In 1941, sleepy tropical Brisbane found itself the nerve center for the Pacific War effort, playing host to 100,000 US military personnel. The former convict colony found itself changing quickly, and the pace of progress has barely slowed since then. Yet politically Queensland is the most conservative state in Australia, even playing host to a white South African rugby team at the height of the apartheid era in the face of international condemnation.
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00:00 Intro
02:00 Treadmill Torture
06:20 Apartheid Protests
09:55 WWII In Australia
19:09 King George V Statue
20:17 Brisbane Arcade Murder
22:53 Lamington
25:00 Outro
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