Australian History Stories
True tales of convict capers, bushranger blunders and political pickles come alive. Unearth the dusty bits of our past you didn’t know you existed.
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In the early 1960s, a new "wonder drug" swept through Australian pharmacies—promising relief from morning sickness and sleepless nights. It was hailed as safe, gentle, and modern. But behind its glossy packaging, something sinister was unfolding. The truth about the drug would take years to surface—and when it did, it would reveal one of the darkest and most avoidable medical disasters in Australian history.
In 1629, the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia wrecked on the treacherous reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia. What followed was one of history’s most horrifying tales of survival, mutiny, and mass murder. Stranded on the lawless barren islands with no immediate rescue, a power-hungry merchant named Jeronymus Cornelisz seized control, unleashing a brutal reign of terror that saw over 100 men, women...
In the sun-scorched expanse of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt, late 1932 brought more than just drought and economic hardship—it brought an invader unlike any other. Not soldiers, not bandits, but a battalion of emus: towering, flightless birds with long legs that could outrun a man and a stubbornness that made them the unlikeliest adversaries in the annals of warfare.
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