Australian Story

Lest We Forget (25x33)

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As the nation begins to emerge from the grips of COVID-19, Australian Story explores the Spanish Flu of a century ago and the eerie similarities to today. Until COVID-19 struck, very few had ever spared a thought for the "forgotten flu" and the up to 15,000 Australians who died from the brutal pandemic that swept the globe during 1918-19. Despite the topic being memorialised extensively in the northern hemisphere, Australia’s experience of Spanish Flu was largely overlooked, perhaps because it was buried in the trauma of World War One which had just ended. In this episode, Australian Story delves into the archives and hears from the country’s top expert historians to uncover just how this outbreak changed our society and what we can learn for the future.