Truth Be Told Podcast

08/10/2026

Around 1924, a group of Gija men were tried in the colonial courts at Wyndham in the East Kimberley for allegedly killing a bullock at Bedford Downs Station. They were found guilty. Then they were sent back to the station with tickets hung around their necks, so the manager would know what they had....

06/10/2026

Most Australians, when they think about racial segregation, think about the American South. Separate drinking fountains. Rosa Parks on a bus in Alabama. Jim Crow laws written down in black and white, dated, and eventually repealed. They do not think about Moree, New South Wales, where Aboriginal chi...

01/10/2026

In May 1926, a pastoralist named Frederick Hay was riding the boundary of his property in the Kimberley when he came across an Aboriginal man named Lumbia. Hay flogged him twenty to thirty times with a stockwhip. Lumbia speared him. Hay died. That is where the official story usually begins. It shoul...

29/09/2026

In 1965, a monthly magazine produced by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board published a glowing article about Kinchela Boys Home on the mid north coast. It began with this line: it is almost like a country club at Kinchela. The manager told the writer he had the most bonzer bunch of kids in...

24/09/2026

On the west coast of South Australia, near the small town of Elliston, there is a coastal walking trail along the top of a series of steep cliffs. The views are spectacular. On a plaque along that trail is the word massacre. Getting that word onto that plaque took more than a hundred and sixty years...

22/09/2026

On the 29th of December 2015, a twenty six year old Dunghutti man named David Dungay Junior was in the mental health ward of Long Bay Prison Hospital in Sydney. He had a packet of biscuits and rice crackers. He was eating them. Prison staff told him to stop because of his diabetes. He refused. Six m...

17/09/2026

In the first half of 1841, the Maraura people of the central Murray had a problem. Overlanders, large groups of men driving thousands of sheep and cattle along the overland stock route through their Country, were taking their water, destroying their food sources, and in documented cases, assaulting....

15/09/2026

08/09/2026

Episode 27: The Warrigal Creek Massacre In 1846, a Gippsland squatter named Henry Meyrick wrote a letter home to his family in England. He told them that no wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as the Aboriginal people of Gippsland. He said he knew of men sh...