Episodes
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IT'S A SEASON FINALE!!! For our final ep of season 1, Mel takes Josie through the infamous Emu War, when emus dominated the Aussie army and its new, fancy machine guns.
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Show notes:
"'Feathered foes': soldier settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932, Murray Johnson, (2006).
Tell me mate what are emus like, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Adrian Burton 2013
Scientific American, The Great Emu War, 2014, Bec Crew
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Josie takes Mel all the way back to 2018, when needles started showing up stuck into strawberries all across Australia.
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Show notes:
BBC, no byline, September 2018
ABC by Patrick Williams, September 2018
The Guardian by Ben Smee, September 2018
The North West Star by Cheryl Goodenough, July 2020
Daily Mail by Mark Brook, November 2018
ABC by Talissa Siganto, July 2021
Brisbane Times article by Toby Crockford, July 2021
News.com.au by Shireen Khalil, 2020
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This week, Mel tells Josie the tragic story of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go fire, and the corruption and intrigue that was behind it.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
Q News, Brooke Tindall
Q News, Destiny Rogers
The Ghost Gate Road podcast by Matthew Condon
The Guardian, 2022
News.com.au, Blake Antrobus, 2022
ABC, 2017
Mamamia True Crime Conversations with Matthew Condon
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Even though this has nothing to do whatsoever with a) Australia or b) history, Mel and Josie just love to yap and obviously needed to gasbag about Dave Grohl's announcement of his illegitimate child IMMEDIATELY.
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For some reason, Josie has decided to punish herself by telling Mel all about Aussie actor, heartthrob and icon Heath Ledger. Yes, there are tears.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
Australian Screen – Heath Ledger Biography
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – clip of Heath Ledger in Sweat
Daily Telegraph article from 2022 – interview with Julia Stiles
E! Online article from 2018
Empire Online article from 2012, first published in Empire Magazine in 2009 – oral history of Dark Knight
MTV article 2008
Daily Mail article from 2016 by Jennifer Smith
2017 Documentary I Am Heath Ledger
81st Academy Awards, 2009 – the Ledger family’s acceptance speech video
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Is this the most unhinged episode of All Aussie Hour and its past iterations yet? Maybe. A very hungover Mel tells Josie about Fisher's Ghost, a ye olde tale about a man who gets murdered and then does some messy, dramatic revenge by reappearing as a ghost to take down his murderer. Charli XCX would love.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
Skeptical Inquirer, Joe Nickel
Campbelltown City Council
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In the epic final part of our Aussie Sports Extravaganza, Josie covers Part 2 of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
GQ Australia, 2024
Sydney Morning Herald by Sarah Keoghan, September 2020Wikipedia
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Happy Olympics Season, Zesties! This week we start our two-parter on the Sydney 2000 Olympics, with Mel kicking things off and taking you through winning the bid, the lead-up and THAT opening ceremony.
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Continuing our Aussie Sports Extravaganza, this week Josie takes Mel through the incredible and inspiring history of THE MATILDAS!
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
Stan Original Doco Trailblazers
Football Australia article about the history of Women’s Football in Australia
Extract from A Woman’s Game by Suzanne Wrack: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women’s Football published by The Guardian
ABC article by Samantha Lewis 18 Jul 2023
ABC article by Samantha Lewis, 30 Jul 2023
Guardian Australia article by Jack Snape, 17 Aug 2023
Guardian Australia article by Tory Shepherd, 19 Aug 2023
Josie’s dad’s cousin Linda “Sunni” Hughes scores a goal (skip to around 39:00 mark)
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This week Mel takes Josie through the incredible life and achievements of Queen of Australia Cathy Freeman!
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This week Josie takes Mel through our very own Aussie homegrown UFO abduction and the story of Kelly Cahill (if that IS her real name...)!
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
ABC article Sep 2020 by Matt Neal
SMH article 2016 by Daniella Miletic
A 2022 Ferntree Gully Star Mail article by Parker McKenzie
Aliens, Ghosts and Vanishings: Strange and Possibly True Australian Stories by Stella Tarakson
PDF of Encounter: The True Story by Kelly Cahill
YouTube vid featuring grabs from Today Tonight
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This week Mel tells Josie of the landslide that stopped the nation, the tragic Thredbo Disaster of 1997.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
9 News, Ellen Connolly, 2014
SBS News, 2017
ABC, Bill Brown, 2017
SMH, Heroes Of Thtredbo, Andrew Brown, 2017
Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub
ABC, 2022
Mamamia
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This week Josie re-does an old AAMH story, it's the incredible mystery of the 1948 death of the unknown 'Somerton Man'.
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(00:01) Zesty Chat
(17:50) Somerton Man begins
(01:22.00) End
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
SMH extract from Kerry Greenwood’s book “Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery”: https://www.smh.com.au/national/riddle-on-the-sands-20121119-29kwz.html
Transcript of Coronial Inquest 17th June 1949:
https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/The_Taman_Shud_Case_Coronial_Inquest
The Advertiser 6 Dec 1948: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43794348
The Advertiser article 11 Dec 1948: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43795238
The Advertiser article 18 January 1949: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43800320
The Advertiser article 25 Nov 1949: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36677719
ABC article April 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-24/mysterious-somerton-man-to-be-exhumed-by-sa-police/100092750
ABC Australian Story episode November 2022: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/my-name-is-charles-somerton-man-mystery/101680520 :
SA Police statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20220727061712/https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/front-page-news/statement-regarding-somerton-man#.YuDYbOzP1qY
Daily Mail Sep 2023: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12528299/Somerton-Man-Twist-Australias-mysterious-cold-cases-case-bizarre-birthday-card-emerges.html
Josie's own chaotic notes from 2018 and All Aussie Mystery Hour S1E5
A bit of Wikipedia too - some of their links were broken.
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Join Mel as she regales Josie of the worst explorers ever, our very own Burke & Wills.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
burkeandwills.net.au
Burke and Wills' Courage and Folly Pt. 1: Marching Onwards to the Great Unknown". Australian Stamps Professional.
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This week Josie tells Mel about the tragic 1973 unsolved murder of Lynette White.
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
1800RESPECT is available for free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to support people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence – call 1800 737 732 or visit 1800respect.org.au
Police are urging anyone with information that may assist Strike Force Tourmaline investigators to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
ABC Australian Story episode from 2017: “Murder by the Sea”:
2018 9News article by Tim Rose
2016 Sydney Morning Herald article by Ava Benny-Morrison
2023 Daily Telegraph article by Madeleine Crittenden
2022 Sky News segment by Danica De Giorgio
2017 ABC News article by Heidi Pett and Rebecca Latham
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This week Mel redoes an old Aussie Mystery Hour ep (Mel's Version) and dives even deeper into the mystery of the Lithgow Panther!
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This week Josie regales Mel with the incredible story of the 1834 Frederick Escape!
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
ABC Radio National program Hindsight, episode broadcast 15 Feb 2009
Discover Tasmania
Australian Geographic
University of Tasmania article from Companion to Tasmanian History
James Porter’s account
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This week Mel tells Josie all about the 1974 Darwin disaster of Cyclone Tracy, and the devastating effects it had on NT's capital city.
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EPISODE RESOURCES:
The Elements Podcast: Air: Cyclone Tracy
Big Blow Up North: A History of Tropical Cyclones in Australia’s Northern Territory, Kevin Murphy, 1984
BOM: Remembering Cyclone Tracy
The NT News, Cyclone Tracy 40 Years On
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**If you would like to skip the catch up chat, head straight to 19 mins for Chopper!
This week Josie tells Mel all about the ridiculous life of Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read.
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EPISODE RESOURCES:
The Guardian, 2013:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/09/mark-chopper-read-obituary
Sydney Morning Herald by Andrew Rule, 2010: https://www.smh.com.au/national/in-a-gang-started-by-choppers-christmas-sausages-20100420-srrp.html
Herald Sun article by staff writers, 2013:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/the-life-times-and-crimes-of-notorious-celebrity-crook-mark-8216chopper8217-read/news-story/6eff9b560e70e82dd599eaed4bea662d
Article by Adam Shand: The Overcoat War or Who Hid The Sausage? https://adamsh.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/the-overcoat-war-or-who-hid-the-sausage/
The Age by John Silvester, 2012: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/trotter-v-chopper-day-of-judgment-20121130-2am3m.html
The Herald Sun by Anthony Dowlsey and Mark Buttler, 202:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/chopper-v-gangitano-inside-a-vicious-underworld-rivalry/news-story/27bdd395e0aea83077c36009a32244e9
Daily Telegraph by Nui Te Koha, 2008: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/chopper-read-doesnt-deserve-transplant/news-story/87a66b354e73f72965c3ab8ace8236d7
Nine News by Erin Tennant, 2013: https://www.9news.com.au/national/chopper-s-murder-confessions-fairy-tales/e30f9d36-e664-4602-84ed-0b183bec92fd#:~:text=Read%20made%20the%20admissions%20in,Sidney%20Michael%20Collins%20in%202002.
New York Times by Matt Siegel, 2013: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/world/asia/chopper-read-australias-brand-name-for-ferocity-is-softened-by-illness.html?_r=0
Acclaim Magazine by Andrew Montell:: https://www.acclaimmag.com/culture/from-vaults-chopper-read/
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, episode aired June 4 2007
Chopper: From the Inside by Mark “Chopper” Read
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G'day mates! On today's ep, Josie tells Mel about the 1975 Tasman Bridge Disaster.
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