In 1882, thousands of sheep set off from a property in Western Victoria. Their destination was a huge station in the Northern Territory, land which a sheep had never set foot on. To get there, these animals and their drover battled drought, flood, famine and doubt.
Tom Guthrie is a winemaker and sheep farmer in Western Victoria, and is a descendent in a ... Show More
Apr 2026
Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters
Award-winning Australian author, poet and essayist David Malouf died last week at the age of 92, he spoke with Richard in 2014.The first son of a Lebanese family, David spent his early years in South Brisbane, his vivid memories of life as it was then are captured in his classics ... Show More
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Sep 2019
Mark Bettini - "Of drought and flooding rains"
In the poem "My Country", Dorothy McKellar wrote "I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains". Those words came to life for Mark Bettini in 2019 when his family's cattle stations, spanning 1 million acres in the ... Show More
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