Australian Stories from our Past

A podcast about Australian family stories and social history. Everyone has a story that we want to tell. To contact us, email us at: australianstories101@gmail.com or search for "Australian Stories from our Past" on Facebook or YouTube.

Australian Stories from our Past is a history podcast hosted by Greg and Peter, with 37 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Greg and Peter hosts Australian Stories from our Past, a history show with 37 episodes published.

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  Episode #25

  The Long Road To Bendigo (Episode 25)

  Mar 20, 202629 minS0

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Nine weeks on the road and the Murray finally slips behind them, but Bendigo still doesn’t feel real.  We pick up our 1852 overland trek right where the party crosses into Victoria, a colony gripped by Australian gold rush fever, and we track the next month of slow, stubborn progress through Mallee scrub, sandhills, swamps, and half-formed bullock dray tracks that barely resemble modern roads.<br/><br/>We also step back to ask a messy question with big consequences: who actually “owned” the land they’re moving through?  Squatters have rushed across the Murray fro...

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  Episode #24

  E24 - Off to the Rush - Crossing the Murray

  Mar 13, 202632 minS0

  <p>Send a text</p><p>A river in flood can be a teacher and a judge.  We open on the Murray–Darling Basin’s split personality—winter-and-snowmelt-fed Murray versus summer-storm-fed Darling—to explain why our 1852 trek met a swollen Murray while the Darling ran lower.  From there, the story flows to Gundagai, a town mapped neatly between a big river and an anabranch despite Wiradjuri warnings.  Earlier floods wrote clear messages in mud, yet officials kept the town on the plain until the Murrumbidgee rose in June 1852 and carried away lives, homes, and any illusion that tidy grids beat water.<br/>...

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  Episode #23

  E23 - Off to the Rush - Crossing the Darling - Twice

  Mar 6, 202631 minS0

  <p>Send a text</p><p>A newborn in a spring cart, a flood-swollen river, and a punt that won’t run on Sundays—our 1852 trek along the Murray is a study in grit, chance, and consequence.  We read the original diaries aloud and sit with what they reveal: Regent parrots blazing over saltbush, lost stockmen saved by First Nations know-how, and the stark reality of cattle drowning as they “ring the water” mid-crossing.  Every scene is anchored in place—Frenchman’s Creek, Bagot’s Billabong, the Great Darling Anabranch—so you can feel how the landscape sets the agenda.<br/><br/>We trace...

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  Australian Stories from our Past

  E22 - Off to the Rush - Life and Death along the Track

  Feb 27, 202631 minS0

  <p>Send a text</p><p>A flooded river, a stubborn pony, and a crooked border set the stage for a journey that refuses to fit neat lines on a map.  We follow our hardy party from Lake Bonney through sand and scrub toward Lake Victoria, rebuilding their path from terse diary entries and hard choices made under rain-heavy skies.  What some call Freeman’s Creek aligns with Ral Ral, and distances snap into focus: eighteen rough miles off the river flats, then a camp where a stockkeeper, local guides, and a “mungo” canoe become essential to keeping the trek alive.<b...

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  Episode #21

  E21 - Off to the Rush - North West Corner to Lake Bonney

  Feb 20, 202635 minS0

  <p>Send a text</p><p>A river can be a map, a memory, and a meeting place all at once.  We follow the Murray’s sweep from Charles Sturt’s gruelling 1830 voyage and the collapse of the inland sea myth, to Joseph Hawdon’s cattle drive that carved the overland stock route, and then into the gritty detail of our 1852 party wrestling a stubborn Timor pony through sand toward Overland Corner and Lake Bonney.  The story unfolds in raw diary lines, vivid landscapes, and the older truths of Country that surface in shell middens and trade paths.<br/><br/>Sturt’s...

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