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We examine changing attitudes to the dead and their burial, from the ad hoc early days of the penal colony in Sydney through to the late nineteenth century and the creation of the very grand Rookwood Necropolis.
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Today we set sail with the first great Antarctic explorer: Captain James Cook.
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In the late 1970s Brisbane was known to the rest of Australia as a big country town, and on the surface it was a citadel of conservative rural Australian values.
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Roger East was 52, and a seasoned journalist, when he died in early December 1975 in Dili, East Timor, at the hands of Indonesian armed forces. Read Transcript
Sunday 2pm
repeated Thursday 1pm
Executive Producer
Michelle Rayner
Sunday 11 January 2009
Squattocracy and Struggle weaves together family history with the turbulent birth of the union movement in the outback town of Bourke, as producer Sean O'Brien traces the story of his forebears Arthur and John Andrews. They were central in the creation of the Australian Workers Union, and have been immortalised in the verse of friend and ally Henry Lawson.
In the 1950s Central Australia was transformed from a 'final frontier' into a major tourist destination, but not without impact on the lives of nomadic Aboriginals and the delicate environment.
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Listeners have shared their Furphies with us by uploading photos of Furphy water tank ends and other Furphy items. A selection of the uploaded Furphy images has now been published in a special Hindsight Furphy gallery page.
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Surveys the tensions and debates about history, identity and contemporary society in four countries around the world.
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The Science Show
with Robyn Williams
Since 1975, fascinating insights into all manner of things scientific.
