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Dead Bunyip Society
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20 episodes
5 days ago
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Dead Bunyip Society
Episode 20 - Stafford Bullen and his 360 lions
Content Warning: Suicide and a *lot* of lion maulings.   Today we’re talking about Stafford Bullen, a man who owned 360 lions and whose Safari Parks were associated with at least three deaths.    To hear Love Machine’s Version of the Lion Sleeps Tonights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5J9coUCjVY&t=657s. To see the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-1bWhVo-g     Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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5 days ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Dead Bunyip Society
Episode 19 - Eric Campbell a Half Arsed Fascist
Today’s episode is about Eric Campbell arguably Australia’s most successful fascist and what we can learn about the recent wave of far-right activism in Australia.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 26 minutes

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
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1 month ago
1 hour 33 minutes

Dead Bunyip Society
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
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2 months ago
1 hour 36 minutes

Dead Bunyip Society
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
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3 months ago
54 minutes 16 seconds

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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
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3 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes 47 seconds

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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
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4 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 29 seconds

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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
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4 months ago
1 hour 36 minutes 9 seconds

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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  
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4 months ago
1 hour 43 minutes 40 seconds

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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  
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5 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 49 seconds

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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
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5 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes 23 seconds

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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
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6 months ago
53 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 8 - Dr Harry Bailey - Australia's Worst Psychiatrist
Today we're talking about Dr Harry Bailey a man who loved cutting up gay and lesbian brains and trapping people in nightmare comas for weeks at a time.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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6 months ago
55 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 7 - Edward De Lacy Evans - Australia's First (Documented) Trans Man
Today we're talking about Edward De Lacy Evans, a perfectly ordinary nineteenth century working class fella, who had a pretty big secret.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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6 months ago
46 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 6 - John Mackay - Explorer and Blackbirder
Today we're talking about John Mackay, the man who "discovered" Mackay in Queensland and also trafficked in human beings.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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6 months ago
43 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 5 - Sex Work in Colonial Australia
Today we're talking about the history of sex work in eighteenth and nineteenth Australia.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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7 months ago
54 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 4 - The time WA tried to form its own country
Today we're talking about the 1933 WA Referendum, AKA that time that WA tried to set up its own country   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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7 months ago
46 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 3 - Robert Towns & Slavery in Australia
Today we're talking about Robert Towns, the man who founded Townsville and also owned fellow human beings.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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7 months ago
59 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 2 - Anne Hamilton Byrne and the Family
CONTENT WARNING: This podcast discusses issues relating to child abuse. Listener discretion is encouraged.    The Family is arguably Australia's most famous cult. This podcast examines the conflicted scholarship on cults and discusses the history of the family as well as how we should think about cults, their victims and what they can teach us about contemporary society. Please see Bluesky for a full bibliograhy @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006
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7 months ago
53 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 1 - Mullah Abdullah and the Battle of Broken Hill
Bibliography Primary sources “Assassin’s Bodies. Grave-Digging Stopped. But Disposed of,” Barrier Miner, 4 January 1915, p. 2, link. “At the North Camel Camp. A Demonstration and a Check. Police and Military First on the Spot,” Barrier Miner, 2 January 1915, p. 5, link. “Butcher Fined,” Barrier Miner, 18 December 1914, p. 3, link. “Bylaw Broken,” Barrier Miner, 27 April 1914, p. 8, link. “Licenses and Registrations,” Barrier Miner, 26 January 1912, p. 5, link. “The Afghan Camel Invasion”, The Brisbane Courier, 5 December 1893, p. 4, link. “The New Year’s Day Massacre”, Barrier Miner, 2 January 1915, p. 4, link. Secondary Sources Cook, Abu Bakr Sirajuddin, “Mullah Abdullah, A Mullah? A Reassessment of the Assertions and the Evidence”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 42, No. 4, 500–511, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2023.2191910 Jones, Philip & Kenny, Anna, Australia’s Muslim Cameleers Pioneers of the Inland 1860s-1930s, Wakefield Press, 2007. Scriver, Peter, “Mosques, Ghantowns and Cameleers in the Settlement History of Colonial Australia”, Fabrications, 13:2, 19-41, 2004, DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2004.10525182 Stevens, Christine, Tin Mosques & Ghantowns A History of Afghan Cameldrivers in Australia, Oxford University Press, 1989.   Stevens, Christine, “Mullah Abdullah”, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2006, access online, link.
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8 months ago
50 minutes 49 seconds

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