Dead Bunyip Society

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 century. 
 
To learn more about the Aboriginal Massacres Project see here:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars 
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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 see here:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars 
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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 see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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: https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Pissants/Brandon-Jack/9781761633072. Buy Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough here: https://fremantlepress.com.au/books/nock-loose/
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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 bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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 (sorry).
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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 the Baby Boomers as a generation and why they are the worst.
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
 

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 history.
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
 

Episode 10 - The Rum Rebellion & The Landlord Ascendancy

Today we're talking about the “Rum Rebellion” of 1808, also talking about Australia’s drinking culture and the ascendency of the landlord.
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Episode 9 - Magdalene Homes in Australia

Today we're talking about Magdelene Homes in Australia, the historical mistreatment of children in out of home care, popular history and how the ABC sucks.
 
Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety
 
Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006