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The kitchen table - Tea
By the turn of the twentieth century Australians were the world’s most obsessive tea drinkers. Four cups with a meal wasn’t uncommon. Where did this …
3 years, 4 months ago
Crossing Time: Australia's transgender history—part 2
The 1970s was a decade which saw social change, that helped foster new ideas and understandings about sex, gender and identity. And much of this chan…
3 years, 4 months ago
Crossing Time: Australia's transgender history—part 1
In the last few decades, there has been a huge social transformation in the way people express and talk about gender. But right across time, and here…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Making of Mardi Gras: Supernova
In 2002, after a decade of giddy expansion, the bubble burst for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. With debts mounting and creditors circling, M…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Making of Mardi Gras (1979 -1981)
To mark 2023 World Pride, the origin story of Sydney Mardi Gras. How did a one-off street protest on a chilly winter's night more than 40 years ago …
3 years, 5 months ago
Mrs C Private Detective
A journey back to the mean streets of Brisbane in the 1920s with clever and feisty private detective – Mrs Kate Condon.
3 years, 5 months ago
Partition's children
When India was divided to create Pakistan more than a million people lost their lives. People who were there remember the chaos, violence and moments…
3 years, 5 months ago
Making Manganinnie
The story behind the 1980 Australian film Manganinne, set during the infamous Black Line violence of colonial Tasmania, and the extraordinary Yolngu …
3 years, 6 months ago
A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, when a massive crowd turned…
3 years, 6 months ago
Play your way to happiness
It was the Great Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of c…
3 years, 6 months ago