Every Aussie home used to have an outdoor dunny... some people even protested when toilets started moving indoors. 

This episode will answer questions like: 
What is an outdoor dunny? 
What is a night soil man? 
Why did toilets used to be outside? 

Find more episodes of kids’ history podcast Wait... They Did What!? with Tilly Oddy-Black on the Kids tab of ABC listen.

Wait... they smoked cigarettes indoors?

Wait... They Did What?! is the question you’ll be asking after travelling back through modern history with comedian Tilly Oddy-Black.

Perfect for kids aged 8 and over, Wait…They Did What?! unearths the weird, wild and outright scandalous common practices of people in the olden days... like letting kids buy fireworks, banning bikinis on the beach, putting blood-sucking leeches on sick people, and riding in cars without seatbelts.

Credits:
Host: Tilly Oddy-Black
Producers: Samantha Turnbull and Soumia Bella
Sound engineer: Que Nguyen
Archive researchers: Michael Osmond and Carolyn Cage
Composer: David McDonald
Executive producers: Veronica Milsom and Alex Lollback