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POLITICAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA (podcast)
Episode 29: The Rebel Administration
On the evening of 26 January 1808 the New South Wales Corps marched on Government House and did something extraordinary: they deposed Governor William Bligh at gunpoint. It remains the only successful armed overthrow of government in Australian history.
What followed was one of the strangest and most revealing chapters in our early colonial story — the Rebel Administration. For nearly two years the colony was run by the very men who had arrested Bligh.
The deposed William Bligh refused to go quietly. From house arrest in Sydney to his own audacious mutiny aboard the HMS Porpoise and a long, bitter standoff in Hobart Town, he kept plotting and scheming to reclaim power.
In this episode we go deep inside the Rebel Administration - its personalities, its successes, its score-settling, and the long waiting game that everyone in the colony was forced to play until London had played its hand.
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