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Podcast title	Hindsight
Website URL	http://abc.net.au/rn/hindsight...
Description	Hindsight is the only program on Australian radio devoted exclusively to social history. It offers new perspectives on well-known aspects of the past and brings to light those stories long-ignored on the public record. The memories of ordinary Australians are woven into complex, credible and satisfying documentaries. Hindsight is published every Sunday.
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1. 2008-09-07 Accomplices in Atrocity; the Indonesian killings of 1965 http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn... download (audio/mpeg, 25.13Mb) Description: One of the worst mass murders of the later 20th century happened on our doorstep -- yet few Australians know about it. In late 1965, the Indonesian army orchestrated the killing of half a million communists and suspected sympathisers in reprisal for what they claimed was an attempted Communist coup. Historians who've studied thousands of declassified Australian, British and American documents say they reveal a shocking truth: the Western powers not only knew about the killings, but were accomplices in atrocity.
2. 2008-08-31 Go home Springboks http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn... download (audio/mpeg, 25.28Mb) Description: In 1971 the South African Springboks rugby team toured Australia amid controversy and chaos. Anti-apartheid demonstrators attempted to disrupt the games because the team had been selected on racial grounds. Protesters clashed violently with police and Premier Joh Bjelke Petersen declared a state of emergency in Queensland, where police charged at and beat up demonstrators. They also had creative forms of protest; like having Aboriginal people wear the 'sacred' Springboks jersey, and getting a mixed race couple (Zimbabwean and white Australian) to stay in the same hotel as the Springboks to draw attention to the fact that their marriage would be illegal in South Africa. The Aboriginal protesters also raised the nation's awareness of racism in Australia. The event ushered in a more militant form of protest in Australia and it kicked off our sports boycott with South Africa -- the Springboks did not return for 22 years.
3. 2008-08-24 A Great and Crying Need: a history of Kew Cottages http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn... download (audio/mpeg, 25.29Mb) Description: Kew Cottages was Australia´s largest and oldest purpose built institution for people with intellectual disability. Opened in 1887, it housed thousands of people, over more than a century, before its closure in early 2008. Located on large grounds in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, the last of the cottages' residents have been moved into Community Residential Units, or CRUs. The story of Kew Cottages charts the wider history of changing attitudes to people with disability, and the role of institutional care. This program features the stories of former residents and their families, as well as staff and specialists who worked at Kew Cottages.
4. 2008-08-17 History, citizenship and national identity http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn... download (audio/mpeg, 25.10Mb) Description: A forum which tackles the complex and related issues of history, citizenship and national identity, organised by the Monash-Menzies Centre in London, and held at Australia House. The conference features a range of scholars who offer comparitive European and Australian perspectives on the topics of identity, integration and social cohesion, and research and policy initiatives around the teaching of history in a number of countries around the world. British historian Professor John Tosh, from Roehampton University, delivers a talk titled `Critical citizens: reflections on history´s public role in Britain´. As well, a chance to hear Australian historian Stuart Ward, who has been based in Denmark for the past twelve years at the University of Copenhagen. He discusses current tensions around nation, history, identity and immigration in Denmark in his paper `Battening down the Hatches, the canonisation of Danish history and culture´.
5. 2008-08-10 Spectacle and the City: Sydney's Garden Palace http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn... download (audio/mpeg, 25.30Mb) Description: The only thing more spectacular than Sydney´s Garden Palace was the mysterious fire that destroyed it. Set in the Governor's Domain overlooking Farm Cove, the Garden Palace briefly dominated the Sydney skyline with its immense facade and lofty dome. Pulled together in nine months to host Sydney's first big gig as a global city, the Garden Palace lived fast, died young and is now forgotten. But in 1879 the Garden Palace achieved global fame, and put the new metropolis of Sydney on the map, as the gracious host of Australia´s first International Exhibition. In today's Hindsight we pay a visit to the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition to admire the Garden Palace, and consider the cornucopia of arts, industry and social Darwinism within. We assess the legacy of the Garden Palace Exhibition for Sydney's urban identity, global reputation, and institutional development. And we examine the impact of the archival losses sustained in the Garden Palace fire of 1882.