Barcaldine artist, cultural champion and Indigenous advocate Suzanne Thompson was awarded a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering last year, in recognition of her cultural and scientific knowledge.
Today we meet a true living legend of the Australian shearing industry. Well known Morven local Les Heaydon picked up his first shearers’ handpiece at the age of 14, and just recently shore 100 sheep in one day to celebrate his 80th birthday.
The vast distances of the outback are daunting and hard to comprehend for many city people. Jennie Feldmeier’s patch dubbed the Cunnamulla-Burke and Wills Remote area, is a ten hour drive from top to bottom, and about eight hours from east to west.
The Royal Flying Doctors Service in Queensland operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year, doing aeromedical retrievals across the vast expanse of the state, and caring for more than 330,000 Australians each year.
The first episode of Streets of Your Town - The Outback Project double feature brings you Mother Funkers Go Outback and the Caxton Community Legal Centre.
It’s not often we celebrate a world-first feat of engineering that underpins the society surrounding it, but a technological triumph built four decades ago at the Gold Coast and still going strong today is now being recognised as one of the most important developments in the region’s history.
Danielle Caruana is spellbinding singer and percussionist who taps into the DNA of generations of creatives before her as half of the duo Mama Kin Spender—mesmerising audiences with their firebrand performances and courageous songwriting.