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A big wet season shopping list

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper |Mike Kermode

Greg and Carol Ryan have ridden out 38 wet seasons on their remote Queensland cattle station, which is inevitably cut off by floodwaters for months at a time. So they've learned how to properly stock up for when they get stranded. It takes a big shopping list, and a lot of freezers.
Teaching for 60 years - ABC listen

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Emma Siossian |Mike Kermode

Denise has worked in NSW public schools since 1964, and at 81 continues to work part-time as a graphic arts teacher. She's not planning on retiring any time soon.
Retiring at 94 after 60 years at a servo

Jan 15, 2025 | abc.net.au | Chris Calcino |Mike Kermode

Back in 1964, a young Dick Daley borrowed fifty pounds to fulfil his dream: become the owner of the service station in Tolga. Now after six decades of pumping fuel and 'yapping' with customers, he's finally hanging up the bowser one last time at the sprightly age of 94.
The Kiribati tuna workers of Port Lincoln

Jan 5, 2025 | abc.net.au | Amelia Costigan |Mike Kermode

Workers from Kiribati call Port Lincoln home for nine months of the year, as they come for work on tuna aquaculture farms. With them they bring fishing expertise, camaraderie and song.
The Eiffel Tower of Mackay

Dec 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Melissa Maddison |Mike Kermode

Tony Sant has built a lot of stuff with his hands. But his replica of a certain large Parisian monument probably takes the cake.
Part 3: Emerging from the rubble - ABC listen

Dec 4, 2024 | abc.net.au | Mike Kermode

On Christmas Day 1974, the residents of Darwin were in a state of shock. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the ruins of their homes to the shattered shell of what used to be their city. Some of the survivors remember the challenge they found before them, and how they pulled together to keep moving.
Part 1: Before - ABC listen

Dec 4, 2024 | abc.net.au | Mike Kermode

Relaxed. Tight-knit. Unique. Just some words commonly used to describe life in Darwin before the night of Christmas eve 1974. Some of the survivors of Cyclone Tracy reminisce life in the northern outpost before the cyclone changed everything.
Part 2: The Cyclone Arrives - ABC listen

Dec 4, 2024 | abc.net.au | Mike Kermode

On Christmas eve 1974, as Cyclone Tracy steadily tracked towards Darwin, few were prepared for the magnitude of what was about to hit them. Some of the survivors of Tracy recall that night, and what they had to do to make it through.
Part 4: Evacuating and returning - ABC listen

Dec 4, 2024 | abc.net.au | Mike Kermode

In the days following Cyclone Tracy, over 30 thousand people were evacuated from Darwin. Some would return, their lives forever marked by their experience.
The bizarre materials used for tying fishing flies

Nov 4, 2024 | abc.net.au | Mike Kermode

Top End fishing legend Chris Hurt has tied his own fishing flies for decades. From feathers to fur and beyond, it's meant using some weird materials along the way to fool fish.