Political History of Australia

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John Ruddick

11 episodes

3 days ago

Welcome to the story of Australia. This podcast series by John Ruddick tells the political and geopolitical history of Australia, starting with the fabled "terra Australis" and then tracking the journey from British penal colony to a young federation, a country at war, and today one of the world’s great nations. Episodes released weekly.

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Episodes (11/11)

Political History of Australia

Proclamation Day

It’s forgotten today but Proclamation Day on 7 February 1788 was more significant than 26 January 1788. Proclamation was the day that all were assembled and Captain Arthur Phillip morphed into Governor Arthur Phillip and the law of New South Wales was declared to all. It was an ingenious blend of a military dictatorship and English law. We also see Captain Laperouse of the Royal French Navy pay a State Visit to Sydney Cove … before we say a sad farewell to the French hero who played a colourful cameo in the birth of modern Australia.

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3 days ago

36 minutes 39 seconds

Political History of Australia

The First Australia Day

The British have arrived in Botany Bay but Arthur Phillip quickly decides to relocate to Sydney Harbour. Just as he is leaving Botany Bay however two large mysterious ships turn up. Phillip is alarmed that these ships may try and claim the world’s greatest natural harbour … but it is the British who secure Sydney Cove on the first Australia Day – 26 January 1788.

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1 week ago

20 minutes 54 seconds

Political History of Australia

First Fleet Arrives

The First Fleet departs England and eight months later all 11 ships arrive safely in Botany Bay. Mid way through the First Fleet’s voyage, Captain Laperouse of France is ordered by Paris to sail directly for Botany Bay and to try and beat the British.

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2 weeks ago

28 minutes 14 seconds

Political History of Australia

Captain Arthur Phillip

The British have decided to colonise New South Wales and First Fleet fever grips England. The East India Company tries unsuccessfully to scuttle the project. Captain Arthur Phillip had had only a middling career in the Royal Navy but he was then appointed as the supremo of the big bet on Botany Bay.

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3 weeks ago

28 minutes 7 seconds

Political History of Australia

The Decision

Following the relentless lobbying of Jospeh Banks and an unwitting contribution from American Thomas Jefferson, in 1786 the British Government makes an abrupt and dramatic decision to send the First Fleet to Botany Bay.

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Produced by Sean Masters

(All voices in this series as AI generated bar the narrator and occasionally by the incredibly talented Sean Masters)

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1 month ago

27 minutes 17 seconds

Political History of Australia

The Unofficial Minister for New South Wales

James Cook continues his exploration of the Pacific, while Joseph Banks stays back in England to campaign for the settlement of New South Wales as a British colony.

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1 month ago

20 minutes 28 seconds

Political History of Australia

New South Wales

In 1770 Cook & Banks become the first Europeans to land on the fertile east coast of "New Holland", which they rename "New South Wales" and claim for Britain.

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1 month ago

19 minutes 49 seconds

Political History of Australia

Terra Australis

For most of the world, the story of Australia started as a fable about a great south land that must exist to keep the world in balance. The myth came from a joint venture between an Egyptian pharaoh and some Phoenician sailors around 600BC, and motivated future European explorers during the age of imperialism.

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1 month ago

26 minutes 53 seconds

Political History of Australia

Cook and Banks

The crucial partnership between softly-spoken James Cook and the effervescent Joseph Banks as they set out on The Endeavour in the search for Terra Australis.

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1 month ago

16 minutes 12 seconds

Political History of Australia

Britain vs France

Tracing the centuries long enmity between Britain and France, and how that imperial rivalry played out in the South Pacific as the race for Terra Australis intensified.

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1 month ago

26 minutes 28 seconds

Political History of Australia

Teaser - A Day at the Cricket with Edmund Barton

This pre-release sample episode tells the largely unknown story of how Australia's first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton first entered the public's imagination. His career as a lawyer had been unremarkable, but his astute management of a cricket crisis in 1879 set him up as a leading figure in the Sydney establishment.

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1 month ago

32 minutes 16 seconds