It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?

For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be the same.

Join the heroes and villains of the past as they hunt for nuggets, struggle across unknown deserts and triumph in one of the greatest engineering marvels the world has ever seen, in the next action-packed instalment of Fair Dinkum Histories! It's history as you've never seen it before.

Rotters and Squatters continues the warts-and-all story of Australia from 1820 to 1850.

This period saw new colonies founded and squatters spreading into new areas and taking the best land. Clashes with the Indigenous population were inevitable and often brutal. As the supply of convict labour dried up, free settlers began arriving and the demand for self-government grew.

• Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years
• Grim Crims and Convicts
• Rotters and Squatters
• Gold, Graves and Glory
• A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers
• Weevils, War & Wallabies
• Rockin' Rollin', Hair & Hippies
• Booms Busts & Bushfires.

The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dumping ground for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortable—at least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then a far-off war would create a different kind of digger. What they brought back home would make greater changes to Australia than gold ever did.

Meet the scabs and the swaggies, battling politicians, doddering generals, sheep stealers and heroic diggers who finally turned us into a nation!

Telling BITS of history as they really were! Gold fever hit Australia in the 1850s … and it was the start of a wild, crazy hunt that saw people from all over the world come to try their luck. A few people might have dug up a fortune, but what most diggers dug was latrines.

It turns out that the Gold Rush was mostly smelly, dirty, filthy and just yuck. Welcome to the most STINKY look at Australia yet!

Covers 1920–1945, an iconic period in Australian history when QANTAS was founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built, Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup and Don Bradman wowed the world at the wicket.

Then the Depression hit, Australia entered WW II, Aborigines lobbied for full citizenship, German ships laid mines off the Australian coast and the Japanese attacked Australia.

Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything is fast! Attitudes are evolving, technology is changing every aspect of life, and people are starting to recognise the damage done to our land and the mistreatment of our Indigenous peoples. Our resources have made us a rich country, but how long will the good times last?

Join the fireys, goths, yuppies and greenies for the final instalment of Fair Dinkum Histories!

Uproarious Australian history covering just about everything human that happened on the Australian continent prior to British settlement–and the establishment of a convict colony in a place the Dutch, the French and the Portuguese had known about for 200 years and turned their noses up at.

Includes:

• Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years
• Fair Dinkum Histories #2: Grim Crims and Convicts.

World War II is over, and it's a good time to be Australian. Rock 'n' roll, television and the Olympics have come down under. But underneath it all is the menace of the Cold War, and the horrors of Korea and Vietnam. Why can't we all just get along? Covers a pivotal time in Australia's history, as ideologies clash and a new national identity is evolving.

The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the Ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world.
Then along came the Dutch. And the Portuguese. And the British. Things would never be the same again.