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800 listens across 18 episodes! A lot of people said "nobody wants to listen to a podcast about Australian history, Liam". And I... well... I didn't prove them wrong, but almost!
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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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Massacres map is here
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10 days ago
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Episode 17 is now live. This week I am talking about the Australian Genocide. This is intended as the first in a multi-part series, this episode covers the years from 1788 to 1810 in NSW.
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Bibliography below
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Incisive commentary by one of our most respected historians of Australia. Bottom line: “Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD after Britain.”
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Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/history-workshop-editorial-fellowships-2025/
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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.
about 2 months ago
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This is very good
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about 2 months ago
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Jenna Price
about 2 months ago
Please sign this.
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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
2 months ago
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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.
2 months ago
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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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3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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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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4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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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.
5 months ago
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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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5 months ago
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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!
5 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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
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Here is the bibliography!
6 months ago
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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
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6 months ago
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Hi all, first episode of Dead Bunyip Society is now live, it's on Mullah Abdullah and the Battle of Broken Hill. Unfortunately, I'm having some difficulty posting the bibliography so it's listed here until I figure out a better way to do this(!)
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