Tag: Australian colonial history


  • First Nations Voices Unearthed in Overland Telegraph Line Documentary

    First Nations Voices Unearthed in Overland Telegraph Line Documentary

    The Overland Telegraph Line: A Tech Marvel Meets Indigenous History The Overland Telegraph Line, a feat of 19th-century engineering, stretched roughly 3,000 kilometres from Adelaide to Darwin. It connected colonial Australia to the world, shrinking distances and accelerating communication. Yet, as a new documentary reveals, the line’s legacies are not simply electrical or technological—they are…