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The Eleventh
- By: Alex Mann, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Narrated by: Alex Mann
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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You’ve probably heard that famous 'Well may we say' speech made by Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam on the day he was sacked by the queen’s representative, or seen the grainy footage from the steps of old parliament house. But do you properly understand the extraordinary events leading up to the most dramatic day in Australian political history? How did The Dismissal actually happen? This audio series takes you inside the highest circles of power to uncover pieces of this story that have never been told before.
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The Eleventh
- Narrated by: Alex Mann
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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The Aborigines and Maori: The History of the Indigenous Peoples in Australia and New Zealand
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before he reached Australia, he sailed near New Zealand and spent weeks mapping part of New Zealand’s coast. Thus, he was one of the first to observe and take note of the indigenous peoples of the two islands.
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Great toe in the water
- By Amazon Customer on 20-04-21
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The Aborigines and Maori: The History of the Indigenous Peoples in Australia and New Zealand
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-11-18
- Language: English
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Mythology: Aztec, Inca, Inuit, and Polynesian Myths
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Kaan Akyol
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Many of us don’t know much about mythological stories from these regions, and it is my pleasure and privilege to educate you on the intricate details that lie within them. That’s why I have also provided some fascinating facts and historical background about each of these peoples. Creation myths, legacies, the sacrificing of children, the empires, and their wars are all mentioned and touched on in this book.
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Poor production, ok content
- By Caketin on 21-12-21
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Mythology: Aztec, Inca, Inuit, and Polynesian Myths
- Narrated by: Kaan Akyol
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 29-05-20
- Language: English
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Hellfire
- By: Cameron Forbes
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates.
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Hellfire
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-08-09
- Language: English
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Destination Buchenwald
- The Astonishing Survival Story of Australian and New Zealand Airmen in a Nazi Death Camp
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged toward Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to face evacuation into the blackest, bloody heart of Germany and experience the most acute evil of the war. Amid great secrecy, those 168 airmen—including several from Australia and New Zealand—were transported on a filthy, overcrowded nightmare train journey which ended at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, accompanied by orders for their execution.
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Brings back a lot of bad memories.
- By Alan D. on 03-08-22
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Destination Buchenwald
- The Astonishing Survival Story of Australian and New Zealand Airmen in a Nazi Death Camp
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-07-22
- Language: English
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The Best Australian Yarns and Other True Stories
- By: Jim Haynes
- Narrated by: Jim Haynes
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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The Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive work collected from memory, mates, word of mouth and decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history.
Including oft-told legendary yarns, reminiscences from the shearing shed, tall stories from the bush, sporting yarns, railway yarns, stories from the world of show business, digger yarns from both world wars, convict and bushranger yarns and anecdotes from the colonial days, yarns from shanties and gold rushes, ghost stories, bunyips and yowies, hauntings, and weird happenings.
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The Best Australian Yarns and Other True Stories
- Narrated by: Jim Haynes
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-12-13
- Language: English
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Australia's Most Infamous Jail
- Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison
- By: James Phelps
- Narrated by: Silas Aiton
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has finally turned his attention to HM Prison Pentridge—the bluestone behemoth that was home to Victoria's worst criminals for more than a century. Beginning with a gang of guards and a handful of convicts, for more than 145 years Pentridge housed a who's who of Australian criminals and Melbourne's underworld including Ned Kelly and Mark 'Chopper' Read. This is gritty true crime storytelling, on steroids—about what life was really like behind the bluestone walls of Pentridge.
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Australia's Most Infamous Jail
- Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison
- Narrated by: Silas Aiton
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-01-24
- Language: English
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Captive Paradise
- A History of Hawaii
- By: James L. Haley
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its discovery by Captain Cook in the late 18th century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient gods, sexual libertinism, and rites of human sacrifice and the rigid values of the Calvinists.
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History according to the most unimaginative bore
- By Literally daisy on 10-08-22
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Captive Paradise
- A History of Hawaii
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-12-14
- Language: English
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Australia's Secret Army
- By: Michael Veitch
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. They were mostly all unpaid volunteers whose job it was simply to observe and report on foreign shipping and aeroplane movements. It was never envisaged that the Coast Watchers would do any fighting, nor operate inside enemy-occupied territory.
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Australia's Secret Army
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 31-08-22
- Language: English
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Australia's Dambusters
- Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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It was the evening of 16 May 1943. Nineteen modified Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, under the command of youthful Wing Commander Guy Gibson, roared into the night sky from their Lincolnshire base. They were on a top-secret Bomber Command mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, now regarded as one of the most dangerous and audacious bombing raids of World War II - an attack on the formidable, well-defended dams of Germany’s Ruhr Valley. Slung beneath the belly of each aircraft was one of the war’s greatest secrets - a bouncing bomb.
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Australia's Dambusters
- Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-07-21
- Language: English
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Race to Hawaii
- By: Jason Ryan
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Almost a century ago, the first flights to Hawaii required a nerve-racking and uncertain 26-hour journey to isolated and elusive islands located in the middle of the world's largest ocean. Pilots prayed they would encounter land after flying a full day and night across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights to Hawaii in the 1920s, during the Golden Age of Aviation.
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A splendid and gripping book!
- By Antoine Vanner on 14-12-22
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Race to Hawaii
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-08-18
- Language: English
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Where Soldiers Lie
- By: Ian McPhedran
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Over thirty five thousand Australian soldiers and airmen are still listed as Missing In Action from the wars of the 20th Century. Telling the moving story of the determination and skill of the searchers who apply old-fashioned detective work and cutting-edge science to solve the mysteries of the missing and bring peace of mind and solace to their families and to all those who serve, Where Soldiers Lie follows these investigators and scientists on their mission to locate and identify unrecovered war casualties and to unlock their secrets.
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Where Soldiers Lie
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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From the Edge
- Australia's Lost Histories
- By: Mark McKenna
- Narrated by: Andrew Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must walk 700 kilometres north to Sydney. That remarkable walk is a story of endurance but also of unexpected Aboriginal help.
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From the Edge
- Australia's Lost Histories
- Narrated by: Andrew Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-12-16
- Language: English
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Australian Mythology
- Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians
- By: Matt Clayton
- Narrated by: Mike Reaves
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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According to the Australian government’s website, at the time of first contact with Europeans, there were some 500 distinct Indigenous nations, speaking different languages and following their own religious and cultural practices. As with all human societies, that of the Indigenous Australians is abounding in stories. Stories of how the world came to be the way it is, stories of heroism and perfidy, stories about animals and birds, and stories about love and hate all have parts to play in the wide array of myths, legends, and tales created by Indigenous Australians.
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Great Stories
- By Erin Field on 01-05-20
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Australian Mythology
- Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians
- Narrated by: Mike Reaves
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-04-20
- Language: English
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Always Was, Always Will Be
- The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues
- By: Thomas Mayo
- Narrated by: Thomas Mayo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking for guidance as to how to continue to support Indigenous recognition. Mayo, a leader of the Yes 23 campaign and co-author of the bestselling The Voice to Parliament Handbook, has produced a new audiobook to answer that question. For the thousands of people who have been feeling sad, empty and powerless since last October, Always Was, Always Will Be aims to be a positive rallying cry. This will map the path toward next steps on how to create a fairer Australia.
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Always Was, Always Will Be
- The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues
- Narrated by: Thomas Mayo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects
- By: Jock Phillips
- Narrated by: Jock Phillips
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
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The sewing kete of an unknown 18th-century Maori woman; the Endeavour cannons that fired on waka in 1769; the bagpipes of an Irish publican Paddy Galvin; the school uniform of Harold Pond, a Napier Tech pupil in the Hawke’s Bay quake; the Biko shields that tried to protect protestors during the Springbok tour in 1981; Winston Reynolds’ remarkable home-made Hokitika television set, the oldest working TV in the country; the soccer ball that was a tribute to Tariq Omar, a victim of the Christchurch Mosque shootings, and so many more.
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A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects
- Narrated by: Jock Phillips
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-12-22
- Language: English
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The Kelly Hunters
- By: Grantlee Kieza
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train before waging their final bloody gun battle with police in the small Victorian town of Glenrowan.
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The Kelly Hunters
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 16-03-22
- Language: English
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Voyagers
- The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library)
- By: Nicholas Thomas
- Narrated by: Mark Robertson
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nick Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between the Americas and the western coast of Asia from late prehistory onwards: firstly the colonization by speakers of Austronesian languages of the western Pacific littoral, from around 3000 BC, of the Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia; followed by the later settlement, by Polynesian peoples, of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and eventually New Zealand, up to AD 1250.
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Voyagers
- The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library)
- Narrated by: Mark Robertson
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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The Lost Battalions
- By: Tom Gilling
- Narrated by: David Treddinick
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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A little known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in Java during World War II and the heroes who kept them alive in the worst of Japan's prisoner of war camps. They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'.
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The Lost Battalions
- Narrated by: David Treddinick
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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Arnold Sodeman: The True Story of the Schoolgirl Strangler
- True Crime by Evil Killers, Book 1
- By: Jack Rosewood
- Narrated by: Gaius M. Thynne
- Length: 51 mins
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Captured in the 1930s before the words psychopath and pedophile were part of common vernacular, notorious serial killer Arnold Sodeman murdered four young girls with little thought of remorse. Without guilt, the evil serial killer strangled them to death with their own clothing and left their small bodies alone in the Australian brush, earning himself a chilling position in the annals of Australian crime.
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Not for me
- By JULESK on 24-03-19
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Arnold Sodeman: The True Story of the Schoolgirl Strangler
- True Crime by Evil Killers, Book 1
- Narrated by: Gaius M. Thynne
- Series: True Crime by Evil Killers, Book 1
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 10-10-16
- Language: English
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