#173 Australia and crucially, who discovered it?! (Part 1)

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week we’re discussing that wonderful land of Australia! We’ll be finding out what was suspected about a land down under in Antiquity, south-east Asia’s Australian mythology and we’ll answer the age-old and quite complex question: who discovered Australia?!

Elsewhere, Chris has barely survived a bout with Norovirus and Tom finally admits what he’s thinking when listening to electronic dance music. Do you have any confessions you’d like to share? If so, please send them in: hello@ohwhatatime.com

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
0:06.4	plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access
0:11.9	to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water
0:16.9	Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up. For all your options, you can go to patreon.com
0:26.3	forward slash oh, what a time.
0:41.8	Hello and welcome to Oh-Water Time.
0:44.5	It's a history podcast in which we look back on the past,
0:48.6	and this past weekend I've been thinking a lot about the bubonic plague because our house was struck down with neurovirus.
0:53.1	One by one, the dominoes in my household fell. Who was domino number one? Our house was struck down with neurovirus. Oh, no.
0:56.5	The dominoes in my household fell.
0:58.6	Who was domino number one?
0:59.8	I was patient zero.
1:00.9	It was me.
1:02.0	It was me.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:06.2	Now, this is my favourite thing about norovirus or any kind of... Your favourite thing?
1:07.3	In your long list of favourite things.
1:10.8	The funniest thing I think about tummy upsets or diarrhoea thing. In your long list of favourite things.
1:16.7	The funniest thing I think about tummy upsets or diarrhoea or stomach bugs or gastro issues is the post-mortem about where you think you got it.
1:21.1	Yeah.
1:21.8	Because you'll never know.
1:23.2	Okay.
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