psychiatry, 2016, 24:5, pp. 425–427, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1039856216635898 White, Richard and Williams, Sid, “Amygdaloid neurosurgery for aggressive behaviour, Sydney, 1967-1977: societal, scientific, ethical and other factors,” Australasian Psychiatry, 17:5, 2009, pp. 410-416, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10398560902952458 White, Richard, “The banning of psychosurgery in NSW,” Australian Psychiatry, 2011, 19:2, p. 179, doi: 10.3109/10398562.2011.561852 Wilson, Beth, “Psychosurgery: Ethical and Legal Issues”, Journal of Law and Medicine, 4:1, 1996, pp. 21 - 59, https://search.informit.org/toc/jlm/4/1
May 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Episode 7 is now live!

This week we're talking about Edward De Lacy Evans, a perfectly ordinary Irish-Australian working class fella, who had a bit of a secret.

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Bibliography Primary Sources “Death of De Lacy Evans”, The Argus, 27 August 1901, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10568650 “Ellen Tremaye, alias Edward De Lacy Evans, the Female Impersonator,” Australian Town and Country Journal, 11 October 1879, p. 32, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70973757 “Extraordinary Case of Concealment of Sex,” Bendigo Advertiser, 4 September 1879, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88216252 “Interview with Mrs Evans,” Bendigo Advertiser, 4 September 1879, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88216250 Penfold, Oliver, “A Case of Man-Personation by a Woman,” 1880, Australian Medical Journal, 2:4, pp. 145–147. The History and confession of Ellen Tremaye, alias, De Lacy Evans, the man-woman, 1880, Melbourne: WM Marshall, National Library of Australia digitised item, Trove, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-39854570/view?partId=nla.obj-39854581#page/n0/mode/1up “The Sandhurst Impersonator – Edward De Lacy Evans,” Illustrated Australian News, 1 October 1879, p. 155, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60094171 Secondary Sources Baird, Barbara, “‘Kerryn and Jackie’”, Historical Studies, 2005, 36:126, pp. 253-271, DOI: 10.1080/10314610508682923 Chesser, Lucy, "‘A Woman Who Married Three Wives’: Management of Disruptive Knowledge in the 1879 Australian Case of Edward De Lacy Evans,” Journal of Women's History, 1998, 9:4, pp. 53-77, Johns Hopkins University Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2010.0288 Chesser, Lucy, “More Playful than Anxious: Cross-dressing, Sex-impersonation and the Colonial Stage,” Australasian Drama Studies, 2008, 52, https://www.adsa.edu.au/dbpage.php?pg=printnews&id=51 Chesser, Lucy, Parting with my Sex: Cross-Dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life, Sydney University Press, Kindle Edition, 2008. Chesser, Lucy, “Transgender-Approximate, Lesbian-Like, and Genderqueer: Writing about Edward De Lacy Evans”, 2009, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13:4, pp. 373-394, DOI: 10.1080/10894160903048114 Colligan, Mimi, “The Mysterious Edward/Ellen De Lacy Evans The Picaresque in Real Life”, The La Trobe Journal, 2002, 69, pp. 59-68, https://latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-69/latrobe-69-059.html Lake, Marilyn, “Women’s and Gender History in Australia: A Transformative Practice”, 2013, Journal of Women's History, 25:4, pp. 190-211, Johns Hopkins University Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2013.0043 Laurie, Alison, “Introduction: A History of ‘Lesbian History’”, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2009, 13:4, pp. 349-361, DOI: 10.1080/10894160903048015. Riseman, Noah, “Searching for Trans Possibilities in Australia, 1910–39,” Journal of Australian Studies, 2020, 44:1, pp. 33–47, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2020.1712614
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Episode 6 is now live. This one is about John Mackay. The man who "discovered" Mackay in Queensland and also trafficked in other human beings.

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As always, bibliography is below!
Primary Sources “A John Mackay monument,” Daily Mercury, 15 December 1928, p. 11, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169953099 “Alleged kidnapping of Natives of the Loyalty Islands,” Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, 6 July 1869, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/148020403 Amiet, William, “The Genuine Mackay,” Daily Mercury, 25 March 1939, p. 6, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168825233 Bennett, John, “Queensland Pioneers,” Morning Bulletin, 25 July 1938, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55983787 “Cruise of the Flora,” The Capricornian, 11 December 1875, p. 799, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65738231 “Expedition Northwards for New Runs,” The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser, 22 September 1860, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/188961970 “Expedition Northwards for New Runs (Continued),” The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser, 29 September 1860, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/188961991 Palmer, H, “Links with the Past,” Daily Mercury, 26 September 1941, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170527958 “Polynesian Laborers”, The Queenslander, 22 Aug 1868, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20320120 “The Sketcher People We Know Captain John Mackay Harbour Master,” The Queenslander, 16 October 1897, p. 749, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/24470732 “Captain John Mackay, Portmaster of Queensland”, The Telegraph, 21 June 1911, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175064520 Secondary Sources Davis, Emelda, “'Blackbirding' shame yet to be acknowledged in Australia,” Sydney Morning Herald, 3 June 2015, https://www.smh.com.au/national/blackbirding-shame-yet-to-be-acknowledged-in-australia-20150603-ghfn9c.html Kerr, John, “Rediscovered route of the Mackay Expedition, 1860,” Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 11:1, 1980, pp. 70-88 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205164/s00855804_1979_80_11_1_70.pdf Kwai, Isabella, “Australia Doesn't Call It Slavery, but It Was Very Far From Freedom,” The New York Times, 13 August 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/australia/south-sea-islanders-slavery.html Ling Roth, Henry, The Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland, F King and Sons, Halifax, 1908, https://archive.org/details/discoverysettlem00roth/page/n5/mode/2up McKinnon, Alex, “Blackbirds: Australia’s hidden slave trade history,” The Monthly, 2 July 2019, https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/july/1561989600/alex-mckinnon/blackbirds-australia-s-hidden-slave-trade-history Martin, Lucy, “Mackay Italians want a memorial”, Daily Mercury, 12 February 2020. Miley, Jacob, “Was John Mackay a blackbirder? This year will celebrate 150 years of South Sea Islanders in Mackay,” The Courier Mail, 3 March 2017, https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/was-john-mackay-a-blackbirder/news-story/08bf07b39378640d55b24abee7760d69 Nilsson, J. A., “Mackay, John (1839–1914)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 1974, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mackay-john-4106/text6563 Whiting, Melanie, “Mackay name change ‘over my dead body’”, Courier Mail, 20 August 2020, https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/over-my-dead-body-leaders-react-to-mackay-name-change/news-story/ee9fcdefa44ec45bd23107a5d8f12f65
April 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Episode 5 is up! This one is about the history of sex work in Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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As always bibliography is below
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April 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Episode 4 is now live! This time we're talking about the WA Referendum of 1933, when WA tried to set up it's own country.

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Bibliography as always is here
Part 1 of the Bibliography for Episode 4 Part 2 of the Bibliography for Episode 4 Part 3 of the Bibliography for Episode 4
April 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Episode 3 is up! This one is about Robert Towns, the man who founded Townsville, and also owned other human beings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Here is the bibliography!
Bibliography for the podcast part 1 Bibliography for the podcast part 2 Bibliography for the podcast part 3 Bibliography for the podcast part 4
March 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The second episode of Dead Bunyip Society is now live! This one is on Anne Hamilton-Byrne and the Family CW: Child abuse, listener discretion encouraged podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
First part of the bibliography for episode 2 Second part of the bibliography for episode 2
March 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Hi all, first episode of Dead Bunyip Society is now live, it's on Mullah Abdullah and the Battle of Broken Hill. Unfortunately, I'm having some difficulty posting the bibliography so it's listed here until I figure out a better way to do this(!) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...
Bibliography list for the first episode of Dead Bunyip Society
March 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM