Shane Madej
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Now, the slave labor was a pretty sweet deal for the British, so sentences at the Tasmanian penal colony could be extended for infractions large and minuscule. You could get your sentence extended for anything from talking in church to failing to turn your shirt in on laundry day. But once the prisoners finished their sentences, they were free to settle the lands around them.
And as it happened, Martin Bryant's great-great-grandfather and one of his great-great-grandmothers had both been English convicts who'd been sent to Tasmania as punishment.
Oh, no, they didn't meet back in the day. They were like different branches of like. Criminal. Yeah.
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Yeah. No, they didn't. Again, they didn't date each other. They were different branches of the Bryant, not the Bryant family, the other his mother's side of the family.
Yeah, you can. Yeah, you can. In prison. Yeah, just type that in. Families having sex with each other in prison. Guarantee you something's coming up.
Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, man. They sent everybody because that's always the question of like, well, you know, if Tasmania, you know, if Australia was a penal colony, like how were the chicks? Yeah. Where the women were also sent.
Yeah. Now, Martin Bryant's lineage didn't necessarily clean itself up as the years ticked by in Tasmania. Bryant's mother, Carlene, was raised by a man who often suffered from alcoholic psychosis. This man married Carlene's 19-year-old mother when he was 54 years old. Well, Carlene's life actually seems to be one of those cursed existences that we sometimes find in our research.
You know, these types of people whose lives are just marked by tragedy after tragedy, none of which are their own making. For example, when Carlene was a young woman working as a waitress in the small Tasmanian coastal town of Swansea, she met and fell in love with a man who left her for another woman.
The suitor soon reappeared to tell Carlene that she was the woman he really loved, but he then killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning almost immediately after telling her.
The brighter side here on Last Podcast Network. You can listen every week. Now, a few years after her ill-fated romance, Carlene met her future husband, Maurice Bryant. Maurice was an English immigrant from Newcastle who was one of thousands of Englishmen who migrated to Australia after World War II by paying just 10 pounds for a ticket to the continent. What an upgrade.
yeah right from newcastle to australia beautiful australia just so much fun and again with the volleyball and the fucking and the shrimp and yeah but we're looking at please yeah but we're looking at australia from like a modern perspective australia in 1951 when he went was fucking rough yeah like it was underdeveloped
I may be wrong on this decade, but I don't think Australia got color TV until, like, the 80s.
Maurice and Carlene met in Tasmania in 1965, almost 15 years after Maurice arrived. And after just one date, Maurice proposed. Carlene, believing she was running out of chances to get married at the age of 27, accepted. Very 1965. Maurice had just as much tragedy in his life as Carlene did. When Maurice was seven years old, he found his mother dead in the home pantry.
But since Maurice was so young, he didn't register that his mother was now a corpse. He thought she was playing a game. So he jumped on the body and asked for a horsey ride. It would have been even worse if she gave him the horsey ride. That would have been, well, it would have been a horror movie. Well, then her body might have been jerking back and forth because of the electricity.
No, she died from tuberculosis. That may have been the case if she had been murdered very suddenly, but no, it was tuberculosis and your body usually withers away. She crawled into a hole and died.
Maurice Bryant claimed that this experience, finding his mother dead, was deeply scarring. What? And as a result of that and other factors, Maurice struggled with depressive mood swings and deep alcoholism throughout his life.
Now, by 1967, Maurice and Carlene had settled in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart. This was just after the Black Tuesday bushfires of 1967, in which 52 people were killed and 1,300 homes were burnt to ashes. But Black Tuesday was a bit of an opportunity for Maurice.
See, while Maurice made money wherever he could by working at the docks, picking fruit seasonally, or flipping antiques he found in thrift stores, his passion was buying and selling real estate. and it was in one of the first homes he bought that he and Carlene welcomed their first child, Martin Bryant, in 1967. Now, Martin seemed to be an utterly broken soul from the very beginning.
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