For some reason, Josie has decided to punish herself by telling Mel all about Aussie actor, heartthrob and icon Heath Ledger. Yes, there are tears. 

**If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 23 mins!

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EPISODE REFERENCES:

Australian Screen – Heath Ledger Biography

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – clip of Heath Ledger in Sweat

Daily Telegraph article from 2022 – interview with Julia Stiles

E! Online article from 2018

Empire Online article from 2012, first published in Empire Magazine in 2009 – oral history of Dark Knight

MTV article 2008

Daily Mail article from 2016 by Jennifer Smith

2017 Documentary I Am Heath Ledger

81st Academy Awards, 2009 – the Ledger family’s acceptance speech video

For some reason, Josie has decided to punish herself by telling Mel all about Aussie actor, heartthrob and icon Heath Ledger. Yes, there are tears. 
**If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 23 mins!
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Produced by <a href="https://dm.org.au">DM Podcasts</a>
EPISODE REFERENCES:
<a href="https://aso.gov.au/people/Heath_Ledger/portrait/">Australian Screen – Heath Ledger Biography</a>
<a href="https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/98617-heath-ledger-sweat">National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – clip of Heath Ledger in Sweat</a>
<a href="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/the-one-thing-julia-stiles-knew-loved-heath/news-story/3a53f91566b98edf2b9f8c29fb170b20 ">Daily Telegraph article from 2022 – interview with Julia Stiles</a>
<a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/925206/how-michelle-williams-found-love-after-heath-ledger-s-death ">E! Online article from 2018</a><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/925206/how-michelle-williams-found-love-after-heath-ledger-s-death"></a>
<a href="https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/heath-ledger-joker/ ">Empire Online article from 2012, first published in Empire Magazine in 2009 – oral history of Dark Knight</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090322021223/http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1583563/story.jhtml ">MTV article 2008</a>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3708126/Heath-Ledger-s-father-Kim-painfully-recalls-actor-s-accidental-overdose-speaks-against-addictive-opioid-painkillers-killed-son.html ">Daily Mail article from 2016 by Jennifer Smith</a>
2017 Documentary I Am Heath Ledger
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrt2xoy5UHo ">81st Academy Awards, 2009 – the Ledger family’s acceptance speech video</a>

G’day mates and welcome to All Aussie Hour, the new podcast from Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke. You might remember them from the hit podcasts All Aussie Mystery Hour and The Zest Is History, and to be quite honest their new offering is… basically the same.

Each week, one host will spin the other a yarn from Australia’s rich and, let’s face it, completely batshit past. Strap in for zesty tales, weird mysteries and potentially even some research!

Proudly Produced by DM Podcasts 

G’day mates and welcome to All Aussie Hour, the new podcast from Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke. You might remember them from the hit podcasts All Aussie Mystery Hour and The Zest Is History, and to be quite honest their new offering is… basically the same.
Each week, one host will spin the other a yarn from Australia’s rich and, let’s face it, completely batshit past. Strap in for zesty tales, weird mysteries and potentially even some research!
Proudly Produced by <a href="https://dm.org.au">DM Podcasts </a>

Australia's wildest yarns, told to you by Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke.

All Aussie Hour

G’day mates and welcome to All Aussie Hour, the new podcast from Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke. You might remember them from the hit podcasts All Aussie Mystery Hour and The Zest Is History, and to be quite honest their new offering is… basically the same.

Each week, one host will spin the other a yarn from Australia’s rich and, let’s face it, completely batshit past. Strap in for zesty tales, weird mysteries and potentially even some research!

Produced by DM Podcasts

G’day mates and welcome to All Aussie Hour, the new podcast from Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke. You might remember them from the hit podcasts All Aussie Mystery Hour and The Zest Is History, and to be quite honest their new offering is… basically the same.
Each week, one host will spin the other a yarn from Australia’s rich and, let’s face it, completely batshit past. Strap in for zesty tales, weird mysteries and potentially even some research!
Produced by <a href="https://dm.org.au">DM Podcasts</a>

Heath Ledger: The Life & Death Of An Icon Taken Way Too Soon

IT'S A SEASON FINALE!!! For our final ep of season 1, Mel takes Josie through the infamous Emu War, when emus dominated the Aussie army and its new, fancy machine guns.

**If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 24 mins.

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Show notes:

"'Feathered foes': soldier settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932, Murray Johnson, (2006).

Tell me mate what are emus like, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Adrian Burton 2013

Scientific American, The Great Emu War, 2014, Bec Crew

IT'S A SEASON FINALE!!! For our final ep of season 1, Mel takes Josie through the infamous Emu War, when emus dominated the Aussie army and its new, fancy machine guns.
**If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 24 mins.
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Show notes:
"'Feathered foes': soldier settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932, Murray Johnson, (2006).
<a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/1540-9295-11.6.336">Tell me mate what are emus like, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Adrian Burton 2013</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230208193043/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-emu-war-in-which-some-large-flightless-birds-unwittingly-foiled-the-australian-army/">Scientific American, The Great Emu War, 2014, Bec Crew</a>

The Emu War - The Feathery Army Machine Guns Couldn't Take Down

Josie takes Mel all the way back to 2018, when needles started showing up stuck into strawberries all across Australia. 

**If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 29 mins and 40 seconds!

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Show notes:

BBC, no byline, September 2018

ABC by Patrick Williams, September 2018

The Guardian by Ben Smee, September 2018

The North West Star by Cheryl Goodenough, July 2020

Daily Mail by Mark Brook, November 2018

ABC by Talissa Siganto, July 2021

Brisbane Times article by Toby Crockford, July 2021

News.com.au by Shireen Khalil, 2020

Josie takes Mel all the way back to 2018, when needles started showing up stuck into strawberries all across Australia. 
**If you would like to skip the catch up chats, head straight to 29 mins and 40 seconds!
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Produced by <a href="https://dm.org.au">DM Podcasts</a>
Show notes:
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45519888 ">BBC, no byline, September 2018</a>
<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-14/strawberry-needle-scare-what-you-need-to-know/10248736 ">ABC by Patrick Williams, September 2018</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/22/the-needles-and-the-damage-done-the-growers-hurt-by-australias-strawberry-saboteurs ">The Guardian by Ben Smee, September 2018</a>
<a href="https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/6793441/qld-woman-in-court-over-strawberry-needles/ ">The North West Star by Cheryl Goodenough, </a><a href="https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/6793441/qld-woman-in-court-over-strawberry-needles/ ">July 2020</a><a href="https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/6793441/qld-woman-in-court-over-strawberry-needles/ "></a>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6416837/Strawberry-farm-worker-sabotaged-fruit-needles-mentioned-idea-years-earlier.html ">Daily Mail by Mark Brook, November 2018</a>
<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-14/strawberries-needles-2018-charges-dropped-brisbane-court-trinh/100291750 ">ABC by Talissa Siganto, July 2021</a>
<a href="https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/judge-s-comment-contradicts-explanation-why-strawberry-needle-case-dropped-20210714-p589o9.html ">Brisbane Times article by Toby Crockford, July 2021</a>
<a href="https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/police-arrest-woman-over-strawberry-contamination/news-story/fbe4e890572060b129c6c100a2fcca62 ">News.com.au by Shireen Khalil, 2020</a>

The Strawberry Needle Spiking Incident: A Very Fruity Mystery

This week, Mel tells Josie the tragic story of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go fire, and the corruption and intrigue that was behind it.

**If you would like to skip the catch-up chats, head straight to 18 mins!

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EPISODE REFERENCES:

Q News, Brooke Tindall

Q News, Destiny Rogers

The Ghost Gate Road podcast by Matthew Condon

The Guardian, 2022

News.com.au, Blake Antrobus, 2022

ABC, 2017

Mamamia True Crime Conversations with Matthew Condon

This week, Mel tells Josie the tragic story of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go fire, and the corruption and intrigue that was behind it.
**If you would like to skip the catch-up chats, head straight to 18 mins!
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Produced by <a href="https://dm.org.au">DM Podcasts</a>
EPISODE REFERENCES:
<a href="https://qnews.com.au/1970s-brisbane-and-the-queens-of-the-valley/">Q News, Brooke Tindall</a>
<a href="https://qnews.com.au/revisiting-brisbanes-whiskey-au-go-go-firebombing-forty-five-years-later/">Q News, Destiny Rogers</a>
<a href="https://www.ghostgateroad.com/">The Ghost Gate Road podcast by Matthew Condon</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/11/police-were-warned-brisbanes-whiskey-au-go-go-would-be-burned-down-inquest-told">The Guardian, 2022</a>
<a href="https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/courts-law/whiskey-au-go-go-explosive-claim-that-nightclub-firebombing-was-policebacked-aired-at-inquest/news-story/b0e5df30d40a817f66367a86bd36bb97">News.com.au, Blake Antrobus, 2022</a>
<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-02/whiskey-au-go-go-fatal-firebombing-inquest-ordered/8583326">ABC, 2017</a>
<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/true-crime-conversations/whisky-au-go-go-fire/">Mamamia True Crime Conversations with Matthew Condon</a>

Heath Ledger: The Life & Death Of An Icon Taken Way Too Soon

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