Dead Bunyip Society

Today we are talking about the 1971 Springbok Tour, the campaign in Australia against apartheid and the strange history of Australians using blackface to fight racism. Thanks to the wonderful writer and academic Giacomo Bianchino for coming on the pod.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we are talking about the Mt Kembla Mining Disaster of 1902 which claimed 96 lives. Thanks to our carry-over guest Jesse Black! Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we are talking about Australia’s second most famous war criminal: Harry “Breaker” Morant.    Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we are talking about Australia’s finest meme “Democracy Manifest” and the fascinating life of the man behind the meme “Jack Karlson”. Thank you to James Hennessy for coming on the pod.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we are talking about Maralinga and the sad history of Australia’s nuclear shame. Many thanks to Jesse Black for coming on the podcast, you can hear more from Jesse on https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/savant-garde/id1801643885 and https://sludgefest.substack.com/podcast   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle...

Today we are talking about duelling in Australia, AKA silly rich dudes pretending to shoot at each other and what it tells us about masculinity in the past and today.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today is the fourth part of our series on the genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today we are talking about WA. Thanks to Patrick Marlborough for coming on the show.   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 Blues...

Today is the third part of our series on the genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today we are talking about Victoria and focussing on the Gippsland Massacres.   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...

Today we are discussing the First Mardi Gras, the persecution of LGBT people in Australia and how we should think about protests more generally.    Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we are discussing the history of swimming in the buff in Australia, both because I needed a lighter topic after the last episode and also because I am shamelessly copying The Dollop.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we are covering Brenton Tarrant, the Australian perpetrator of the worst act of terrorism in New Zealand and Australian history. Content warning: this episode covers some fairly difficult material, listener discretion is advised.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today is the third and final part in our series on Graham Richardson titled Kingmaker.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today is the second part in our series on Graham Richardson titled Minister for Mates. There will be a third part coming soon.   Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

Today we’re talking about Graham Richardson. This is the first part in a two part series on a unique figure who shaped Australia’s political landscape, for better or worse (mainly worse).    Please see Bluesky for a full bibliography @deadbunyipsociety   Credit: Intro/Outro music "Harold Hold" by Bluebottle Kiss, (c) 2006

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...

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

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     Ple...

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  ...

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

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 bibl...

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

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

  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  

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  

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