Australian Gothic teaser

Welcome to our first episode where we explore the haunting case in the history of the Tasmanian Tiger.

Recommended Readings:
The Last Tasmanian Tiger: the History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Robert Paddle, 2000
books.google.com.au/books/about/The…id=wqIi6YTFPooC

Credits:
Not As it Seems, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Episode 1 - The Mysterious Tasmanian Tiger

In this episode we learn a bit about the Palawa, the traditional owners of Tasmania. We also tell the tale of the Black War, a very important but largely unknown conflict in Australian history.

Recommended Readings:
The Vandemonian War, Nicholas Brodie, 2017
http://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/the-vandemonian-war-by-nick-brodie/9781743793114

Greg Lehman
https://oxford.academia.edu/GregoryLehman

Credit:
Not As it Seems, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Episode 2 - Indigenous Tasmanians and the Black War

In this episode we dig into Australia's criminal past and I share some of my favourite tales of daring escape and escapades.

Recommended Readings:
Freedom on the Fatal Shore, John Hirst, 2008 
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/freedom-fatal-shore

Girt : The Unauthorised History of Australia
David Hunt, 2013
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/girt

Credit:
Not As it Seems, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Episode 3 - Convicts & Cannibals

In this episode I reveal a personal favourite moment of mass hysteria in Australian history- the unhinged obsession that the denizens of Down under have for Swedish disco pop group ABBA.

Recommended Readings:
Neil McMahon, Sydney Morning Herald
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/abba-mania-down-under-bomb-scares-a-coup-for-the-blues-and-the-800-school-lunchbox-20170218-gug3je.html

ABBA : The Movie (1977) Dir.  Lasse Hallström