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“Tourists clawed at by bear,” The Canberra Times, 13 Jan 1977, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110834823. “Wildlife in Australia,” Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 9 Jan 1980, p. 13, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251216995 “Woman claims £40,000,” The Canberra Times, 12 Mar 1960, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105905461. “Young Tiger "At Large" In Grounds Of Circus,” The Newcastle Sun, 25 Nov 1953, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161504104. Secondary Sources Arrighi, Gillian, “Synthesising circus aesthetics and science: Australian circus and variety theatre at the turn of the twentieth century,” 2018, Early Popular Visual Culture, 16:3, pp. 235–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2019.1569843. “Bullen,” Dynasties, ABC Television, 4 December 2006, via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20161230212557/http://www.abc.net.au/dynasties/txt/s1789969.htm. Collier, Robyn, “The Lost Valley – Burragorang,” wild.com.au, 29 March 2018, via The Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20221115014840/https://wild.com.au/people/the-lost-valley/ Delibasic, Suzan, “Melbourne’s forgotten theme parks: what happened to them?” Maroondah Leader, 3 June 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170605001118/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/outer-east/melbournes-forgotten-theme-parks-what-happened-to-them/news-story/f522f6bf1558323a0e438b6f5391f7d2 De Poloni, Gian, “Remembering Perth's wildly popular African safari park, where lions stalked the family car,” ABC Radio Perth, 7 Dec 2018, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/perths-african-lion-safari-20-years-since-closure/10582740. Grahame, Evan, “The Tiger King of Bacchus Marsh and the years of living dangerously,” ABC Ballarat, 20 Jun 2020, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-20/the-tiger-king-of-bacchus-marsh/12355658. Hailey, Renault & Feeney, Katherine, “Bullens African Lion Safari was 'like the plains of Africa, but in Yatala'”, ABC Radio Brisbane, 3 Apr 2022, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-03/queenslanders-remember-yatala-bullens-african-lion-safari/100932026. Jarvis, Lucy, “Bullen’s African Lion Safari Park history revived,” Perth Now, 5 August 2014, https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/north/bullens-african-lion-safari-park-history-revived-c-790716. Lemon, Andrea, “A gradual disappearing act,” The Age, 19 May 2007. Lemon, Andrea, “A gradual disappearing act,” The Age, 19 May 2007. Martin, Jacob, “The Enchanting Existential Dread of Aussie Theme Parks: Chapter Five - It’s Scary, But Nobody Cares,” 9 October 2020, Jade Crypt of Wonders, https://jadecryptofwonders.com/blog/the-enchanting-existential-dread-of-aussie-theme-parks-chapter-five-its-scary-but-nobody-cares. Nicastri, Timmothy, “How a boy's adventure helped a lion escape from a defunct safari park in Warragamba,” ABC Radio National, 20 September 2016, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-20/how-boys-adventure-helped-lion-escape-defunct-safari-park-sydney/7857426. O’Grady, Andrew, “The way we were,” The Advertiser, 13 December 2021. “Pet theory – big cats escaped from lion park,” Macarthur Chronicle, 14 July 2015. Pitt, Helen, “Paradise Lost: Sydney's forgotten theme parks,” Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 2019, https://www.smh.com.au/national/paradise-lost-sydney-s-forgotten-theme-parks-20190712-p526pc.html. “Post 92 - Love Machine - Keep Searchin' / May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone”, 24 April 2009, Ozzie Music Man (Blog), available via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20100901175958/http://www.ozziemusicman.com/2009_04_01_archive.html St Leon, Mark, “A long & winding road: The story of circus in Australia,” The Penny Gaff, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/circus-history/ St Leon, Mark, “Adopted Apprentices: Juvenile Recruitment in Australian Circus, 1847-1942,” 2016, Labour History, 110, Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp. 97–124, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/informit.262238881713504. St Leon, Mark, “Bullen, Alfred Percival (Perce) (1896–1974)”, 1993, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bullen-alfred-percival-perce-9621/text16965. St Leon, Mark, “Bullen, Alfred Percival,” The Penny Gaff, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/archives/bullen-alfred-percival/ St Leon, Mark, “Children inducted into circus, 1851-1928,” The Penny Gaff, accessed 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Table_1_Children_inducted_into_circus.pdf Tabakoff, Jenny, “Obituary: STAFFORD BULLEN Circus and animal park proprietor (b. Bathurst NSW 1925; died Sydney NSW, 2001),” Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2001, via http://www.milesago.com/Obits/bullen-stafford.htm “Warragamba Dam,” Water NSW, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/greater-sydney-dams/warragamba-dam Willis, Ian, “The Camden Historical Society, 1957-2007: Fifty Years of Local History: An Address to the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Camden Historical Society, 12 July 2007,” AQ: Australian Quarterly, 79:6, 2007, pp. 11–40, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20638517.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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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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Bibliography Part 3 (sorry)
Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=470 Cockatoo Valley, Hollow Tree, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=471 Tooms Lake, Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=474 Eastern Marshes, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=497 St Paul's River, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1104 West Tamar, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=492 Richmond, Coal River, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=498 Clyde and Ouse Rivers, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=500 Bullock Hunting Ground, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=491 Jones River, near Miles Opening, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=499 Three Thumbs, Pittwater, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=461 East of Ben Lomond, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=482 Upper Clyde River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=501 Whitefoord Hills, Meander River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=489 Clyde River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=472 Ryan, Lyndall, “List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835,” Violence de masse et Résistance - Réseau de recherche, 2008, https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/list-multiple-killings-aborigines-tasmania-1804-1835.html Ryan, Lyndall, “Massacre in the Black War in Tasmania 1823–34: a case study of the Meander River Region, June 1827”, 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:4, pp. 479–499, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520802447834. Ryan, Lyndall, “The Black Line in Van Diemen's Land: success or failure?”, 2013, Journal of Australian Studies, 37:1, pp. 3-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2012.755744 Ryan, Lyndall, and Kiernan, Ben, “Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788–1928,” 2023, The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Ned Blackhawk, et al (Ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 461–480. Print. The Cambridge World History of Genocide. Shipway, Jesse, “Modern by analogy: modernity, Shoah and the Tasmanian genocide,” 2005, Journal of Genocide Research, 7:2, pp. 205–219, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520500127381 Short, Bruce, “Genocide and the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples: The Extermination of the 19th Century Aboriginal Tasmanians,” 2022, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 29:2, pp. 610-621, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35819395/ Sousa, Ashley, ““They will be hunted down like wild beasts and destroyed!”: a comparative study of genocide in California and Tasmania”, 2004, Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2, pp. 193-209, https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000225949 Spinks, Ryan, ““the People Will Kill, Destroy, and If Possible, Exterminate Every Black in the Island”: A Case Study of Massacre In Tasmania’s Black War, 1826-1828,” 2019, Macquarie University Thesis, https://doi.org/10.25949/19428614.v1 “The Black Line,” 2025, National Museum of Australia, https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/the-black-line “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 Tatz, Colin, "Genocide in Australia," 1999, Journal of Genocide Research, 1:3, pp. 315-352 Taylor, Rebe, and Ben Kiernan, “Genocide in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1803–1871,” The Cambridge World History of Genocide, 2023, Ned Blackhawk, et al (Ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 481–507. Taylor, Rebe, “Genocide, Extinction and Aboriginal Self-determination in Tasmanian Historiography,” 2013, History Compass, 11, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264456536_Genocide_Extinction_and_Aboriginal_Self-determination_in_Tasmanian_Historiography “Three Responses to ‘Can There Be Genocide Without the Intent to Commit Genocide?’” 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:1, pp. 111–133, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520701850955.
September 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Bibliography Part 2
Duyker, Edward, “Marion Dufresne, Marc-Joseph (1724 - 1772),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp 258-259, published online 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20110525063922/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10318b.htm Duyker, Edward. “The Word in French [The Role of French Books in Australian History,” 2001, National Library of Australia News, 12:1, National Library of Australia, 2001, pp. 7–10, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200116458. Harman, Kristyn, “Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide,” The Conversation, 18 January 2018, https://theconversation.com/explainer-the-evidence-for-the-tasmanian-genocide-86828 Madley, Benjamin, “From Terror to Genocide: Britain’s Tasmanian Penal Colony and Australia’s History Wars,” Journal of British Studies, 2008, 47:1 pp. 77–106, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/abs/from-terror-to-genocide-britains-tasmanian-penal-colony-and-australias-history-wars/34384F9FAF0A4A1A2AD37AB2AF323928 . Madley, Benjamin, “Patterns of frontier genocide 1803–1910: the aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia,” 2004, Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2, pp. 167–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000225930 Maybury-Lewis, David, “Genocide against Indigenous Peoples,” in Annihilating difference : The anthropology of genocide, 2002, Hinton, Alexander, (Ed.), University of California Press. Refshauge, William, “An Analytical Approach to the Events at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804,” 2007, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 93:1, pp. 39–54, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200706031. Rogers, Thomas, & Bain, Stephen, “Genocide and frontier violence in Australia,” 2016, Journal of Genocide Research, 18:1, pp. 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2016.1120466 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 Tasmanian Massacres in the data set: Risdon Cove, 1804, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=462 Scantland Plains, 1815, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=463 East Bay Neck, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1093 Mayfield, Oyster Bay, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=475 Dairy Plains (2), Meander River, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=487 Bank Head Farm, Pittwater, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=464 Mt Augusta, Ross, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=478 Sally Peak (1), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=466 Quamby Bluff (1), Westmoreland Falls, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=481 Quamby Bluff (2), Quamby Brook, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=483 Quamby Bluff (3), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1052 Quamby Bluff (4), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=486 Blackman River, intersection of Brumby Creek and Lake River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=473 The Retreat, (Cheshunt) Dairy Plains, Meander River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=480 Dairy Plains, Meander River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=484 Cape Grim (1), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=493 Cape Grim (2), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=494 Lagoon Lower Marshes near Jordan River, 1828 https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=468 Elizabeth River, Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=477
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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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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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 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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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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July 22, 2025 at 4:08 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
Bibliography Primary Sources Cook, Roger & Quigley, John, “Fair compensation outcomes for dust disease sufferers commence,” Media release, WA Government, 30 November 2024, https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/Cook%20Labor%20Government/Fair-compensation-outcomes-for-dust-disease-sufferers-commence-20241130 “Exhibit: When cigarette filters were made of asbestos,” 13 April 2023, The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, Cancer History Project, https://cancerhistoryproject.com/article/the-history-of-the-asbestos-cigarette-filters/ “France's Saint-Gobain strikes agreement to buy Australia's CSR,” Reuters, 26 February 2024, https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/frances-saint-gobain-strikes-agreement-buy-australias-csr-2024-02-26/ “Mesothelioma - Kat Drage,” Hansard, WA Parliament, 22 February 2023, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/439c7146784fcc7948258a850008b46f/$FILE/C41+S1+20230222+p585a-586a.pdf “Robert Vojakovic AM JP – Tribute,” Hansard, WA Parliament, 6 August 2024, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/745f94818a20dd9f48258b740027e988/$FILE/A41+S1+20240806+p3394c-3395a.pdf “Wittenoom,” Hansard, WA Parliament, 10 May 2023, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/b9c5e4cf707b026f482589b0000fe419/$FILE/C41+S1+20230510+p2019c-2019c.pdf “Wittenoom,” Hansard, WA Parliament, 11 May 2023, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/d511e00e8d64cb41482589dc00196421/$FILE/C41+S1+20230511+p2144d-2144d.pdf “Wittenoom Closure,” Hansard, WA Parliament, 13 October 2022, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/34b8251495aaa0d3482588de002a38e8/$FILE/C41+S1+20221013+p4507b-4508a.pdf “Wittenoom Closure,” Hansard, WA Parliament, 20 October 2022, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/fac816b8d0d98cd4482588ef0016686a/$FILE/C41+S1+20221020+p4814b-4815a.pdf “Wittenoom Government Employees”, Hansard, WA Parliament, 11 October 2022, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard.nsf/0/60bfc67f8cd72ba948258966002a034a/$FILE/C41+S1+20221011+p4357a-4357a.pdf “Battling CSR,” The Australian Asbestos Network, 2025, https://www.australianasbestosnetwork.org.au/asbestos-history/battles-2/battling-csr/ Carr, Cameron & Tyndall, Andrew, “Wittenoom's last resident evicted without compassion from WA Lands Minister, daughter says,” ABC, 12 September 2022, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-12/wittenoom-evicition-lands-minister-lacked-compassion/101427348 Bennett, Cortlan, "The Blue Ghosts of Wittenoom," WA Today, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20241221022033/https://www.watoday.com.au/interactive/2015/blueGhosts/ Di Pasquale, Angela. 2011. “Western Australia’s Wittenoom Gorge Blue Asbestos Mine: ‘Se l’avessimo Saputo, Non Ci Avremmo Mai Portato i Figli,’” 2011, Italian Studies 66:3, pp. 353–77. doi:10.1179/007516311X13134938224402 Foster, Ally, “Tourists flock to ‘Australia’s Chernobyl’ despite health risks,” News.com.au, 21 July 2019, https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/tourists-flock-to-australias-chernobyl-despite-health-risks/news-story/7d78d1594c1cadb10e44d6beb77d5a61 Frank, Arthur L, & van Zandwijk, Nico, “Asbestos history and use,” Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2024, 193, 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107828 Heinrich, Ludwig, “Blue murder at Wittenoom,” Independent Australia, 3 June 2013, https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/blue-murder-at-wittenoom,5376 Hills, Ben, Blue Murder, Sun Books: Melbourne, 1989. Franklin, Peter, Reid, Alison, Olsen, Nola, Peters, Susan, de Klerk, Nicholas, Brims, Fraser, Threlfall, Tim, Murray, Richard and Musk, Andrew, “Incidence of malignant mesothelioma in Aboriginal people in Western Australia,” 2016, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40: pp. 383-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12542 “Lang Hancock, 1909 - 1992,” 2005, Australian Miners and Prospectors Hall of Fame, https://web.archive.org/web/20050701065957/http://mininghall.com/minerals/people/database/details.htm?section=Entrepreneurs_and_Promoters&id=hancockl&sort=name&loc= Layman, Lenore, “Work and Workers’ Responses at Wittenoom 1943-1966,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 7:1, 1983, pp. 1 - 18, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1983.tb00386.x. Linton, Anthony, Vardy, Janette, Clarke, Stephen Clarke and van Zandwijket, Nicol, “The ticking time-bomb of asbestos: its insidious role in the development of malignant
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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(Once again my bibliography was too damn long, sorry!)
Lloyd, Seton, Twin Rivers - A brief History of Iraq from the earliest times to the present day, 1943, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, https://ia801401.us.archive.org/29/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.61071/2015.61071.The-Twin-Rivers.pdf McDonald, Matt, and Merefield, Matt, “How Was Howard’s War Possible? Winning the War of Position over Iraq,” 2010, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64:2, pp. 186–204, doi:10.1080/10357710903544346 Mizen, Ronald, “Iraq war secrecy reignites calls for inquiry,” Australian Financial Review, 1 January 2024, https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/iraq-war-secrecy-reignites-calls-for-formal-inquiry-20231230-p5eu9z O’Connor, Brendon, and Srdjan Vucetic, “Another Mars–Venus Divide? Why Australia Said ‘Yes’ and Canada Said ‘Non’ to Involvement in the 2003 Iraq War,” 2010, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64:5, pp. 526–548. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2010.513368. Oppenheim, Adolf, “The Seafaring Merchants of Ur” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 74: 1, 1954, pp. 6–17. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/595475. Russell, Dean, “What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows,” wbur, 5 August 2022, https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/08/05/sumerian-joke-one Tanter, Richard, “Australia in America’s Third Iraq War,” Asia-Pacific Journal, 2014, 12:51, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asia-pacific-journal/article/australia-in-americas-third-iraq-war/3A79E7ECA1EBEC9632AF73DDA38FECD6 Vine, David, Coffman, Cala, Khoury, Katalina, Lovasz, Madison, Bush, Helen, Leduc, Rachael and Walkup, Jennifer, “Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars,” The Costs of War, 19 August 2021, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2021/Costs%20of%20War_Vine%20et%20al_Displacement%20Update%20August%202021.pdf von Hlatky, Stéfanie, “Australia: Regional Power, Global War,” American Allies in Times of War: The Great Asymmetry, 2013, Oxford: Oxford Academic, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673681.001.0001. Woodard, Garry, "We Now Know About Going to War in Iraq", APSNet Special Reports, November 2007, https://nautilus.org/apsnet/we-now-know-about-going-to-war-in-iraq/ Wright, Tim, “In Search of Justice – Why Australians should be prosecuted for war crimes committed in Iraq,” Alternative Law Journal, 34:3, 2009, pp. 193 - 196, https://www7.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/AltLawJl/2009/55.html Wroe, David, "The Secret Iraq Dossier," Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2017, https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2017/iraq-dossier/ Yule, Valerie, Review: Population crises and cycles in history by Claire Russell and W.M.S. Russell, 1999, http://www.valerieyule.com.au/poprus.htm
July 5, 2025 at 8:13 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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Bibliography didn't fit in one post (!) apols.
Shepherd, Gary & Shepherd, Gordon, “Reboot of The Family International,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 17:2, 2013, pp. 74-98, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.74 Shepherd, Gary & Shepherd, Gordon, “Accommodation and Reformation in The Family / Children of God”, 2005, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 9:1, pp. 67-92, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2005.9.1.067 Wright, Stuart, “Dyadic Intimacy and Social Control in Three Cult Movements,” Sociological Analysis, 1986, 47:2, pp. 137 - 150, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3711458
June 11, 2025 at 7:52 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
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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
Bibliography Adams, Simon, & Francis, Raelene, “Lifting the Veil: the Sex Industry, Museums and Galleries,” Labour History, 85, November 2003, https://doi.org/10.2307/27515927 Aroney Eurydice and Crofts Penny, “How sex worker activism influenced the decriminalisation of sex work in NSW, Australia” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 8:2, 50-67, DOI: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i2.955. Beattie, Belinda, “Reporting Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill Prostitution 1896–1903”, Media History, 2024, 30:4, pp.466-486, DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2024.2366188 Daniels, Kay, “Convict women”, Allen & Unwin, 1999. Frances, Raelene, “Australian prostitution in international context”, Australian Historical Studies. 1996, 27:106, https://doi.org/10.1080/10314619608596003 Frances, Raelene, “Chapter Title: Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788”, Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s, Book Editor(s): García, Magaly Rodríguez , van Voss, Lex Heerma and, van Nederveen Elise, Brill, 2017, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwwht.29 Frances, Raelene, “Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of "Settler" Society in Australia”, International Review ofSocial History, 44, 1999, Supplement, pp. 101-122, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26405296 Frances, Raelene, “The History of Female Prostitution in Australia”, in Sex work, sex workers in Australia, Perkins, Roberta (Eds), 1994, Sydney: UNSW Press, EBSCO Publishing. Frances, Raelene, “‘White Slaves’ and White Australia: Prostitution and Australian Society,” Australian Feminist Studies, 19:44, July 2004, https://doi.org/10.1080/0816464042000226483 Frances, Raelene, “Working and Living Conditions”, in Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s, Garcia, Magaly, van Hoss, Lex and van Nederveen, Elise, (Eds), Brill, 2017, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwwht.31 Hotani, Rokuro and Hayashi, Takashi, “The Evolution of Wage Structure in Japan,” ILR Review, 15:1, 1961, pp. 52-66 https://doi.org/10.2307/2519602 Reynolds, Kathrine & Liston, Carol, “Thief or Prostitute? Questioning the evidence against women transported to Australia”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 108:2, 2022, https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/57818 Scott, John and Scoular, Jane, “Troubling Decriminalization A Genealogy of Prostitution Decriminalization in New South Wales, Australia”, Radical History Review, 149, May 2024, DOI 10.1215/01636545-11027561 Straw, Leigh, “‘The worst female character’: Criminal underclass women in Perth andFremantle, 1900 - 1939”, Journal of Australian Studies, 2013, 37:2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2013.782061 Sullivan, Corrinne Tayce, “Indigenous Australian women’s colonial sexual intimacies: positioning indigenous women’s agency”, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2018, 20:4, pp. 397–410, https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2017.1349930 Taylor, Elizabeth and Larin, Tegan, “Zoning Damned Whores and God’s Police: Maintaining Prostitution through Land Use and Euphemism in Victoria, Australia”, Journal of Planning History, 2022, 21:1, pp. 28–55, DOI: 10.1177/1538513221996272 Wallis, Alexandra, “The Disorderly Female: Alcohol, Prostitution and Moral Insanity in 19th-Century Fremantle,” Journal of Australia Studies, 2019, 43:3, pp. 333 - 348, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2019.1638815 Wimshurst, Kerry, “Age, prostitution and punishment in the late nineteenth century,” Australian & New Zealand, Journal of Criminology, 2014, 47:1, pp. 102–122, DOI: 10.1177/0004865813497208
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...

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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