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Everyone’s got a version of the story — this one’s mine.Truth Be Told is a raw, unapologetic, and deeply personal podcast based on real-life events.
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27. Warrigal Creek (opens the original)
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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 shot and burned, of women treated in ways he could not commit to paper. He said it was in everyone's interests to say nothing, because if the truth came out, the man most responsible would be tried for
26. Brewarrina (opens the original)
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Episode 26: The Brewarrina Massacre and Mission Before the British arrived, Brewarrina was one of the most important gathering places on the eastern half of this continent. The fish traps at the centre of town, Baiame's Ngunnhu, built by the Ngemba people across the Barwon River, are at least forty thousand years old. Archaeologists believe they may be the oldest human-made structure on earth. They drew nations from across the region, up to five thousand people at a time, to fish, trade, hold ce
25. The Convincing Ground Massacre (opens the original)
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Episode 25: The Convincing Ground Massacre Sometime in 1833 or 1834, a dead whale washed up on a beach near the whaling settlement at Portland Bay on the south west coast of what is now Victoria. The Kilcarer Gundidj clan of the Gunditjmara nation found it first. Under Gunditjmara law, a beached whale was Country's gift, something to be shared and processed according to established custom. The whalers wanted it too. An argument started. The whalers went back to their station and came back with f
24. TJ Hicky, Redfurn (opens the original)
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On the morning of the 14th of February 2004, Valentine's Day, a seventeen year old Aboriginal kid named Thomas Hickey, everyone called him TJ, came off his bike on Phillip Street in Waterloo, inner Sydney, and was impaled on a metal fence. A police vehicle was nearby. He was taken to hospital. He died early the next morning. He was seventeen years old. What happened between TJ riding his bike and ending up on that fence has never been fully resolved. Whether police were pursuing him, whether the
23. The Bathurst War and Windradyne (opens the original)
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Episode 23: The Bathurst War and Windradyne's Resistance In August 1824, a Wiradjuri leader named Windradyne walked into Parramatta for an annual public gathering. On his head he wore a piece of paper attached to his hat, with two words written on it in English. Peace. Windradyne. He had been declared an outlaw. There was a reward on his head. He had spent months at the centre of one of the most sustained campaigns of Aboriginal resistance in the history of New South Wales, while the colonial go
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