56 – Great Ocean Road Memorial
The ‘Great Ocean Road’ is it one of Victoria’s, indeed Australia’s, most well known international tourist attractions, and a favoured coastal town drive for locals,…
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The ‘Great Ocean Road’ is it one of Victoria’s, indeed Australia’s, most well known international tourist attractions, and a favoured coastal town drive for locals,…
This episode is the final in the Bligh-Rum Rebellion series, and we take a closer look at how the day developed, how the arrest of…
We reflect on the reforms Bligh had introduced and note the rising aggravation amongst the ‘trading group’, who were beginning to lose some of their…
This episode looks at William Bligh’s background and his reputation as a Naval Captain. He had some very difficult tasks ahead of him as Governor…
William Bligh, the very same Captain probably best known for the mutiny on the Bounty, was to be recruited in his later life, as the…
Australian Rules Football and the earliest clubs formed to compete, are said to be the oldest established football clubs in the world. Started in the…
Early in World War 2, German Raiders were laying sea mines around Australian & New Zealand coastal waters. Here we tell the story of one…
In Part 2 we will follow William Swallow and his fellow mutineer convicts on the commandeered ship, the Cyprus. Swallow and his men were delighted…
In part one of Convict Mutineers, we learn about a felon who just could not bear the idea of a life in exile, willing to…
As an appendix to Episode 44, Henry Lawson, today’s episode presents two final readings, two more humorous offerings. We read a Banjo Paterson poem, called…