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Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production
Truth Be Told is a podcast giving voice to crimes committed against First Nations people across Australia, the ones left out of the classroom and the official record. Each episode sits with one case or one pattern, from frontier violence through to today's unresolved disappearances, and asks the questions that have gone unanswered for far too long. This is truth-telling, one episode at a time.
Episodes
- Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production
24. TJ Hicky, Redfurn
On the morning of the 14th of February 2004, Valentine's Day, a seventeen year old Aboriginal kid named Thomas Hickey, everyone called him TJ, came off his…
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23. The Bathurst War and Windradyne
Episode 23: The Bathurst War and Windradyne's Resistance In August 1824, a Wiradjuri leader named Windradyne walked into Parramatta for an annual public…
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22. Queensland Native Police
Episode 22: The Queensland Native Police In 1861, a parliamentary committee sat down to question a Native Police officer named Frederick Wheeler about reports…
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21. Wayne Fella Morrison
In September 2016, a twenty-nine year old Aboriginal man named Wayne Fella Morrison was loaded into the back of a prison transport van at Yatala Labour Prison…
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20. Murdering Gully Massacre
In early 1839, between forty-five and fifty-two Aboriginal people were camped at a place called Puuroyup, beside a creek in what's now Victoria's Western…
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19. NT Intervention
Episode 18: The Northern Territory Intervention In late June 2007, military jeeps rolled into Mutitjulu, a remote community four hundred and sixty kilometres…
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18. Dandalli, Brisbane's Resistance Leader
On the 5th of January 1855, a gallows stood built directly onto the Queen Street footpath in front of Brisbane Gaol. As the man climbed the steps to the…
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17. Aboriginal Tent Embassy
At one in the morning on the 27th of January 1972, four young Aboriginal men got out of a car on the lawn opposite Parliament House in Canberra. They'd just…
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16. Cullin a Ringo Massacre
On the 17th of October 1861, nineteen settlers were killed at a station called Cullin-la-Ringo in central Queensland. It remains the single largest killing of…
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15. Eddie Mabo Native Title
In 1974, a gardener named Eddie Mabo was having lunch with two historians at James Cook University in Townsville when the conversation turned to his home — a…
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14. Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner
On the morning of the 20th of January 1842, around five thousand people gathered on Franklin Street in Melbourne to watch two men hanged. It was the first…
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13. 1967 Referendum
On the 27th of May 1967, Australians went to the polls and delivered the most lopsided result in this country's referendum history. Ninety point seven seven…
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12. Hornet Bank Massacre
On the 27th of October 1857, around a hundred Yiman warriors attacked a homestead called Hornet Bank on the upper Dawson River in central Queensland. Eleven…
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11. Wave Rock Walk Off
On the 23rd of August 1966, around two hundred Gurindji stockmen, domestic workers, and their families put down their tools at Wave Hill cattle station in the…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production10. Pemulwuy - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
In 1790, a young Bidjigal man was shot through the back by colonial soldiers and survived, the wound earning him a permanent limp and, within his own…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production9. Appin Massacre - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
In the early hours of 17 April 1816, British soldiers acting on written orders from Governor Lachlan Macquarie himself drove a camp of Dharawal people toward…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production8. Palm Island - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
On the morning of 19 November 2004, Cameron Doomadgee, known to his community as Mulrunji, was arrested on Palm Island for allegedly swearing at a passing…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production7. The Black War - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
In the 1820s, a girl named Truganini lost her mother to whalers, her uncle to soldiers, and her sister to sealers, all before she'd finished growing up. It was…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production6. Myall Creek - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
On 10 June 1838, a group of armed men rode onto a station in northern New South Wales and killed at least twenty eight Wirrayaraay people, men, women, and…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production5. Coniston Massacre - 3 Brothers Production
In August 1928, a dingo trapper named Fred Brooks was killed near a waterhole called Yurrkuru in the Tanami Desert, after breaking Warlpiri marriage law. What…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production4. Stolen Wages, Truth Be Told - 3 Brothers Production
On 1 May 1946, around 800 Aboriginal workers walked off more than twenty stations across the Pilbara, using calendars made from jam tin labels to coordinate a…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production3. The Stolen Generation- Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
In August 1931, three Aboriginal girls, Molly, Daisy, and Gracie, were taken from their families and sent to a government settlement over 1,500km from home…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production2. WA's Missing Men, Truth Be Told- 3 Brothers Production
This episode looks at six Aboriginal men who have disappeared from the Pilbara and Kimberley since 2021: Jeremiah "Jayo" Rivers, Wesley Lockyer, Clinton…
Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production1. WA's Blak History, Truth Be Told- 3 Brothers Production
Episode 1 of Truth Be Told starts with Ms Dhu, a 22 year old woman who died in a South Hedland police cell in 2014 after being locked up over unpaid fines, and…
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Introduction to Our Podcast series
Before we get into the stories, we wanted to introduce ourselves. We are Jake, Sebastian, and Chris, three Aboriginal brothers from Gundungurra Country, raised…