All Aussie Hour

IT'S A SEASON FINALE!!! For our final ep of season 1, Mel takes Josie through the infamous Emu War, when emus dominated the Aussie army and its new, fancy machine guns. **If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 24 mins. Join the ALL AUSSIE HOUR [https://www.facebook.com/groups/273286614057949/] Facebook group Follow All Aussie Hour on INSTAGRAM [https://www.instagram.com/allaussiehour/] and TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@all.aussie.hour?lang=en] Follow JOSIE [https://www.instagram.com/josieroze/?hl=en]and MEL [https://www.instagram.com/melissamason_/?hl=en] on Instagram  Produced by DM Podcasts [https://dm.org.au] Show notes: "'Feathered foes': soldier settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932, Murray Johnson, (2006). Tell me mate what are emus like, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Adrian Burton 2013 [https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/1540-9295-11.6.336] Scientific American, The Great Emu War, 2014, Bec Crew [https://web.archive.org/web/20230208193043/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-emu-war-in-which-some-large-flightless-birds-unwittingly-foiled-the-australian-army/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Josie takes Mel all the way back to 2018, when needles started showing up stuck into strawberries all across Australia.  **If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 29 mins and 40 seconds! Join the ALL AUSSIE HOUR [https://www.facebook.com/groups/273286614057949/] Facebook group Follow All Aussie Hour on INSTAGRAM [https://www.instagram.com/allaussiehour/] and TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@all.aussie.hour?lang=en] Follow JOSIE [https://www.instagram.com/josieroze/?hl=en]and MEL [https://www.instagram.com/melissamason_/?hl=en] on Instagram  Produced by DM Podcasts [https://dm.org.au] Show notes: BBC, no byline, September 2018 [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45519888 ] ABC by Patrick Williams, September 2018 [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-14/strawberry-needle-scare-what-you-need-to-know/10248736 ] The Guardian by Ben Smee, September 2018 [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/22/the-needles-and-the-damage-done-the-growers-hurt-by-australias-strawberry-saboteurs ] The North West Star by Cheryl Goodenough,  [https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/6793441/qld-woman-in-court-over-strawberry-needles/ ]July 2020 [https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/6793441/qld-woman-in-court-over-strawberry-needles/ ]https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/6793441/qld-woman-in-court-over-strawberry-needles/  Daily Mail by Mark Brook, November 2018 [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6416837/Strawberry-farm-worker-sabotaged-fruit-needles-mentioned-idea-years-earlier.html ] ABC by Talissa Siganto, July 2021 [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-14/strawberries-needles-2018-charges-dropped-brisbane-court-trinh/100291750 ] Brisbane Times article by Toby Crockford, July 2021 [https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/judge-s-comment-contradicts-explanation-why-strawberry-needle-case-dropped-20210714-p589o9.html ] News.com.au by Shireen Khalil, 2020 [https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/police-arrest-woman-over-strawberry-contamination/news-story/fbe4e890572060b129c6c100a2fcca62 ] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

This week, Mel tells Josie the tragic story of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go fire, and the corruption and intrigue that was behind it. **If you would like to skip the catch-up chats, head straight to 18 mins! Join the ALL AUSSIE HOUR [https://www.facebook.com/groups/273286614057949/] Facebook group Follow All Aussie Hour on INSTAGRAM [https://www.instagram.com/allaussiehour/] and TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@all.aussie.hour?lang=en] Follow JOSIE [https://www.instagram.com/josieroze/?hl=en]and MEL [https://www.instagram.com/melissamason_/?hl=en] on Instagram  Produced by DM Podcasts [https://dm.org.au] EPISODE REFERENCES: Q News, Brooke Tindall [https://qnews.com.au/1970s-brisbane-and-the-queens-of-the-valley/] Q News, Destiny Rogers [https://qnews.com.au/revisiting-brisbanes-whiskey-au-go-go-firebombing-forty-five-years-later/] The Ghost Gate Road podcast by Matthew Condon [https://www.ghostgateroad.com/] The Guardian, 2022 [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/11/police-were-warned-brisbanes-whiskey-au-go-go-would-be-burned-down-inquest-told] News.com.au, Blake Antrobus, 2022 [https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/courts-law/whiskey-au-go-go-explosive-claim-that-nightclub-firebombing-was-policebacked-aired-at-inquest/news-story/b0e5df30d40a817f66367a86bd36bb97] ABC, 2017 [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-02/whiskey-au-go-go-fatal-firebombing-inquest-ordered/8583326] Mamamia True Crime Conversations with Matthew Condon [https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/true-crime-conversations/whisky-au-go-go-fire/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Even though this has nothing to do whatsoever with a) Australia or b) history, Mel and Josie just love to yap and obviously needed to gasbag about Dave Grohl's announcement of his illegitimate child IMMEDIATELY.  Join the convo in the ALL AUSSIE HOUR [https://www.facebook.com/groups/273286614057949/] Facebook group! AND: Follow All Aussie Hour on INSTAGRAM [https://www.instagram.com/allaussiehour/] and TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@all.aussie.hour?lang=en] Follow JOSIE [https://www.instagram.com/josieroze/?hl=en]and MEL [https://www.instagram.com/melissamason_/?hl=en] on Instagram  Produced by DM Podcasts [https://dm.org.au] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

For some reason, Josie has decided to punish herself by telling Mel all about Aussie actor, heartthrob and icon Heath Ledger. Yes, there are tears.  **If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 23 mins! Join the ALL AUSSIE HOUR [https://www.facebook.com/groups/273286614057949/] Facebook group Follow All Aussie Hour on INSTAGRAM [https://www.instagram.com/allaussiehour/] and TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@all.aussie.hour?lang=en] Follow JOSIE [https://www.instagram.com/josieroze/?hl=en]and MEL [https://www.instagram.com/melissamason_/?hl=en] on Instagram  Produced by DM Podcasts [https://dm.org.au] EPISODE REFERENCES: Australian Screen – Heath Ledger Biography [https://aso.gov.au/people/Heath_Ledger/portrait/] National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – clip of Heath Ledger in Sweat [https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/98617-heath-ledger-sweat] Daily Telegraph article from 2022 – interview with Julia Stiles [https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/the-one-thing-julia-stiles-knew-loved-heath/news-story/3a53f91566b98edf2b9f8c29fb170b20 ] E! Online article from 2018 [https://www.eonline.com/news/925206/how-michelle-williams-found-love-after-heath-ledger-s-death ]https://www.eonline.com/news/925206/how-michelle-williams-found-love-after-heath-ledger-s-death Empire Online article from 2012, first published in Empire Magazine in 2009 – oral history of Dark Knight [https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/heath-ledger-joker/ ] MTV article 2008 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322021223/http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1583563/story.jhtml ] Daily Mail article from 2016 by Jennifer Smith [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3708126/Heath-Ledger-s-father-Kim-painfully-recalls-actor-s-accidental-overdose-speaks-against-addictive-opioid-painkillers-killed-son.html ] 2017 Documentary I Am Heath Ledger 81st Academy Awards, 2009 – the Ledger family’s acceptance speech video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrt2xoy5UHo ]   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.