Port Arthur

is called Spiral Dreaming, I won't go into the details of what it's supposed to portray, but I thoroughly urge people who would enjoy that kind of music to come out and hear this work of Brian's, because a lot of effort goes into this sort of composition, and it really, the music is meant to tell a story.

It's all about the dreams of a young convict committed for life to their penal settlement in Port Arthur, Tasmania, and I think that should be a very interesting experience.

As every

good salesman would say, there's something for everyone out here at Montsalvep.

And for our listeners who may not know about the Alana and Madeline Foundation, can you give them a little bit of background and tell us about what the work is there that you're doing?

Well, Alana and Madeleine were two children aged three and six that were amongst the 35 victims at Port Arthur.

Their mother was killed trying to shelter them by the perpetrator, which is hard to imagine.

But Walter McCack was their father and husband who wasn't at Port Arthur on the day, but he saw his entire family killed in gun violence at what is still Australia's biggest modern day mass shooting.

Walter became an advocate overnight effectively for tighter gun controls.

At the time in Tasmania, there were hardly any firearm laws.

Well,

that's the other interesting thing.

It was a longstanding ambition to get Darwin connected to the rest of Aus.

September 20th in 1830, the Port Arthur Penal Settlement was established on the Tasman Peninsula and it became one of the most feared convict stations in the British Empire.

Not a lot of convicts want to go down to Port Arthur.

1975, 13 miners are killed in an underground coal mine explosion at the Kianga mine at Moora in Queensland.

1999, Australian troops commanded by Peter Cosgrove arrive in East Timor as part of Interfect peacekeeping operations.

by the mid-1800s.

And then you get into things like the mental asylums, the female factories, all the convict, you know, Port Arthur, like what was really going on here? I think it's far more likely, like we've seen in other episodes, that there's plenty of evidence that the Egyptians were here, the Dutch were here, the French were here with all the names.

We've got hieroglyphs here.

We've got grown-over pyramids.

Yeah, that's just a shocker.

1877, the Port Arthur penal colony was closed.

It used to be a notorious convict station and it effectively marked the end of convict transportation era in Australia.

1950, the first Australian forces land in Korea during the war.

Notorious Australian places or killers, indeed.

Port Arthur.

Port Arthur, which forever.

And that's, again, like it's such an historical site.

But Martin Bryant, of course, has turned it into something that has a completely different connotation.

I tune in every week.

Please look into Port Arthur in Australia, one of the original penal colonies.

[laughs] Penal.

Oh, yeah, the s-