#ozhist — Public Fediverse posts
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Good news for Australian historians who need copies of documents from archives in the US: https://sourceryapp.org/2026/04/13/place-sourcery-requests-from-anywhere-in-the-world/ #histodons #ozhist
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The forgotten political history of Australia's convicts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/forgotten-political-history-of-australia-convicts/103621728
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For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/12/exploring-georeferenced-maps-from-the.html #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist
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Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...
The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.
I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the-dismissal-50th-anniversary-photo/105958494
I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
https://theconversation.com/politics-with-michelle-grattan-remembering-the-day-gough-whitlam-lost-his-job-269387 -
Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.
The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.
Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic/landscape-change/
#volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist
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Matthew Flinders recovered from the last horrific leg of his circumnavigation of Australia, and sets off back to England…. But the journey will take a lot longer than anticipated. 🫣
The final episode available today. 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/75-bass-flinders-pt6/ 🎧
#Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist #Australia
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The final episode on Bass & Flinders is in production but claiming Flinders coined the term Australia first might be controversial? 🤔
🔗 https://theconversation.com/putting-australia-on-the-map-29816
#history #AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders #Australia #Maps
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Flinders successfully completes the first half of his circumnavigation of Australia, though he may have missed the odd feature on the way.
Bass was not so lucky on his trading venture.
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/73-bass-flinders-pt4/ 🎧
#AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast #Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianStories
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Eight years ago I downloaded about 80 years worth of Australian #Hansard from ParlInfo and created the Historic Hansard site for 'lovers of political speech'. I'm planning some updates in the next few months, so I thought it was a good time to pull together some threads documenting my adventures with Hansard.
If there's anything you'd like to see in the new version of Historic Hansard, let me know. Also, as it says in the post, it costs me about $400 a year to run, so contributions are welcome!
https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/08/29/the-future-and.html #histodons #ozHist #digitalHumanities @histodons
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Bass & Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemens Land & "petticoat action" followed!
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/72-bass-flinders-pt3/ 🎧
#AustralianHistory #History #Bass #Flinders #Explorers #OzHist #HistoryPodcast
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Ep71 - Part 2 - Bass & Flinders arrive in NSW with grand plans to “explore more of the country than any of [their] predecessors”.
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/71-bass-flinders-pt2/ 🎧
#Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist
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Hey Australian #Hansard fans, I've done a complete reharvest of all of the Hansard XML files from 1901 to 1980 from ParlInfo. There's been lots of improvements/corrections, and most of the file names have changed (they now have a version flag). The improvements seem to be ongoing, so I'll try to harvest more regularly from now on. You can download the lot here: https://github.com/wragge/hansard-xml
I still need to load the updated XML into the Historic Hansard site, but that's going to have to wait for a month or two... #digitalHumanities #histodons #ozhist
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We're beginning a short series on the big guns of charting mainland Aus & Tasmania - yep, Bass & Flinders.
This Ep we look at their backgrounds to see what drew them to NSW.
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/70-bass-flinders-pt1/ 🎧#Bass #Flinders #NewHolland #Navigtion #MapMaking #AustralianHistory #OzHist #History #HistoryPodcast #AustralianPodcast
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Ep 67, looking at the UNESCO World Heritage listed Maria Island, has been remixed with a slower pace. Have a listen now if you found the earlier version a little too busy. 🙂
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/67-maria-island/ 🎧
From it's aboriginal heritage, to use as a convict and then industrial site, to it's present day national park status - a rich interesting history.
#AustralianHistory #OzHist #AustralianPodcast #History #convicts #AustralianStories #MariaIsland #Tasmania #ConvictsTasmania #NationalParks
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A wing and a prayer: flying doctors and the struggle to access healthcare in remote Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/20/a-wing-and-a-prayer-flying-doctors-and-the-struggle-to-access-healthcare-in-remote-australia
We recently did a story on the history of the fabulous Flying Doctor Service 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/65-royal-flying-doctor-service/
#FlyingDoctor #RFDS #Australia #Outback #AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast
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A wing and a prayer: flying doctors and the struggle to access healthcare in remote Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/20/a-wing-and-a-prayer-flying-doctors-and-the-struggle-to-access-healthcare-in-remote-australia
We recently did a story on the history of the fabulous Flying Doctor Service 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/65-royal-flying-doctor-service/
#FlyingDoctor #RFDS #Australia #Outback #AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast
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📣 Another big week with 249,904 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove. Almost half of these (122,908) were from the Sydney Daily Mirror.
Other major changes include:
* Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic) +59,497 articles
* Queanbeyan Age (NSW) +37,310 articles
* Corryong Courier (Vic) +27,243 articlesNew newspapers:
* Northern Planter (Qld, 1907-08)
* South Sydney Sentinel (NSW, 1932-35)See the Trove Newspaper Data Dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanites #ozHist
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📣 187,475 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. Interestingly, 62,288 of them were in one newspaper from one year – Sydney's Daily Mirror in 1941 (seems like digitisation has just kicked off). There were also additions to Victorian and SA papers.
Other changes include:
* Queanbeyan Age (NSW) +38,050 articles
* Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic) +26,946 articles
* Port Lincoln Times (SA) 25,768 articlesNew newspapers:
* The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter (NSW, 1863)
See Trove newspaper data dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #digitalHumanites #histodons #ozHist
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About 2km of film documenting Australia in the 1930s and 1940s discovered in Perth and digitised. Film includes historic coverage of #crickethistory Good to see that the original is being donated to the National Film and Sound Archive!
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In 1928 the vision & tenacity of Flynn & several others created one of the most outstanding, helpful & appreciated services in Australia: the Royal Flying Doctor Service. 🔗 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/65-royal-flying-doctor-service/ 🎧
Have a listen to how the ideas & people brought it all together.#AustralianHistory #History #AustralianPodcast #AustralianStories #AusPods #OzHist #OzHistory #RFDS #RoyalFlyingDoctorService #JohnFlynn. Image:ANZ
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In 1928 the vision & tenacity of Flynn & several others created one of the most outstanding, helpful & appreciated services in Australia: the Royal Flying Doctor Service. 🔗 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/65-royal-flying-doctor-service/ 🎧
Have a listen to how the ideas & people brought it all together.#AustralianHistory #History #AustralianPodcast #AustralianStories #AusPods #OzHist #OzHistory #RFDS #RoyalFlyingDoctorService #JohnFlynn. Image:ANZ
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In 1928 the vision & tenacity of Flynn & several others created one of the most outstanding, helpful & appreciated services in Australia: the Royal Flying Doctor Service. 🔗 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/65-royal-flying-doctor-service/ 🎧
Have a listen to how the ideas & people brought it all together.#AustralianHistory #History #AustralianPodcast #AustralianStories #AusPods #OzHist #OzHistory #RFDS #RoyalFlyingDoctorService #JohnFlynn. Image:ANZ
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Fascinating and delicious. 🤤
"A lot of Easter traditions – including hot cross buns and lamb on Sunday – stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern twist on tradition."
https://theconversation.com/easter-eggs-their-evolution-from-chicken-to-chocolate-203074
#EasterEggs #Easter #History #Histodons #FoodTraditions #Traditions #AustralianHistory #AustralianPodcast #OzHist #HistoryPodcast
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Looks like late Jan, early Feb, dust off the telescope. Hope this info is applicable to the Southern Hemi as well….
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2023-01-year-comet-visible-naked-eye.html
Thanks for post @jhaue 😀#comet #NightSky #SkyGazing #stargazing #astronomy
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Ah, yes! This meme needs another outing….. Pass the fly spray…. 😬 🤣😂🤣
#insects #centaur #ArtMemes #humour #entomology
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I just love how the crowd I was part of on Twitter has started moving here and easily reconnecting. The connections with the people I first connected with on Twitter over 10 years ago appear to be particularly strong. It is bringing back great memories of being part of a small group of people around the world with similar interests, supporting each other.