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Danny Hayes (Part 1) – Yarns from a long-time Chopper Pilot
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - August 29, 2023 08:03 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYou can’t live and work in the Northern Territory and not have a story or two to tell. So, imagine how many stories Danny Hayes must have, having flown as a helicopter mustering pilot for over 30 years. I think it’s safe to say that he has seen and done a lot of things, and got the experience to...
Rebecca Cadzow - The decision to downsize [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - August 14, 2023 07:47 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWith two cattle stations in the Northern Territory, a cattle property in Queensland, and a helicopter business, Rebecca and Steven Cadzow were in the perfect position to continue expanding their business interests and develop a pastoral empire that so many dream of. But, instead they made the de...
Tracey Hayes - Adapting to change to thrive, not just survive
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - July 12, 2023 13:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTracey Hayes is best known for her role as the first female CEO of the Northern Territory Cattleman’s Association. But, it was a role she never intended on holding - in fact, it wasn’t in her career plan at all. Born and bred on a cattle station in the far north of South Australia, staying ...
Khory Hancock - No longer the "Environmental Cowboy"
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - June 26, 2023 23:54 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsKhory Hancock knows what it's like to live in two different worlds at the same time. An environmental scientist by trade, Khory was born and raised on a large cattle property in Queensland. It was his belief that agriculture, in particular cattle farming, was a part of the solution to enviro...
Tips for station newbies (let's talk about sex) [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - June 13, 2023 06:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsApologies for not posting an episode for so long! As the count down to the podcast baby gets shorter and shorter, I have been "making hay while the sun shines" and doing lots of contract work! So, here is an oldie but a goodie, and one we get requested all the time! This episode is based on ...
Munro Hardy (Part 3) - Connecting the dots, looking back
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - May 09, 2023 06:23 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMunro Hardy's pathway to his current career has not been straight forward. After a gap year around Australia saw him fall in love with agriculture (Episode 190, Part 1), he kept on that path, trying his hand at all he could (Episode 193, Part 2). But, at some point, Munro decided to step aw...
Munro Hardy (Part 2) - Live export, Contract mustering, and THAT Egypt story
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - May 09, 2023 06:10 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs promised, here is part 2 of our chat with Munro Hardy. While he's only 35 years young, holy hatbox he has managed to fit a lot into a short space of time! In this episode he shares stories from his time working in live export, contract mustering, and a pretty hairy tale from a trip to Egy...
[SNEAK PEEK] The time Munro Hardy kind of got kidnapped in Egypt...
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - May 01, 2023 01:59 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsToday I’ve got something a bit special for you – as you would have heard in Part 1 – Munro Hardy has had many adventures in his life so far. When we were recording Part 2, Munro shared a story that I was not expecting, and it’s pretty hectic – so much so that I thought it should come out a week ...
Gus and Kim McKay – Travelling 40,000 km to start a family
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - April 24, 2023 16:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsStarting a family is no longer as simple as meeting a partner and falling in love. I’m not sure if fertility challenges are becoming more common, or just more spoken about – but it certainly feels as though both are true. While stories about fertility challenges are becoming more common, no tw...
Munro Hardy (Part 1) - A gap year to remember
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - April 10, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMunro Hardy has been a busy man. At just 35 years old, Munro’s career has taken him from fencing croc-infested rivers in the Top End, to mustering cattle from a helicopter, to boardrooms in Sydney, and most recently around the world as a Nuffield Scholar. It took a bit of convincing, but we ...
Nathan Dyer - The assignment? Adventure!
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - March 27, 2023 10:14 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNathan Dyer has found himself in some crazy situations, in the most remote parts of Australia... on assignment. The job? Freelance journalist and photographer. It's a far cry from his humble beginnings as a corporate accountant in the metropolis of Melbourne. In this episode, Nathan share...
Annabelle Coppin - Bringing her Paddock to Plate dream to life
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - March 14, 2023 07:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSince Annabelle Coppin was a child, she wanted people to eat the beef her family raised on their Pilbara cattle station. But, simply selling cattle to the market wasn’t enough for her - she wanted to be involved in the entire process, and watch as people picked up packets of her beef from the ...
Fostering Indigenous children in the outback
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 27, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWould you ever take in a child that wasn’t your own? If you’re imagining a relative, or a friend’s child - the answer might be a simple, straightforward, “yes, of course!” But what if you didn’t know the child? And, if, once you get to know them, bond with them, and love them, they could be ...
Matt and Connie Wood - Their first year at Wave Hill Station
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 13, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Wave Hill Station was sold in a $104 million dollar deal, Jumbuck Pastoral and its consortium of partners became the 4th ever owner of the iconic station in its 140 year history. It was a sale that said “watch this space”. In this episode, we sit down with Matt and Connie Wood, who we las...
Natalie Bell & Jess Di Pasquale - The Mongol Derby that didn't go to plan
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 01, 2023 23:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe adventure of a lifetime, two best mates, riding side by side in the wild landscape of Mongolia. When Jess and Nat entered the world’s toughest horse race, they knew it would be hard. Finishing the race itself was as big a deal as winning. But, these women were from the Northern Territory -...
Shane "Lochy" O'Loughlin - How the Kimberley turned a boy into a man
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - December 06, 2022 11:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsShane “Lochy” O’Loughlin arrived in the Kimberley at the age of 16. He’d already left both home and school at the age of 12, and now he had something to prove. However, Lochy’s start in the Kimberley was anything but smooth sailing. Over the past 40 years, Lochy has lived a life full...
Chico Shaw - From an orphanage in Brazil to Bondi Beach and the Outback (Part 2)
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - December 02, 2022 05:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis episode is Part 2 of our chat with Chico Shaw. If you haven't listened to Part 1, stop now and go back. In Part 1, Chico shared the story of his adoption from Brazil into a family from Bondi Beach, and how he ended up working on a cattle station in the Gulf of Queensland. In thi...
Chico Shaw - From an orphanage in Brazil to Bondi Beach and the Outback (Part 1)
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - November 21, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 1987 a mechanic found a baby boy abandoned on the streets in Brazil. Today, that baby boy is a grown man living and working on a cattle station in the Northern Territory, Australia. “Blessed”, is how Chico Shaw describes his life. A life that could have turned out so differently...
Claudia Hiscox - Managing my mental health in the middle of nowhere
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - November 14, 2022 16:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis episode contains discussions about anxiety, depression, eating disorders and self-harm. It may be best to listen in the support of company, or skip this episode. If you need help, a range of services are available. Please see the show notes for more details. Claudia Hiscox has spent t...
Ian 'Rocky' Rockwell and Rob Mann - The trip that changed our lives
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - November 08, 2022 11:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 2002, Ian ‘Rocky’ Rockwell took a group of year 11 students from Sydney to Alice Springs for an “adventure”. The kids were to trek the Larapinta Trail, ride camels, cook on campfires, and experience the “outback”. That trip changed not only the trajectory of Rocky’s life, but some of the stu...
Olivia Thompson - The kickboxing, cattle station selling, cowgirl who learnt to walk again
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - October 31, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 2022, Olivia Thompson sold 3 cattle stations in the Northern Territory. Those 3 properties exceeded 1 million hectares combined. It’s a world away from the 1000m2 block of land that was her first sale as a real estate agent some 20 years ago in the coastal town of Cairns. Olivia is a pr...
Haydn Sale - Opportunity knocks but once [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - October 25, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHaydn Sale manages one the largest aggregations of cattle and land in northern Australia – but chances are, you’ve never heard of him. Unlike others in his position, Haydn wasn’t born into the northern cattle industry. Nor did he do a gap year up north straight out of boarding school for ...
Anika Molesworth - Electric cars in the outback, and cultivating climate courage
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - October 10, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAnika Molesworth is a farmer, scientist, and storyteller. And she's on a mission to cultivate climate courage. In an incredibly short period of time, Anika has amassed a number of accolades including: Young Farmer of the Year, Young Australian of the Year finalist, and a Masters and PhD. S...
Tom & Annabel Curtain - Turning the hard times into adventures
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - October 03, 2022 15:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGolden-guitar winning Tom Curtain and his incredible wife and business partner, Annabel, were our guests on the very first episode of this podcast way back in June 2019. Way back when I had never recorded a podcast, and didn’t know what sound quality was. So, last night I sat down with Tom and ...
Ashley Dowden - A stickybeak into Challa Station
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - September 26, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBack in episodes 150, 151 and 156, we heard the stories of Debbie and Ashley Dowden from Challa Station in the southern rangelands of WA. Now, two of those episodes were recorded with Debbie, and Ashley only recorded one... or did he? For those of you who don't know, we actually have two podca...
Tourists do the darnedest things [Best Of]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - September 19, 2022 16:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTourists Where do I begin? Tourists are part and parcel of life in the outback. And, while some are worth their weight in gold, others make life just that little bit harder... In this [best of] episode, I’ve pulled together a few yarns about tourists from previous episodes. And to any touris...
Robbie Schmidt - The people and places who have shaped my life
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - September 12, 2022 21:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRobbie Schmidt is a self-confessed ratbag. The Alice Springs identity spent his formative years traveling between large properties in South Australia and the Northern Territory, so it’s not surprising that he ended up working as a station manager. But, then Robbie and his partner chose to st...
Renee McBryde - Working in Child Protection to break the cycle
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - September 05, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSo often, stories about outback Australia revolve around people working on the land. But, not everyone who lives in the outback wears a big hat and cowboy boots. Renee McBryde lives in Alice Springs, Australia’s red centre. It’s a world away from the housing commission in Sydney where she sp...
Willie Cook - Before 'Outback Ringer' (Part 2)
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - August 28, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEverything in Willie Cook’s life was going to plan – he’d met the love of his life, he split his time between flying helicopters and working on his family’s station in the high country of New Zealand, and together with his partner and parents, he’d branched out into his own lease country. And t...
Willie Cook - Before 'Outback Ringer' (Part 1)
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - August 22, 2022 16:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWillie Cook is known as the bull-catching, helicopter-flying Kiwi from the ABC tv series “Outback Ringer”. I caught up with Willie at his home in the Adelaide River region of the Northern Territory to hear the incredible story of how he and his young family came to be in Australia. However, that...
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