OVER 50 YEARS AGO multi-award-winning journalist John Francis interviewed ageing Australian Outback characters, before their voices were lost in the red dust. THIS IS VERY SPECIAL Outback history. Most of these unique old characters would be aged over 130 if they were still alive today. NEARLY ALL lived largely solitary lives, in the harsh and lonely inland, on the edge of deserts, in a world of searing droughts, and occasional fierce floods. THEY WERE prospectors, sheep and cattle men, boun ...
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1. Teesha Rain - Shadow 2. CKay - Emiliana 3. Adekunle Gold - High 4. Shaneil Muir - Hype And Boasy 5. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Ding Dong - Rich walk 6. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Jafrass - Bum pon it 7. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Skinny Fabulous - Big millions 8. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Shenseea - Dolly 9. Nailah Blackman x @Mical Teja - Dingolay 10. (Ibiza Riddim) - Bunji Garlin & Fay-Ann Lyons - What You See 11. (Ibiza Riddim) - Skinny Fabulous Stars - (Different Planet) 12.(Ibiza Riddim) - Lashley "Motto" Wint ...
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As a kid, he skinned cats and sold the meat. What happened years later at the Dolly Pot Mine?
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When I interviewed Ernest Skein in 1970, I was told he had recently been let out of jail. I didn’t want to close down an interview with a fascinating old-time prospector, so when I got the message that some subjects were not to be touched, I left that one alone. It remained just a giant elephant in the tiny, hot-as-hell tin shack in which I intervi…
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The bushman with a passion for local history
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In the Depression years Fred Teague had been a gold miner and fox shooter north of the road to Broken Hill. He drove trucks for the legendary Harry Ding to Innaminka, and up the Birdsville Track, in gruelling conditions, where if you got stranded you’d better have plenty of water; and where a wrong turn could mean the end. Then in the early 1950s h…
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‘You had to overcome their fear’. Exclusive interview with co-founder of Qantas
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It was bitterly cold up there, in leather cap and goggles, in the open cockpit. Turbulence in North Queensland skies was often terrifying. Passengers could do nothing but hang on and bear it, hopefully holding something to catch the vomit. And on landing, ‘sometimes the only edifice on the aerodrome was a little tin shed’, Sir Hudson told me. ‘On a…
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‘It’s a terrible crime to be a scab. A scab is worse than a murderer’
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One day 1970, in the Outback town of Broken Hill, I was standing on a street corner, tape recorder in hand, grabbing sounds for a radio documentary. A short, energetic little fellow wandered up and said, ‘Hello son, what are you doing here?’ It was Frank Bartley, born 1888, who like his father before him became a miner at the Broken Hill mines. Bro…
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Both families were miners. Together they created musical gold
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Last edition we met Sis McRae, the all-night fiddler from the early part of the 20th Century. Sis had just one child, Margaret McRae, who married Jim Coad. Both families had mining backgrounds. With Margaret and Jim this continued, with their barytes mine at Martins Well in the Flinders Ranges. But it’s what they achieved above ground, out there in…
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More Naughty Norman, then tales from Granny McRae, the All-night Fiddler
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There are two distinct parts to this episode: first, more revelations about an early aviation legend. Then, we visit Ada (Sis) Mcrae, born 1889, who recalls the hardships and joys of life in a small Outback town. SIR NORMAN BREALEY really made the dust fly with his biplane-era airline in Western Australia, but the maverick way he ran his business a…
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Some ’naughty bits’ on Australian airline pioneer Sir Norman Brearley.
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They wouldn’t let Brearley look at the bodies. A women said it was the first time she’d ever seen a man cry. 'I made all the rules, and I followed every one of them'. World War One dogfighter Major Norman Brearley was the first off the ground with an airline in Australia, dramatically changing the lives of people in Outback Western Australia. Major…
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From WW1 ace fighter pilot, to starting Australia's very first airline
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Within a few short years after the First World War, over the heads of horses donkeys camels and bullock teams, a new sound could be heard in Australia’s interior: the droning and spluttering of aircraft. First it was the 'barnstormers' offering thrills and first flights to small country communities. Then came airmail services, then passenger routes…
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Chasing opals since the 1920s, while paddling his own dusty canoe
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Opal miner Franko Albertoni was born in 1883. He was 88 when John Francis interviewed him in 1971, but still jumping around in the crushing heat like a little pixie. In 1920 Franko and his brother were among the very early miners at the Coober Pedy Opal Fields in South Australia. Then in 1930 they were among the first 12 to dig for opal in Andamook…
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Cranky camels, murderous mules, and a swarm of swaggies
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It was 1919, and Charlie Gill was 12 when he started work on a cattle station east of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. It was a tough but joyous life for a boy. Charlie was an acute observer, with the memory of a steel dingo trap, and a great way with words. In this 1968 interview he talks of sleeping rough when mustering, of dealing with cr…
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Are you intrigued by Australian oral history? You’ll really love RED DUST TAPES. Soak up the voices and the stories of Outback old-timers who were born over 130 years ago. Here's a quick trailer of RED DUST TAPES, which will be available weekly from mid-April. For more information and to SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER, go to: reddusttapes.au…
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Episode 1: Dr Kimoni Present AFROCARIBBEAN CARNIVAL Volume 174 1-19-22
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1. Teesha Rain - Shadow 2. CKay - Emiliana 3. Adekunle Gold - High 4. Shaneil Muir - Hype And Boasy 5. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Ding Dong - Rich walk 6. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Jafrass - Bum pon it 7. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Skinny Fabulous - Big millions 8. (UPSTAIRS RIDDIM) - Shenseea - Dolly 9. Nailah Blackman x @Mical Teja - Dingolay 10. (Ibiza Riddim) - Bu…
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