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Short: The Brutal Birth of Mardi Gras
Season 9 Episode 12
In 1978, the first Mardi Gras was met with police intimidation, violence and mass arrests that were followed by custodial abuse, bashings and malicio…
1 year, 1 month ago
This Week In… 1927: The First Miss Australia & the Newspaper Stunt that Launched a Media Empire
Season 9 Episode 11
In the last week of February 1927, Sydneysiders could go to the Crystal Palace Theatre to see Australia’s very own ‘Queen’ – the winner of the first …
1 year, 1 month ago
This Week in 1902: Bubonic Plague, the Crutchy Push, Breaker Morant, Boer War barbarities & the first choice for an Aussie capital
Season 9 Episode 10
In the third week of February 1902: the first Australian senators select a sweet site for our national capital and the first Australian commonwealth …
1 year, 1 month ago
Your Stories: ‘My Father was Count Copernicus!'
Season 9 Episode 9
As an adoptee, Pam Korreng always wondered about her biological parents. In 2021, hoping for some answers, she used Ancestry DNA. What Pam discovered…
1 year, 1 month ago
This Week in… 1976: Ned Kelly lives, Apocalypse Now dies, sex sells cinema tix but Australia’s star stripper quits
Season 9 Episode 8
In this special movie episode: the same week that we rediscover the first filmic Ned Kelly, we lose the chance to have Apocalypse Now made in Austral…
1 year, 1 month ago
This Week In… 1951: Melbourne’s Retro “Teacher’s Pet” Case
Season 9 Episode 7
This week in 1951, Melbourne’s detectives and a police diver were searching the waters off Frankston for the body of Caroline Scully, a wife and moth…
1 year, 2 months ago
This Week in... 1926: Ugly Men, Tesla's Predictions, a Fascist ‘Footloose’ and a Mysterious Masked Dancer
Season 9 Episode 6
As a sensuous Catwoman seduces Sydney society and Perth’s Ugly Men stage their annual carnival at Uglieland, ugly meanie Mussolini uses his new execu…
1 year, 2 months ago
This Week in... 1901: the first election, a federal erection and the dying queen
Season 9 Episode 5
Australia talks about the first federal election campaign, weeps about the death of beloved Queen Victoria and laughs at a visionary’s plan for a gia…
1 year, 2 months ago
This Week in… 1975: Sex, Speed, Strippers & Skyhooks!
Season 9 Episode 4
In the third week of January 1975, the ‘The Sensual Seventies’ live up to the label when 2JJ plays a banned song about bonking as its first-ever broa…
1 year, 2 months ago
Summer Shorts - The Murdochs and the Child Murders
Season 9 Episode 2
On New Year’s Eve 1921, Australia was shocked by a Melbourne child murder. Desperate to boost the Herald’s stagnant circulation, newly appointed edit…
1 year, 2 months ago