A History of Australia

By ahistoryofaustralia

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Episodes: 126

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A Chronological, Listenable, Academic podcast about Australia’s history.

Episode Date
Ep122: The Coniston Massacres | 1928
Sep 22, 2026
Ep121: Jack Lang's First Rise and Fall | 1927
Sep 01, 2026
Ep120: The 1925 Federated Seaman's Union Strike | 1925 & 1926
Aug 18, 2026
Ep119: Holden, Radio, and Compulsory Voting in Australia | 1924
Aug 11, 2026
Ep118: The Victorian Police Strike | 1923
Jul 21, 2026
Ep117: The Abolition of Queensland's Legislative Council | 1922
Jul 14, 2026
Ep116: Migration, Crime, and Politics in Australia's Roaring 20s | 1921
Jun 23, 2026
Ep115: The Formation of the Communist Party of Australia
Jun 09, 2026
Ep114: Post-War Unrest Throughout Australia | 1919
Jun 02, 2026
Ep113: The Aftermath of WW1 in Australia | 1919
May 26, 2026
Ep112: The End of World War One | 1918
May 19, 2026
Ep111: The Battles of Messines and Passchendaele | 1917
May 05, 2026
Ep110: The Second Plebiscite on Conscription | 1917
Mar 31, 2026
Ep109: Australians at the Battle of the Somme | 1916
Mar 17, 2026
Ep108: Conscription in Australia | 1916
Mar 03, 2026
Ep107: Gallipoli & the Anzac Legend | 1915
Feb 10, 2026
Ep106: The Battle of Broken Hill | 1915
Jan 27, 2026
Ep105: The Start of World War One | 1914
Jan 13, 2026
Ep104: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition | 1913
Dec 23, 2025
Ep103: The 1912 Brisbane General Strike | 1912
Dec 09, 2025
Ep102: Referendums in Federal Australia | 1910 & 1911
Nov 18, 2025
Ep101: The Fusion | 1909
Nov 11, 2025
Ep100: Australians in Antarctica | 1908
Nov 04, 2025
Ep99: The Harvester Case and the Minimum Wage | 1907
Oct 21, 2025
Ep98: The Rise of Anti-Socialism | 1905 & 1906
Oct 14, 2025
Ep97: Political Chaos in a Federated Australia | 1904
Oct 07, 2025
Ep96: The End of the 2nd Boer War & 1903 Federal Election | 1902 & 1903
Sep 30, 2025
Ep95: The 1901 Federal Election and White Australia | 1901
Sep 23, 2025
Ep94: Federation, the Hopetoun Blunder, and the 2nd Boer War | 1900
Sep 16, 2025
Ep93: Federation Referendums 2! Electric Boogaloo | 1899
Sep 09, 2025
Ep 92: The 1898 Federation Referendums | 1898
Aug 19, 2025
Ep91: The Australian Federal Convention of 1897 | 1897
Jul 29, 2025
Ep90: The Death and Legacy of Henry Parkes | 1895 & 1896
Jul 08, 2025
Ep89: Women's Suffrage in South Australia | 1894
Jul 01, 2025
Ep88: The Banking Collapse of 1893 | 1893
Jun 24, 2025
Ep87: The Depression of the 1890s | 1892
Jun 03, 2025
Ep86: The Queensland Shearers' Strike of 1891 | 1891
May 20, 2025
Ep85: Responsible Government in Western Australia | 1890
May 13, 2025
Ep84: The Maritime Strike of 1890 | 1890
May 06, 2025
Ep83: The Origins of the Labor and Liberal Parties | 1889
Apr 15, 2025
Ep82: The Roots of the White Australia Policy | 1887 & 1888
Apr 08, 2025
Ep81: The Federal Council of Australasia | 1886
Apr 01, 2025
Ep80: Australian Involvement in the Mahdist/Sudan War | 1884 & 1885
Mar 25, 2025
Ep79: Queensland's Annexation of New Guinea | 1883
Mar 18, 2025
Ep78: The Ashes and Calls for Federation | 1881 & 1882
Mar 11, 2025
Ep77: Ned Kelly Part Three | His Death and Legacy
Mar 05, 2025
Ep76: Ned Kelly Part Two | The Fitzpatrick Incident to the Jerilderie Raid
Feb 11, 2025
Ep75: Ned Kelly Part 1 | The Early Years
Feb 05, 2025
Ep74: The Sydney Riot of 1879 and Captain Moonlite | 1879 & 1880
Jan 29, 2025
Ep73: Black Wednesday and Political Chaos | 1877 & 1878
Jan 14, 2025
Ep72: The Catalpa Rescue | 1876
Jan 07, 2025
Ep71: The Premier and the Bushranger, the Fall of Henry Parkes' First Government | 1874 & 1875
Dec 24, 2024
Ep70: Uluru and Journeys Through the Centre of Australia | 1873
Dec 17, 2024
Ep69: The Australian Overland Telegraph Line | 1870 - 1872
Dec 10, 2024
Ep68: Billy Lanne, The Last Aboriginal Tasmanian Man of Full-Descent | 1869 & 1870
Dec 04, 2024
Ep67: A Royal Assassination Attempt | 1868
Nov 20, 2024
Ep66: WA and the End of Convict Transportation | 1867
Nov 12, 2024
Ep65: Bread Riots & Australia's First Saint | 1866
Nov 05, 2024
Ep64: Bushrangers in 1860s Australia
Oct 29, 2024
Ep63: Blackbirding and Slavery in Queensland
Oct 08, 2024
Ep62: The Lambing Flat Riots
Sep 24, 2024
Ep61: The Race to Cross Australia
Sep 17, 2024
Ep60: The Colonisation of Queensland
Sep 10, 2024
Ep59: The Year the Rabbits Came
Aug 27, 2024
Ep58: The First Game of Australian Rules Football
Aug 20, 2024
Ep57: The Buckland Riot and Political Chaos in 1857
Aug 13, 2024
Ep56: Responsible Colonial Government
Aug 06, 2024
Ep55: Australia after Eureka
Jul 23, 2024
Ep54: The Eureka Stockade Part 3
Jul 15, 2024
Ep53: The Eureka Stockade Part 2
Jul 02, 2024
Ep52: The Eureka Stockade Part 1
Jun 25, 2024
Ep51: 1854 before the Eureka Stockade
Jun 17, 2024
Ep50: The Bunyip Aristocracy
May 27, 2024
Ep49: Gold and Floods in 1852
May 20, 2024
Ep48: The Goldfields of 1851
May 13, 2024
Ep47: EUREKA! The Gold Rush Begins
May 06, 2024
Ep46: Colonial Australia before the Gold Rush
Apr 29, 2024
Ep 45: The Disappearance of Ludwig Leichhardt
Apr 22, 2024
Minisode 4: Australia's Involvement in New Zealand's Frontier Wars
Apr 15, 2024
Ep44: The Failures of Governors Gipps and Wilmot
Apr 08, 2024
Ep43: Democracy and Squatters
Apr 01, 2024
Minisode 03: Norfolk Island and its Many Convict Mutinies
Mar 28, 2024
Ep42: The Great Depression of the 1840s
Mar 25, 2024
Ep41: Frontier War in South Australia
Mar 18, 2024
Minisode 02: Elizabeth Macarthur
Feb 26, 2024
Ep40: The End of NSW's Convict Transportation
Feb 19, 2024
Ep39: The Colonisation of South Australia
Feb 12, 2024
Ep38: Continental Frontier War in the 1830s
Feb 06, 2024
Ep37: The Colonisation of Victoria
Jan 29, 2024
Ep36: The Ripon Reforms and Macarthur's Death
Jan 22, 2024
Ep35: The Bathurst Rebellion
Dec 25, 2023
Ep34: The Black Line & The Tasmanian War
Dec 22, 2023
Ep33: The Swan River Colony
Dec 18, 2023
Ep32: Autocracy and Press Freedom
Dec 04, 2023
Ep31: Frontier War and Martial Law around Bathurst
Nov 28, 2023
Ep30: From Autocracy to a Hint of Democracy
Nov 20, 2023
Ep29: The Bigge Report
Nov 06, 2023
Ep 28: The Hawkesbury-Nepean War
Oct 23, 2023
Minisode 01: Colonists Beyond Colony
Oct 19, 2023
Ep27: Holey Dollars, Blue Mountains, and the Lieutenant Governor of the Woods
Oct 16, 2023
Ep26: Out with the Old, In with Governor Macquarie
Oct 09, 2023
Ep25: Military Junta in Australia, The Aftermath of Macarthur’s Coup
Oct 02, 2023
Ep24: The Rum Rebellion Part 2
Sep 18, 2023
Ep23: The Rum Rebellion Part 1
Sep 11, 2023
Ep22: The Prelude to the Rum Rebellion
Aug 28, 2023
Ep21: The Irish Rebellion of 1804
Aug 21, 2023
Ep20: The First Years of Governor King
Aug 14, 2023
Ep19: The Dismissal of Governor Hunter
Jul 31, 2023
Ep18: The Battle of Parramatta and the Wreck of the Sydney Cove
Jul 24, 2023
Ep17: The Trials and Tribulations of John Hunter
Jul 17, 2023
Ep16: The Massacre of Richmond Hill and Frontier War
Jul 10, 2023
Ep15: Alcoholism and Corruption under Francis Grose
Jul 03, 2023
Ep14: Ending the Food Crisis, and a Retrospective on Governor Arthur Phillip
Jun 26, 2023
Ep13: The Second Fleet, the 1790 Food Crisis, and Pemulwuy
Jun 19, 2023
Ep12: Crime, Famine, and Smallpox in 1788-1789
Jun 12, 2023
Ep11: The First Days of Colony
Jun 05, 2023
Ep10: The First Fleet and Convicts
May 22, 2023
Ep09: Penal Colony or Imperial Ambition? Why Australia was Colonised.
May 15, 2023
Ep08: British and French Exploration of Australia
May 08, 2023
Ep07: The Mythical and Dutch Exploration of Australia
May 01, 2023
Ep06: Dingoes, Asian Contact, and European Fantasy with Australia
Apr 24, 2023
Ep05: Society and Culture in Pre-Contact Indigenous Australia
Apr 17, 2023
Ep04: Pre-Contact Indigenous Australia - Tools, Warfare, and Material Culture
Apr 10, 2023
Ep03: How Indigenous Australians transformed Sahul
Apr 03, 2023
Ep02: Sahul and the Arrival of Humans
Mar 27, 2023
Ep01: An Introduction
Mar 20, 2023