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Nov 10, 2024 | 
cairnspost.com.au | Warren Brown
It’s a record we didn’t realise we’d achieved until after we’d thrown on the handbrake in Dubai - we are the first Australian cars to have ever driven the breadth of Saudi Arabia from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates - a distance of 2300 km - and we did it in a 100 year old car.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
cairnspost.com.au | Warren Brown
If you are stuck in a holding pattern, Alexandria is not entirely a bad place to be. As we continue our epic journey from London to Melbourne in the Bean open-top sports car, we arrive at the Port of Alexandria in Egypt in the hopes of taking delivery of the 100-year-old car from the city’s docks. In 1927 Australian adventurer Francis Birtles shipped his Bean car from Athens to Alexandria aboard the Mytilus, an old, steam-belching fuel tanker built in 1916.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
townsvillebulletin.com.au | Matthew Benns |Warren Brown
Almost 100 years apart, The Daily Telegraph has been instrumental in an epic drive from London to Melbourne in the same model 14 horsepower Bean open top sports car. Then, as now, the drivers involved were completely nuts. This time readers of The Daily Telegraph can follow in real time as cartoonist Warren Brown and Editor-at-large Matthew Benns recreate the drive Francis Birtles made in 1927, proudly supported by Harvey Norman.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
cairnspost.com.au | Matthew Benns |Warren Brown
Almost 100 years apart, The Daily Telegraph has been instrumental in an epic drive from London to Melbourne in the same model 14 horsepower Bean open top sports car. Then, as now, the drivers involved were completely nuts. This time readers of The Daily Telegraph can follow in real time as cartoonist Warren Brown and Editor-at-large Matthew Benns recreate the drive Francis Birtles made in 1927, proudly supported by Harvey Norman.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
geelongadvertiser.com.au | Matthew Benns |Warren Brown
Almost 100 years apart, The Daily Telegraph has been instrumental in an epic drive from London to Melbourne in the same model 14 horsepower Bean open top sports car. Then, as now, the drivers involved were completely nuts. This time readers of The Daily Telegraph can follow in real time as cartoonist Warren Brown and Editor-at-large Matthew Benns recreate the drive Francis Birtles made in 1927.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
ntnews.com.au | Warren Brown
It’s not a conundrum terribly many people would have to deal with: “I’ve just bought a disused psychiatric hospital, now what am I going to do with it?”This is something two entrepreneurial Brits Les Bone and Vanessa Stanley-Johns must surelyhave discussed back in 2016 after buying the old Charters Towers psychiatric hospital 140kmsouthwest of Townsville: a sprawling 80ha, 1950s-designed complex that once housed300 to 600 patients.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
adelaidenow.com.au | Warren Brown
It’s not a conundrum terribly many people would have to deal with: “I’ve just bought a disused psychiatric hospital, now what am I going to do with it?”This is something two entrepreneurial Brits Les Bone and Vanessa Stanley-Johns must surelyhave discussed back in 2016 after buying the old Charters Towers psychiatric hospital 140kmsouthwest of Townsville: a sprawling 80ha, 1950s-designed complex that once housed300 to 600 patients.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
couriermail.com.au | Warren Brown
QLD NewsDon't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Below the heritage-listed bridge crossing the Murray River at Swan Hill, the last chapter in a rescue mission that saved about 100 crayfish – which made a desperate break to flee their toxic home – is taking place. In the golden twilight, the local community has been invited to assist in returning the crays that marched on to land to escape lethal water conditions after a vast flood.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
weeklytimesnow.com.au | Warren Brown
In the heady days the gold-mining boom of the 1880s, Bendigo in Victoria held the grand title of “the richest city in the world”. But almost 150 years later Bendigo is undergoing a gold rush of a different kind, with the niche manufacture of golden peanut brittle from the kitchen of a quaint suburban terrace house. This story is part of News Corp Australia’s Bush Summit series celebrating rural and regional Australia and championing the issues that matter most to those living in the bush.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thechronicle.com.au | Warren Brown
In the heady days the gold-mining boom of the 1880s, Bendigo in Victoria held the grand title of “the richest city in the world”. But almost 150 years later Bendigo is undergoing a gold rush of a different kind, with the niche manufacture of golden peanut brittle from the kitchen of a quaint suburban terrace house. This story is part of News Corp Australia’s Bush Summit series celebrating rural and regional Australia and championing the issues that matter most to those living in the bush.
