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OVER 55 YEARS AGO multi-award-winning journalist John Francis interviewed ageing Australian Outback characters, before their voices were lost in the red dust.
THIS IS UNIQUE Aussie history.
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, boundary riders, drovers, railway workers, truck drivers, Aboriginal groups, and isolated but hardy women.
AUSTRALIA'S AVIATION HISTORY also started in the red dust. You'll hear interviews with some of Australia's most famous pioneer airmen (many of whom started flying in the First World War), who used aircraft to make the Outback a little less lonely.
JOHN ALSO interviews the descendants of other unique characters, reads fascinating tales from Australia's Outback past, and spins tales of his own red dust adventures.
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The White Flood Descends
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Now Red Dust listeners, I have no interviews to present to you this episode. Rather, let’s head back in time, to before recording devices were invented.
Australia, as with the rest of the world, right now is in the midst of turmoil, over the significance of immigration. Our first Anoriginal immigrants trickled in while in the midst of the last Ice Age. But much, much later came a flood, of the second wave … ah ha! So here we go … In this episode …
The Great South Land is dumped with rubbish from Great Britain!
There’s ALSO space for some nice refined English people. (Free settlers).
There are Hangings.
Protests.
And we finish with a dramatic escape!
Music this issue comes from:
Warren Fahey's Australian Bush Orchestra: 'Pioneer Scottisch'
Warren Fahey: 'Jim Jones Of Botany Bay'
The Dingo And The Crow: 'Botany Bay'
Richard Glover, 'Moreton Bay'
40 Degrees South: 'The Catalpa'