Hell yeah! I mean, not hell yeah Dr Harry Bailey (who was very bad), but hell yeah Behind the Bastards doing some Aussies stories!

Harris, Gavin, “It was a Riot! Sydney’s First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras,” 1998, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Hughes, John, Picknett, Murray, Hart, Warrick, “Mardi Gras for the Boys,” 2015, In: Gibson, R. (eds) The Memory of Clothes, Rotterdam: SensePublishers, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-953-1_18. Jennings, Rebecca, Unnamed Desires A Sydney Lesbian History, 2015, Melbourne: Monash University Publishing. Marsh, Ian, and Galbraith, Larry, “The Political Impact of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras,” 1995, Australian Journal of Political Science, 30:2, pp. 300–320. https://doi.org/10.1080/00323269508402338. Marsh, Ian, “The 1994 Mardi Gras Telecast: Conflicting Minorities and the Judgment of Public Interests,” 1995, Australian Journal of Political Science, 30:3, pp. 545–560, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.19955707. McKinnon, Scott, Reynolds, Robert & Robinson, Shirleene, “Negotiating Difference Across Time: The Temporal Meanings of the Sydney Mardi Gras in Lesbian and Gay Life Narratives,” 2018, Journal of Australian Studies, 42:3, pp. 314-327, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2018.1499670. Willett, Graham "From 'Vice' to 'Homosexuality': Policing Perversion in the 1950s,” in Robinson, Shirleene (Eds), Homophobia: An Australian History, 2008, Leichardt: The Federation Press. Taylor, Luke, “Speaking the Unspeakable: Buggery, Law, and Community Surveillance in New South Wales, 1788–1838,” Law and History Review, 38:4, 2020, pp. 737–775, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27036906. Thomas, Amy, “Before Mardi Gras,” 2018, Overland, 231, pp. 10–19, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.785372496102931.

Wotherspoon, Garry, “Colin John Delaney (1897–1969),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1993, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/delaney-colin-john-9945. Wotherspoon, Garry, “From sub‐culture to mainstream culture: Some impacts of homosexual and gay sub‐cultures in Australia,” 1991, Journal of Australian Studies, 15:28, pp. 56-62, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443059109387044. Wotherspoon, Garry, “Gay men in Sydney,” 2009, Sydney Journal, 2:1, https://doi.org/10.5130/sj.v2i1.1189.

Bibliography Part 2

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“Execution of Hendrick Whitnalder,” Hobart Town Advertiser, Saturday 28 February 1863, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/264721734/29639676. “Homosexuals and police clash,” The Canberra Times, Monday 26 Jun 1978, p. 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131861014. Phillip, Arthur, “Phillip's Views on the Conduct of the Expedition and the Treatment of Convicts,” in Historical Records of New South Wales – Phillip 1783-1792, 1892, Sydney: Charles Potter, Governor Printer, https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord1pt2sidnuoft/page/n7/mode/2up. Roberts, Anne, “Mardi Gras ends in violence,” Tribune, Wednesday 28 June 1978, p. 11, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/260214977. “Sydney Mardi Gras: NSW Police apologise over '78er' arrests and bashings,” ABC, 4 March 2016, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-04/nsw-police-apologise-to-mardi-gras-78ers/7219996 Taylor, Josh, “Police took three years to make finding against officer who slammed teen to ground at 2013 Sydney Mardi Gras,” Guardian Australia, 4 June 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/04/police-took-three-years-to-make-finding-against-officer-who-slammed-teen-to-ground-at-2013-sydney-mardi-gras.

“The Sydney Morning Herald apologises to Mardi Gras founders the 78ers,” Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-sydney-morning-herald-apologises-to-mardi-gras-founders-the-78ers-20160224-gn26jm.html. “Who are the 78ers?,” 78ers.org.au, accessed: 15 February 2026, https://www.78ers.org.au/the-78ers. Secondary Sources Arrow, Michelle, “History-Making at the 2018 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras: Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters, the Museum of Love and Protest, the 2018 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, and Riot,” 2018, Australian Historical Studies, 49:4, pp. 493-500, https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1519749. Bongiorno Frank, “Sex in Sydney in the Twentieth Century,” In: Wiesner-Hanks ME, Kuefler M, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, Cambridge University Press; 2024: pp. 465-486, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108896030.023. Ellis, Justin, “Renegotiating police legitimacy through amateur video and social media: lessons from the police excessive force at the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade,” 2019, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31:3, pp. 412-432, https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2019.1640171. Ellis, Justin, “Social media, police excessive force and the limits of outrage: Evaluating models of police scandal,” 2021, Criminology & Criminal Justice, 23:1, pp. 117-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958211017384. French, Robert, “Australia’s queer history,” LGBTQIA, 2018, 20:4, https://www.ogmagazine.org.au/20/4-20/australias-queer-history/ Galbriath, Larry, "Celebration and Hysteria History of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras," Campaign, 110, February 1985, from Archives of Sexuality and Gender.

Episode 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

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Reading 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(!)

Bibliography Primary Sources "An Act for regulating the Police in the Towns of Parramatta, Windsor, Maitland, Bathurst, and other Towns respectively, and for removing and preventing Nuisances and Obstructions, and for the better alignment of Streets therein,” NSW Government Gazette, 25 August 1838, pp. 659-660, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230387063. “Bathing in the Torrens Lake,” The Express and Telegraph, Wednesday 26 December 1888, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207748117. “Bathing is now…”, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Tuesday 18 Feb 1834, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2215434. “Crowd Mobs Girl In French Swimsuit,” The Daily Telegraph, Monday 28 Oct 1946, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248408560. “Government Gazette Notices,” New South Wales Government Gazette, Wednesday 13 February 1833, Issue No.50, p. 59, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230389738. “Government and General Orders,” The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales, Saturday 6 October 1810, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/628088. Govett, William, “Notes and Sketches taken during a surveying Expedition in New South Wales & Blue Mountain Roads,” 1830, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, https://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D14753/a5504.htm. “Indecent exposure,” The Riverine Herald Thursday 1 February 1877, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115202090. “Jack Cornstalk,” The Australian Star, Saturday 9 Sept 1899, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228751626. “Loss of the Hibernia,” The Colonist and Van Diemen's Land Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser, Tuesday 28 May 1833, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/201158010. National Drowning Report 2025, Surf Life Saving Australia, August 2025, https://issuu.com/surflifesavingaustralia/docs/national_drowning_report_2025. “National Heritage Places - Moree Baths and Swim…

Pescagione dei selvaggi nel paese Vandiemen, Libraries Tasmania, 97587, accessed: 6 February 2026, https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/AUTAS001124071754w800. “Queensland ban on trunks,” The Herald, Thursday 4 August 1938, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243459579. “Scandalous conduct by bathers,” Mount Alexander Mail, Tuesday 18 Feb 1896, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199613918. “Swimming notes,” Referee, 28 Feb 1894, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120510856. “Sydney,” The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 18 July 1818, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2178073. “To the Editor of the Herald,” The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 12 February 1907, p. 10, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14852373. Wilson, James, “Indecent Scenes at Domain Baths,” NSW Parliament Hansard, pp. 1708 - 1709, https://api.parliament.nsw.gov.au/api/hansard/search/daily/searchablepdf/HANSARD-290296563-6832.

Secondary Sources Baker, Nick, & Arnold, Ann, “Why we swim: A brief history of swimming from the Neanderthals to slavery to your local pool,” Friday 17 February 2023, ABC Radio National, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/a-world-history-of-swimming/101971846. Booth, Douglas, Australian Beach Cultures: A History of Sun, Sand and Surf, 2001, London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Bennett, Theodore, “Clothing Optional?: Nudity and the Law of the Australian Beach,” 2019, Bond Law Review, 31, https://doi.org/10.53300/001c.10864. Booth, Douglas, “Nudes in the sand and perverts in the dunes,” 1997, Journal of Australian Studies, 21:53, pp. 170–182, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443059709387326 Booth, Douglas, “Origins in History and Historiography: A Case Study of the First Swimmer at Bondi Beach,” 2016, Journal of Sport History, 43:1, pp. 21–36, https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.43.1.21. Edwards, Lydia, “The erotic theatre of the pool edge: a short history of female swimwear,” 16 January 2020, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-erotic-theatre-of-the-pool-edge-a-short-history-of-female-swimwear-127902. Franklin, Richard, Scarr, Justin, and Pearn John, “Reducing drowning deaths: the continued challenge of immersion fatalities in Australia,” 2010, Medical Journal of Australia, 192:3, pp. 123-126, https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03448.x.

Georgakis, Steve, “Swimming education in Australia: a proud history now in decline,” Sydney University, 21 March 2025, https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/03/21/swimming-education-australia-proud-history-now-in-decline.html. Ibbetson, Fiona, “A History of Women’s Swimwear,” 24 September 2020, Fashion History Timeline, https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/a-history-of-womens-swimwear/ McDermott, Marie-Louise, “Leisure, Tourism, Swimming, Sustainability and the Ocean Baths of New South Wales,” 2009, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26:14, pp. 2069–2085, https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360903302880. McShane, Ian, “The past and future of local swimming pools,” 2009, Journal of Australian Studies, 33:2, pp. 195–208, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443050902883405. Osmond, Gary, “Indigenous Sporting Pasts: Resuscitating Aboriginal Swimming History,” 2017, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, pp. 43–55, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20180039. Winterton, Rachel, “‘A Question of Propriety?’: Women's Competitive Swimming in Melbourne, 1893–1900,” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26:14, PP. 2086-2105, https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360903303052

Episode 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

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Campion, Kristy, “Australian Right Wing Extremist Ideology: Exploring Narratives of Nostalgia and Nemesis,” 2019, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 14:3, pp. 208–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2019.1667013. Drury, Abdullah, “Comfortably Numb: A Short History of New Zealand Muslim Discourse and Thought,” American Journal of Islam and Society, 38: 1-2, pp. 262–285, https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i1-2.2872. Evans, Robert, “Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre,” Bellingcat, 15 March 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20190315180154/https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/.

Ganor, Boaz, “Timeline of the Attack,” Terorrism is terrorism, 2020, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep25130.5 Gardell, Mattias, “The Radicalization of Western Man: The Great Replacement, White Radical Nationalism, and Lone Wolf Violence,” in James R. Lewis, and Akil N. Awan (eds), Radicalisation: A Global and Comparative Perspective, 2024, online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197771266.003.0015. Hafiz, Anee, “White Extremism,” Defence Journal, 10 April 2019, pp. 16-18, https://defencejournal.com/2019/04/10/white-extremism/ Ip, John, “Law’s response to New Zealand’s ‘darkest of days’,” 2021, Common Law World Review, 50:1, pp. 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779521989340. Love, Gary, “‘What’s the Big Idea?’: Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists and Generic Fascism,” 2007, Journal of Contemporary History, 42:3, pp. 447–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30036457. Moses, A. Dirk, ““White Genocide” and the Ethics of Public Analysis,” Journal of Genocide Research, 2019, 21:2, pp. 201 - 213, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2019.1599493.

Peacock, Colin. “The New Zealand Mosque Massacre: 2. ‘End of Innocence’ for Media and Nation,” 2019, Pacific Journalism Review, 25:1/2,, pp. 18–27, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.525921318579281. Sparrow, Jeff, Fascists Among Us Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre, 2019, Scribe: Melbourne. Wilhelmsen, Fredrik, “When the Medium Is Not the Message: Breivik, Tarrant, and the Conceptions of History of Contemporary Right-Wing Extremist Lone-Actor Terrorists,” 2022, Fascism, 11, pp. 109-138. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10025. Wilson, Chris & Dziwulski, Michal, “Countering the Propaganda of Terrorists: The Deception of Brenton Tarrant,” 2025, Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000252.

Bibliography Part 2 (sorry for the delay, have very spotty internet!).

I also got to cite @iwriteok.bsky.social which was kinda neat.

Bibliography Primary Sources “Grafton,” 2021 Census All persons QuickStats, Area code SAL11739, accessed: 12 January 2026, https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL11739 “Place and ethnic group summaries - Christchurch,” 2018 Census, Stats NZ, accessed: 10 January 2026, https://tools.summaries.stats.govt.nz/places/UR/christchurch#religious-affiliation Ardern, Jacinda, “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's House Statement on Christchurch mosques terror attack,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Manatū Aorere), 19 March 2019, https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/media-and-resources/prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-house-statement-on-christchurch-mosques-terror-attack. Bayer, Kurt, and Leask, Anna, “Christchurch mosque terror attack sentencing: Gunman Brenton Tarrant planned to attack three mosques,” NZ Herald, 24 August 2020, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-mosque-terror-attack-sentencing-gunman-brenton-tarrant-planned-to-attack-three-mosques/Y5ROAIRQY6TJTU7XI63YHBT7YI/?c_id=1&objectid=12358347

Fitzsimmons Caitlin, “The warning signs in the Christchurch terrorist's Australian upbringing,” Sydney Morning Herald, 13 December 2020, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-warning-signs-in-the-christchurch-terrorist-s-australian-upbringing-20201211-p56mvg.html. “Government won't progress remaining 8 recommendations of Christchurch terror attack commission,” RNZ, 2 Aug 2024, https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523941/government-won-t-progress-remaining-8-recommendations-of-christchurch-terror-attack-commission. Mander, Cameron, “Sentencing Remarks of Mander J,” The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 27 August 2020, https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/R-v-Tarrant-sentencing-remarks-20200827.pdf Mitchell, Charlie, “Welcome, brother': A community that stressed peace is undone by violence,” Stuff.co.nz, 18 March 2019, https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111343035/welcome-brother-a-community-that-stressed-peace-is-undone-by-violence “New Zealand mosque shooter names his ‘idols’ on weapons he used in massacre,” Daily Sabah, 15 March 2019,

https://web.archive.org/web/20190315161334/https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2019/03/15/new-zealand-mosque-shooter-names-his-idols-on-weapons-he-used-in-massacre Perry, Nick, “Report finds lapses ahead of New Zealand mosque attack,” AP News, 8 December 2020, https://apnews.com/article/intelligence-agencies-shootings-brenton-tarrant-new-zealand-new-zealand-mosque-attacks-d8217fa30fe4eeba45fb001b77857385 “Rodney Francis Tarrant,” Find a Grave, accessed: 12 January 2026, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263693221/rodney_francis-tarrant “Rodney Got Most out of Short Life; Rodney Tarrant,” Daily Examiner, 21 August 2020, via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20190317013134/https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-234958861/rodney-got-most-out-of-short-life-rodney-tarrant Young, William & Caine, Jacqui, “Final Report,” Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019, 8 December 2020, https://christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/the-report Tarrant, Brenton, Manifesto, 14 March 2019. NB - See episode for discussion of this document.

Secondary Sources Alsoufi, Waleed and Albzour, Naser, “Covert Ideologies and Sign Manipulation: a Functional Semiotic Analysis of Western vs. Arabic News Coverage of New Zealand 2019 Mosque Carnage,” International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 10: 50, https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.6p.50. Baun, Phillip, “Memory and far-right historiography: The case of the Christchurch shooter,” 2021,. Memory Studies, 15:4, pp. 650-665. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211044701. Brzuszkiewicz, Sara, “Jihadism and Far-Right Extremism: Shared Attributes With Regard to Violence Spectacularisation,” 2020, European View, 19:1, pp. 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/1781685820915972. Byman, Daniel, “Terrorism in Real Time: Social Media and the Spread of White Supremacist Violence,” Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism, 2022, New York: Oxford Academic (Online Edition), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197537619.003.0006. Campion, Kristy, “Australian Right Wing Extremist Ideology: Exploring Narratives of Nostalgia and Nemesis,” 2019, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 14:3, pp. 208–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2019.1667013.

Hi 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)

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Robinson, Georgina, “Michael McGurk shot dead in front of son,” lllawarra Mercury, 5 November 2012, https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/621346/michael-mcgurk-shot-dead-in-front-of-son/ Roddan, Michael, “PremierState’s lobbyist Richo still incognito,” Australian Financial Review, 13 November 2022. Segaert, Anthony and Muroi, Millie, “Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson dies aged 76,” Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2025, https://archive.is/20251121085032/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-powerbroker-graham-richardson-dies-aged-76-20251108-p5n8q0.html#selection-3395.0-3443.7 “The Fixer in a Fix,” Sydney Morning Herald, 13 December 2003, https://archive.is/20230209103213/https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-fixer-in-a-fix-20031213-gdhzni.html#selection-2911.79-2911.248. “The Honourable Graham Frederick RICHARDSON,” Australian Honours List, accessed: 1 January 2026, https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2006682 Wright, Tony, “Faulkner: midwife, undertaker, secret-keeper,” 8 July 2010, The Age, https://web.archive.org/web/20121106055510/http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/faulkner-midwife-undertaker-secretkeeper-20100707-100oj.html

Secondary Sources Black, Joshua, ““For the Historic Record”: Memoirs, History, and Australian Political Culture,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2021, 67:2, pp.312–330, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12751. Burton, Tom, “Similar behaviour in the US could attract jail sentence,” The Australian Financial Review, 31 October 1995. Gordon, Michael, “True rivals,” Sydney Morning Herald, 16 July 2010, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/true-rivals-20100715-10cpx.html Green, Antony, “Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared,” 17 November 2025, Anthony Green’s Election Blog, https://antonygreen.com.au/comparing-greens-preferences-to-labor-2010-and-2025-compared/ Koutsoukis, Jason, “Why did Albanese grant Richo a state funeral?” The Saturday Paper, 22 November 2025, https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/11/22/why-did-albanese-grant-richo-state-funeral Koutsoukis, Jason, “The Richo pact: How Graham put Albanese in charge,” The Saturday Paper, 29 November 2025, https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/11/29/the-richo-pact-how-graham-put-albanese-charge McClymont, Kate, “Dead man walking: the day hustler Michael McGurk predicted his own death,” Sydney Morning Herald, 14 September 2019, https://www.smh.com.au/national/dead-man-walking-the-day-hustler-michael-mcgurk-predicted-his-own-death-20190910-p52ppy.html McClymont, Kate, “Lid lifted on the ugly '80s,” Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20240803060525/https://www.smh.com.au/national/lid-lifted-on-the-ugly-80s-20051125-gdmijv.html.

McKenna, Bernard, “The sexism of Labor's factional system: it's alright, maaate,” Social Alternatives, 13:3-4, October 1994, https://search.informit.org/toc/socalt/13/3-4 Regan, Sean, Review of David Burchell & Andrew Leigh, eds, The Prince's New Clothes: Why do Australians dislike their politicians? in Australian Journal Of Social Issues, 37:4, November 2002, https://search.informit.org/toc/aust_journal_social_issues/37/4 Richardson, Graham, Whatever it takes, 1994, Bantam: Sydney. Wilkinson, Marian, The fixer: The untold story of Graham Richardson, 1996, W. Heinemann Australia

Part 2 of the bibliography

Bibliography NB: Where a direct URL is not listed, media reporting has been sourced from the Factiva database. Primary Sources Ackland, Richard, Media Watch, ABC, 1 November 1999, https://web.archive.org/web/19991129034421/http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s64257.htm Antrobus, Blake “‘Sad day’: Former Labor senator, media commentator Graham Richardson dies aged 76,” news.com.au, 9 November 2025, https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/former-labor-senator-media-commentator-graham-richardson-dies-aged-76/news-story/5aaa395a503f547cd5c3d536f1f75766 Bendeich, Mark, “Australian PM's "true believers" losing the faith,” Reuters News, 21 February 1996. Chambers, Geoff, “Miners battle IR darkness: giants unite for test case,” The Australian - Online, 22 September 2024. Coorey, Phillip, “Gillard staff planned for coup,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 2012. Corbett, Bryce and Meikle, Kate, “Richo still not out of Harmer’s Way,” The Daily Telegraphy, 1 April 1998. Dowling, Joseph, “$4,000 for sex: court told,” Australian Financial Review, 22 September 1994, https://www.afr.com/politics/4-000-for-sex-court-told-19940922-k61vb. “Graham Richardson agrees to pay ATO,” Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2008, https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/graham-richardson-agrees-to-pay-ato-20081024-57k1.html

Grimm, Nick, “Men charged over McGurk murder,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts, 15 October 2010. Harvey, Claire, “The world according to Richo,” Sunday Telegraph, 30 May 2010. Hildebrand, Joe, “The final Rudd nail Richo reveals coup but says Gillard faces `slaughter' State of the nation,” Daily Telegraph, 24 June 2011. Hubble, Ava and Peters, Denis, “Richardson to join 2GB,” Daily Telegraph, 13 December 1997. Hyland, Anne, “‘These schools are very big businesses’: Inside the fight that tore apart Cranbrook,” Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November 2022, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/these-schools-are-very-big-businesses-inside-the-fight-that-tore-apart-cranbrook-20221124-p5c0xk.html Keating, Paul, “The Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration,” Don Dunstan Foundation, University of Adelaide, 31 May 2011, https://www.paulkeating.net.au/shop/item/the-lowitja-odonoghue-oration-31-may-2011 Jacobsen, Geesche, and Hall, Louise, “ICAC will not lay charges but it will monitor lobbyists,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 2010. Knott, Adam, “Political sides changed on him,” The Australian - Online, 12 March 2017. Lehmann, John, “Exclusive: Labor hardman Graham Richardson reveals his painful cancer setback,” 13 February 2015, The Daily Telegraph, https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/john-lehmann/exclusive-labor-hardman-graham-richardson-reveals-his-painful-cancer-setback/news-story/452db4599f2fe5ec384c7cf5a035773e

Main, Andrew, “Dead End for Offset Alpine Probe,” The Australian, 31 May 2010. Mayne, Stephen, “Mayne: Packer’s ill timed donation to Bob comes back to bite,” Crikey, 12 March 2012. McClymont, Kate, “Judge exposes Richo's secret tax case,” Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 2006, https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/judge-exposes-richos-secret-tax-case-20060923-gdog7j.html#google_vignette McClymont, Kate, “Richo's '$1.4m Swiss deposit',” Sydney Morning Herald, 28 September 2006, https://archive.is/20251109094905/https://www.smh.com.au/national/richos-1-4m-swiss-deposit-20060928-gdoh93.html McClymont, Kate & Snow, Deborah, “The not-so-quiet achiever,” 24 October 2009, Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-notsoquiet-achiever-20091023-hddk.html Molloy, Shannon, “Why Hawke government minister and Labor stalwart Graham Richardson voted Liberal,” News.com.au, 7 November 2019, https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/why-hawke-government-minister-and-labor-stalwart-graham-richardson-voted-liberal/news-story/84e6ca7c19ceb42047f4d98e49e791d4 Norington, Brad, “Richo wins $50k from Fairfax for defamation,” AUS, 6 March 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20080920123331/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21331779-7582,00.html

Pelly, Michael, “Tables turned on Ben Roberts-Smith – and Kerry Stokes,” Australian Financial Review, 1 June 2023, https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/tables-turned-on-ben-roberts-smith-and-kerry-stokes-20230601-p5dd6. Richardson, Graham, “Despite the poll and budget uptick, Gillard and Labor are doomed,” The Australian, 18 May 2012. Richardson, Graham, “Extinction Rebellion crowd is full of hot air and coffee,” The Australian, 30 December 2019. Richardson, Graham, “Foul stench from snouts in HSU trough,” The Australian, 9 April 2012. Richardson, Graham, "It's time for Shorten to rethink silly green goals,” The Australian, 6 January 2017. Richardson, Graham, “Testimony before NSW Parliament”, Portfolio Committee No. 4, 19 October 2009, pp. 33 - 46, https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/1649/091019%20Corrected%20transcript.pdf Richardson, Graham, “Testimony before NSW Parliament,” Portfolio Committee No. 4, 14 December 2009, https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/1687/091214%20Uncorrected%20transcript.pdf Richardson, Graham, “We don’t need ICAC – we have police,” The Australian, 19 October 2021.

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Bibliography below (in two parts)

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Bibliography Primary Sources Antrobus, Blake “‘Sad day’: Former Labor senator, media commentator Graham Richardson dies aged 76,” news.com.au, 9 November 2025, https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/former-labor-senator-media-commentator-graham-richardson-dies-aged-76/news-story/5aaa395a503f547cd5c3d536f1f75766 “Fightback! Taxation and Expenditure Reform for Jobs and Growth”, Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Parliamentary Library, 21 November 1991, https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22library/partypol/6DDU6%22. Hewett, Jenni & Sargent, Sarah, “Labor’s blues over green vote,” Australian Financial Review, 29 February 1988, via Factiva. Keating, Paul, “The Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration,” Don Dunstan Foundation, University of Adelaide, 31 May 2011, https://www.paulkeating.net.au/shop/item/the-lowitja-odonoghue-oration-31-may-2011 Kitney, Geoff, “Corruption inquiry worries Labor,” The Australian Financial Review, 15 August 1988, via Factiva. “Labor wins reluctant Green endorsement,” Financial Times, 9 March 1990, via Factiva. McClymont, Kate & Snow, Deborah, “The not-so-quiet achiever,” 24 October 2009, Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-notsoquiet-achiever-20091023-hddk.html “Minister 'attacked' over rainforest-listing issue,” The Canberra Times, Sat 5 Sept 1987, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122120020 Moffet, Libby, “NSW ALP, Green, Boring, The Australian Financial Review, 13 June 1989, via Factiva. Norington, Brad, “Richo wins $50k from Fairfax for defamation,” AUS, 6 March 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20080920123331/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21331779-7582,00.html

“'Not responsible' for dumping of Cohen,” The Canberra Times, 10 Aug 1987, p. 8, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132152245. Ramsey, Alan, “The Greening of Graham Richardson,” Sydney Morning Herald, 3 September 1988, via Factiva. Richardson, Graham, “Adjournment Speech - Allegations against Members of Parliament,” 10 May 1985, Hansard, https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F1985-05-10%2F0110%22 Segaert, Anthony and Muroi, Millie, “Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson dies aged 76,” Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2025, https://archive.is/20251121085032/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-powerbroker-graham-richardson-dies-aged-76-20251108-p5n8q0.html#selection-3395.0-3443.7 “The Fixer in a Fix,” Sydney Morning Herald, 13 December 2003, https://archive.is/20230209103213/https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-fixer-in-a-fix-20031213-gdhzni.html#selection-2911.79-2911.248. Williams, Pamela; Hurst, John & Dunn, Ross; “ACTU Splits with Government over Loss of Pulp Mill,” The Australian Financial Review, 16 March 1989. Wright, Tony, “Faulkner: midwife, undertaker, secret-keeper,” 8 July 2010, The Age, https://web.archive.org/web/20121106055510/http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/faulkner-midwife-undertaker-secretkeeper-20100707-100oj.html

Wright, Tony, “Keating humiliated,” The Canberra Times, Tue 11 Dec 1990, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122329671 Secondary Sources Black, Joshua, ““For the Historic Record”: Memoirs, History, and Australian Political Culture,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2021, 67:2, pp.312–330, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12751. Gordon, Michael, “True rivals,” Sydney Morning Herald, 16 July 2010, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/true-rivals-20100715-10cpx.html Green, Antony, “Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared,” 17 November 2025, Anthony Green’s Election Blog, https://antonygreen.com.au/comparing-greens-preferences-to-labor-2010-and-2025-compared/ Koutsoukis, Jason, “Why did Albanese grant Richo a state funeral?” The Saturday Paper, 22 November 2025, https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/11/22/why-did-albanese-grant-richo-state-funeral Koutsoukis, Jason, “The Richo pact: How Graham put Albanese in charge,” The Saturday Paper, 29 November 2025, https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/11/29/the-richo-pact-how-graham-put-albanese-charge

McClymont, Kate, “Lid lifted on the ugly '80s,” Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20240803060525/https://www.smh.com.au/national/lid-lifted-on-the-ugly-80s-20051125-gdmijv.html. McKenna, Bernard, “The sexism of Labor's factional system: it's alright, maaate,” Social Alternatives, 13:3-4, October 1994, https://search.informit.org/toc/socalt/13/3-4 Regan, Sean, Review of David Burchell & Andrew Leigh, eds, The Prince's New Clothes: Why do Australians dislike their politicians? in Australian Journal Of Social Issues, 37:4, November 2002, https://search.informit.org/toc/aust_journal_social_issues/37/4 Richardson, Graham, Whatever it takes, 1994, Bantam: Sydney. Staples, Joan, “Graham Richardson's environmental legacy,” Pearls and Irritations, 11 November 2025, https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/graham-richardsons-environmental-legacy/ Wilkinson, Marian, The fixer: The untold story of Graham Richardson, 1996, W. Heinemann Australia

Here'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!)

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Bibliography below as always

Bibliography Primary Sources Antrobus, Blake “‘Sad day’: Former Labor senator, media commentator Graham Richardson dies aged 76,” news.com.au, 9 November 2025, https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/former-labor-senator-media-commentator-graham-richardson-dies-aged-76/news-story/5aaa395a503f547cd5c3d536f1f75766 Cavalier, Rodney, “Book Review: Labor mates,” 26 April 1991, The Australian Financial Review, via Factiva. “Hawke and Hayden: The issues that decided Labor's leadership,” Tribune, 9 Feb 1983, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259567265. McClymont, Kate, “Lid lifted on the ugly '80s,” Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2005, https://archive.is/20240902025807/https://www.smh.com.au/national/lid-lifted-on-the-ugly-80s-20051125-gdmijv.html#selection-3213.0-3239.19 McClymont, Kate & Snow, Deborah, “The not-so-quiet achiever,” 24 October 2009, Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-notsoquiet-achiever-20091023-hddk.html “N.S.W. COUNCIL MEETING Keating warns of ALP split,” The Canberra Times, 7 Dec 1981, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126863689 Norington, Brad, “Richo wins $50k from Fairfax for defamation,” AUS, 6 March 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20080920123331/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21331779-7582,00.html Segaert, Anthony and Muroi, Millie, “Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson dies aged 76,” Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2025, https://archive.is/20251121085032/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-powerbroker-graham-richardson-dies-aged-76-20251108-p5n8q0.html#selection-3395.0-3443.7 “Statements from Hayden Bowen, Hawke,” The Canberra Times, 4 Feb 1983, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116447838.

Secondary Sources Black, Joshua, ““For the Historic Record”: Memoirs, History, and Australian Political Culture,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2021, 67:2, pp.312–330, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12751. McClymont, Kate, “Lid lifted on the ugly '80s,” Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20240803060525/https://www.smh.com.au/national/lid-lifted-on-the-ugly-80s-20051125-gdmijv.html. McKenna, Bernard, “The sexism of Labor's factional system: it's alright, maaate,” Social Alternatives, 13:3-4, October 1994, https://search.informit.org/toc/socalt/13/3-4 Martinez, Jacqui, “MP bashed for exposing fraud”, Republished as “In the Herald: July 20, 1980”, 20 July 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20220607152912/https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/in-the-herald-july-20-1980-20210714-p589pq.html Regan, Sean, Review of David Burchell & Andrew Leigh, eds, The Prince's New Clothes: Why do Australians dislike their politicians? in Australian Journal Of Social Issues, 37:4, November 2002, https://search.informit.org/toc/aust_journal_social_issues/37/4 Richardson, Graham, Whatever it takes, 1994, Bantam: Sydney. Wilkinson, Marian, The fixer: The untold story of Graham Richardson, 1996, W. Heinemann Australia

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“Tourists clawed at by bear,” The Canberra Times, 13 Jan 1977, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110834823. “Wildlife in Australia,” Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 9 Jan 1980, p. 13, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251216995 “Woman claims £40,000,” The Canberra Times, 12 Mar 1960, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105905461. “Young Tiger "At Large" In Grounds Of Circus,” The Newcastle Sun, 25 Nov 1953, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161504104. Secondary Sources Arrighi, Gillian, “Synthesising circus aesthetics and science: Australian circus and variety theatre at the turn of the twentieth century,” 2018, Early Popular Visual Culture, 16:3, pp. 235–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2019.1569843. “Bullen,” Dynasties, ABC Television, 4 December 2006, via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20161230212557/http://www.abc.net.au/dynasties/txt/s1789969.htm. Collier, Robyn, “The Lost Valley – Burragorang,” wild.com.au, 29 March 2018, via The Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20221115014840/https://wild.com.au/people/the-lost-valley/ Delibasic, Suzan, “Melbourne’s forgotten theme parks: what happened to them?” Maroondah Leader, 3 June 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170605001118/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/outer-east/melbournes-forgotten-theme-parks-what-happened-to-them/news-story/f522f6bf1558323a0e438b6f5391f7d2

De Poloni, Gian, “Remembering Perth's wildly popular African safari park, where lions stalked the family car,” ABC Radio Perth, 7 Dec 2018, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/perths-african-lion-safari-20-years-since-closure/10582740. Grahame, Evan, “The Tiger King of Bacchus Marsh and the years of living dangerously,” ABC Ballarat, 20 Jun 2020, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-20/the-tiger-king-of-bacchus-marsh/12355658. Hailey, Renault & Feeney, Katherine, “Bullens African Lion Safari was 'like the plains of Africa, but in Yatala'”, ABC Radio Brisbane, 3 Apr 2022, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-03/queenslanders-remember-yatala-bullens-african-lion-safari/100932026. Jarvis, Lucy, “Bullen’s African Lion Safari Park history revived,” Perth Now, 5 August 2014, https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/north/bullens-african-lion-safari-park-history-revived-c-790716. Lemon, Andrea, “A gradual disappearing act,” The Age, 19 May 2007.

Lemon, Andrea, “A gradual disappearing act,” The Age, 19 May 2007. Martin, Jacob, “The Enchanting Existential Dread of Aussie Theme Parks: Chapter Five - It’s Scary, But Nobody Cares,” 9 October 2020, Jade Crypt of Wonders, https://jadecryptofwonders.com/blog/the-enchanting-existential-dread-of-aussie-theme-parks-chapter-five-its-scary-but-nobody-cares. Nicastri, Timmothy, “How a boy's adventure helped a lion escape from a defunct safari park in Warragamba,” ABC Radio National, 20 September 2016, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-20/how-boys-adventure-helped-lion-escape-defunct-safari-park-sydney/7857426. O’Grady, Andrew, “The way we were,” The Advertiser, 13 December 2021. “Pet theory – big cats escaped from lion park,” Macarthur Chronicle, 14 July 2015. Pitt, Helen, “Paradise Lost: Sydney's forgotten theme parks,” Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 2019, https://www.smh.com.au/national/paradise-lost-sydney-s-forgotten-theme-parks-20190712-p526pc.html. “Post 92 - Love Machine - Keep Searchin' / May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone”, 24 April 2009, Ozzie Music Man (Blog), available via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20100901175958/http://www.ozziemusicman.com/2009_04_01_archive.html St Leon, Mark, “A long & winding road: The story of circus in Australia,” The Penny Gaff, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/circus-history/ St Leon, Mark, “Adopted Apprentices: Juvenile Recruitment in Australian Circus, 1847-1942,” 2016, Labour History, 110, Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp. 97–124, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/informit.262238881713504.

St Leon, Mark, “Bullen, Alfred Percival (Perce) (1896–1974)”, 1993, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bullen-alfred-percival-perce-9621/text16965. St Leon, Mark, “Bullen, Alfred Percival,” The Penny Gaff, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/archives/bullen-alfred-percival/ St Leon, Mark, “Children inducted into circus, 1851-1928,” The Penny Gaff, accessed 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Table_1_Children_inducted_into_circus.pdf Tabakoff, Jenny, “Obituary: STAFFORD BULLEN Circus and animal park proprietor (b. Bathurst NSW 1925; died Sydney NSW, 2001),” Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2001, via http://www.milesago.com/Obits/bullen-stafford.htm “Warragamba Dam,” Water NSW, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/greater-sydney-dams/warragamba-dam Willis, Ian, “The Camden Historical Society, 1957-2007: Fifty Years of Local History: An Address to the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Camden Historical Society, 12 July 2007,” AQ: Australian Quarterly, 79:6, 2007, pp. 11–40, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20638517.

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Latest episode is live. This one is about Stafford Bullen, a man who had just too many lions (CW: Suicide, lion mauling)

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Bibliography Primary Sources “Part XVI Religion”, Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 30 June 1933, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2110.01933 “Bridge Incident,” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 22 March 1932, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136874174 Campbell, Eric, The rallying point: My story of the New Guard, Melbourne University Press, 1965. “Campbell Launches Centre Party”, Liberty, 1:20, 19 December 1933, p. 7, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-772172776/ “Conscription referendums, 1916 and 1917,” National Archives of Australia, accessed: 17 September 2025, https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/fact-sheets/conscription-referendums-1916-and-1917 “De Groot Case,” Lithgow Mercury, 1 April 1932, p.1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/219680305/24318458 “Mr Lang’s Speech,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1932, p. 11, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16849511. “Police powerless in wild Bankstown Riots,” The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 1932, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246546701

“The De Groot Incident,” The Cairns Post, 31 Mar 1932, p. 8, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41127385 Secondary Sources Alder, Baron, “The Ideology of the New Guard Movement”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 82 Part 2, 1996, pp. 192 - 209, https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.970606441. Amos, Keith, The New Guard Movement 1931 - 1935, Melbourne University Press, 1975, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3326426489/view?partId=nla.obj-3326429849#page/n8/mode/1up. Amos, Keith, “Campbell, Eric (1893–1970)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/campbell-eric-5487/text9331, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 16 September 2025. Blackton, Charles, “Review: The Rallying Point: My Story of the New Guard by Eric Campbell, in The American Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, 1966, Oxford University Press, p. 274, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1848341 Cunningham, Matthew, “Australian Fascism? A Revisionist Analysis of the Ideology of the New Guard, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 13:3, 2012, pp. 375-393, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2012.701188 Evans, Richard, “‘A Menace to this Realm’: The New Guard and the New South Wales Police, 1931–32,” History Australia, 5:3, 76.1-76.20, 2016, https://doi.org/10.2104/ha080076 Evans, Richard, W. J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910-1948: A Dangerous Man, Springer International Publishing AG, 2022. Love, Gary, “‘What’s the Big Idea?’: Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists and Generic Fascism,” 2007, Journal of Contemporary History, 42:3, pp. 447–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30036457. Moore, Andrew, “The New Guard and the Labour Movement, 1931-35”, Review in Labour History, No. 89, 2005, pp. 55 - 72, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27516075 Moore, Andrew, “Discredited Fascism: the New Guard after 1932”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2011. Moore, Andrew, “An Uncomfortable Past, Historiographical Refections on Fascism and Interwar Australia,” Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, 1st Edition, 2022, Routedge.

Rutland, Suzanne, “The long, dark history of antisemitism in Australia”, The Conversation, 24 November 2023, https://theconversation.com/the-long-dark-history-of-antisemitism-in-australia-217908

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Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=470 Cockatoo Valley, Hollow Tree, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=471 Tooms Lake, Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=474 Eastern Marshes, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=497 St Paul's River, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1104 West Tamar, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=492 Richmond, Coal River, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=498

Clyde and Ouse Rivers, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=500 Bullock Hunting Ground, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=491 Jones River, near Miles Opening, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=499 Three Thumbs, Pittwater, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=461 East of Ben Lomond, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=482 Upper Clyde River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=501 Whitefoord Hills, Meander River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=489 Clyde River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=472 Ryan, Lyndall, “List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835,” Violence de masse et Résistance - Réseau de recherche, 2008, https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/list-multiple-killings-aborigines-tasmania-1804-1835.html Ryan, Lyndall, “Massacre in the Black War in Tasmania 1823–34: a case study of the Meander River Region, June 1827”, 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:4, pp. 479–499, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520802447834.

Ryan, Lyndall, “The Black Line in Van Diemen's Land: success or failure?”, 2013, Journal of Australian Studies, 37:1, pp. 3-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2012.755744 Ryan, Lyndall, and Kiernan, Ben, “Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788–1928,” 2023, The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Ned Blackhawk, et al (Ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 461–480. Print. The Cambridge World History of Genocide. Shipway, Jesse, “Modern by analogy: modernity, Shoah and the Tasmanian genocide,” 2005, Journal of Genocide Research, 7:2, pp. 205–219, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520500127381 Short, Bruce, “Genocide and the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples: The Extermination of the 19th Century Aboriginal Tasmanians,” 2022, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 29:2, pp. 610-621, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35819395/ Sousa, Ashley, ““They will be hunted down like wild beasts and destroyed!”: a comparative study of genocide in California and Tasmania”, 2004, Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2, pp. 193-209, https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000225949

Spinks, Ryan, ““the People Will Kill, Destroy, and If Possible, Exterminate Every Black in the Island”: A Case Study of Massacre In Tasmania’s Black War, 1826-1828,” 2019, Macquarie University Thesis, https://doi.org/10.25949/19428614.v1 “The Black Line,” 2025, National Museum of Australia, https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/the-black-line “The Killing Times,” The Guardian Australia, 23 February 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars Tatz, Colin, "Genocide in Australia," 1999, Journal of Genocide Research, 1:3, pp. 315-352 Taylor, Rebe, and Ben Kiernan, “Genocide in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1803–1871,” The Cambridge World History of Genocide, 2023, Ned Blackhawk, et al (Ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 481–507. Taylor, Rebe, “Genocide, Extinction and Aboriginal Self-determination in Tasmanian Historiography,” 2013, History Compass, 11, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264456536_Genocide_Extinction_and_Aboriginal_Self-determination_in_Tasmanian_Historiography “Three Responses to ‘Can There Be Genocide Without the Intent to Commit Genocide?’” 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:1, pp. 111–133, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520701850955.

Bibliography Part 3 (sorry)

Duyker, Edward, “Marion Dufresne, Marc-Joseph (1724 - 1772),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp 258-259, published online 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20110525063922/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10318b.htm Duyker, Edward. “The Word in French [The Role of French Books in Australian History,” 2001, National Library of Australia News, 12:1, National Library of Australia, 2001, pp. 7–10, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200116458. Harman, Kristyn, “Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide,” The Conversation, 18 January 2018, https://theconversation.com/explainer-the-evidence-for-the-tasmanian-genocide-86828 Madley, Benjamin, “From Terror to Genocide: Britain’s Tasmanian Penal Colony and Australia’s History Wars,” Journal of British Studies, 2008, 47:1 pp. 77–106, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/abs/from-terror-to-genocide-britains-tasmanian-penal-colony-and-australias-history-wars/34384F9FAF0A4A1A2AD37AB2AF323928 .

Madley, Benjamin, “Patterns of frontier genocide 1803–1910: the aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia,” 2004, Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2, pp. 167–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000225930 Maybury-Lewis, David, “Genocide against Indigenous Peoples,” in Annihilating difference : The anthropology of genocide, 2002, Hinton, Alexander, (Ed.), University of California Press. Refshauge, William, “An Analytical Approach to the Events at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804,” 2007, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 93:1, pp. 39–54, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200706031. Rogers, Thomas, & Bain, Stephen, “Genocide and frontier violence in Australia,” 2016, Journal of Genocide Research, 18:1, pp. 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2016.1120466 Ryan, Lyndall, Debenham, Jennifer, Pascoe, Bill Smith, Robyn, Owen, Chris, Richards, Jonathan, Gilbert, Stephanie, Anders, Robert, Usher, Kaine, Price, Dan, Newley. Jack, Brown, Mark & Craig, Hugh, "Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930", 2025 https://doi.org/10.26193/L0WEID, ADA Dataverse, V1

Tasmanian Massacres in the data set: Risdon Cove, 1804, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=462 Scantland Plains, 1815, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=463 East Bay Neck, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1093 Mayfield, Oyster Bay, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=475 Dairy Plains (2), Meander River, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=487 Bank Head Farm, Pittwater, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=464 Mt Augusta, Ross, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=478 Sally Peak (1), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=466

Quamby Bluff (1), Westmoreland Falls, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=481 Quamby Bluff (2), Quamby Brook, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=483 Quamby Bluff (3), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1052 Quamby Bluff (4), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=486 Blackman River, intersection of Brumby Creek and Lake River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=473 The Retreat, (Cheshunt) Dairy Plains, Meander River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=480 Dairy Plains, Meander River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=484 Cape Grim (1), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=493 Cape Grim (2), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=494 Lagoon Lower Marshes near Jordan River, 1828 https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=468 Elizabeth River, Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=477

Bibliography Part 2

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Collins, David, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2, 1802, London: Printed for T Cadell and W Davies in the Strand, via Full Text Archive, https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/An-Account-of-the-English-Colony-in-Newx2025/ “Colonial Times,” Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 1 December 1826, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2448994 “Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes,” United Nations, accessed: 7 August 2025, https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition “Government notice,” The Hobart Town Gazette, 2 December 1826, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8790535?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FH%2Ftitle%2F22%2F1826%2F12%2F02%2Fpage%2F679603%2Farticle%2F8790535 “Government Notice,” The Hobart Town Courier, 21 August 1830, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4207892/642518 “Government Order,” The Hobart Town Courier, 27 Feb 1830, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4210061/642337 “Government Order,” The Hobart Town Courier, 25 Sept 1830, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4206949/642570 “Public Meeting,” Colonial Times, 24 Sep 1830, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8645368 “Statistics on the Indigenous Peoples of Australia,” 1991, updated 2012, Australian Bureau of Statistics, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/3d68c56307742d8fca257090002029cd/8dc45512042c8c00ca2569de002139be!OpenDocument

“The Courier,” The Hobart Town Courier, 14 Jan 1832, p. 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4200377/643124. “The Natives,” Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 6 July 1827, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2450488/679329 Van Diemen's Land: copies of all correspondence between Lieutenant-Governor Arthur and His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the military operations lately carried on against the Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, 1831, House of Commons, via Austlii, https://austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/1831/2.pdf West, John, The History of Tasmania, Volume 1, 1852, Launceston: Henry Dowling, via The Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FskRAAAAYAAJ/page/n275/mode/2up West, John, The History of Tasmania , Volume II, 1852, Launceston: Henry Dowling, Launceston (First Edition), Launceston: J. S. Waddell (Facsimile Edition, 1966), via The Project Gutenberg eBook, 2007, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22849/22849-h/22849-h.htm

Secondary Sources “1384.6 - Statistics - Tasmania, 2005,” Australian Bureau of Statistics, 13 September 2002, https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/F6FA372655DCC15FCA256C3200241893?opendocument Barta, Tony, “‘They Appear Actually to Vanish from the Face of the Earth.’ Aborigines and the European Project in Australia Felix,” 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:4, pp. 519–539, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520802447768?scroll=top&needAccess=true Browning, Christopher, “Yehuda Bauer, the Concepts of Holocaust and Genocide, and the Issue of Settler Colonialism,” 2022, The Journal of Holocaust Research, 36:1, pp. 30-38, https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2021.2012985 Connor, John, Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838, 2002, Sydney: UNSW Press. Cox, Robert. Breakout! : The Tasmanians Who Terrorised Victoria, 2024, Wakefield Press Pty, Limited, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mqu/detail.action?docID=31974471. Curthoys, Ann, “Raphaël Lemkin’s ‘Tasmania’: an introduction. Patterns of Prejudice,” 2005, 39:2, pp. 162–169, https://doi.org/10.1080/00313220500106212 Dwyer, Philip & Ryan, Lyndall, “Reflections on genocide and settler-colonial violence, History Australia”, 2016, 13:3, pp. 335-350, https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2016.1202336

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Mear, Craig, “The Origin of the Smallpox Outbreak in Sydney in 1789,” 2008, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 94:1, pp. 1–22, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200806636 Pickering, Michael, “Where are the Stories?” 2010, The Public Historian, 32:1, pp. 79-95. 10.1525/tph.2010.32.1.79. Ryan, Lyndall, Debenham, Jennifer, Pascoe, Bill Smith, Robyn, Owen, Chris, Richards, Jonathan, Gilbert, Stephanie, Anders, Robert, Usher, Kaine, Price, Dan, Newley. Jack, Brown, Mark & Craig, Hugh, "Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930", 2025 https://doi.org/10.26193/L0WEID, ADA Dataverse, V1 Hawkesbury (1), https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=561 Hawkesbury (2), https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=562

Ryan, Lyndall, “Untangling Aboriginal resistance and the settler punitive expedition: the Hawkesbury River frontier in New South Wales, 1794–1810,” 2013, Journal of Genocide Research, 15:2, pp. 219–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2013.789206 “Smallpox epidemic,” National Museum of Australia, 28 September 2022, https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/smallpox-epidemic “The Killing Times,” The Guardian Australia, 23 February 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars Turbet, Peter, The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788-1816, 2011, Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited, ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mqu/detail.action?docID=933085. Williams, Alan, “A new population curve for prehistoric Australia,” 2013, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0486 Walsh, Gerald, “The English Colony in New South Wales: A.D. 1803,” New Zealand Geographer, 1962, 18:2, pp. 149-169, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.1962.tb01149.x

Episode 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.

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Dyster, Barrie, “Bungling a Courthouse: A Story of Convict Workplace Reform,” 2007, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 93:1, pp. 1–21, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200706029. Hainsworth, David Roger, “Iron Men in Wooden Ships: The Sydney Sealers 1800-1820,” Labour History, 1967, 13, pp. 19–25, https://doi.org/10.2307/27507873. Hainsworth, David Roger, “Simeon Lord (1771–1840),” The Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1967, 2, published online in 2006, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lord-simeon-2371 Hainsworth, David Roger, The Sydney Traders Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries 1788-1821, 1971, Sydney: Cassell Australia. Ihde, Erin, “To bank or not to bank: Edward Smith hall on free trade and the commodification of money in early New South Wales”, 2004, Journal of Australian Studies, 28:83, pp. 13-23, DOI: 10.1080/14443050409387970

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Bibliography below as always

Thanks I’ll have a look!

Hey yeah fair call! Always a struggle when I’m monolingual. Frei does some great, accessible analysis of the primary sources though

Primary Sources “Bank notes from Japan,” The Argus, 24 September 1942, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11996889 Curtin, John, “Australia declares war with Japan – excerpt of Prime Minister John Curtin's address to the nation”, National Archives of Australia, 2010, https://www.naa.gov.au/students-and-teachers/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/war/world-war-ii/australia-declares-war-japan-excerpt-prime-minister-john-curtins-address-nation Churchill, Winston, “Motion of Confidence in His Majesty’s Government”, Hansard, UK Parliament, 29 January 1942, vol. 377, cc. 927-1019, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1942/jan/29/motion-of-confidence-in-his-majestys Churchill, Winston, “War Situation,” Hansard, UK Parliament 27 January 1942, vol. 377, cc. 569-690, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1942/jan/27/war-situation “Federal Government ready to meet invasion,” Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, 31 January 1942, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/152806598 “Japan’s problems,” The Cairns Post, 30 January 1942, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42329831 “Possibility of invasion of Australia,” Burnie Advocate, 24 February 1942, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68755366 “Singapore was the Dunkirk of Australia”, Canberra Times, 17 February 1942, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2564512 “Will Japan try invasion of Australia?” Morning Bulletin, 19 February 1942, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56110760

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Rechniewski, Elizabeth, “Remembering the Battle for Australia,” 2010, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 7, https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/1153 Richardson, Andrew, Review: “The Shadow Men: The Leaders Who Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam; Scorched Earth: Australia’s Plan for Total War under Japanese Invasion in World War II,” Australian Historical Studies, 2018, 49:2, pp. 283-285, DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1454281 Riseman, Noah, “4. Guerillas for the White Men: Formal Papuan and New Guinean Fighters,” Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War, 2012, University of Nebraska Press, https://muse.jhu.edu/book/19826. Stanley, Peter, “He’s not coming south, the invasion that wasn’t,” in From a hostile shore : Australia and Japan at war in New Guinea, Bullad, Steven & Keiko, Taumra (Eds), 2004, http://ajrp.awm.gov.au/ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/Web-Pages/HostileShore?OpenDocument Stanley, Peter, “Scorched Earth: Australia’s Secret Plan for Total War under Japanese Invasion in World War II [Book Review],” 2017, ISAA Review, 16:1, pp. 105–107. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.549031889129584. Stanley, Peter, “Threat Made Manifest,” Griffith Review, 2005, 9, pp. 5-15, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.418994920107030. Stanley, Peter, “Dramatic myth and dull truth: Invasion by Japan in 1942,” in Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, Stockings, Craig (Ed), 2010, UNSW Press, pp. 140-160, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkmcj

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Episode 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.

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As always bibliography below.