Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that came before it, and wiser than the one that came after it. - George Orwell
Rum, Rebels and Ratbags
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Rum, Rebels & Ratbags is history not for the faint-hearted. Historian and author of ‘Girt’ David Hunt and ABC 702 Sydney’s Dom Knight uncover the characters and events left out of your high school history class.
Sir Joseph Banks wasn’t just ‘that plant guy’, but a celebrity playboy botanist who decided Australia was just the place for a penal colony. The lady on the $20 note, Mary Reibey, was deported to Australia for horse theft and cross-dressing, but what she did next will surprise you. And, who circumnavigated Australia first - a French monkey or a South African cat?