Qualla: New Australia https://qualla.com/new-australia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: New Australia https://qualla.com/new-australia New Australia: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-australia/ In July 1893, a chartered ship called the Royal Tar slipped out of Sydney Harbour carrying shearers, stockmen, and union men, their wives and children, and one enormous idea. They were sailing to the middle of South America to build a society with no money and no bosses, a brotherhood of equals on the far side of the world. They named the place they founded Colonia Nueva Australia. It was, by some accounts, the first deliberate attempt at socialism anywhere — and it began to unravel almost as soon as it began.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/z/new-australia-wk/6erz-new-australia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Australia: The Dreamer and His Ship https://qualla.com/new-australia/ The visionary was William Lane, a journalist and firebrand of the Australian labour movement who had founded the country's first labour newspaper, The Worker. When the great shearers' strikes of the early 1890s collapsed and the movement splintered — some of its members going on ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/z/new-australia-wk/6erz-new-australia-paradise-on-paper.mp3 0:06 3 full New Australia: How Utopia Came Apart https://qualla.com/new-australia/ Conflict broke out almost immediately. Settlers chafed at Lane's autocratic control, at the ban on alcohol, and at his rules forbidding contact with Paraguayans. Within three months, members were being expelled for breaking the teetotal pledge. By May 1894, Lane himself had given...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/z/new-australia-wk/6erz-new-australia-how-utopia-came-apart.mp3 0:06 4 full New Australia: The Australians Who Stayed https://qualla.com/new-australia/ And yet the people did not all leave. Some 2,000 descendants of those Australian colonists still live in Paraguay today, carrying English surnames among the Spanish and Guaraní, many of them no longer speaking the language their great-grandparents sailed with. The original settle...

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