Australia's Invisible History: Recent Episodes

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So many of us Australians don’t know our own history. But that can all change. Join Sydney-based broadcaster and author Katrina Roe and The Outback Historian Paul Roe as they make the "invisible" visible by digging up the buried stories of Australia’s heroes, pioneers and visionaries.

Here, you'll meet Australians from every corner of the country, the city and the bush including migrants and Indigenous Australians, men and women, nurses, doctors, activists, boxers, athletes, missionaries and ministers. The one thing they all have in common is that their faith inspired them to work for the greater good and put others before themselves.

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Moses Tjalkabota was a charismatic and well-known personality in Central Australia.

An Arrarnte man, his early years were spent on country in a traditional Aboriginal lifestyle, learning Arrarnte culture from his elders. As a child, he was schooled on the Hermannsburg Mission.

Known affectionately as Blind Moses, he became an evangelist. Regarded as a master storyteller and public speaker, he attracted large crowds whenever he preached in public.

Although he was blind, he travelled vast distances over Central Australia to share his message with Aboriginal people in their communities.

Further information:
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Hermannsburg.com.au
Alice Springs News
Blind Moses, Aranda Man of High Degree and Christian Evangelist by Peter Latz, IAD Press, 2015

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Edith Cowan made it her mission to see women participating in every area of public life – education, religion, politics, health, the law and social justice.

She founded and worked for numerous volunteer organisations that promoted the rights and welfare of women and children, including the House of Mercy for unmarried mothers, The Karrakatta Women’s Club, The Children’s Protection Society and King Edward Memorial Hospital.

She was the first woman to ever sit in an Australian Parliament and today she has a university named after.

She can be seen on the Australian $50 note.

Further information:

Australian Dictionary of Biography
National Museum Australia
RBA - People on the Bank Notes – Edith Cowan
State Library of WA
Women Australia

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David Unaipon was an Aboriginal preacher, inventor, author and activist.

Profoundly gifted in several fields, his achievements emphatically disproved the prejudiced preconceptions that existed about Aboriginal people at the time.

He lectured publicly on science and theology and patented nine inventions, including a shear that turned circular motion into lateral motion.

He collected the myths and legends of Aboriginal people and was the first indigenous Australian to be published, although his book was not originally published under his own name.

By the 1920s, he was the most well-known Aboriginal person in Australia and was able to be a public voice on behalf of his people.

He can be seen on the Australian $50 note.

Further information:

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines by David Unaipon, edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2001

My Life Story, by David Unaipon, Adelaide: Aborigines Friends Association, 1954

'Aboriginals: Their Traditions and Customs' by David Unaipon, Daily Telegraph, 2 August 1924.

Australian Dictionary of Biography

RBA - People on the Bank Notes – David Unaipon 1872 - 1967

The State Library of New South Wales: Significant Individuals : David Unaipon

The State Library of New South Wales – Stories – David Unaipon

Kids Britannica – David Unaipon

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Lt. Col Ralph Honner is a World War II hero and one of Australia’s best-known officers.

He is remembered for his inspired efforts leading the exhausted men of the 39th battalion in their heroic defence at Isurava on the arduous Kokoda Track. He also inflicted a decisive defeat on the Japanese at Gona on the Northern coast of New Guinea, where he was severely wounded.

After his retirement, Honner went on to serve as the ambassador to Ireland.

A man of faith and a poetic soul, he was deeply respected and admired by the men he led, and even honoured by his enemies.

Further information:

Ralph Honner, Kokoda Hero by Peter Brune, Allen & Unwin, 2007

Gona’s Gone!: The Battle for the Beachhead 1942, by Peter Brune, Allen & Unwin, 1994

Kokoda Historical

Australian War Memorial

Australian Dictionary of Biography

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Caroline Chisholm was a philanthropist, social reformer and humanitarian, who 
devoted herself to helping unemployed migrants, particularly vulnerable young 
women. 
She set up a safehouse and employment agency for single women, and 
personally escorted them to their new homes in the country.
She campaigned to bring out the families of former convicts for free, so they 
could be reunited with their loved ones in Australia.
In 1847, she became the first woman to address the House of Lords in 
Westminster. She was also the first woman, other than the Queen, to feature on 
an Australian bank note. 
But the time she returned to England in 1846, she had helped 11,000 new 
Australians find homes and work. 

Further information:
Caroline Chisholm – An Irresistible Force, by Sarah Goldman, HarperCollins, 2017
Caroline Chisholm – The Emigrant’s Friends, by Joanna Bogle
Caroline Chisholm – The Emigrant’s Friend by Tania McCartney (Junior Historical 
Fiction)
Australian Dictionary of Biography
One Saint For Australia - Newspaper Article

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A true, rags to riches story, Mary Reibey came to Australia as a teenage convict in 1792. She was just 14 years old when she was sentenced to seven years transportation. When her husband died, leaving her with seven children, she took over all his business dealings. A tough and determined businesswoman, she built a fortune as a ship-owner, trader and property developer in the early days of the colony. She erected many elegant buildings in Sydney, some of which are still standing, and was one of the founders of Westpac bank. As a philanthropist, she made a significant contribution to education, charity and church.
Today her face can be seen on the Australian $20 note.

Further information:
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Dictionary of Sydney
Aussie Notables – Mary Reibey (Children’s book) by Allan Drummond, 2011
Mary Reibey: From Convict to First Lady of Trade, by Kathleeen J. Pullen, 1975.
Dear Cousin: The Reibey Letters: Twenty Two Letters of the Reibey Family,
includuing Letters of Mary Reiby, Her Children & Their Descendants, 1792-1901
Minding Her Own Business; Colonial Business Women in Sydney by Catherine Bishop, 2015

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In the 1920s, Stanley and Lucy Drummond travelled together around the remote outback areas of Far Western NSW from their base in Cobar. In their travels, they met many families who had suffered unspeakable loss due to the lack of medical services. Stanley Drummond dreamed of bringing outback kids to the beach for R&R and medical care.58 kids attended the first Far West Seaside Camp in 1924. By 1935,they opened the Drumond Far West Home in Manly, known today as Royal Far West -the only charity dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of country kids.Decades later,Stanely and Lucy Drummond were still remembered as heroes by the outback families they helped.

Further information:

Drummond of the Far West, by M. Maclean, 1947

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Royal Far West

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Content Warning: This Episode Contains The Mention Of Suicide

Rev Sir Alan Walker is best known as the founder of the telephone counselling service, Lifeline. It was the first service of its kind and led the way for telephone counselling and telehealth services around the world.

He ran Wesley Mission for 20 years and was quite a media personality in his day with columns in the Fairfax Press and a very popular TV show.

His ethics were so highly regarded that the Governor-General, Bill Hayden called him ‘the conscience of the nation’.

Lifeline 13 11 14

Further information:

Tireless Crusader for Peace, SMH, https://www.smh.com.au/national/tireless-crusader-for-peace-20030205-gdg7zl.html

https://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/alan-walker/

Alan Walker: Conscience of the Nation by Don Wright, Open Book Publishers, 1997

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Sir Doug and Lady Gladys Nicholls had a powerful partnership.

They grew up together at Cummeragunja Mission on the Murray River.

Doug was a Yorta Yorta man who played AFL at the highest level for ten years, playing for both Northcote and Fitzroy. Though he experienced racism, he was a popular player and today the indigenous round of the AFL is named after him.

Together with his wife Gladys, they campaigned for reconciliation, pastored a church and provided practical help to indigenous people in the Fitzroy area. They had an unusual unity of purpose with their shared experiences, vision and faith.

Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls was the first indigenous Australian to be knighted and remains the only indigenous Australian to hold vice-regal office, when he was Governor of South Australia.

Further information:

Mavis Thorpe Clark, Pastor Doug: The Story of Sir Douglas Nicholls, Aboriginal Leader, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972.

First People Relations

National Museum Australia

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Australian Football

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Ever heard the expression ‘telling a Furphy’? In this episode, you’ll learn where that saying comes from.

John Furphy was the inventor of the ubiquitous Furphy water cart, seen all over rural Australia. It was during the first world war that the famous water cart let to the slang expression ‘telling a Furphy’.

His younger brother John was known for his literary talents – he's been dubbed the ‘father of the Australian novel’. As a bullock driver on the Hay plains, he would read Shakespeare and the bible, while his colleagues drank away their earnings. In 1903, he published, ‘Such is Life’, a book celebrated for being ‘offensively Australian’.

Although their name is synonymous with ‘spinning a tall story’, these brothers were dedicated to the truth.

The Furphy foundry still operates to this day in his home of Shepparton, Victoria.

Further information:

Such is Life, by Joseph Furphy

https://www.furphystory.com.au

https://furphyfoundry.com.au/the-origins-of-telling-a-furphy/

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/furphy-joseph-6261

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Charles O’Neil was the founder of Vinnies in New South Wales. An accomplished engineer and a former Parliamentarian in New Zealand, Charles was torn between his professional career and his desire to serve the poor. Charles sought a ‘more authentic vision of Christian charity that was unobtrusive, non-judgemental and respected the dignity of the poor’. At the request of the charity, he moved to Australia to establish the work of St Vincent de Paul around The Rocks area of Sydney. His energy, drive and passion took Vinnies from strength to strength and today the organisation helps 1.8 million Australians every year.

Further information:

Captain Charles, Engineer of Charity by Stephen Utick https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oneill-charles-gordon-4333

https://www.vinnies.org.au/page/About/History/Founder_of_the_Society_in_Australia/

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Thomas Shadrac James is one of Australia’s most successful teachers. He turned a wooden building on the Murray River into a bush university for the Yorta Yorta people – one that grew leaders who changed Australia!

The son of indentured labourers in Mauritius, Thomas Shadrac James believed that education could empower Australia’s Aboriginal people to campaign for equality and justice. Many of his students, like William Cooper and Sir Doug Nicholls, went on to become the leaders of the civil rights movement in Australia. Together with his son, he founded the first Aboriginal political party in Australia – the Aborigines Progressives Association.

Further information:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-10/thomas-shadrach-james-teacher-of-aboriginal-activists/12846650

https://www.monash.edu/education/future-students/why-study-with-us/scholarships/thomas-shadrach-james

https://christiantoday.com.au/news/thomas-shadrach-james-australian-educator.html

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David Bussau was a multi-millionaire by the age of 35. Abandoned at an orphanage as a child, he set up his first business – a hotdog stand at the footy – by the age of 15. David’s entrepreneurial spirit wasn’t satisfied with just being rich, he also wanted to make a difference. When Cyclone Tracey struck Darwin, David found his first opportunity to help. It set him on a path that would see him become the co-founder of Opportunity International - a charity that fights poverty through microfinance loans. His dream was to help the poor help themselves.

David Bussau was awarded the Order of Australia and named Senior Australian of the Year in 2008.

Further information:

Don’t Look Back: How an abandoned child became a champion of the poor by Phillipa Tyndale

https://australianoftheyear.org/recipients/david-bussau/121/

https://opportunity.org.au/what-we-do/about-us/david-bussau-and-our-history

Watch David Bussau on Australian Story: https://opportunity.org.au/news/videos/australian-story-david-bussau

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‘Everyone has a song to sing…’

Sister Janet Mead was a humble nun who shot into the international music charts in 1974 with a rock version of The Lord’s Prayer. Her unexpected hit reached number 3 on the Australian music charts. She was the first Australian to achieve gold record status in the US. But she turned down the chance to record her own music and tour the world, to continue teaching. She was named South Australian Citizen of the Year in 2005 for her decades of caring for the homeless.

Further reading:

Vale Sister Janet Mead - | State Library of South Australia (slsa.sa.gov.au)

Sister Janet Mead, who turned The Lord's Prayer into a rock hit, dies aged 84 - ABC News

South Australian Sister Janet Mead dies aged 84 (theaustralian.com.au)

Sister Janet Mead — a REAL rocker nun | A Nun's Life Ministry (anunslife.org)

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Mei Quong Tart was a Sydney businessman and Mandarin of the Fourth Grade.

His QVB tearooms were regarded as the finest in the city. Quong Tart was an active philanthropist, and his thriving business was a hub of charity and community.  He hosted free meals for the city’s homeless, for Aboriginal Australians and anyone in need.

A leader in the Chinese community and an anti-drug campaigner, Quong Tart was a colourful character who embraced Chinese, Scottish and Australian culture.

Further reading:

Who was Quong Tart? | State Library of NSW

Quong Tart, wife Margaret, and family, 1903 - Chinese Australian Families - Culture Victoria (cv.vic.gov.au)

Biography - Mei Quong Tart - Australian Dictionary of Biography (anu.edu.au)

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Professor Graeme Clark may not be a household name, but as the man behind the Cochlear implant or ‘bionic ear’, he is one of Australia’s most successful inventors. When he first outlined his dream of bypassing the inner ear so deaf people could hear, he was ridiculed by many in the medical profession. Today, hundreds of thousands of deaf and hearing-impaired people have benefitted from his invention. In 2001, he was named Senior Australian of the Year.

Further reading:

About Graeme Clark - Graeme Clark Foundation

Professor Graeme Clark AC - Australian of the Year

Professor Graeme Clark, Otolaryngologist | Australian Academy of Science

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Meet the man behind the iconic department store.

Coming to Australia in the 1830’s, David Jones created a new way to do business. 

Well known for his landmark department store, he used his wealth to serve his community. Along with other members of the influential Pitt Street Congregational Church, his goal was to serve God through his business and contribute to a better society. 

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Fascinated by anatomy from a young age, Constance Stone was unable to study medicine in Australia because no Australian university would accept women. Undeterred, she travelled to the USA, Canada and the UK to train as a doctor. After working in London’s New Hospital for Women, she was inspired to create a hospital “by women, for women” in Melbourne.  With support from her doctor husband, her sister Clara and a team of young women doctors, she founded the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women.

Further Reading:
The Life of Dr Constance Stone
Australian Dictionary of Biography - Constance Stone
The Australian Women's Register

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An orchardist, trader, midwife and mother, Maria Ann ‘Granny’ Smith was highly regarded in her community, as were her distinctive green apples. After her passing, her popular apple became famous around the globe. However, behind this well-known apple is a lesser-known message, for everyone who has ever felt discarded. 

Further Reading:
Ryde Government Website
Granny Smith Apple
Australian Food Timeline

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David Garland was the driving force behind Anzac Day commemorations.  Garland was a minister and volunteer military chaplain who served in the Middle East during the first world war. His love for the service men and women of the first world war led him to campaign for public recognition of their service and sacrifices.  He initiated many of the common elements of Anzac Day commemorations such as marches, wreath-laying and observing 2 minutes silence. 

Further Reading:
Australian Dictionary of Biography - David Garland

David Garland Restoration

Memorial to David Garland

Moses, John. George F. Davis. Anzac Day Origins: Canon DJ Garland and Trans-Tasman Commemoration, Barton Books, 2013.

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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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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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  • dailyliberal.com.au/story/6106700/proud-day-bronze-statue-immortalises-icon-william-bill-ferguson-photos/
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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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Starting July 5. So many of us in Australia don’t know our own history. Many of the stories of Australia’s heroes, pioneers and visionaries have been buried. We don’t know their stories, we don’t even know their names. In this podcast, we want to dig up their stories, and light up their names – make them visible again.

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