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  • The 1843 Gundagai Floods and Wiradjuri Knowledge

    The 1843 Gundagai Floods and Wiradjuri Knowledge
    2026/07/17
    In this episode of The Story of Australia, Lucas and Luna explore the catastrophic 1843 Gundagai floods, which wiped out the fledgling colonial town and killed 89 people—one-third of its population. They examine how the Wiradjuri people, who had lived along the Murrumbidgee River for millennia, warned settlers not to build on the floodplain. The conversation delves into the archaeological evidence of Wiradjuri seasonal movement, the colonial dismissal of Indigenous land knowledge, and the aftermath of the disaster, which led to the relocation of Gundagai. Lucas also discusses the role of Yarri, a Wiradjuri man who saved dozens of lives during the flood, and the contested legacy of his heroism. The episode touches on broader themes of environmental history, frontier relations, and the resilience of Aboriginal knowledge systems. #Gundagai #Wiradjuri #Murrumbidgee #Yarri #1843Flood #AustralianHistory #ColonialAustralia #IndigenousKnowledge #Frontier #Disaster #EnvironmentalHistory #Resilience #Floodplain #NewSouthWales #AboriginalHistory #Settlement #FexingoHistory #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    9 分
  • The 1824 Bathurst War: Wiradjuri Resistance and the Frontier

    The 1824 Bathurst War: Wiradjuri Resistance and the Frontier
    2026/07/17
    In 1824, the Wiradjuri people of the Bathurst region launched a coordinated resistance against colonial expansion, led by the warrior Windradyne. Governor Thomas Brisbane declared martial law, deploying mounted police and British soldiers in a campaign that foreshadowed later frontier conflicts. This episode examines the causes of the war, the role of the Wiradjuri in shaping colonial policy, and the ambush at Battle Hill. It also explores the aftermath: the conciliatory mission of Reverend Samuel Marsden, the erosion of Wiradjuri sovereignty, and how this conflict set a precedent for dispossession across New South Wales. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and Wiradjuri oral history, we piece together a story of resilience, brutality, and a frontier that was never peaceful. #Wiradjuri #Windradyne #BathurstWar #MartialLaw #FrontierConflict #ColonialAustralia #NewSouthWales #1824 #BattleHill #ReverendSamuelMarsden #AboriginalResistance #ThomasBrisbane #MountedPolice #Bathurst #MacquarieRiver #FexingoHistory #History #Oceania Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 分
  • The Warlpiri of Central Australia: Ceremony, Country and Colonisation

    The Warlpiri of Central Australia: Ceremony, Country and Colonisation
    2026/07/16
    In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Warlpiri people of Australia's Central Desert, focusing on their rich ceremonial life, the concept of Dreaming (Jukurrpa), and the violent impact of colonisation in the 20th century. They discuss the 1928 Coniston Massacre, one of the last large-scale frontier massacres in Australia, triggered by the killing of a white dingo trapper and resulting in the murder of up to 70 Warlpiri and Anmatyerre people. The conversation also covers the Warlpiri's resilience through the establishment of remote communities like Yuendumu, and their ongoing struggle for land rights and cultural preservation. Specific figures include pastoralist Bill Braitling, who instigated the reprisals, and Mounted Constable William Murray, who led the punitive expedition. The episode highlights the survival of Warlpiri language and ceremony today, and the significance of sites like Karlu Karlu (Devils Marbles). A nuanced look at a culture that endured despite frontier violence. #Warlpiri #Jukurrpa #ConistonMassacre #CentralAustralia #Yuendumu #KarluKarlu #Anmatyerre #BillBraitling #WilliamMurray #FrontierViolence #AboriginalAustralia #Dreaming #LandRights #AustralianHistory #Colonisation #History #FexingoHistory #Oceania Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    6 分
  • The 1868 Cricket Tour: Aboriginal Athletes in England

    The 1868 Cricket Tour: Aboriginal Athletes in England
    2026/07/16
    In 1868, a team of Aboriginal Australian cricketers became the first Australian sporting team to tour England, playing 47 matches across the country. This episode tells the story of the tour, focusing on key figures like Johnny Mullagh (Unaarrimin), a star all-rounder from the Jardwadjali people, and Charles Lawrence, their English coach and promoter. We explore how the tour was shaped by colonial politics, the legacy of frontier violence, and the players' experiences as both athletes and ethnographic exhibits. The team's tour was a commercial venture, but also a moment of Aboriginal agency within a system of tight control. We follow the players from their homes in western Victoria to the cricket grounds of England, and examine what happened after they returned: how the promise of reward faded, and how the memory of their achievement was nearly lost. This is a story of skill, resilience, and the complex intersections of sport, race, and empire in the 19th century. #AboriginalCricket #JohnnyMullagh #Jardwadjali #CharlesLawrence #1868Tour #ColonialAustralia #CricketHistory #AboriginalHistory #AustraliaHistory #Unaarrimin #JimmyJury #Bullocky #Sunderland #LordLindsay #Gunditjmara #Framlingham #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 分
  • The 1885 Queensland Coast Expedition: A Forgotten Voyage

    The 1885 Queensland Coast Expedition: A Forgotten Voyage
    2026/07/15
    In 1885, a small government expedition set out from Cooktown to chart the unknown coastline of Far North Queensland and establish friendly contact with Aboriginal communities. Led by explorer and naturalist William Saville-Kent, the party encountered the Kuku Yalanji, Guugu Yimithirr, and Wik peoples, documented rock art at Laura, and narrowly avoided disaster on the Great Barrier Reef. This episode follows the voyage of the schooner 'Alert', examining the tangled motives of science, commerce, and colonial expansion in Australia's last frontier. Saville-Kent's journals reveal both genuine ethnographic curiosity and the assumptions of a man who saw Indigenous cultures as dying, not living. The expedition also sparked a bitter controversy over the collection of Aboriginal skeletal remains, pitting Saville-Kent against the Protector of Aborigines. A little-known story that illuminates how knowledge was gathered — and stolen — on the edge of empire. #History #FexingoHistory #Australia #Queensland #WilliamSavilleKent #KukuYalanji #GuuguYimithirr #Wik #GreatBarrierReef #Cooktown #LauraRockArt #Expedition #1885 #ColonialScience #AboriginalHistory #Frontier #Anthropology #SkeletalRemains Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    9 分
  • The 1841 Bountiful Heifer and the Wiradjuri Warrior

    The 1841 Bountiful Heifer and the Wiradjuri Warrior
    2026/07/15
    In this episode of The Story of Australia, Lucas and Luna explore a small but revealing incident from 1841: the attempted theft of a heifer on the Lachlan River and the ensuing pursuit of a Wiradjuri warrior named Monga. This event, documented in the colonial records of the New South Wales Border Police, sheds light on the everyday violence and resistance on the Australian frontier. They discuss the role of the Border Police, the punitive expeditions against Aboriginal people, and the legal and moral contradictions of British justice. The episode also touches on the career of Major James Nunn, the official correspondence between the Colonial Secretary and the Border Police commandant, and the broader context of land dispossession and Aboriginal survival. It is a microhistory that illuminates the larger pattern of frontier conflict in the 1840s. #FrontierConflict #Wiradjuri #BorderPolice #Monga #NewSouthWales #1841 #LachlanRiver #MajorJamesNunn #ColonialViolence #AboriginalResistance #BountifulHeifer #PunitiveExpedition #TerraNullius #Squatters #Overlanding #History #FexingoHistory #Australia Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 分
  • The 1840s Overlanding: Squatters and Aboriginal Resistance

    The 1840s Overlanding: Squatters and Aboriginal Resistance
    2026/07/14
    In the 1840s, a wave of overlanders drove sheep and cattle from New South Wales into what would become Victoria, sparking fierce Aboriginal resistance. This episode follows the story of the Whyte brothers' journey in 1838, the conflicts with the Jardwadjali and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples, and the role of the Native Police. We explore the economic forces behind the squatting rush, the failed attempts at protection, and the legacy of a frontier defined by violence and dispossession. Along the way, we meet figures like John Hepburn, George Faithful, and Charles Hall, and discuss the 1845 Port Phillip Aboriginal Mounted Police reforms. #Overlanding #Squatters #Jardwadjali #DjaDjaWurrung #NativePolice #PortPhillip #JohnHepburn #GeorgeFaithful #CharlesHall #WhyteBrothers #1840s #AustralianHistory #FrontierConflict #AboriginalResistance #ColonialExpansion #Victoria #FexingoHistory #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 分
  • The Wurundjeri and the 1835 Batman Treaty: A Land Deal That Never Was

    The Wurundjeri and the 1835 Batman Treaty: A Land Deal That Never Was
    2026/07/14
    In 1835, a Tasmanian grazier named John Batman sailed to Port Phillip and claimed to have 'purchased' 600,000 acres of land from the Kulin nation, including the area that would become Melbourne. But the treaty he brokered with the Wurundjeri elders — signed with crosses and marked by the exchange of blankets, knives, and tomahawks — was immediately repudiated by the colonial government in Sydney. Governor Richard Bourke declared the treaty void under the legal doctrine of terra nullius, asserting that Aboriginal people had no claim to land under British law. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine the events of Batman's 1835 expedition, the role of his interpreter William Todd, the perspectives of Wurundjeri leaders like Bebejan and Billibellary, and the legal and ethical controversies that followed. They explore the treaty's text, its aftermath in the founding of Melbourne, and how recent historical scholarship has reframed the Batman Treaty not as a quaint oddity but as a moment that reveals the competing legal and moral claims at the heart of Australian colonisation. #BatmanTreaty #JohnBatman #Wurundjeri #Kulin #PortPhillip #Melbourne #TerraNullius #1835 #WilliamTodd #Bebejan #Billibellary #RichardBourke #LandRights #ColonialHistory #AboriginalHistory #AustralianHistory #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 分