Aussie History Podcast

In this episode we are looking at the Battle of One Tree Hill. This was a battle fought by the Jagera people led by the warrior Multuggerrah in 1843. While Multuggerah and his forces defeated the white settlers it did not end well for a people who had inhabited the Darling Downs region of South East Queensland for some 30-40,000 years.

Direct download: AWP81_One_Tree_Hill_-_29072018_11.34_AM.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 11:42am AEDT

In the early to mid-1970s the NSW Builders Labourers' Federation imposed 'Green Bans' in Sydney. These bans were imposed by the builders labourers employed to construct t office-block skyscrapers, shopping centres and luxury apartments

The builder’s labourers refused to work on projects that were environmentally or socially undesirable.

The Green Bans movement was the first of its type in the world.

Direct download: AWP80_Green_Bans_-_8072018_11.15_AM.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 11:59am AEDT

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