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Australia On This Day

Australia On This Day

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 What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

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Michael Adams Social Sciences True Crime World
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  • 5 August - 1944 - The Cowra Breakout

    5 August - 1944 - The Cowra Breakout
    Aug 4 2021
    REPEAT: At 2am on this day in 1944, the Cowra Breakout began. This episode looks at the man who blew the bugle that gave the signal for the mass escape – and how he wound up behind barbed wire as the first Japanese POW in the first place, courtesy of a Darwin Digger's odd angry shot and the bravery of an Aboriginal man from the Tiwi Islands.

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    18 mins
  • 3 August - 1912 - The Persecution Of The Eccentric Sexologist

    3 August - 1912 - The Persecution Of The Eccentric Sexologist
    Aug 2 2021
    REPEAT: On this day in 1912, William Chidley, radical sexologist and one of Australia’s most eccentric characters, was arrested for being a lunatic – the first use of this power against him in a vendetta that’d eventually make him a martyr to free speech.

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    19 mins
  • 2 August - 1986 - The Theft Of The Weeping Woman

    2 August - 1986 - The Theft Of The Weeping Woman
    Aug 1 2021
    REPEAT: On this day in 1986, one of Australia's strangest and funniest crimes was committed when Pablo Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Woman — valued at $2m — was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria and held to ransom by a mysterious group calling themselves Australian Cultural Terrorists.

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    21 mins
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