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- 15:55 - Archaeologists from the Australian National Maritime Museum believe they have found the shipwreck of the HMS Mermaid ... (audio)
Curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Kieran Hosty, is on the Barrier Reef and tells Shon Walker what's been found
published: 07/01/2009 (Shipwreck) - 10:55 - A 66-year-old wartime mystery may have been solved with the discovery of a shipwreck near the Tiwi Islands ... (audio)
Diver, James Miles tells Shon Walker about the find
published: 30/12/2008 (World War II, Shipwreck) - Search for the first aircraft taken to the Antarctic in 1911 by Sir Douglas Mawson (audio)
John Barron talks to Dr Ian Godfrey, the field leader and chief Conservator from the Mawson's Huts Foundation
published: 11/12/2008 (Antarctic, Mawson) - Charles Darwin's life and work the subject of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia (audio)
Shon Walker speaks to Dr Michael Pickering, a senior curator at the museum
published: 10/12/2008 (Charles Darwin) - Australian astronomer believes he's found the star upon which the story of the birth of Jesus is based (audio)
Dave Reneke of Sky and Space magazine tells Anna Hipsley astronomers have managed to map the night sky as it would have appeared more than 2000 years ago
published: 08/12/2008 (Jesus, Star) - Want to buy a Manly Ferry? Here's your opportunity - and the reserve's only $9! (audio)
The Baragoola was built in Sydney's Mort Dock in Balmain in the 1920s - and Shon Walker talks to auctioneer Gareth Venn Brown
published: 17/11/2008 (Manly Ferry) - 90th anniversary of Armistice Day - when the guns of World War One fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (audio)
Marius Benson asks Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon about its significance
published: 11/11/2008 (Armistice Day) - The legend of the Aussie-digger still resonates ... But how about a war veteran who had not one, but three names? (audio)
World War 1 veteran James Carlin is at the centre of an intriging story. Shon Walker gets the details from Mick Fogarty at the National Archives
published: 05/11/2008 (World War One)
