deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 18hEpisode 43 is now live! This week we're talking about the tendency of the Australian right to devour itself and be born anew. This is a two parter covering the years from 1901 to 1942 Bibliography Part 1 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 150
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Episode 42 is now live. Same bibliography from last time, but here's a picture from the wonderful Mountjoy Paper about anti-masturbation devices I focussed on the ones made for humans (fellas mainly), but there were quite a few for horses as well 020
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Episode 41 is now live! Bibliography is below (this is for both episode 41 and 42) Bibliography 1/2 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 121
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Episode 40 is now live! This one is on Hungarian Chess Master Paul Dozsa and his one man quest to bankrupt the Australian restaurant industry. Bibliography below. 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We got Josh! We got Josh! (also, sorry!) 021
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Episode 39 is now live! Thanks to @bosh.worstpossible.world for coming on to hear about Baryugil, James Hardie and the toxic legacy of asbestos in Australia. As always shout out to my partner in horror @jesseblack.bsky.social Bibliography below. See Instagram for images. 121
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Episode 38 is now live! The bibliography is the same as last time, I really should repost it...but it's more effort than you think! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...podcasts.apple.comEpisode 38 - 192 Years of Blackface - Part 2Podcast Episode · Dead Bunyip Society · 30 August · 1hr 35min 010
Reposted by @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.socialSavant Garde @savantgardepod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's Randy's Birthday and He Has Rabies: S4 E7 / S3 E15 Jesse skitters across the Pool Bottom. Lucy gets back into Kingdom Hearts. Mr. Monk deploys his Spittle Shield. Dr. Shaun Murphy gets his Eggs Scrambled.patreon.comIt's Randy's Birthday and He Has Rabies: S4 E7 / S3 E15 | Savant GardeMonk S4 E7: Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding The Good Doctor S3 E15: Unsaid Changing of the Garde: ~39:00 Finally, a Randy episode. CW: brief refe 2195
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Episode 37 is now live. This is the first part of a two part series on the history of blackface performance in Australia. Welcome to our new co-host @jesseblack.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... The bibliography (covering the next two episodes is below) 171
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Episode 36 is now live! Thanks to @jesseblack.bsky.social for coming on again. We're talking about Pine Gap, the history of US bases in Australia, the Dismissal & the CIA and Australia's role in the Palestinian genocide Bibliography part 1 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 111
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Episode 35 is now live! Thanks to @lucyxiv.boontavista.com for coming on the pod. This week we're talking about Deborah Lawrie and her fight to become Australia's first commercial airline pilot Bibliography attached (cont'd) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 140
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Today we're talking about the 1971 Springbok Tour, the Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement and the strange history of fighting racism with blackface. Thanks to the wonderful writer and academic Giacomo Bianchino for coming on Part 1 of bibliography below podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 100
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Episode 33 is now live! Thanks to Jesse Black of Savant Garde for coming on the pod. This week we're talking about the Mt Kembla Coal Explosion which killed 96 Australians. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d... As always see the bibliography below 020
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 14/06/2026No pod this week sorry, will be back next week (slight delay due to unforeseen events). 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Episode 32 is now live! We're talking about Breaker Morant, Australia's second most famous war criminal, the Boer War and the weird denialism about his crimes podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e... Bibliography below 100
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Episode 31 is now live! This week I'm joined by James Hennessy to talk about Jack Karlson the man behind the Succulent Chinese Meal Meme podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e... Bibliography below (cont'd) 110
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Episode 30 is now live. This week we're talking about Maralinga, Nuclear weapons testing in Australia. Thanks to Jesse Black for coming on the pod (he's not on Bluesky which is a wise call, really). podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... Bibliography below 110
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Episode 29 is live - sorry for the delay. I'm talking about duelling and fragile masculinity. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Episode 28 is now live! Thanks to @cormacmccafe.bsky.social for coming on. This episode is part 4 of our series on the Australian Genocide focussing on WA. To learn more about the Aboriginal Massacres Project see here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 100
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Episode 27 is now live! This week we're continuing our series on the Australia Genocide and focusing on Victoria, particularly the region of Gippsland. As always bibliography below (in three parts) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 100
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Hell yeah! I mean, not hell yeah Dr Harry Bailey (who was very bad), but hell yeah Behind the Bastards doing some Aussies stories! 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Episode 26 is now live. Today we're talking about the First Mardi Gras, policing of protests and the history of legal persecution of LGBT people in Australia podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... As always bibliography attached 1/2 110
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Reading about the history of Sodomy Laws in NSW and never did I think criteria would get this... visceral? Anyway, a bit of a spoiler for our Mardi Gras episode(!) 010
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Episode 25 is now live! Sorry that this was a day late due to some jet lag on my part. This episode is about the history of skinny dipping in Australia. Bibliography attached as always podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 010
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Hi all, Episode 24 of Dead Bunyip Society is now live. Content warning: this one is about the Christchurch Terror Attack in 2019 and viewer discretion is advised. As always, bibliography below (part 1) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 210
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Part 3 in our trilogy on Graham Richardson is now live, titled Kingmaker! Bibliography below (in two parts) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 111
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Here's Episode 22, Part 2 on Graham Richardson. In spite of my plans, hopes and dreams, there will be a Part 3 (the man did a lot!) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... Bibliography below as always 020
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Here is Part 1 of a two part series on Graham Richardson, titled Senator for Kneecaps podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 010
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Latest episode is live. This one is about Stafford Bullen, a man who had just too many lions (CW: Suicide, lion mauling) Bibliography below (part 1) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... 100
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Episode 19 is now live! This week we're talking about Eric Campbell, arguably Australia's most successful and famous fascist (who was neither famous nor terribly successful). podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... As always bibliography is attached 010
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2025800 listens across 18 episodes! A lot of people said "nobody wants to listen to a podcast about Australian history, Liam". And I... well... I didn't prove them wrong, but almost! 010
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Episode 18 of Dead Bunyip Society is now live. This episode is the second in our series on the Australian Genocide, this time we're talking about Tasmania. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Massacres map is here www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 110
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Episode 17 is now live. This week I am talking about the Australian Genocide. This is intended as the first in a multi-part series, this episode covers the years from 1788 to 1810 in NSW. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Bibliography below 120
Reposted by @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.socialAdrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Incisive commentary by one of our most respected historians of Australia. Bottom line: “Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD after Britain.” 084
Reposted by @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.socialHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 06/08/2025Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....historyworkshop.org.ukCall for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians. 16184
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Episode 16 is now live, today we're talking about how a group of plucky eighteenth century colonists built Australian capitalism…but clubbing seven million seals to death. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... As always, bibliography attached. 000
Reposted by @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.socialJenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Please sign this. 42612
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Episode 15 is now live! This week we're talking about Wittenoom, the site of Australia's largest ever industrial disaster which has taken the lives of at least 2,000 Australians podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Bibliography below as always 120
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Episode 14 is now live. This week we're talking about the Japanese Invasion Myth. Shout out to the work of the great @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social on this one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... As always bibliography below. 111
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Episode 13 is out and this time we're breaking the rules to talk the Iraq War of 2003. We also cover 8,000 years of Iraqi history (badly). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... 130
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Episode 12 is now live. Today we're talking about Bill Leak, a controversial artist and political cartoonist who died in 2017 and generated a national controversy with his reactionary cartoons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Bibliography is attached 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Episode 11 is now live! Today we're talking about the Children of God, an evangelical Christian group from which 140 children were removed in 1992 in the largest ever single children removal activity in Australian history. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... 100
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Episode 10 is up. This week I'm talking about the "Rum Rebellion", drinking culture and landlords. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... As always see bibliography here 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Episode 9 is up. This one is all about Magdalene Homes and the treatment of women and girls in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... As always bibliography below 010
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Episode 8 is now live. This week we're talking about Dr Harry Bailey, Australia's worst psychiatrist. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Bibliography is below. 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Episode 7 is now live! This week we're talking about Edward De Lacy Evans, a perfectly ordinary Irish-Australian working class fella, who had a bit of a secret. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... 000
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Episode 6 is now live. This one is about John Mackay. The man who "discovered" Mackay in Queensland and also trafficked in other human beings. deadbunyipsociety.podbean.com/e/episode-6-... As always, bibliography is below! 020
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Episode 5 is up! This one is about the history of sex work in Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. deadbunyipsociety.podbean.com/e/episode-5-... As always bibliography is below 001
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Episode 4 is now live! This time we're talking about the WA Referendum of 1933, when WA tried to set up it's own country. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8gxdm... Bibliography as always is here 000