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Australian Histories Podcast
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The Australian Histories Podcast: a fresh look at some brilliant stories from Australia’s past.
An Australian history podcast presented as themed topics - see if the current topic sparks your interest!
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Old shipwreck uncovered on Victorian beach. 🤩

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#AustralianHistory #History #Shipwreck #Victoria #Australia
Image of shipwreck timber appearing out of beach sand
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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"When echidna mothers nurse their young, known as puggles, the microbiome of their pouch changes to protect their babies"
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They're a weird lot alright - like their Platypus cousins
🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/19-platypus-...

#Platypus #Echidna
Article image of newly hatched Echidna
July 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Love perusing a good map?

www.openculture.com/2023/12/the-...
The University of Chicago Press has made available online — at no cost – five volumes of The History of Cartography.

What a tempting rabbit hole! 😍

#history #cartography #mapmaking #maps #historicalmaps
Historical world map
June 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Here’s a cute animation for the next time you have time to kill.
Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Oh, the pretty Cambrian…🤩

🔗 www.openculture.com/2023/12/4-5-...
May 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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"From the Big Bogan to Larry the Lobster, why do towns build Big Things?"

Well I for one will welcome our crusty red new overlords! 😉

theconversation.com/from-the-big...

#BigThings #Australia #AustralianHistory #AustralianIcons
Giant lobster sculpture
April 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out

www.openculture.com/2025/02/jane...

#Literature #History #JaneAusten
Pins in paper to denote edits
April 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Superb fairy-wren personality traits can be heard in their songs, study finds

www.abc.net.au/news/science...
A bird with a bright blue head, black eye banding, white belly and black and teal wing perched on a stick just off the ground.
April 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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This sounds like fun. :-)

From the State Library of Victoria: www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/mou...

Want a refresher on the story? www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/1-the-kelly-...

#AustralianHistory #OzHistory #History #KellyGang #NedKelly
Screenshot of advert for SLA Exhibition Online Kellys
April 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Episode 76 recounts the night Japanese Midget Subs came right into Sydney Harbour!

🎧https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/🎧
Japanese midget submarine being recovered from Sydney Harbour 1942.
April 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Matthew Flinders, recovered from his latest ordeal, sets off back to England…. But the journey will take a lot longer than anticipated. 🫣

The final episode available today.
🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/75-bass-flin... 🎧

#Flinders #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist #Australia
Part image of statue of Matthew Flinders & his seafaring cat Trim
December 30, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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😁 Too good, just have to share….

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December 19, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Wow! I had no idea. 🤓

Nice work google earth spotter & Matej Lipar & assocs

🔗 theconversation.com/a-man-scouri...

#tornado #outback #FreakyNature #Australia #science
Satellite image of path of tornado in Australian outback
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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The final episode on Bass & Flinders is in production but claiming Flinders coined the term Australia first might be controversial? 🤔

theconversation.com/putting-aust...

#history #AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders #Australia #Maps
Early coloured illustration of world map
November 23, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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Flinders successfully completes the 1st half of his circumnavigation of Aus, though he may have missed the odd feature on the way.

Bass was not so lucky on his trading venture.

🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/73-bass-flin... 🎧

#AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast #Bass #Flinders
📸 The Coorong (Kingston District Council)
September 14, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Bass & Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemens Land & "petticoat action" followed!

🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/72-bass-flin... 🎧

#AustralianHistory #History #Bass #Flinders #Explorers #OzHist #HistoryPodcast
August 15, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...

#AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders
July 14, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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Ep71 - Part 2 - Bass & Flinders arrive in NSW with grand plans to “explore more of the country than any of [their] predecessors”.

🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/71-bass-flin... 🎧

#Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist
Illustration of George Bass & Matthew Flinders
June 12, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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More monotreme news! 🤩

theguardian.com/australia-news...

#Monotreme #Platypus #Echidna #Paleontology #AustralianHistory
Illustration of Australia’s age of monotremes, with echidnapus at bottom right. Photograph: Peter Shouten
May 26, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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www.abc.net.au/news/science...

We talked about our fascinating Platypus in Ep 19 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/19-platypus-... 🎧

But the controversy continues it seems…. 🤓

#platypus #AustralianFauna #AustralianHistory #AustralianAnimals #monotreme
Photo of two baby Platypus being held
May 17, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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We're beginning a short series on the big guns of charting mainland Aus & Tasmania - yep, Bass & Flinders.

This Ep we look at their backgrounds to see what drew them to NSW.

🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/70-bass-flin... 🎧

#Bass #Flinders #AustralianHistory #OzHist #History
May 9, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Well well well…. Guess who found the wild bird seed? 🤩

#parrots #AustralianFauna #birds
Numerous parrots balancing on wooden bird feeder
May 2, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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Waltzing Matilda is a tune that often accompanies Australia's national days of celebration or commemoration, but do you know its origins?

🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/69-waltzing-... 🎧

#WaltzingMatilda #AustralianStories #AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast #BanjoPaterson #Swagman
Photo of Banjo Paterson
April 24, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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If you're in Canberra May 9th the NMA has some food for thought.

"Researchers, museum professionals & curators explore issues ~ historic collecting practices, evolving approaches to interpretation and display, the ethics of archaeology” etc
nma.gov.au/exhibitions/discove...

#GLAM #Museums #History
Egyptian sarcophagus in glass display case
April 23, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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In time for #ANZAC day.

"Soldiers would make objects from discarded ammunition & other material they could find, take raw photographs of their surroundings, & write poems for their loved ones back home."

trove.nla.gov.au/blog/2024/04...

#AustralianHistory #WWI #Soldiers #NLA #History #OzHist #Art
April 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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"The History of Disco Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a Klipschorn Speaker".

Wow! 💃🕺 The amazing things you can find out there!

www.openculture.com/2023/11/the-...

#Disco #Music #MusicHistory #History #Art
Circuit diagram representing the history of disco
February 16, 2024 at 10:14 PM