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 2020

Wikipedia

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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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