Australia On This Day Podcast
1) Season 1 Finale - 6 August - 1930 - Mr Eternity Finds God
REPEAT: On this day in 1930, Arthur Stace — hopeless Sydney alcoholic — converted to Christianity and set himself on the path to becoming Mr Eternity, whose one-word message would eventually reach bil...Show More
2) 5 August - 1944 - The Cowra Breakout
REPEAT: At 2am on this day in 1944, the Cowra Breakout began. This episode looks at the man who blew the bugle that gave the signal for the mass escape – and how he wound up behind barbed wire as the ...Show More
3) 4 August - 1845 - Australia's Titanic
REPEAT: 176 years ago today, Australia suffered what is still our worst civil maritime disaster when the emigrant ship Cataraqui struck a reef off King Island and sank in Bass Strait. Of the 409 aboar...Show More
4) 3 August - 1912 - The Persecution Of The Eccentric Sexologist
REPEAT: On this day in 1912, William Chidley, radical sexologist and one of Australia’s most eccentric characters, was arrested for being a lunatic – the first use of this power against him in a vende...Show More
5) 2 August - 1986 - The Theft Of The Weeping Woman
REPEAT: On this day in 1986, one of Australia's strangest and funniest crimes was committed when Pablo Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Woman — valued at $2m — was stolen from the National Gallery of...Show More
6) 1 August - 1905 - Australia's First Lady At Law
REPEAT: On this day in 1905, Flos Greig became Australia’s first female lawyer — but before she could practice the law she had to change it via an act of parliament. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...Show More
7) 31 July - 1902 - Henry MacCabe & Our Two Worst Mining Disasters
REPEAT: Australia suffered what is still our worst industrial disaster when an explosion ripped through the Mount Kembla mine on 31 July 1902. Strikingly, lead rescuer Henry MacCabe had 15 years earli...Show More
8) 30 July - 1930 - The Fate Of Australia's Forgotten Aviator
REPEAT: Pioneering Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Bert Hinkler are household names for their aviation feats and tragic fates. Eric Hook is forgotten — not even a Wikipedia ...Show More
9) 29 July - 1917 - The Outback Accident That Changed Australian History
REPEAT: On the 24th of May 1917, famous Aussie boxier James Leslie “Les” Darcy died in America. Just over two months later in Western Australia, his namesake, jackaroo James Darcy, would unwittingly b...Show More
10) 28 July - 1950 - The Life-Saving Sacrifice of the Young Snake Catcher
REPEAT: On this day in 1950 in Cairns, amateur herpetologist Kevin Budden caught a Taipan to start Australia’s anti-venom program for that deadly species. He died in the process. But his sacrifice sav...Show More