Diaries from two voyages to Sydney aboard the famous Scottish clipper, Samuel Plimsoll.

It was a perilous time to be at sea. Disease and fever spread through the ship.

Both journeys ended prematurely at Sydney's North Head quarantine station.

Samuel Plimsoll sails to quarantine

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In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van turned out to be the largest haul of an illicit substance, black hashish, to land on Australian soil at the time. The campervan belonged to two elderly American women tourists, whose overseas holiday odyssey quickly spiralled into a hellish nightmare.

Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2

In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land in Australia, stashed inside a campervan belonging to two elderly American women tourists. But were these women truly drug smugglers or naive puppets in an elaborate plot masterminded by someone else?

Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1

Activist and lawyer Michael Mansell has been fighting for Aboriginal rights in Australia for over 50 years. In this episode his daughter Nala Mansell sits down with her father for a conversation about his life on the frontline, and the resilience of palawa identity in lutruwita Tasmania

Michael Mansell: a life of radical resistance

A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war

Samuel Plimsoll sails to quarantine

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