# Talking History – Blackbirding: A Reckoning With the Australian Slave Trade

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Podcast: [Forgotten Australia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-australia-761872)
Published: 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/forgotten-australia/episodes/talking-history-blackbirding-a-reckoning-with-the-australian
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## Resource

Blackbirding – A Reckoning with the Australian Slave Trade. We talk about the practices and policies that led to a staggering death toll – and how we don’t remember because our forgetting was engineered by language and laws meant to obscure and hide the true horrors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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