Australian Histories Podcast

Episode 2: An overview of the whole Kelly story - Victorian bushrangers from the 1870s. The detailed history of Ned Kell... Read more

Three of the Kelly Gang died at the Glenrowan siege. Ned was captured and taken to Melbourne to stand trial.  Victoria s... Read more

Australia has a number of massive continuous barrier fences, built by farmers and pastorlists  from the late 1800's, to ... Read more

We're retelling the story of the first encounters of the new British arrivals, in Australia in the 1780s onwards, with o... Read more

We begin our detailed exploration of Ned Kelly & the notorious Kelly Gang.  Ned and the Kelly Gang were bushrangers ... Read more

We’re continuing our look at the convict era, in particular, the experiences of women convicts who passed through the Ca... Read more

Gold miners built the Eureka Stockade at the Ballarat goldfields in December 1854, but trouble between the miners and th... Read more

We explore the family’s move to Avenel, Victoria, and note some amazing & pivotal life events that occur there for N... Read more

The Kelly family relocates to Greta in the North East of Victoria, where we begin to see difficulties with the local aut... Read more

The Kelly Gang “declared war” in the Jerilderie Letter, and set themselves up for an armed and armoured confrontation wi... Read more

Ned Kelly, the only surviving member of the Kelly Gang, was tried and found guilty of murdering the police at Stringybar... Read more

Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition concluded, and the last of the expeditioners arrived back in Adelaide... Read more

The Kelly family, having selected a small holding near Greta in North Eastern Victoria, embed themselves in the local co... Read more

Ep 9, Stringybark Creek Part 1, begins looking at the notorious Stringybark Creek confrontation with police, which leads... Read more

Douglas Mawson’s expedition was well underway, and the teams from the Cape Denison base had returned, after completing t... Read more

We turn our attention to the Ballarat Goldfield.  The road to the Eureka Rebellion here was actually quite long, and con... Read more

The Kelly Gang “declared war” in the Jerilderie Letter, should Ellen & the others not be released.  Now they prepare... Read more

After a 3 year spell in prison, Ned returns to Eleven Mile Creek to note some changes in his absence.  He begins a perio... Read more

This week will focus on the “Fitzpatrick incident” – the catalyst which set off the chain of events - the so called “Kel... Read more

Douglas Mawson, who would later become the leader of Australia’s first Antarctic expedition, undertook his first trip to... Read more