This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland.

Latest episodes of the podcast Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History by James Francis Hogan

• Prefatory note and introduction
• The Genesis of the Gladstone Colony
• The Constitution of the New Colony
• Mr Gladstone Enunciates his Land Policy
• The Founding of the Colony
• The Veto of Earl Grey
• The Vindication of Colonel Barney
• The Growth and Development of Gladstone
• The Experiences of a Pioneer Squatter
• The Great Gold Rush
• A Marvellous Wild-Goose Chase
• The Host of Disappointed Diggers
• The Correspondence of Sir Maurice O'Connell
• A Grevious Error of Mr Gladstone's
• Major De Winton - Oldest living Gladstonian
• The Gladstone of To-Day
• Mr Gladstone's True Principles of Colonisation
• Mr Gladstone and the Colonies
• A Couple of Colonial Lectures