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AHP-147- The Hornet Bank and Cullin-la-Ringo Massacres
On 27 October 1857 a party of Yiman warriors killed 12 people at Hornet Bank Station. On 16 October 1861 another massacre of settlers took place at Cu...
AHP-146-Vera Deakin
Vera Deakin is one of those great women in Australian History that you have probably never heard of. However, if your family has roots that go back to...
AHP-145-The Australia First Movement, Part 4 and ANZAC Day
We wrap up our four part series on the Australia First Movement. There's one final inquiry, led by Justice Clyne, to investigate the internments. We l...
AHP-144-The Australia First Movement, Part 3
Following the internments of Australia First members, there is disquiet about why, in a democracy, people could be detained without trial. Some appeal...
AHP-143-The Australia First Movement, Part 2
The security forces, police and political leaders take a close interest in Australia First members. After WWII is declared the Publicist ceases and th...
AHP-142-The Australia First Movement, Part 1
On 9 March 1942 four people were arrested in Perth on suspicion of a plot to contact the Japanese armed forces to help with a Japanese invasion and to...
AHP-141-History of Australia Day
Australia Day is celebrated on 26 January each year. But how much do you really know about the history of Australia Day? 26 January is not the date th...
AHP-140-The Death of Queen Elizabeth II of Australia
On 8 September 2022 Queen Elizabeth II died. In this episode we explore what it meant for Australia. Oh, and I also rave on a little about cricket.
AHP-139-ANZAC DAY HMAS PERTH
It's ANZAC Day and we commomorate those Australians who served on HMAS Perth which was sunk in the Battle of the Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942.
AHP-138-The amazing journey of Oskar Speck
Learn about the amazing story about Oskar Speck a man who paddled his kayak from Germany to Australia, starting in 1932 and taking 7 years to complete...
AHP-137-Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor gang Wars
In the 1930s the inner suburbs of Sydney were in turmoil as rival gangs fought it out for supremacy in what was called the Razor Gang Wars'. The Razor...
AHP-136-The Sydney Wars, 1816-7 and Wrap Up
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this episode mentions the names of people who have passed away.
Governor Macquarie...
AHP-135-Thje 1971 Springbok Tour, Part 2
We wrap up our coverage of the 1971 Springbok Tour. The Sprinboks arrive in Australia and are met with protests wherever they go.
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AHP-134-The 1971 Springbok Tour, Part 1
The 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was controversial. Protests erupted against the South African policy of apartheid and in Queenslan...
AHP 133 Koo Wee Rup
The wetlands around Koo Wee Run in Victoria had a long Indigenous history before they were drained for agricultural use.
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AHP-132-Ernest Fisk, the man who bought radio to Australia
Ernest Fisk may be a name you have never heard of. But, as the man who bought radio to Australia, he has had a huge impact on your life.
Also, b...
AHP-131-The Sydney Wars, 1814-16
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this episode mentions the names of people who have passed away.
Things hot up on t...
AHP-130-Mary MacKillop
Mary MacKillop founded the Sisters of St Joseph, the first Catholic order founded by an Australian. She and her order established schools and welfare...
AHP-129- James Hardy Vaux, Australia's dodgiest convict
James Hardy Vaux was an English-born convict transported to NSW. He is probably the dodgiest convict ever and was, in fact, transported three times. B...
AHP-128-The Sydney Wars, 1802-13
Aboriginal and Torres Islander people are warned that this episode mentions the name of people who have passed away.
Pemulwuy may have been kill...
AHP-127-Reg Saunders, an Indigenous Australian war hero
Reg Saunders was a war hero who won the Military Medal. He was also the first Indigenous Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian...
AHP-126-A brief history of Censorship in Australia
Australia has had censorship since Captain Arthur Phillip planted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove in 1788. During the mid 20th century Australia is said...
AHP-125- Life wasn't mean to be easy - Malcolm Fraser, Part 2
We finish our look at Malcolm Fraser, the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. Why did he turn his back on the Party he led did he become a left winger a...
AHP-124-Life wasn't meant to be easy, Malcolm Fraser, Part 1
In this and the next episode we look at the life and career of John Malcolm Fraser, the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. Malcom Fraser was extremely...
AHP-123-The Day of the Roses: The Granville Rail Disaster
On Tuesday 18 January 1977 a crowded commuter train derailed and careered into the supports of the Bold Street Bridge in the Western Sydney suburb of...
AHP-122-The Sydney Wars, 1797 to 1802
The conflict on the Cumberland Plain and along the Hawkesbury River ramps up. Pemulwuy takes it to the colonists and leads his band of warriors in ser...
AHP-121-Tilly Aston
In this episode we learn about Tilly Aston, the blind Australian writer and educator, who founded The Victorian Association of Braille Writers and The...
AHP-120-Harold West and George Leonard
On Remembrance Day I want to bring you the story of two best friends - Harold West and George Leonard. Private Harold West and Private Leonard were am...
AHP-119- Halloween Special, Fisher's Ghost
In June 1826 local Campbelltown farmer Frederick Fisher disappeared. Four months later John Farley ran into the local pub claiming to have seen Freder...
AHP-118-The Westgate Bridge Tragedy
On 15 October 1970, 50 years ago, workers were busy constructing a new bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne. Suddenly the bridge started to groan,...
AHP-117-The Battle of Broken Hill
On 1 January 1915 Badsha Mahommed Gool and Mullah Abdullah shot dead four people and wounded seven more just outside the western NSW mining town of Br...
AHP-116-Sydney Eccentrics: Bea Miles and Arthur Stace
In this episode we are a taking a look at two eccentrics who lived in Sydney in the early and mid 20th Century - Beatrice Miles and Arthur Stace
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AHP-115-The Bathurst Rebellion
The Bathurst Rebellion of 1830 was the strangest rebellion of the convict era. It took place around Bathurst about 170 kms to the west of Sydney. And...
AHP-114-80th Anniversary of the Canberra Air Crash
On 13 August 1940 a Royal Australian Airforce Lockheed Hudson aircraft crashed near the Canberra airport, killing all 10 passengers and crew on board....
AHP-113- Australia and the Korean War, Part 2
From 1950-53, 17,000 Australians in the Army, Navy and Air Force fought in the Korean War. In this episode we delve into some of the battles Australia...
AHP-112-Australia and the Korean War, Part 1
June 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The Korean War is often called the forgotten war. But, from 1950-53, 17,000 Austr...
AHP-111-More Bushrangers who were not Ned Kelly
It's back to bushrangers. In this episode were are focusing on Frank Pearson also known as ‘Captain Starlight' and James Alpin McPherson who went by t...
AHP-110-The Sydney Opera House
In this episode we take a gander at one of Sydney’s most iconic landmarks – the Sydney Opera House. Sitting on Bennelong Point, the Sydney Opera House...
AHP-109-Francis Greenway
Francis Greenway was an English-born architect who was transported to New South Wales as a convict for the crime of forgery. He was the colony’s firs...
AHP-108-Douglas Grant and how I was taught by the SS
In this episode we learn about Douglas Grant, an Indigenous man who served in the trenches in World War I. He was treated as an equal in the AIF but f...