35 Best Australian History Podcasts

1. In Black and White

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
From alleyway gangsters to cold war spies to eccentric entrepreneurs, Australian history is full of colorful but forgotten characters. Host Jen Kelly talks with experts, historians, and yarn spinners to uncover the untold stories of some of our most interesting and offbeat ancestors. Produced by Jonty Burton and Elouise Tynan.
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Play⋅ 427.3K⋅ 355.7K ⋅3 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 60 min ⋅ May 2019 Get Email Contact

2. The History Listen

Australia
New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world, told by some of our most popular and trusted historians. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey through history, where stories of people, places, and events bring the past vividly into our present world.
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Play⋅ 282.9K⋅ 98.3K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 29 min ⋅ Jan 2019 Get Email Contact

3. Forgotten Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Since episode one, which chronicled the Spanish Flu's spread in Australia in 1919, Forgotten Australia has been telling the stories we didn't hear in history class. From the weekend Melbourne went mad and our forgotten Titanic hero, to Australia's greatest Aboriginal tracker and the murder wave that shocked Sydney in 1932, this is history as you've never heard it before. Forgotten Australia is created by Michael Adams, a Sydney-based writer, author, and television producer.
Also in Australia Podcasts, Australian Book and Writing Podcasts
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Play⋅ 5.5K⋅ 117 ⋅7 episodes / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 43 min ⋅ Nov 2018 Get Email Contact

4. Kick to Kick

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
An Australian Rules Football podcast, that looks at the history of the AFL/VFL. We start way back in 1897, and each episode will cover a different year. Enjoy hearing about the origin of the clubs, rivalries, players, finals systems, and much more.
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Play⋅ 152⋅ 937 ⋅2 episodes / week ⋅ Avg Length 59 min Get Email Contact

5. Shrine of Remembrance

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Talks and lectures are held at the Shrine of Remembrance and selected offsite venues. Speakers include academics, historians, authors, veterans, and other experts who present on a range of topics relating to Australian military history. As well as being available online and as a podcast, talks, and lectures are open to the general public.
Also in Military History Podcasts, Australian Military Podcasts
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Play⋅ 29.5K ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 48 min Get Email Contact

6. True Blue History Podcast

Inspired by the people and events that have shaped Australian history and character, with his authentically Australian down to earth approach, Adam Blum explores and shares their stories. Learn how in the past and more recently, service, sacrifice, and grit have and continue to play a central role in Australia's True Blue History.
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Play⋅ 670⋅ 65 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 87 min ⋅ Apr 2020 Get Email Contact

7. Aussie History Podcast

Welcome to The Aussie History Podcast by James Dampier. The Aussie Waves Podcast tells Australian history through the lens of all those peoples who have made the journey from other lands to call Australia home.
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Play⋅ 88 ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 29 min ⋅ Feb 2014 Get Email Contact

8. Mr Mitchell History Podcast

How often do you start a new educational podcast only to lose focus 10 minutes into the monologue? A history teacher is joined by two co-hosts who probably think that the Second Gulf War was when Tiger Woods faced off against Mickleson in the 2001 Masters. This is a light-hearted podcast designed to make important moments in modern history digestible for the common man and to make you sound like you know what you're talking about the next time you need to sound smart.
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Play⋅ 37 ⋅2 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact

9. People's History of Australia

People's History of Australia is a podcast and blog looking at Australian history from the perspective of ordinary people fighting together for a better life.
peopleshistory.com.au
Play⋅ 4.9K⋅ 1.9K ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 52 min ⋅ Feb 2020 Get Email Contact

10. Stories From Sydney: History of the Harbour City

A fortnightly history podcast about the people, places, and events that have shaped the city of Sydney and its surrounds. Stories from Sydney is hosted and produced by Alistair and Jed, amateur historians and sometimes Sydney enthusiasts, although obviously not too enthusiastic since neither of them currently live there.
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Play⋅ 282 ⋅10 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 45 min ⋅ May 2020 Get Email Contact

11. Let's Save The Governor-General!

Two Aussies and a Pom discuss Australian politics, be it reviewing recent events or discussing certain figures and moments that have shaped Australian political history.
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Play⋅ 60 ⋅2 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 84 min Get Email Contact

12. The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
This podcast will give you a great insight into Australia's innovation ecosystem by tracing its history and future. If you're curious as to how it all started, who were the innovators that helped transform it, and how this ecosystem interacts with others both domestically and around the world- this is a must-listen! Join us on this exciting journey, celebrating what has been accomplished and asking hard questions about where we're heading and whether we're on the right track.
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Play 3 episodes / week ⋅ Avg Length 42 min Get Email Contact

13. The Zest Is History

Welcome to The Zest Is History, a brand new podcast from Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke (former hosts of All Aussie Mystery Hour). Each week, they will spin you a 100% legit and maybe 80% researched yarn from Australia's weird, wild, and obviously zesty history.
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Play⋅ 365⋅ 32 ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 56 min ⋅ May 2020 Get Email Contact

14. Australia's Invisible History

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
So many of us Australians do not know our own history. But that can all change. Join Sydney-based broadcaster and author Katrina Roe and The Outback Historian Paul Roe as they make the invisible visible by digging up the buried stories of Australian heroes, pioneers, and visionaries. Here, you will meet Australians from every corner of the country, the city, and the bush including migrants and Indigenous Australians, men and women, nurses, doctors, activists, boxers, athletes, missionaries, and ministers.
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Play⋅ 70.6K⋅ 2.4K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 16 min Get Email Contact

15. Australian Military History

Listen to episodes and learn more about Australian Military History. Focusing on specific events, people, and groups throughout the history of Australia at arms.
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Play⋅ 721 ⋅13 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 30 min ⋅ Mar 2020 Get Email Contact

16. Australian Histories Podcast

Australia
The Australian Histories Podcast aims to take a fresh look at some of the brilliant stories from Australia's past. The podcast content will be presented as a series of themed stories rather than a straightforward chronological structure. The stories recounted may be mixed up a bit in the Australian history timeline, but I have put a timeline on the webpage, to help you navigate backward & forwards, as we explore each themed episode & note where each story fits in.
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Play⋅ 674⋅ 2K⋅ 192 ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 57 min ⋅ May 2018 Get Email Contact

17. AdeLOL - Adelaide & SA's Hilarious History

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
AdeLOL is a 'Heaps Good History' podcast exploring South Australia's unique, and often hilarious, past. In each episode, Dan and Tom get together and share a story about a piece of SA history, a place, celebrity, icon, or event. Neither truly knows what the other is going to bring. Dan is a born and bred South Aussie with a wealth of local memories, whereas Tom moved to Adelaide in 2003 and brings a touch of the outsider perspective.
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Play⋅ 551⋅ 613 ⋅1 episode / year ⋅ Avg Length 34 min ⋅ Mar 2017 Get Email Contact

18. Talking History

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Talking History is a series of free monthly lectures hosted by the History Trust of South Australia. Each month you can hear about a different aspect of South Australia's history. We have a range of speakers from various disciplines, from history and archaeology to architecture and community research. Inspiring generations in the present through creative engagement with the past. The History Trust researches, preserves, and presents the history of South Australia. We manage three museums, the State History Collection, and a statewide community history program.
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Play⋅ 11K⋅ 5K ⋅8 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 43 min ⋅ Aug 2015 Get Email Contact

19. Australian Naval History Podcast

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
The Australian Naval History Podcast explores naval history in Australia. Each week, military history experts discuss a different aspect of Australian naval history.
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Play⋅ 8.6K⋅ 2.8K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 58 min ⋅ Oct 2017 Get Email Contact

20. Living History with Mat McLachlan

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Historian Mat McLachlan brings Australian history to life in this engaging, educational, and entertaining podcast. From the ancient age to the modern world, take a trip through time with Living History!
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Play⋅ 10K⋅ 3.2K ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 33 min ⋅ Nov 2017 Get Email Contact

21. The History of Australia Podcast

This is a narrative history podcast. It tells the story of Australia starting with the dawn of the Australian land mass, and moves forward through time until the year 2000.
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Play Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

22. The History of the Melbourne Cup

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
One of Australia's greatest race-callers Bryan Martin has a long affiliation and love for Australia's greatest race, the Melbourne Cup. BM called 29 Melbourne Cups during his career and has come in contact with everyone who has had a link to the Cup. In the build-up to the running of the 2019 Melbourne Cup, Bryan will tell the stories of the Cup and share the memories from people who make the race so very special either playing a small or big hand in the race that stops the nation!
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Play⋅ 35.2K⋅ 34.1K ⋅9 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 3 min ⋅ Sep 2019 Get Email Contact

23. Archive Fever

Australia
Archive Fever is a new Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians, and other victims of the research bug. In each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?
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Play⋅ 289.7K⋅ 42.7K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 40 min ⋅ Sep 2019 Get Email Contact

24. Untold WA

Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
A history, culture & arts podcast produced by Barking Wolf in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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Play⋅ 715⋅ 3 ⋅ Jun 2019 Get Email Contact

25. Behind The Play | An other history of Australian Football

Behind The Play explores and unpacks the legends, myths and assumptions that cloud the origins and the development of Australian Football.
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Play⋅ 305⋅ 83 ⋅4 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 23 min Get Email Contact

26. Collected | Stories from the Australian War Memorial

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Collected is a podcast series exploring the artifacts that make up the National Collection of the Australian War Memorial. Join journalist Louise Maher as she takes a closer look at the obscure, popular, strange, and wonderful items in the collection. Through conversations with historians and curators and first-hand accounts from the people connected with these artifacts, Maher peels back the layers of history and uncovers the stories that the public don't always get to hear.
Also in Australian Storytelling Podcasts
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27. South Australian Museum Podcast

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Delve behind the scenes at the South Australian Museum, a natural history museum in Adelaide, SA. Hear from scientists, researchers and curators about how objects are collected and what happens once they're in the Museum.
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Play⋅ 42.8K⋅ 8.1K ⋅5 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 33 min Get Email Contact

28. Dig — The Ring In

Australia
The Fine Cotton ring in was one of the biggest scandals in Australian horseracing history. It involved a motley crew of small-time crooks, a bottle of women's hair dye and a spray-painted horse. It was an epic fail. Dig, the ABC's history podcast, takes a fresh look at an iconic story from Australia's not-so-glorious past.
abc.net.au/radio/p..
Play⋅ 34.6K⋅ 119.6K ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

29. Australianarama

Australian history and pop culture podcast hosted by Jessica Adie and Maddie Nixon. Two best mates take turns each week to research a topic that shaped the nation. The Harold Holt memorial swimming pool, the cultural impact of Kath & Kim, The Emu War, Cathy Freeman, and Expo 88 are just the tip of this hot and sweaty iceberg. Laugh, learn, and dismantle the often baffling, truly fascinating, land down under.
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Play 18 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 39 min Get Email Contact

30. The Eleventh

Australia
The Eleventh is an explosive thriller teasing out everything you never knew about one of the most famous chapters of Australian political history the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
abc.net.au/radio/p..
Play⋅ 34.6K⋅ 119.6K ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact

31. Australia On This Day

What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.
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Play Jun 2019 Get Email Contact

32. My Marvellous Melbourne

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
My Marvellous Melbourne is a regular half-hour podcast produced by staff and students affiliated with the Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Our segments combine stories, interviews, personal reflections, and memories that interest and inspire us about the social history of the city and suburbs.
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Play⋅ 11.2K⋅ 7K ⋅ Oct 2017 Get Email Contact

33. Australiyeah

The show about Australian histories and mysteries! We discuss Australia's most hilarious stories and interesting conspiracy theories.
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Play⋅ 166 ⋅ Dec 2017 Get Email Contact

34. Murder in the Land of Oz

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Who said nothing ever happens in Brisbane? Join hosts Jessica Kate and Ellen Rose as they dig up the skeletons buried in their own backyard. They take you on a macabre tour around Australia's third-largest city - home to the Stefan Needle, the Brown Snake, the crushing feeling that you're trapped in a dead-end town that you can never leave, and some of the most brutal murders in Australian history.
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Play⋅ 2.2K⋅ 119 ⋅ May 2018 Get Email Contact

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