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The Inuit told of a group of forty men dragging a boat south, they were all very thin and using sign language made it known that their ship had been crushed in the ice, they purchased a seal from the Inuit. Later the same season, the same party were encountered, or at least what remained of them about a day’s walk from the Great Fish River. The men Rae spoke to had not seen the group first hand but were recounting a story told to them by others.

The scene described was apocalyptic, there were scattered dead bodies, in tents, under the upturned boat or out in the open. Many of the bodies has been hacked with knives and human remains were reported in cooking pots, they said there were thirty dead in that place, another five dead were found on a nearby island...

It was a quest that had consumed some of Europe’s most accomplished mariners for almost four centuries, a generations-spanning obsession that chipped away at the European understanding of North America’s high latitudes, oftentimes at great cost to both vessels and lives.

The search for the fabled Northwest Passage.

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WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISTURBING THEMES

Over the decades since its construction, countless people have chosen to end their lives at Melbourne's West Gate bridge. Many of those who landed in water, surviving the fall, drowned afterwards.

Tragically, this is the fate that met an innocent 4-year-old girl, Darcy Freeman.

Obviously, 4-year-old girls aren’t predisposed or statistically likely to commit suicide… Darcy Freeman, was thrown from the West Gate bridge, hurled into the abyss by the one person that should’ve been her ultimate protector, her father.

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Charles Yelverton O'Connor was best known for developing Fremantle Harbour and for the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme (often known simply as the Goldfields Pipeline), it was the latter project that drove him to despair and to eventually take his own life.

"I feel that my brain is suffering and I am in great fear of what effect all this worry may have upon me — I have lost control of my thoughts."

O'Connor wrote the letter on March 10, 1902, the same day he rode his horse past Fremantle Harbour, south to Robb Jetty, then into the breaking waves of the West Australian coast, where he would take his own life with a single pistol shot.

So what drove one of the greatest engineering minds of the young, emerging Australian nation to take his own life?

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To go along with our upcoming Robert Mugabe timeline episode, I sat down with some of Jack's family friends.

Denis Charles Petmezaki, his wife Fay and their daughter Cal, all grew up in- what was at the time Rhodesia- now Zimbabwe. Denis has written a book entitled "So Far And So Good"- tales from the London blitz to the African bush and on to Australia: a life of uncommon adventure.

Denis was born in 1931, he is currently 89 years old, the fact that he and his family took time out of their day to sit down and share their experiences was a real pleasure. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed the homemade sausage rolls they provided during the recording!

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In 1965, the area in Africa then known as Rhodesia — the colonialist name for the region that’s now Zimbabwe — had established a new regime in the wake of British colonial rule.

When the country’s white leaders declared its independence late that year, TIME magazine noted that it was “the first nation in history to launch itself into a world all but unanimous in its hostility.” The U.N. also called it an “illegal racist minority regime.”

By the time a decade had passed, it was clear to all — except maybe some white Rhodesians who were not willing to accept the inevitable — that the existing government would not last much longer in the face of guerrilla resistance at home and disapproval around the globe. In a desperate attempt to stall the coming change, black activists were routinely jailed.

Robert Mugabe was one of these activists… So was he a freedom fighter, political activist, an evil dictator or all of the above?

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With all the talk of Coronavirus and pandemics spreading the globe, it's time to sit down with someone that knows what's up...

"Nurse Erin" took time out of her busy schedule to sit down with us and share the ins and outs of all things plagues, pandemics and pestilence.

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In the realm of infectious diseases, a pandemic is the worst case scenario. When an epidemic spreads beyond a country’s borders, that is when the disease officially becomes a pandemic.

Communicable diseases have been around since before modern humans even appeared on the global stage. These diseases existed during humankind’s hunter-gatherer days, but the shift to agrarian life 10,000 years ago created communities that made epidemics more possible, and even more deadly.

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"The temperature became torrid, and on the morning of the 6th of February, the air which blew down from the north resembled the breath of a furnace. A fierce wind arose, gathering strength and velocity from hour to hour, until about noon it blew with the violence of a tornado. By some inexplicable means it wrapped the whole country in a sheet of flame — fierce, awful, and irresistible."

Bushfires have been a part of the Australian landscape for millions of years, but regardless of this fact of nature, some of the worst will always stay burned into our minds.

The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were among Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters. The fires occurred during extreme bushfire weather conditions and resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of human life from a bushfire.

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WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that the following episode may contain audio and voices of deceased persons.

The Don Dale Youth Detention Centre was the Northern Territory's first purpose-built institution for young male and female offenders from across the Northern Territory aged from 10 to 16 years. Built in 1991, it was originally located adjacent to Berrimah Prison. In recent years the centre has become infamous for systematic abuse of detainees.

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Man’s inhumanity to man is a tale as old as time. However, what I find really interesting, isn’t the random acts of violence, or the calculated ponderings of some sadistic psychopath. What really freaks me out, is when a parent carries out the most inhumane acts on a child, their child, their own flesh and blood… Genetically speaking we’re predisposed to want to nurture and protect our offspring, but sometimes, the wires of parental care get crossed, and a truly demonic presence is unleashed on the world.

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