<p>The last man to be hanged in Australia died in 1967, but the first died long before the British ever arrived. In this episode we explore the executions of the innocent and the guilty throughout Australia’s early history, as well as the life of famed executioner and social pariah, Solomon Blay. </p>

The last man to be hanged in Australia died in 1967, but the first died long before the British ever arrived. In this episode we explore the executions of the innocent and the guilty throughout Australia’s early history, as well as the life of famed executioner and social pariah, Solomon Blay.

Death by Hanging

Australia. The Antipodes. The gothic dungeon at the bottom of the world. A land of reversals. Where swans are black instead of white. Where colonisers brought their own dark subconscious and had it realised huge and grotesque upon the landscape. 

This series will examine colonial and post-colonial history to understand where we’ve come from and how this shapes who we are today. How did we get from there to here? And after such bloody beginnings, what spectres still haunt the Australian subconscious? 

Who are the Ghosts of the Australian Psyche?

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Australia. The Antipodes. The gothic dungeon at the bottom of the world. A land of reversals. Where swans are black instead of white. Where colonisers brought their own dark subconscious and had it realised huge and grotesque upon the landscape. This series will examine colonial and post-colonial history to understand where we’ve come from and how this shapes who we are today. How did we get from there to here? And after such bloody beginnings, what spectres still haunt the Australian subconscious? Who are the Ghosts of the Australian Psyche?

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