Truth Be Told Podcast

16/07/2026

Our new episode 12. Hornet Bank Massacre has just dropped, so be sure to take a listen

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 settlers were killed. It's remembered today as one of the deadliest attacks on white settlers in Australian colonial history — and it has its...

16/07/2026

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 settlers were killed. It's remembered today as one of the deadliest attacks on white settlers in Australian colonial history — and it has its...

14/07/2026

Our newEpisode 11. Wave Hill Walk Off has just dropped

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 Northern Territory and walked off the job. They weren't just striking for fair wages. They were asking for their land back. This is the story...

14/07/2026

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 Northern Territory and walked off the job. They weren't just striking for fair wages. They were asking for their land back. This is the story...

11/07/2026

Before we get into the stories, we wanted to introduce ourselves. We are Jake, Sebastian, and Chris, three Aboriginal brothers from Gundungurra Country, raised on Ngarigo Country in New South Wales. Between us we work across ICT, investigative journalism, and advocacy. But the thing that connects al...

09/07/2026

Our latest episode just dropped today.. make sure to have a listen.

These podcast run in sequence and so it’s best to listen to them in order so that references to other episodes don’t confuse you.

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 community, a reputation as someone who carried supernatural power. Over the next twelve years, Pemulwuy became the most persistent and effective resis...

07/07/2026

Check out today new episode that has just dropped!

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 the edge of the Cataract Gorge, south west of Sydney. At least fourteen people were killed, their bodies decapitated and displayed in trees as...

03/07/2026

If you haven’t listened to it already, our newest episode dropped yesterday. Don’t forget a new episode drops every Tuesday and Thursday every week

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 police car. Forty four minutes later, he was dead in a cell, with internal injuries doctors compared to a high speed car crash. The autopsy findi...

30/06/2026

Our new episode:7. The Black War, has just dropped today

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 the world the Black War created on the island now called Tasmania, lutruwita, a conflict that killed an estimated sixty percent of the entir...

25/06/2026

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