Rum, Rebels& Ratbags
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- Website
- http://soundcloud.com/rum-rebels-ratbags
- Description
- Rum, Rebels& Ratbags is history not for the faint-hearted. Historian and author of 'Girt' David Hunt and ABC 702 Sydney's Dom Knight uncover the characters and events left out of your high school history class. Sir Joseph Banks wasn't just 'that plant guy', but a celebrity playboy botanist who decided Australia was just the place for a penal colony. The lady on the $20 note, Mary Reibey, was deported to Australia for horse theft and cross-dressing, but what she did next will surprise you. And, who circumnavigated Australia first - a French monkey or a South African cat? A new episode will be available every Tuesday.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2016-06-06 05:00
- last episode published
- 2015-07-28 02:20
- publication frequency
- 7.09 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- ABC Radio, David Hunt and Dom Knight
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 10
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2015-07-28 | Women in the convict colony initially had a hard life, but for many New South Wales presented undreamed of opportunities. They had a greater say in relationships, property, business and government policy than back in Britain, so it is no surprise Aust... |
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| 2015-07-21 | Lachlan Macquarie was a hard drinking, penny pinching Scottish army officer with syphilis and an impressive history of financial fraud. Yet he became the colony’s most successful governor, erecting new towns and buildings, integrating ex-convicts into ... |
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| 2015-07-14 | William Bligh was an incredible navigator, breadfruit fancier, coconut hoarder, reforming governor and utter bastard. The mutiny prone swear-bear was brought down in Australia’s only military coup by John Macarthur and the Rum Corps, who finished off w... |
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| 2015-07-07 | John Macarthur, a.k.a. Bodice Jack, had two favourite things: alcohol and money, both of which came in brown paper bags. Macarthur and the New South Wales Rum Corps ran dodgy land deals, intimidated government officials, stole from the public purse and... |
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| 2015-06-30 | There are more statues of Matthew Flinders in Australia than of any other man. And there are more statues of his cat, Trim, than of any other cat. Flinders circumnavigated and named Australia, discovered that Tasmania was an island, and spent a lot o... |
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| 2015-06-23 | Australia's Indigenous people dealt with the white ghosts from across the sea in different ways. Bennelong pursued a path of accommodation and was the first Indigenous man to visit England, whilst the warrior Pemulwuy, dressed in his Amazing Technicolo... |
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| 2015-06-15 | New South Wales' first governor, Arthur Phillip, dreamed of an antipodean utopia. Instead he founded Sydney, a town full of drunk, starving and naked criminals. |
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| 2015-06-09 | Did you know the colony of Australia only came about because of tea, taxation, criminals.... and cannabis?! And, find out how a Cockney hypochondriac whaler ended up as the first Governor of NSW. |
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| 2015-06-02 | More than 140 years before Captain Cook sighted the Australian coast, Dutch merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz murdered over 120 shipwreck survivors off the coast of WA in a killing spree that makes Lord of the Flies look like Mary Poppins. |
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| 2015-05-25 | Australians might know Banks as ‘that plant guy’ but he was actually a wealthy playboy who inspired Star Trek and discovered surfing. Captain Cook just steered the ship for Banks and his groupies. |
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