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Episode 30 - Maralinga - Australia's Nuclear Shame, ft. Jesse Black
Today we are talking about Maralinga and the sad history of Australia’s nuclear shame. Many thanks to Jesse Black for coming on the podcast, you can hear more from Jesse on…
Episode 29 - Duelling and Fragile Masculinity
Today we are talking about duelling in Australia, AKA silly rich dudes pretending to shoot at each other and what it tells us about masculinity in the past and today. Please see Bluesky for a full…
Episode 28 - Killing the Kimberley (ft. Patrick Marlborough) - The Australian Genocide Part 4
Today is the fourth part of our series on the genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today we are talking about WA. Thanks to Patrick Marlborough for coming on the show. To…
Episode 27 - Grieving Gippsland - The Australian Genocide Part 3
Today is the third part of our series on the genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today we are talking about Victoria and focussing on the Gippsland Massacres. To learn more…
Episode 26 - The First Mardi Gras
Today we are discussing the First Mardi Gras, the persecution of LGBT people in Australia and how we should think about protests more generally. Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography…
Episode 25 - Skinny Dipping
Today we are discussing the history of swimming in the buff in Australia, both because I needed a lighter topic after the last episode and also because I am shamelessly copying The Dollop. Please…
Episode 24 - The 2019 Christchurch Terror attack
Today we are covering Brenton Tarrant, the Australian perpetrator of the worst act of terrorism in New Zealand and Australian history. Content warning: this episode covers some fairly difficult…
Episode 23 - Graham Richardson Part 3 - Kingmaker
Today is the third and final part in our series on Graham Richardson titled Kingmaker. Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by…
Episode 22 - Graham Richardson Part 2 - Minister for Mates
Today is the second part in our series on Graham Richardson titled Minister for Mates. There will be a third part coming soon. Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography…
Episode 21 - Graham Richardson Part 1 - Senator for Kneecaps
Today we’re talking about Graham Richardson. This is the first part in a two part series on a unique figure who shaped Australia’s political landscape, for better or worse (mainly worse). Please…
Episode 20 - Stafford Bullen and his 360 lions
Content Warning: Suicide and a *lot* of lion maulings. Today we’re talking about Stafford Bullen, a man who owned 360 lions and whose Safari Parks were associated with at least three deaths. To…
Episode 19 - Eric Campbell a Half Arsed Fascist
Today’s episode is about Eric Campbell arguably Australia’s most successful fascist and what we can learn about the recent wave of far-right activism in Australia. Please see Bluesky for a full…
Episode 18 - Terror in Tasmania - The Australian Genocide - Part 2
Today is the second part of our series on the genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today we are talking about Tasmania, starting from settlement and the bloody nineteenth…
Episode 17 - Horror on the Hawkesbury - The Australian Genocide - Part 1
Today we're talking about the genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This is intended as the first in a multi-part series. To learn more about the Aboriginal Massacres Project…
Episode 16 - How seven million dead seals built Aussie capitalism
Today we're talking about how a group of plucky eighteenth century colonists including emancipist trader Simeon Lord built Australian capitalism…but clubbing seven million seals to death. Please…
Episode 15 - Wittenoom: Australia's Chernobyl
Today we're talking about Wittenoom in Western Australia, the largest exclusion zone in Australia and the site of Australia’s largest industrial disaster. Buy Pissants by Brandon Jack here:…
Episode 14 - The Japanese Invasion Myth
Today we're doing some Australian History Mythbusting. The first myth we’re tackling is the idea that the Japanese ever planned to invade Australia in 1942. Please see Bluesky for a full…
Episode 13 - The second time Australia went to war in Iraq
Today we're talking about the Iraq War, Iraqi history and Australian foreign policy. I also go down a bit of a rabbit hole talking about the fascinating history of pre-Modern and modern Iraq…
Episode 12 - Bill Leak - Twilight of the Boomers
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. Today’s episode is also about…
Episode 11 - The Children of God & the History of Child Protection in Australia
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…
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