Shooting The Past ABC listen
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- History
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Shooting The Past brings you Australian history through a new lens. Each episode features a historical event or era, and starts with a single photograph and the question; what is going on in this picture?
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The Glide
An arresting photograph has Clare Wright duck-diving into the history of surfing in Australia.
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Roughy Justice
A fishy looking photograph throws Clare Wright into the deep end of the battle between industry and sustainability.
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Alien Nation
Clare Wright explores the story behind a studio portrait of an Edwardian family, and raises some tricky questions about citizenship, the Australian constitution and the subtle art of belonging.
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All Tragic to the Moon
Clare Wright unravels the dramatic story within a family photograph that takes us to the searing heart of an Australian summer tragedy — bushfire.
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Camp Sovereignty
A photograph of two men — one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous — holding hands, leads Clare Wright to investigate the history of Aboriginal resistance in Australia.
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The Ruins of Science
Clare Wright tries to uncover the story behind a baffling photograph, and finds herself transported back to Australia in the 1960s.