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History LabMusquito: the real story of a legendary colonial warriorHow do you tell the story of a "warrior" without flattening him into myth? Associate Professor Delia Falconer talks with historian Dr Naomi Parry Duncan about her new biography of Musquito — a warrior born around Port Jackson who lived through the first shockwaves of British invasion, was exiled to Norfolk Island, and ultimately met his end in Van Diemen's Land. Parry Duncan set out to tell his full, complicated story — not the "last stand" myth historians have leaned on for two centuries, but a life full of relationships, movement, and agency, drawn only from sources written at the...
2026-09-1747 min
History LabHistory Beyond Humans - Environmental Histories | Field Notes Ep4Environmental history in Australia has moved from the margins to something close to the centre of the discipline — but the path there was longer and less obvious than it might appear. Jarrod Hore and Nancy Cushing map that path from different vantage points. Hore came of age as a scholar inside the field; Cushing arrived at it gradually, via urban history, historical geography, and a childhood in Nova Scotia that made her attentive to the materialities of place.They trace the field’s prehistory through Keith Hancock and the historical geographers, and its institutional emergence through the Gree...
2026-08-1947 min
History LabWhich China Do You Belong To? Chinese-Australian Histories | Field Notes Ep3In this episode of Field Notes, historians Sophie Loy-Wilson and Mei-fen Kuo trace their paths into Chinese Australian history — one drawn by questions of racism and resistance, the other by the discovery of long-neglected Chinese-language newspapers and Qing Dynasty consular records. They discuss the ethical challenges of community history, the archival work required to recover women’s lives, and a question that has shadowed Chinese communities in Australia across two centuries: first, who counts as Australian, and then, after the Second World War, which China do you belong to?The conversation is as much personal as scholarly. Kuo...
2026-08-0540 min
History LabWhen the War is Over - Military Histories | Field Notes Ep2Military history in Australia carries a weight that few other subfields do — it sits at the intersection of popular memory, national identity, and institutional commemoration in ways that make it both unusually accessible and unusually prone to distortion. Maggie Hutchison and Tom Rogers make a case for what serious military history looks like. It demands an active voice — soldiers don’t “lay down their lives”; they are killed by someone, with something, for reasons that can be named. And it insists on the connections between home front and battlefield that have too often been treated as separate stories.The conv...
2026-07-2233 min
History Lab52. Field Notes 2: Gendering the Past - Feminist HistoriesFeminist history in Australia grew out of the women’s liberation movement and the theoretical challenge it posed to what counted as a proper subject for historical inquiry. Marilyn Lake and Clare Corbould trace that history from Kay Daniels’s 1975 national archival survey through the shift from women’s history to gender history, the writing of Creating a Nation (1994), the history wars of the 1990s, and the transnational networks that took Australian feminist historians well beyond the local debates. Lake describes a moment of liberation in those years: realising that if Australian male historians wouldn’t engage with feminist scholars...
2026-07-0848 min
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastHow the American Revolution drove Britain's colonisation of AustraliaEven before the North American colonies declared independence 250 years ago this week, they refused to take Britain's convicts. After losing America, the UK turned instead to Botany Bay. That's the story many of us grew up with. But a new generation of historians argues Australia wasn't founded simply to solve a prison crisis—it was the first expression of a more ruthless British Empire after the American Revolution.Guest: Kate Fullagar, Professor of history at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
2026-07-0225 minLate Night Live — Full program podcastDid America's Revolution spur Australia's colonisation?As the US celebrates 250 years since its Declaration of Independence, what links can we draw between America's Revolution and Australia's colonisation? Plus, the 'Indian' world of George Washington: founding father and aggressive land speculator. Guests:Professor Kate Fullagar, historian at ACUProfessor Colin G. Calloway, historian at Dartmouth College, author of The Indian World of George Washington
2026-07-0254 min
History LabEnding Empires - Decolonisation Histories | Field Notes Ep1What does decolonisation mean as a field of historical inquiry — and what does it demand of the historians who work in it? Jon Piccini and Angela Woollacott approach these questions from different generations and starting points. Woollacott came to postcolonial thinking through the new imperial history in 1990s American universities, where the field felt genuinely revolutionary. Piccini came through the study of 1960s transnational activism, and found his way to decolonisation proper only when a supervisor’s question stuck with him long enough to send him back to sources he thought he’d already exhausted.They discuss what a...
2026-06-2443 min
Experience ANUMeet the author - Julianne SchultzJulianne Schultz was in conversation with Allan Behm on the updated edition of her bookThe Idea of AustraliaA search for the soul of the nation. Its publication complements the October SBS four-part series, hostedby Rachel Griffiths,inspired by, and based on, Julianne Schultz’s book.
What is the ‘idea of Australia’? What defines the soul of our nation? Are we an egalitarian, generous, outward-looking country? Or is Australia a place that has retreated into silence and denial about the past and become selfish, greedy and insular?
These were some of the questions Julianne Schultz set out to answer when she wrote...
2025-11-1759 min
The ABR Podcast‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’ by Kate FullagarThis week, on The ABR Podcast, we feature Kate Fullagar’s essay ‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’. Fullagar delves into the history behind Joshua Reynold’s famous portrait of Mai, the first Pacific Islander to visit Britain. She considers what she calls a ‘complicated enmeshment of art, money, and national memory’ and investigates the portrait’s place in the British Empire. Kate Fullagar is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and Vice President of the Australian Historical Association. Here is Kate Fullagar with ‘Questions for Mai...
2025-10-2328 min
Experience ANUMeet the author - Katherine BiberKatherine Biber was in conversation with Kate Fullagar on her new book, The Last Outlaws, a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth. Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, it's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith meets Killing for Country.
In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor and his brother Joe murdered nine people across New South Wales, in a rampage that caused panic in the colony on the cusp of nationhood. Triggered, it seems, by a racist incident, they killed men, women and children, evading a vast manhunt until they were...
2025-07-3053 minThe ABR Podcast‘Method and message: Rethinking Australian military history’ by Kate FullagarThis week on the ABR Podcast, Kate Fullagar reviews Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838-1844, by Stephen Gapps. Fullagar writes that Uprising is a ‘crucial contribution to our rethinking of Australian military history’. Kate Fullagar is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and Vice President of the Australian Historical Association. Her most recent book is Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled. Listen to Kate Fullagar with ‘Method and message: Rethinking Australian military history’, published in the June issue of ABR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
2025-06-0510 min
History LabFaces Today: Indigenous Artists Return the Gaze | Unsettling Portraits Ep3Colonial portraits have long dictated how Indigenous people were seen. But Indigenous artists continue to challenge that power. Through satire, reinterpretation, and resistance, they’re using art to question history—and reshape the future. In this episode, historians Kate Fullagar and Mike McDonnell speak with contemporary Indigenous artists who are confronting the legacy of empire. Michel Tuffery, a New Zealand-based artist of Samoan, Tahitian, and Cook Islander heritage, reimagines Captain Cook through the eyes of those he encountered. Daniel Boyd, one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artists, subverts colonial iconography, turning figures like Cook into symbols of pir...
2025-03-2541 min
History LabFacing Off: From Botany Bay to Aotearoa | Unsettling Portraits Ep2In this episode, historians Kate Fullagar and Mike McDonnell revisit Bennelong’s portraits to examine how colonial art encountered Indigenous identity. Indigenous scholar Jo Rey, a Dharug woman, challenges these depictions, questioning their accuracy and impact. The conversation then expands to the Pacific, where Māori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville discusses the story of Tupaia, a Polynesian navigator and artist who traveled with Captain Cook. His illustrations of first contact tell a different story—one of Indigenous agency, not just European discovery. What do we see when we look at these portraits today? And more...
2025-03-2537 min
History Lab25. Facing Empire: A Long History of Representing OthersBennelong, a Wangal man of the Eora nation, was among the first Aboriginal people to travel to Europe and return. As a crucial interlocutor between his people and the British colonists, he navigated two worlds but the way he was depicted in colonial portraits raises complex questions. In one, he appears in traditional body paint. In another, years later, he is dressed in European clothing, his identity seemingly reshaped for a colonial gaze. Do these portraits tell us more about Bennelong or the people who painted him? Portraiture has long been a tool of empire, used to...
2025-03-2540 min
History LabIntroducing: Unsettling PortraitsCan colonial depictions of Indigenous people tell us anything useful about the past? How do Indigenous people today feel about these enduring images? Unsettling Portraits is a three-part series exploring the history of portraiture and colonialism, alongside contemporary First Nations responses. Indigenous artists and historians in Australia, the Pacific and North America discuss the practice of colonial portraiture, including Daniel Browning, Jo Rey, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Gordon Henry and Joseph Pierce. And you'll hear about the ways in which contemporary artists like Daniel Boyd, Michel...
2025-03-2202 min
History LabWhat's coming in 2025? History Lab update and previews with Tamson PietschIf you're an old friend, hello and thank you for hitting play. If you're a new listener, welcome. History Lab, as many of you will know, was Australia’s first investigative history podcast. We've made five seasons so far, and our tagline is exploring the gaps between us and the past. And while you notice that from season to season our storytelling style changes, we're still always asking questions that provoke curiosity, that are attentive to sources and their limits, and that challenge us to think about how we live in the present....
2025-03-2006 min
Life Sentences PodcastBiography BackwardsHistorian Kate Fullagar tells the story of the intertwined destinies of Governor Phillip and First Nations leader Bennelong, beginning with their deaths and spooling gradually back to their first encounter. This bold, unconventional approach allows for a wider lens and different perspective on their respective personalities and achievements, and on the events which brought them together at a time when Britain’s colonial ambitions were to shape Australia for the next century. Understanding, misunderstanding, conflict and a remarkable journey together to Britain give this double-headed biography a compelling and sometimes poignant narr...
2024-05-301h 01
SBS DutchMargaretha Wolters; de Nederlandse 'M' die de Britten deed doen besluiten een strafkolonie te stichten in NSWSociaal en cultureel historica professor Kate Fullagar heeft vorige maand de 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship ontvangen. Ze kreeg de geldprijs voor haar nieuwe boek “The Secret Life of Marguerite Wolters". De Nederlandse Margaretha Wolters opereerde als spionnenmeesteres en zou een belangrijke informatiebron zijn geweest voor de Britten. Mede op basis van haar intelligentie zouden die in 1786 hebben besloten een strafkolonie te stichten in New South Wales. Kate vertelt wat ze tot nu toe weet over deze geheimzinnige dame.
2024-04-1007 min
Nursing AustraliaEp 69. Beyond the BedsideThe 69th episode of Nursing Australia 'Beyond the Bedside' presents: The latest Nursing Australia News (02:00): Copycat Ozempic, Nurses target Australia, and The Black Death rears its head Segment 1: Beyond the Beside (03:35): exploring non-conventional career pathways in nursing. We sat down with Kate from Sonic Health Plus to discover alternative ways you can utilise a nursing or healthcare qualification. Segment 2: Nataly's Story (16:09): Nataly Tormey is a nurse, care researcher, and designer. This year she has decided to hit the road with her two...
2024-04-0133 min
History Talks - HCNSW PodcastsWriting Histories 2023 - HCNSW Careers in HistoryWelcome to the recorded version of the History Council of New South Wales’ ‘Writing Histories’ panel, recorded via zoom on the 9th of November 2023. History isn't just about dusty old books and dates, it's about sharing the tales of our past with the world. But how do historians make sure their stories reach a wide audience? How do we pen our words for different readers? The HCNSW called on some of the brightest minds in history to share about how they've shared their research with a variety of audiences, inspired by their recently published books. Our pan...
2023-11-141h 03
Writers @ StantonKate FullagarThe first joint biography of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser. Fullagar’s account is also the first full biography of Bennelong of any kind and it challenges many misconceptions
2023-10-1350 minLate Night Live — Full program podcastThe Australian origins of the 8 hour workday, and the fateful relationship of Bennelong and Arthur PhillipSean Scalmer recounts how Australian workers fought for an eight hour workday, setting a precedent for the rest of the world. Plus, Kate Fullagar unravels the story of two men who shaped the course of Australian history: Wangal man Bennelong and Arthur Phillip - the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales.
2023-10-1153 min
Master Your Day With Studio-Quality Audiobooks Anywhere, Anytime InstantlyBennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled (By Kate Fullagar)#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/ak-4688/Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled
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2023-10-039h 24Connect to Premium Audiobook Collection for Your LibraryBennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled [Written by Kate Fullagar]Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled
Author: Kate Fullagar
Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Release date: October 3, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary: The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Australian History Shortlisted for the 20...
2023-10-039h 24
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate FullagarPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled Author: Kate Fullagar Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Australian History Shortlisted for the 2024 NSW History Award, Australian History Prize and NSW Co...
2023-10-0303 min
City Road Podcast95. Bennelong and PhillipWe're talking with Professor Kate Fullagar about her new book on Bennelong and Phillip.
Grab the book here:
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Bennelong-and-Phillip/Kate-Fullagar/9781761108174
This book provides the first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both.
Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony’s first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settle...
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Shortlisted for the 2025 National Biography Award
Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Award, Non-Fiction
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2023-10-0303 min
Journey Through This Eye-Opening Full Audiobook — Perfect While Traveling.Bennelong and Phillip by Kate FullagarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/27159to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Bennelong and Phillip
Author: Kate Fullagar
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Release date: 10-03-23
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Genres: Australia, New Zealand & Oceania
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Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony’s first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settled. Fullagar’s account is also the first full biography of Bennelong of any kind and it chal...
2023-10-039h 24
The Art ShowA famous portrait tells an uncomfortable story + artists take over a sewerage plantThe Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts a youthful Polynesian man who visited England in the 1770s and spent time on James Cook’s third voyage. The work has been the subject of UK government export bans, a feverish fundraising campaign, millions in donations and some panhandling by Britain’s elites, in a desperate bid to keep it on British soil. Daniel speaks with Professor Kate Fullagar, who’s written a book about the Raiatean subject of the painting Mai, and artist Reynolds, as well as Associate Professor Peter Brunt, about what Mai represents and how the hi...
2023-05-0354 min
Hot and BotheredLive from Pemberley: A Pair of Fine Eyes (Chapter 5 + 6)The Lucases take center stage in Chapters 5+6 of Pride and Prejudice. Vanessa and Lauren discuss the friendship between Charlotte and Lizzy and the way that historical and cultural ideas around masculinity might affect how we read Darcy. Thanks to Dr. Kate Fullagar for speaking to us this week about notions of savagery in 18th century England. Our next episode is on May 20th and we'll travel to Netherfield in Chapters 7 and 8.---If you plan to read along with us, we have a monthly zoom book club y...
2022-05-0652 min
History Talks - HCNSW PodcastsSWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Q&A with Session Chair Dr Kiera Lindsey and Speakers.DR KIERA LINDSEY CONDUCTS A Q&A WITH NOËLLE JANACZEWSKA, DR JAMES DUNK, PROFESSOR KATE FULLAGAR, CALLUM CLAYTON-DIXON AND PIERRE-JACQUES OBER.Send us Fan MailSupport the showHistory Talks Podcasts are brought to you by the History Council of NSW.Follow us @historycouncilnsw
2021-10-0525 min
History Talks - HCNSW PodcastsSWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Professor Kate FullagarKate Fullagar is a Professor of History at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.She is also an honorary professor of history at Macquarie University and currently co-editor of the Australian Historical Association’s journal, History Australia. Kate specializes in the history of the eighteenth-century world, particularly the British Empire and the many indigenous societies it encountered. THE WARRIOR, THE VOYAGER, AND THE ARTISTThree interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the...
2021-10-0513 min
National Library of AustraliaFellowship Presentation: Revising the Life of BennelongWhile Bennelong is a name well known – the truth of the man is still misunderstood by many.
In her presentation, Professor Kate Fullagar aims to explore the truth of his history by presenting neglected evidence about his latter life. She will also compare the work of Bennelong to that of some of his contemporary First Nations negotiators in other parts of the Pacific.
Professor Kate Fullagar is a 2021 National Library of Australia Fellow.
2021-08-2656 min
New Books in Canadian StudiesK. Fullagar and M. A. McDonnell, "Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)Kate Fullagar's and Michael A. McDonnell's edited volume Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) reimagines the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Rather than treating indigenous peoples as distant and passive players in the political struggles of the time, this book argues that they helped create and exploit the volatility that marked an era while playing a central role in the profound acceleration in encounters and contacts between peoples around the world. Focusing in particular on indigenous peoples’ experiences of the British Empire, this volume takes a unique comparative approach in...
2018-12-191h 08
New Books in Indigenous StudiesK. Fullagar and M. A. McDonnell, "Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)Kate Fullagar's and Michael A. McDonnell's edited volume Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) reimagines the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Rather than treating indigenous peoples as distant and passive players in the political struggles of the time, this book argues that they helped create and exploit the volatility that marked an era while playing a central role in the profound acceleration in encounters and contacts between peoples around the world. Focusing in particular on indigenous peoples’ experiences of the British Empire, this volume takes a unique comparative approach in...
2018-12-191h 09