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The Rest Is History

188. Australian Prime Ministers: Harold Holt - Malcolm Fraser (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

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4.626.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In the second part of our Australian PMs trilogy, Tom and Dominic explore Chinese Communist conspiracy theories and talk about the most entertaining of all the Aussie leaders. The final instalment of this mini-series will be in your podcast feed on Thursday. To get the last episode right now, join The Rest Is History Club, where you'll also get ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. Editor: Harry Lineker Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter:  @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Canva Design Against Doll. That Dominicambric was of course a digital ado, signaling the fact that we have reached part two of our survey.

1:10.0

Our survey of Ozzy PMs and in the first episode we got to 966 haven't we?

1:19.2

We proceeded slowly but steadily in the sort of Jeff Boycott. Yes, yes.

1:25.4

Pricketing style and we've got to the yes the departure Robert Menz's

1:31.6

Australia's a longer serving Prime Minister.

1:34.0

And so if you miss that, and we talked about Australian political culture

1:37.0

and the different sort of forces within it and so on

1:40.0

and parallels of Britain and why we don't know more about it in Britain. So if you missed all that, what on earth is

1:44.9

wrong with you, go back and listen to the previous podcast. But we're going to kick off now with

1:49.1

Harold Holt and one of the great stories in Australian history.

1:53.3

So Harold Holt, Tom, you know where his ancestors were from?

1:56.4

Probably from Cornwall or somewhere.

1:59.4

They were from the Gride City of Birmingham.

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