Australia's Invisible History

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Betty Cuthbert was a Sydney girl, who went on to become one of Australia’s Greatest Athletes. She was the first Australian Olympian to win 3 gold medals at the one games, taking the gold in 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay in 1956. In 1969 she learned she had developed multiple sclerosis and became an important advocate for the disease and campaigner for national awareness.

 

Further Reading:

https://www.athletics.com.au/hall-of-fame-directory/betty-cuthbert/

https://www.olympics.com.au/olympians/betty-cuthbert/

Autobiography – Golden Girl: An Autobiography Betty Cuthbert

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Florence Young was a New Zealand-born farm girl who sought to better the lives of Pacific Islander farm labourers who had been blackbirded into the Queensland sugar industry. She taught them to read, preached the Christian gospel and started church communities in Queensland and the Solomon Islands.

Further Reading:
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/young-florence-selina-9214
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/it-happened-today/5/28

Autobiography - Pearls From the Pacific by Florence S. H. Young
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Pearls-Pacific-Young-Florence-S-H/30951770486/bd

Biography - Florence Young - Mission Accomplished by Janet and Geoff Benge
https://www.koorong.com/product/florence-young-mission-accomplished-christian-heroes-then-now_1576583139

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Hester Hornbrook was a big-hearted woman who was moved by the plight of kids in poverty in Melbourne in the 1850s.  At the age of 74, she launched her first ragged school to care for these kids.

Further reading:

https://myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1850/decade_landing_15_1.html?tabRank=3&subTabRank=2

https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/provenance-journal/provenance-2015/squalor-and-vice-virtue-and-knowledge

https://www.hhacademy.vic.edu.au/

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In this episode, we meet an adventurous bush nurse who dedicated her life to helping people in the outback.

Further reading:

Flynn’s Outback Angels – Vol 2, by Ivan Rudolph

https://www.booktopia.com.au/flynn-s-outback-angels-volume-2-fulfilling-the-vision-ivan-rudolph/book/9781922109477.html

Listen to Meg’s oral history interview with the National Library of Australia, recorded in 1988

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1603343

https://vimeo.com/14178295

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Fighting McKenzie: The Salvation Army Chaplain who became a legend at Gallipoli.

Further reading:

The Man the Anzacs Revered by Daniel Reynaud

Fighting McKenzie: Anzac Chaplain by Col Stringer.

Both available from koorong.com

This article is well worth a read. 

https://www.northqueenslandregister.com.au/story/3365864/the-legendary-fighting-mac/

The Australian Dictionary of Biography:

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mckenzie-william-7391

 

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RBS Hammond started caring for unemployed people in inner Sydney during the Great Depression. Known as a 'Mender of Broken Men', he was also a committed social reformer who aimed to restore hope, dignity and self-esteem to the destitute. He promoted affordable housing for Sydney's unemployed. 

To view images of RBS Hammond visit:

https://dictionaryofsydney.org/person/hammond_rbs

Further Reading:

Faith in Action: HammondCare by Meredith Lake

You can also read Meredith Lake’s entry on Dictionary of Sydney:

https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/hammond_robert_brodribb_stewart

Australian Dictionary of Biography by Joan Mansfield

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hammond-robert-brodribb-6543

And the history of Hammond Care:

https://www.hammond.com.au/about/history

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Meet the inspiring founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service – John Flynn.

 

Ivan Rudolph wrote a comprehensive biography of John Flynn.

Https://www.booktopia.com.au/john-flynn-ivan-rudolph/book/9781921920752.html

 

And there is some good information on the Flying Doctor Website.

https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/about-the-rfds/history/john-flynn-bio/

 

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Meet the two nursing sisters who headed bush in 1946 in a touring ambulance that came to be known as Augustus. 

You can read more about Marjorie Wilkinson and Ethel Helyar in the book Angels of Augustus. 

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• Angels of Augustus

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Meet Australia’s Martin Luther King - the founder of The Civil Rights Movement in Australia. Bill Ferguson was an Aboriginal leader who fought for equal rights for Australia’s indigenous peoples.

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More info about this episode:

• aiatsis.gov.au/explore/william-bill-ferguson
• dailyliberal.com.au/story/6106700/proud-day-bronze-statue-immortalises-icon-william-bill-ferguson-photos/
• abc.net.au/news/2019-05-04/indigenous-rights-activist-bill-ferguson-immortalized-in-bronze/10966570

 

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In today’s episode we’re travelling to a small town called Jerilderie in the southern Riverina of NSW, just north of the Victorian border. It’s the place where Ned Kelly wrote his infamous Jerilderie letter. There we will meet the minister and missionary who stood up to Ned Kelly.

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