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Mysteries of the Sea – Part Three: Beyond Human Knowledge
September 29, 2026 · 57 minIn March 1912, Australia was stunned to learn that Koombana was missing in nearly identical circumstances to Yongala. In this final episode, we look at how good and bad luck again decided who lived and who died, how the Koombana story…
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Mysteries of the Sea – Part Two: Dead Unlucky
September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minAlongside Yongala, the Adelaide Steamship Company prided itself on its luxury vessel Koombana, designed especially to work the Western Australian coast. But this was a seemingly cursed vessel, where anything that could go wrong did, from…
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Mysteries of the Sea – Part One: More Haste, Less Speed
September 24, 2026 · 49 minIn March 1911, with the loss of the ship Waratah still fresh in memory, a big passenger liner went missing in a cyclone off northern Queensland. As a massive search began, Australia tried to believe that ‘no news is good news’. Incredibly…
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Short – The Mystery of the Waratah
September 24, 2026 · 22 minI’m re-releasing this short as background for the new miniseries, Mysteries of the Sea. In July 1909, the world wondered what had become of the SS Waratah, last seen off coast of South Africa with more than 200 souls aboard. This grim…
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Short – Good Evening and Welcome to Television: The Real Story Behind An AI Slop Promo
September 15, 2026 · 20 minThis week marks the 70th anniversary of regular television broadcasting in Australia. Channel Nine recently 'recreated' the 'Good Evening and Welcome to Television' moment in a fakes-over-facts promo generated by artificial intelligence…
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Talking History – Blackbirding: A Reckoning With the Australian Slave Trade
September 7, 2026 · 50 minBlackbirding – A Reckoning with the Australian Slave Trade. We talk about the practices and policies that led to a staggering death toll – and how we don’t remember because our forgetting was engineered by language and laws meant to…
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Australia’s Slave Ship Massacre – Part Three: Confessions of Mass Murderers
September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minDr James Patrick Murray kidnaps and kills more people, and goes mad and is nearly murdered himself, before returning to Australia to be acclaimed as a saviour during a smallpox outbreak. But the hero becomes villain overnight when the…
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Australia’s Slave Ship Massacre – Part Two: Shoot Them All
September 6, 2026 · 53 minDr James Patrick Murray takes the brig Carl to the sunny South Seas and into a heart of darkness beyond the imagination of even Joseph Conrad. In this nightmare of his creation, shooting dozens of defenceless men is only the start of the…