Home ownership has long been the Australian dream so, unsurprisingly, the home has been the birthplace of some of our most iconic stuff.
In this weeks episode, Tony Armstrong leafs-through domestic bible, the Australian Women’s Weekly – once the highest circulation magazine in the world – and its popular supplement, the Children’s Birthday Cake Book where he discovers a cake even its inventor thought too difficult to make!
Tony mixes it with the grinding stone – the world’s first portable food processor, unscrews the cap on Cask Wine, and uncovers the unsavoury truth behind every home’s flexible favourite, the Hills Hoist.
Behind the net curtains, Tony discovers the tale of an amphetamine which killed 20,000 Australian housewives, tracks the demise of the dunny, and laments the icon that never was: the Lightburn Zeta – an Australian-designed and made car that never quite found a home in the hearts of ordinary Australians.
So, join Benjamin Law, Nazeem Hussein, Daniel Browning and others around at Tony’s place to celebrate some of our greatest domestic stuff!
Production credit: Wildbear Entertainment Production for ABC. Financed with support from the ABC, Screen Canberra, National Museum of Australia and in partnership with National Archives of Australia and ANU Australian Studies Institute. Series Producer Mike Bluett. Executive Producer Alan Erson. ABC Executive Producer Kalita Corrigan.
