Back Roads

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Episode 11 - Gunbower and Torrumbarry, VIC

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Tuesday 19 March 8.00pm

This time Back Roads meanders the mighty Murray River as it criss-crosses the towns of Gunbower and Torrumbarry, in north central Victoria

Heather Ewart takes the backroads to Gunbower and Torrumbarry in north central Victoria.

While the two towns were once playful rivals, a natural disaster brought people together and reminded them of their strengths. Farmer John Williams tells Heather that massive floodwaters were bearing down on the towns in 2022, threatening homes and livestock. As disaster loomed, these locals turned out in force with trucks, tractors and earthmoving equipment, to build their own levee bank.

What binds them together these days, Heather learns, is their passion for protecting and nurturing their most vulnerable.

Home to one of the rarest birds in Australia, three farming families are going all out to preserve the little plains-wanderer. Another local farmer Andy McGilivray tells Heather they’ve secured its habitat with conservation covenants to protect the birds’ grassland home.

And they’re not alone. Further along the river, Tuesday Browell and Wollithiga elder Henry Atkinson are working together to recognise and protect local heritage and natural values, including a conservation covenant on her land that’s creating a safe haven for turtles. Heather arrives in time to see newly hatched baby turtles making their way to the water.

These communities are using the power of water and positive thought in an outdoor ‘school’ to empower troubled youth. They’re drawing from local produce to equip adults living with disabilities with new life skills. And they’re preserving their history to protect their culture.

Across these plains, throughout the wetlands lies a group of Australians willing to roll up their sleeves to support themselves and each other.

Production credit: Executive Producer: Brigid Donovan

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Episode 12

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Tuesday 26 March 8.00pm

Tasman Peninsula, TAS

This week, Back Roads adventures to the Tasman Peninsula, on the south-eastern tip of Tasmania where presenter Joe O’Brien discovers the beauty and dangers of this spectacular coastline.

Guest presenter Joe O’Brien travels to the Tasman Peninsula, just an hour’s drive from Hobart but a place that stirs people’s passion for the wild. Featuring spectacular contrasts – from rolling hills and tranquil bays, to towering cliffs and roaring seas, it draws people who love adventure, risk and getting away from it all.
Joe meets a young surfer Noah Hassett and his mum Emma, who take Joe to one of Australia’s most perilous big wave surf breaks: Shipstern Bluff.

These freezing waters were once teeming with giant kelp, which provided a nursery for marine life, and a buffer from shipping and storms. Local dive shop owner Mick Baron takes Joe underwater to see how he and a team of scientists are trying to revive this endangered species.

Joe walks on country with Palawa man, Caleb Pedder, who shares a powerful story about his connection to his ancestor Fanny Cochrane Smith - the only indigenous Tasmanian to have been recorded speaking in language.
And just off the coast is the treacherous Tasman Island, where Australia’s highest operating lighthouse stands. Before the lighthouse was automated in 1976, lighthouse keepers and their families lived on the island. Joe travels to the island and meets a former lighthouse keeper, Karl Robottom, who worked there in the early 70’s and Carol Jackson, who lived on the island with her family and lighthouse keeper father in the 1950’s and the 1970’s. Both have fabulous stories to tell and are still scintillated by the island’s breathtaking beauty and isolation.

The people who live, work and play here know how special this place is, and they’re determined to protect it for generations to come.

Production credit: Executive Producer, Brigid Donovan

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Series 10, Episode 13 - Final

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Back Roads visits the heritage-listed New South Wales town of Braidwood. Heather Ewart discovers what inspires the town’s many artists, and how their creative spirit helps the community pull together in challenging times.

In the historic New South Wales town of Braidwood, Heather Ewart discovers what inspires the town’s artists, and how that creative spirit keeps the locals going when the going gets tough.

Along the way, Heather meets Karuna Bajracharya, who owns the Smokey Horse Nepalese restaurant. He teaches her the art of making traditional momo dumplings, and shares stories about life in Braidwood in the 1980’s when he first came to the country town from Kathmandu. It was a big change for a little kid, but he’s a true local now.

As a teenager, Karuna and friends put together a local band. As the ‘Bumblebees’ they went on to achieve international success. Now he’s sharing that skill and experience to support the local up and coming musicians who play at his venue.

It’s not Braidwood’s only brush with fame. The heritage-listed town was immortalised on the silver screen in the 1970 Ned Kelly film featuring Mick Jagger.

In more recent times, the town has featured in a film of a different kind. During the Black Summer of 2019/2020, with terrifying bushfires bearing down, the neighbouring village of Mongarlowe was told there were no firefighting resources to help them. Braidwood locals stepped up to fight the blaze, helping to form the Mongarlowe Mosquito Army (AKA Mozzies) which became a firefighting powerhouse.

‘Mozzie’ Matt Thane filmed what was going around him, and along with other creatives in town, produced a feature length documentary. One of Braidwood’s musician residents is Keith Potger from The Seekers, who wrote a song for the documentary.

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Heather Ewart has written a new book, Back Roads 3: The Great Aussie Road Trip, which was published by HarperCollins on June 5. In this book, Heather reveals 20 of her favourite road trips across Australia.

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Series returns Tuesday 20 August 8.00pm

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Back Roads Returns – Julia Creek, Qld

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Tuesday 20 August 8.00pm

While it’s sometimes assumed men run things in the Outback, presenter Heather Ewart arrives in the north-west Queensland town of Julia Creek to discover the local women ROAR… running everything from cattle stations to the famous outback Dirt n Dust festival.

Even in this day and age, it’s sometimes assumed it’s the men who run the show in the Outback. Heather Ewart heads to north-west Queensland to put that to the test in the tiny remote town of Julia Creek.

Heather Ewart arrives in Julia Creek for the town’s annual Dirt n Dust Festival. Visitors from across the country get down and dirty in events ranging from a gruelling adventure race, to one of the state’s toughest rodeos, race day fashions on the field and a dazzling line-up of live music. It’s all run by Sheree Pratt, clothing designer, business owner, sparky and the festival’s dynamic director. She says it’s the most fun you can have with your clothes on, including its highlight – Australia’s Best Butt competition. How does it feel to have a crowd of 3,000 cheer you on as you shake your booty at them?

Heather meets 81-year-old Joni Curr, who came to Julia Creek as a 19-year-old to run the cattle station she won in a land ballot. It’s a story worthy of a best-selling romance novel - except it actually happened and has spawned a dynasty of strong young women as a result.

Amy Tinning tells Heather she realised her childhood dream of having an international dance career despite living on a remote cattle property. Amy arrived in Julia Creek determined to give other bush kids a chance of realising their dance dreams, like 12-year-old Alice who’s been dancing since she was 3 years old and isn’t letting living in the outback hold her back.

Teacher Kylie Cook shows Heather how she and her family survived the catastrophic floods in 2019, that wiped out hundreds of thousands of livestock in the region. She says the women of the community pulled together to recover – including rebuilding the Dirt n Dust festival.

Production credit: Executive Producer, Brigid Donovan.

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Back Roads – Tarkine, Tasmania

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Tuesday 27 August 8.00pm

Tasmania’s north-west embraces one of the oldest and most spectacular areas in the world. Actress Marta Dusseldorp joins Back Roads for a journey of discovery through one of the most magical places on earth…the Tarkine.

Imagine a region that’s a treasure chest of natural wonders…and then wonder why you won’t find it named on many maps.

This week, one of Australia’s best loved actresses, Marta Dusseldorp from popular dramas such as Jack Irish, Janet King and most recently, Bay of Fires, which was almost entirely shot on the West Coast of Tasmania, joins Back Roads for a journey of discovery through one of the most magical places on earth…the Tarkine.

Marta explores an area that’s covered in ancient rainforest, plains of button grass, swathes of farmland, and includes part of the wild west coast. She’s captivated by Nature’s most glorious cathedrals, deep in rainforest that dates back 65 million years when Australia was part of the vast continent of Gondwanaland, and explores it with Rob Saltmarsh, a Tarkine guide for 27 years.

This magnificent forest thrives here because of the strong circumpolar winds that bring rain and are known as the Roaring Forties. It’s these winds that almost blow her off what was once known as Mt Cameron on the west coast. Now called Preminghana, this area belongs to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and offers breathtaking 360-degree views of the Tarkine.

She also hitches a ride with local postie, Jocelyn Flint who once was a cowgirl mustering cattle right on the coast. Jocelyn regales Marta with entertaining and eyebrow raising yarns of the Tarkine’s farming community.
When Marta joins Dr Pat Harrisson and Dr Helen Robertson, she discovers to her delight that the forest offers visitors a cornucopia of micro-marvels, while also being the source of what long-time beekeeper, Robbie Charles, describes as the ‘best honey in the world’.

Further south, there’s an incredible natural wonder in the town of Waratah, and then a journey down the beautiful Pieman River on one of the oldest Huon Pine riverboats still operating in the world.
It truly is a journey that encompasses everything from the miniscule to the majestic.

Production credit: Executive Producer, Brigid Donovan.

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Kurri Kurri, NSW

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Tuesday 3 September 8.00pm

Lisa Millar travels to the old mining town of Kurri Kurri in eastern NSW. In the face of change, the town is fighting to hang on to its small-town identity, but Lisa discovers that a much-maligned haircut is helping Kurri Kurri stand out from the crowd.

Kurri Kurri is a proud working-class town. Huge murals paying tribute to its coal mining past adorn every wall in town.

In 2012, the town was hit hard by the closure of the local aluminium smelter, when five hundred workers lost their jobs. Five years on the town was still struggling.

Lisa Millar meets the local go-getter who stepped up to meet the challenge. Hairdresser turned publican Laura Johnson was determined to put a smile back on people’s faces. Over a few wines, the idea for a competition comparing the ultimate bogan haircut- the mullet - was born.

Laura underestimated the widespread love for the much-maligned mane. In 2018, fans drove from interstate and overnight just to get to Kurri in time for the first competition.

Six years later, she’s running events all over Australia in search of the nation’s best mullet. The grand final, held on a property near Kurri, attracts world-wide media attention. And Lisa finds out it is not just about how you wear a mullet but how you shake it!

She also discovers Mulletfest also has a serious side. It raises money for a charity dedicated to finding a cure for brain cancer. Lisa meets the man behind the foundation, Mark Hughes, a local Kurri boy and former rugby league star who was diagnosed with the disease in 2013. Mark says Mullefest does an important job, not only raising funds, but raising awareness of the disease. He reckons Laura is “a typical Kurri -ite”, she just digs in and has a go.

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Back Roads – Bass Coast, Victoria

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Tuesday 10 September 8.00pm

Back Roads visits the wild Bass Coast in Southeast Victoria. Uncovering the coastline’s ancient secrets, Heather Ewart discovers why the locals aren’t afraid to do things a bit differently and break new ground.

Along the untamed Bass Coast, presenter Heather Ewart discovers a haven for those looking for a fresh start in life, especially for those who aren’t afraid of trying new things! Heather is driven into town by Bass Coast local Jon Von Goes, a civil celebrant and radio host, whose show on Melbourne’s community station Triple R has been on the air for over 30 years.

Jon was a self-confessed “pretentious creative type” living in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, but five years ago, when his living circumstances changed, he was faced with living in either a small apartment in the city or a beautiful place in the country. Jon opted for the latter… and hasn’t looked back. Jon now lives in Archies Creek a small hamlet that supports a very active live music scene.

The coastline of Bass Coast hides many ancient secrets, yet Mel Lowery and the Dinosaur Dreaming Team are slowly uncovering world-first discoveries in the area around Inverloch. Discoveries that are changing what the world knows about dinosaurs.

Following the death of her husband, 82-year-old Wendy Crellin decided to start up a ballet school run from an old Mine Rescue building in Wonthaggi. This is no ordinary ballet class though, here everyone is 60 years or over! Just four people turned up to Wendy’s first class, but since then it has gone from strength to strength, and she now has 40 pupils. Many of the students have wanted to dance ever since they were little, and now Wendy has finally given them the opportunity to pursue their childhood dream.

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The episode, which features an entire region, rather than a single town, touches diplomatically on the locally contentious issue of logging.

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Back Roads – Heysen Trail, SA

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Tuesday 17 September 8.00pm

Back Roads tackles the longest walking track in Australia, the Heysen Trail. Presenter, Paul West discovers the intrepid folk who traverse the 1,200 km trail in big groups and those brave souls that go it alone.

This week Back Roads goes on an epic adventure. Presenter Paul West tackles one of the greatest walks on earth, the Heysen Trail in South Australia. Named after the famous painter Hans Heysen, who fell in love with the landscape, the track is the longest marked walking trail in Australia. It takes a whopping 60 days to complete and spans over 1200 kms of striking natural wonderland. And as Paul discovers, it’s a walk where the brave are tested and those with grit and determination thrive.

While the trail snakes from Cape Jervis in the South, all the way north to Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges, for this journey Paul travels along the southern part of the track.

While the vistas may be breathtaking, the trail itself can be punishing. Paul meets up with the ‘End to End’ group who navigate a bit of the track every year and for many in the group, the Heysen Trail becomes an addiction. Paul learns the benefits of attempting this beast in a group and how they’ve forged some lifelong friendships along the way.

While there appears to be safety in numbers, some brave souls choose to go it alone. Paul meets Vicki Shaw who has just finished the trail. Her reasons for doing the hike are deeply personal. Battling with grief after the death of her daughter, Vicki’s goal was to commune with nature and push herself on track both physically and mentally. Along the way, the landscape helped her to heal and upon finishing, gave her a profound sense of achievement.

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Back Roads – 90 Mile Beach, VIC

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Tuesday 24 September 8.00pm

Back Roads dives into Australia’s iconic surf lifesaving culture in Victoria. Heather Ewart visits 90 Mile Beach in Gippsland, meeting the people who keep beachgoers safe on this dangerous coastline, and the next generation of Nippers.

Dive into Australia’s iconic surf lifesaving culture, as Back Roads heads to 90 Mile Beach in Victoria’s Gippsland region.

Heather Ewart visits one of the longest, uninterrupted stretches of coastline in the world, and discovers the undercurrents of community spirit that link three of the coastal towns along 90 Mile Beach: Lakes Entrance, Seaspray and Woodside.

Connected by this iconic beach, these three small beachside communities always have each other’s backs, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t fierce rivals too! This is on full display as Heather takes in the annual surf lifesaving carnival.

The local Nipper movement is teaching life-saving water skills to children as young as seven, ensuring they respect this sometimes-dangerous stretch of coastline. These beaches may look stunning, but they are notorious for rips, as the brunt of the powerful winds and currents of Bass Strait bear down on them.

As she travels the length and breadth of the beach, Heather meets the people behind the flags and learns the difference between a lifeguard and a lifesaver.

In Seaspray she discovers a genuine lifesaving Legend, in Lakes Entrance she finds a former Victorian Lifesaver of the Year and at Woodville Beach she meets 19-year-old lifeguard Charlie Dillow, whose hearing impairment hasn’t held him back. Plus of course, there are the adorable little Nippers.

More than just being a whole lot of fun, the surf lifesaving culture creates family bonds, forges lifelong friendships and offers young people new pathways into the future. Heather also addresses a burning question: How long is 90 Mile Beach? The answer is not as straightforward as you might think.

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Pioneering journalist Heather Ewart will retire from ABC next March after nearly 50 years with the broadcaster.

Ewart is currently in production on a number of Back Roads episodes that will screen throughout 2025.

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Back Roads – Rail Trail, QLD

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Tuesday 1 October 8.00pm

When Queensland’s South Burnett rail line closed after a century of servicing communities in the region, it seemed the beginning of the end. But presenter Lisa Millar discovers new life and prosperity is coming down the same corridor in the form of cyclists, tourists and runners.

Presenter Lisa Millar journeys down memory lane revisiting the town she grew up in, as she sets out to explore the Kilkivan to Kingaroy Rail Trail in the South Burnett region of Queensland. She discovers the dying town she left as a teenager is showing signs of revival, with more kids at her old school, and new businesses opening. Towns right down the old rail corridor are feeling it too. It’s like the old train line, which originally helped bring prosperity to the region has become a lifeline once again, bringing valuable visitors, tourists, cyclists and runners to the district.

And some of them are staying, building new lives in the area, and developing new passions.
Dave Earle and his business partner and wife Tania set up a saddlery in Wondai two years ago. Dave was a mining driller for 20 years but now takes pride in working with leather, holding workshops and making saddles.

It was a risky venture as they both gave up 6-figure salaries, but the new life is paying them back in spades as they find community and life-satisfaction they’ve never known before.

Lisa also joins in the Park Run at Wondai that runs on the rail trail every Saturday. It’s a free international event run in thousands of locations around the world. Lisa is an ambassador in Australia and finds in Wondai, the event brings the community together with laughs, exercise and socialising. She meets the organisers Ros Heit and Claire Kapernick who say the Park Run is only possible because of the safe, sealed course provided by the Rail Trail.

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Given how often Lisa Millar is on Back Roads, I think she will take over from Heather after the next season. Between this and Muster Dogs will keep her busy.

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Back Roads – Ongerup, WA

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Tuesday 8 October 8.00pm

Back Roads travels to Ongerup in Western Australia’s south-eastern wheatbelt country, where the younger generation are rebooting this once dying town in some unexpected ways. Presenter Heather Ewart helps celebrate its revival at the reopening of its only pub.

Presenter Heather Ewart meets the younger generation of Ongerup, in the south-eastern wheatbelt of WA, who are taking up the challenge to help reboot the town.

After a few decades of decline, they’ve banded together to save the town’s only pub in a surprising way, and Heather arrives in town in time to help celebrate the return and reimagining of this much-loved watering hole.
But she also finds a culture of goodwill that goes back a long way and involves the whole community.

Much of the work in town is funded by leaning into the thing this farming community knows best… agriculture. A plot of land donated by a local grower is sown and harvested to raise money for projects.

At the local school, kids are learning to regenerate the bush to help combat the effects of rising salt.

A deep commitment to conservation led the town to build a large facility dedicated to preserving the vulnerable mallee fowl that were once so common here, they were chosen as the symbol for the local shire.

Heather meets Elisa Santini, who arrived in Australia 11 years ago for a two-month student exchange and never left. She’s fallen in love with the wide blue Australian sky and the animals and wildlife under it. As manager of the Yongernow centre, she oversees the mallee fowl breeding program.

Heather joins fourth generation local farmer Kinglsey Vaux to dig up native bush tucker called ‘yolk’ which they grate and make into fritters for the pub reopening party.

Eugene Eades is an Indigenous elder who gave up a professional boxing career to run a place of healing in the bush not far from Ongerup town. ‘Nowanup’ is a favourite for school camps and sharing of Indigenous knowledge and bushcraft.

Eugene is helping restore the traditional links to this ancient land and shows Heather the songline that connects this important place to the nearby Stirling Ranges National Park and beyond.

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Charlton, Victoria

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Tuesday 15 October 8.00pm

Back Roads travels to Charlton in north-west Victoria, for an event like no other. Presenter Anna Daniels discovers the OK Motels Festival is bringing locals and blow-ins together, and creating and celebrating lasting friendships, during one big weekend of live music and country hospitality.

Back Roads heads to Charlton in north-west Victoria, for an event like no other.

Presenter Anna Daniels arrives to find this small farming community awash with city slickers who’ve come to see some of Australia’s hottest indie bands and soak up some of Charlton’s country style hospitality.
The OK Motels Festival aims to create and celebrate lasting friendships while also bridging the city and country divide.

Anna meets festival creator Kate Berry, who fell in love with Charlton’s vintage 70’s motel and saw the possibilities.

The locals came along for the ride, pitching in to help create this much-loved sellout event that also delivers valuable funding to the community.

At the East Charlton Hotel, publicans Greg Towers and Leanne Gretgrix open their arms to festival goers. The pair were once Grade Two classmates, who found love later in life after meeting at a school reunion. Their pub now beats at the heart of this welcoming little town.

Anna helps out Ross Lane as he sets up the town-wide garage sale, before he and his band play at the festival dinner. At the event local kids help out to raise money to cover the cost of sending students to the city for work experience.

She joins a pool competition where ‘locals and blow-ins’ are teamed up to compete… and to make new friends.
At the Rex Theatre, Anna meets David Pollard as he hosts a special festival screening. David led a campaign to save the art deco cinema, that saw the community raise $100,000 to keep their silver screen shining. It’s now community owned and run – a true survivor, and a testament to the passion and dedication of volunteers like David.

And as the festival draws to a close, what better way to finish up than a dip in the local pool, where the fabulous amateur synchronised swimmers The Clams, perform their aquatic ode to friendship “Swimply the Best”.

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Nimmitabel, NSW

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Tuesday 22 October 8.00pm

Back Roads heads to Nimmitabel in NSW, one of Australia’s highest altitude towns. Heather Ewart finds Nimmitabel has survived against all odds, by trying wild ideas such as a Steampunk festival.

Heather Ewart hitches a motorcycle ride up to Nimmitabel in New South Wales, one of the highest altitude towns in Australia. Local motorcyclist Pete Lowry runs a leather shop in the tiny town and gets Heather kitted up for the annual Steampunk at Altitude festival. The wacky festival attracts Steampunk enthusiasts from far and wide, who dress up in costumes inspired by the Victorian science fiction genre.

Heather learns that the Steampunk festival is just one of the daring ideas that Nimmitabel has had to revitalise the town, following the closure of the local timber mill in the 1990s. People were forced to leave town and businesses closed, including the pub. “That’s pretty serious when the pub goes broke,” says Howard Charles, a semi-retired farmer and ‘ideas man’.

Howard’s most infamous idea was the ‘Nimmity Bell’. A town bell sounds like a straightforward project, but it caused unprecedented havoc in the community and became known as ‘The Bell of Contention’. Luckily most locals can now see past the drama. Even Howard, who in a shocking twist, had a life-threatening run-in with the bell.

Heather discovers that thinking outside the box is helping Nimmitabel survive in this drought-prone and famously cold region.

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Back Roads – Beechworth, Vic

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Tuesday 29 October 8.00pm

Guest presenter Annie Louey uncovers a rarely told Chinese history in the Victorian gold rush town of Beechworth.

These days the Victorian gold rush town of Beechworth is known for bushrangers, beer and bikes. But what’s less known is that in the 1850s, almost a quarter of the population of Beechworth were Chinese, attracted by the prospect of overnight riches.

In this episode of Back Roads, guest presenter Annie Louey goes in search of Beechworth’s hidden Chinese history.

Visiting in the week of the Beechworth Art Biennale, Annie meets the locals who are working to keep the Chinese history alive. After a vigorous training session with the Beechworth Golden Serpents dragon boat racing team, Annie heads to the Beechworth Cemetery to meet direct descendant Kathyrn Chivers at the original Chinese Ceremonial Burning towers.

Many of the locals’ houses were built on the old Chinese camps, like Vivienne McWaters who has spent a lifetime digging up what was left behind. Vivienne tells of the horrors of racism directed at Chinese people during the gold rush and shows Annie her extensive collection of historic finds, including a 19th century erotica.

Darren Sutton left a corporate job in Melbourne 20 years ago to hunt full time for gold and gemstones in Beechworth, and Annie tries her luck on the site of one of the biggest finds of the goldrush, where thousands of Chinese miners would have toiled.

To get to the bottom of race relations back then, Annie ventures further afield, to visit the site in the Buckland Valley where tensions boiled over in the 1857 riot, when Europeans drove the Chinese miners out of the valley.

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Back Roads – Port MacDonnell, SA

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Tuesday 5 November 8.00pm

Presenter Tom Forrest explores the fishing town of Port MacDonnell, the Southern Rock Lobster capital of the world, on the rugged and most southerly point of South Australia.

Back Roads explores the fishing town of Port MacDonnell, on the rugged and most southerly point of South Australia.

Presenter Tom Forrest discovers a remarkable place of plenty that has sustained people for tens of thousands of years and journeys far into the ocean fishing for lobster, across the plains to swim in crystal-clear waterholes and deep into the hinterland to scale a volcano.

Port MacDonnell calls itself the Southern Rock Lobster capital of the world, and Tom hitches a choppy ride on a fishing boat with fourth generation fisherman Jeremy Ievens and his son Kai, and discovers Jeremy is also an incredible surfboard and street artist whose work is on public display all along the Limestone Coast.

Traditional elder Uncle Ken Jones explains the Boandik people have been fishing in this area for thousands of years and shares the important stories his ancestors have passed down - of trees turned to stone at the ‘drowned forest’, and the legends behind Mount Schank, a huge dormant volcano in the hinterland. Ancient stories that place Aboriginal people as witnesses to huge changes in the landscape.

Tom joins in some of ‘Port Macs’ traditional pastimes, joining Jeremy to surf the local break and snorkelling in the stunning Ewans ponds where the water has travelled for a thousand years before ending up in pristine pools and finds out how those who love the region are working to protect it for the next generation.

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