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  1. Good Sex - The Confessions and Campaigns of W.J. Chidley - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Warning: This radio documentary contains sexual references.

    A century ago, Australian sex reformer William Chidley (c.1860-1916) was locked up for speaking openly about a taboo subject, and ultimately died in Callan Park Mental Hospital. But the moral outrage he provoked was largely to do with the kind of sex he advocated. It’s also what prompted later historians to call Chidley a ‘true feminist’.

    Chidley’s ideas about how sex should proceed still raise an eyebrow and provoke responses ranging from ridicule to alarm. In essence, he wanted to demote the erection, and elevate instead the woman’s readiness as the crucial determiner of when sexual intercourse should start. The Answer was dedicated ‘to womankind’.

    As well as being a sex reformer, Chidley was a dress and food reformer. To combat the human misery he saw all around him, he prescribed vegetarianism, fresh air, sunlight and unrestrictive clothing. But it was his critique of conventional sex that led him into trouble.

    In the years leading up to the First World War, he was a familiar sight in the streets of Melbourne and Sydney, dressed in a simple Grecian-style tunic, selling his book The Answer and addressing crowds for as long as he could get away with graphically describing his recipe for ‘natural coition’. He was repeatedly arrested and prosecuted; one police record lists twenty-five court appearances between 1912 and 1916.

    Even though he was regarded by many as a crank, Chidley gained a following and found people willing to defend him from persecution by the state. His supporters included free speech advocates, socialists and feminists. In this way, his story intersects with the most significant social movements of his day and forms part of the Australian history of radicalism.

    In the end, the arbiters of public morality defeated Chidley. The Answer was suppressed by a Supreme Court decision in 1914, and on three occasions between 1912 and 1916 Chidley was declared insane, with compulsory detention at asylums in Darlinghurst, Callan Park and Goulburn. He died of heart disease at Callan Park, just a couple of months after a failed suicide attempt in gaol.

    Good Sex – The Confessions and Campaigns of W.J. Chidley reveals how Chidley came to develop his unorthodox sexual theory through promiscuous life experience and wide reading in public libraries. It places his ideas in the broader context of social reform efforts around the turn of the century.

    Along the way, we glimpse a vivid and contested social order in early twentieth century Australia. We are introduced to the disparate forces that lined up in Chidley’s defence, as well as the machinations deployed by the state to suppress him. Ultimately we learn why Chidley’s critique of the politics of sexual intercourse was anathema in a patriarchal state on the brink of war.

    Guests:
    Sally McInerney, Editor - The Confessions of William James Chidley – Keep an eye out for a new edition of Chidley’s Confessions which Sally McInerney is currently working on.
    Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno, Associate Professor in History, Australian National University
    Professor Mark Finnane, Professor of History, Griffith University
    Dr Lisa Featherstone, Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle

    Publications:
    Title: The Confessions of William James Chidley
    Author: W.J. Chidley edited by Sally McInerney
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 1977

    Title: The Answer
    Author: W.J. Chidley
    Publisher: Australasian Authors’ Agency, 1911

    Title: The Sex Lives of Australians - A History
    Author: Frank Bongiorno
    Publisher: Black Inc. 2012

    Title: ‘Censoring Sex: The Case of W.J. Chidley’
    Author: Lisa Featherstone
    Publisher: article currently in press

    Title: ‘The Popular Defence of Chidley’
    Author: Mark Finnane
    Publisher: Labour History (journal), November 1981

    Title: What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History
    Author: Sydney Labour History Group
    Publisher: Allen & Unwin 1982

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/good-sex---the-confessions-and-campaigns-of-wj-chidley/4597570

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  2. In Defeat We’ll Always Try: the death of the Fitzroy Lions - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    This is a story all about the game, and the hardcore business, of the code once known as Aussie Rules. It may have slipped from public memory, but it remains a bitter pill in the hearts of some followers of one football team. In 2011, the AFL signed a $1.25 billion television rights deal—so it’s hard to imagine that, a little over a decade ago, a debt of a few million dollars was enough to send one of Australian football’s foundation clubs under. But that’s what happened to the Fitzroy Football Club.

    In the early days of the Victorian Football League, Fitzroy was king of the code—they were known as the Maroons, and in the early decades of the 20th century, they won seven premierships. Between the wars, they came to be known as the Gorillas, and in 1944, they snatched another premiership.

    But since that last wartime victory, Fitzroy’s prowess began to dwindle—and even with the moniker ‘the Lions’, they finally became known as the ‘lovable losers’.

    And so it was, in 1996, that the Lions of Fitzroy were no more. In their wake, a new football team emerged, up in the steamy northern city of Brisbane.

    This story charts the events of that year, which involve debt, treachery, betrayal and cold hearted business pragmatism. One-eyed Fitzroy fan Jack Kerr documents the demise of Fitzroy, and the rise of the Brisbane Lions.

    The program features passionate fans and veteran players, as well those inside the club, whose fight to keep Fitzroy alive is embodied in the team’s old anthem ‘In Defeat We’ll Always Try’.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/fitzroy-lions/4565326

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  3. Inside Robbers Cave - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    This story takes you into the heart of one of social psychology’€™s most famous experiments. In 1954 in Oklahoma, Turkish-American psychologist Muzafer Sherif brought two groups of 11-year-old boys to a summer camp. What they didn’€™t know and what they were never told was that their behaviour over the next three weeks would be studied, analysed, discussed and used in theories about war, interracial conflict and prejudice for generations to come.

    Almost 60 years since it was conducted, it’s still cited in psychology textbooks today. But what’s less well known is that the Robbers Cave was Sherif’s third attempt to generate peace between warring groups. The earlier studies were the 1949 ‘Happy Valley Camp’ study in Connecticut, and the second was his 1953 ‘Camp Talualac’ study.

    ‘Inside the Robbers Cave’ tells the story of two of the three studies. Producer Gina Perry’s research unearths a tale of drama, failure, mutiny and intrigue that has been overlooked in official accounts of Sherif’s research.

    The program features original archival audio from recordings made during 1953 and 1954.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/inside-robbers-cave/4515060

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  4. Pig City - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    In the late 1970s Brisbane was known to the rest of Australia as a big country town, and on the surface it was a citadel of conservative rural Australian values.

    The Country Party had been in power for nearly two decades, and the premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, ruled the state with an iron fist, never hesitating to use the Queensland police force to stamp out any resistance to his notoriously corrupt regime.

    It was in this context that a smouldering culture of rebellion was born among the students and other residents in the city’s inner suburbs, which manifest in public protests, acts of civil disobedience, and — in defiance of a legislated ban against them — in sometimes violent street marches. This growing wave of dissent also found expression in the energetic and distinctive music which began to emerge from Brisbane at this time, and which kick-started Australia’s wider punk and alternative rock scenes.

    The Saints, the Go Betweens and the Riptides, the Laughing Clowns, the Hoodoo Gurus and Gangajang all had their roots in the Brisbane punk scene of the 1970s, and would go on to have a huge influence on Australian music, paving the way for some of Australia’s most successful later acts, including Savage Garden, Powderfinger, Screamfeeder and Regurgertator.

    The 2004 book Pig City by Andrew Stafford was the first serious attempt to tell the story of Brisbane’s coming of age through this potent mix of music and politics. The opening of the city’s first community radio station, 4zzz, in 1975, became a vehicle for the emergence of this powerful nexus between music and politics in Brisbane during this era. It’s been argued that, at the time, 4zzz offered the only alternative and articulated voice of opposition to the prevailing state government of the day in Queensland.

    Tony Collins recalls his own experience of Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland, during the years that he spent living in Brisbane, working as a young broadcaster at 4zzz.

    This is an edited extract from the original ‘Pig City’ feature, first broadcast on Hindsight in 2008. See link below for the full program, available online as an mp3 audio file.

    Further Information: Link: Pig City webpage, with audio available online (http://abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/pig-city/3225990)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/pig-city/4412392

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  5. Search for the Kuda - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    The legend of Indonesian punk band The Kuda looms large in the history of the generation of young people during the 1970s and early 1980s, and stretched all the way from Jakarta to Brisbane. But did they really exist, or were they a figment of collective musical imagination?

    The Kuda, which means The Horse, were a near mythical Indonesian punk band whose infamy in the 1970s extended from Soeharto’s Jakarta, to Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Brisbane. Producers Sean O’Brien, who’s based in Australia, alongside Jakarta resident Rebecca Henschke, hit the trail in search of the story behind the Kuda, talking to rock icons, artists, and bystanders.

    Who were The Kuda? The trail leads our producers through the vibrant anak punk, or street punk, scene in contemporary Jakarta, back through the fraught history of rock and roll under the Sukarno and Soeharto regimes, to Joh’s Brisbane in the 1970s, and finally into the halls of Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA).

    Along the way hazy details emerge of The Kuda – all members may have been from rural Java; lead singer Benny “Billy” Bounneville was rumoured to have visited Brisbane in 1979, leaving behind only broken hearts and a tee-shirt emblazoned with the face of Albert Einstein; the whole band may have perished in a mysterious hiking accident in 1981.

    Or, were The Kuda merely a conceptual act of wishful thinking?

    Contemporary Indonesian art collective ruangrupa have been hard at work collecting archival material about The Kuda, which they will put on display at their installation at the upcoming 7th Asia Pacific Triennial at Queensland’s GOMA. And some of Brisbane’s leading musicians, such as The Saint’s Ed Kuepper, The Go-Between’s Robert Forster, and Xero’s John Willsteed, have gladly supplied interviews outlining their early encounters with the music of The Kuda. Apparently cassettes passed hand to hand, and tracks played at midnight on 4ZZZ.

    A theme emerges in ruangrupa’s installation, and is pursued in the radio feature – from the mid 1970s music was a call to arms for young people in Indonesia and Queensland, and also a means of escape, either creatively, or physically. Brisbane’s youth were marching the streets against the increasingly draconian laws of the Bjelke-Petersen government, while their contemporaries in Jakarta were frequently engaged in street battles with the army during years of the Soeharto regime. While Brisbane and Jakarta may appear to be very different places on the surface, they were literally linked by the spirit of rock and punk, providing the soundtrack to a generation in revolt.

    Guests:
    Mike Marjinal, Singer with Marjinal punk group

    Denie Sakrie, Senior music journalist writing for Tempo magazine, Kompas newspaper, and Rolling Stone Indonesia

    David Tarigan, Contemporary music critic/historian

    Benny Soebardja, Pioneering Indonesian singer-songwriter, leader of groups such as Golden Wing and Shark Move

    Yuli Ismartono, Executive editor of English edition of Tempo Magazine

    Reza ‘Asung” Afinisa, member of art collective ruangrupa

    Indra Ameng, member of art collective ruangrupa

    Clinton Walker, Music journalist

    Robert Forster, The Go-Betweens

    Ed Kuepper, The Saints

    Mark Callaghan, The Riptides

    John Willsteed, Zero

    Rod McLeod, Young Identities

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/kuda/4408130

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  6. Number 96 - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Number 96 made its debut on Australian television in March 1972, and was promoted by Channel 0 (the precursor for Network 10) as ‘the night Australian TV lost its virginity’. Forty years later, this feature tunes back in to the television series that broke new ground — not just about how television was made but, most memorably, about what audiences in Australia could watch. Set in a fictional apartment block, Number 96 became incredibly popular, as Australian audiences, across the five-year life of the program, spent their weeknights following the lives of residents Vera Collins, Don Finlayson (purported to be the first openly homosexual character to be written for Australian television), Aldo Godolfus, Maggie Cameron, Alf and Lucy Sutcliff, busybody Dorrie Evans, and the show’s sex symbol Bev Houghton, played by the actor Abigail — whose alleged screen nude scene remains a point of conjecture to this day.

    Excerpts from Number 96 courtesy of Umbrella Entertainment (http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/number-96/4295988

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  7. The Cinema of Distraction: the Australian drive-in - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    In February 1954 the first drive-in opened in Australia, in the outer Melbourne suburb of Burwood. Within two years, drive-in cinemas had sprung up in cities and country towns all over the country, as Australians embraced this new form of leisure that combined their twin passions for the cinema and the car. This feature explores the social changes that took place in Australia in the post war decades, which provided the backdrop for the popularity of drive-in cinema, where ‘the comfort lay in all the things you could do’. We also hear from some of the pioneer operators, and from those with memories of visits to the drive-in.

    Further Information:
    A tribute to Australian Drive-ins (http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/drive-ins/4295984

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  8. Frank the Poet: A convict’s tour to hell - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    August 2012 marks the 151st anniversary of the death of Francis MacNamara, better known in convict Australia as Frank the Poet. According to one of Australia’s leading contemporary poets, Les Murray, MacNamara’s epic work A Convict’s Tour to Hell should be placed right at the beginning of English literature in Australia. 

    Frank’s attitude to the colonial authorities, embodied in this now famous poem, can also be gauged from the punishments he received. Lashed 590 times, he was sent to solitary confinement, to the treadmill, and worked on chain gangs. All through his incarceration, Frank continued to entertain his fellow convicts with his rebellious verse.

    Now a new generation of musicians is producing fresh work inspired by Frank the Poet, whom they regard as giving Australia a tradition akin to the Mississippi blues.

    Folklorist, and co-producer of this feature, Mark Gregory, has spent thirty years searching for this often elusive poet, accompanied by his sometimes doubting partner, film maker Maree Delofski.

    Guests:
    Les Murray, poet

    Emeritus Bob Reece, (http://www.murdoch.edu.au/News/Find-an-expert/History-and-Theology-experts/)

    Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History, School of History and Archives, University College, Dublin

    Professor Bob Hodge, (http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/people/researchers/bob_hodge)

    Further Information:
    Frank the Poet (http://www.frankthepoet.com/)
    music group Stobie Sounds’ website (http://www.stobiesounds.com/)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/frank-the-poet/4126734

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  9. Corporate tales - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    If you’re looking for a good gripping and compelling read you probably don’t head to the business section of the bookshop for a hefty corporate history. Yet often the stories behind companies—and the research that goes into them—tell us fascinating tales of intrigue, politics and history, and much about our economic and social world.

    Guests:
    Trevor Sykes, Author of ‘Six Months of Panic’ Allen and Unwin, 2010

    Gideon Haigh, Author, "Asbestos house: the secret history of James Hardie Industries"

    Professor Geoffrey Blainey

    Publications:
    Title: The Concept of the Corporation
    Author: Peter F. Drucker Publisher: Mentor Executive Library Books , New York 1946

    Title: Asbestos House
    Author: Gideon Haigh
    Publisher: 2006

    Title: This is the ABC
    Author: Ken Inglis
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1983

    Title: The Rush That Never Ended
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1963

    Title: One of a kind: the story of Bankers Trust Australia 1969-1999
    Author: Gideon Haigh
    Publisher: 1999

    Title: A Company of Heralds
    Author: Gavin Souter
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1981

    Title: Jumping over the Wheel
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993

    Title: The Reckoning
    Author: David Halberstam
    Publisher: William Morrow, 1986

    Title: The Golden Mile
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993

    Title: The Deutsche Bank
    Author: Lothar Gall
    Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995

    Title: Six Months of Panic
    Author: Trevor Sykes
    Publisher: Allen and Unwin, 2010

    Title: Mines in the Spinifex
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1960

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/corporate-tales/3764372

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  10. Compromise and Confrontation: Senator Neville Bonner - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    The 1970s were a turbulent period in Australian politics and a high-point in the struggle for Indigenous rights and justice. Huge political energy pulsed through the Aboriginal movement following the success of the 1967 Referendum. But the first Indigenous person to sit in Federal Parliament didn’t come from the radical urban Aboriginal activist movement. He came from Queensland.

    Neville Bonner rose up through the ranks of the Queensland Liberal Party around the time Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen began his epic reign as premier. Bonner became Liberal senator for Queensland in 1971 and held on to his seat until 1983.

    As a conservative politician in radical times, Neville Bonner’s position was not a comfortable one. Complex tensions played out in his political career. He had to juggle often conflicting loyalties against a dynamic political backdrop as Queensland and the Commonwealth came to blows over Aboriginal affairs. Then there was the hostility he copped from other politicised Indigenous people who accused him of being an Uncle Tom.

    But in the end Neville Bonner surprised both his conservative sponsors and his radical detractors.

    Though Bonner was a proud Jagera man with strong ancestral connections to the area southwest of Brisbane, the context for this portrait of Neville Bonner is the Australian political landscape rather than Bonner’s Indigenous cultural context.

    Listeners are advised that the program contains the voices of Indigenous people who have died.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/compromise-and-confrontation/3972120

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