Telling Our Stories To The World: Queens of the Land
Telling Our Stories to the World explores the amazing stories of everyday Australians. In our first season, we’re meeting Queens of the Land - the women surviving and thriving on the Darling Downs. Join us on a camel farm to try camel milk vodka (yum!), strut the catwalk of Australia’s largest cattle saleyard, and find out how your food really gets from farm to table.
Hosted by Queensland Writers Centre’s Helen Roche and hilarious Darling Downs writer Jane Hultgren, this series doesn’t pull punches. Whether it’s unexpected romance, surviving the grief of pregnancy loss, or watching an entire year’s worth of work float away - Queens of the Land reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary, through the resilience and ingenuity it takes to make it west of the Dividing Range.
Episodes
10 episodes
Queen Hamey
If you can’t find community - build it yourself. Hamey Hayllor started a gym after moving to Dalby, and found her people.
Queen Georgia
You should have your own farmer, like a mechanic or a doctor. Meet 28-year-old Georgia Brown from Grub Farm who says small-scale agriculture is the future of food in Australia.
Queen Jilly
Jilly’s revolutionary idea for a meal business - Weeknight Cook - was saved by her 11 year old son and his mates. After winning awards the business almost fell apart again, but she soldie...
Queen Mandy
Sometimes fate take you places you could never have imagined. We meet Mandy who ditched drizzly England on a whim, for the parched paddocks of Australia.
Queen Em
There’s Farmer Wants a Wife, and then there’s real life. Emma reveals how her husband swept her off her feet with a movie-worthy proposal and the hard yards of making it work.
Queen Sarah
Sarah Packer was at the peak of her career - strutting the catwalk as a livestock auctioneer in Australia’s largest saleyard - when life hit her with something she didn’t see coming.
Queen Tara
Tara loves her life on the land and seeing the green of a crop surrounding the house. But when you marry a farmer, you also marry the farm. That means sometimes he’s on a tractor hundreds of kilometres away when you’re having a medical emergenc...
Queen Sandy
Sandy Davies went from being a ‘busted ass and broke’ lamb farmer, to Queen of the Watermelons. She’s battled floods, drought and backbreaking work but never fails to laugh through it all. We find out how gigantic watermelons can get and remini...
Camel Queens
In our first episode, we hang out with camels at Australia’s largest camel milk farm! We meet Toni Hall, cameleer and livestock manager, and Emily Riggans, tourism manager for Summer Land C...
Introducing... Queens of the Land!
In the first season of the Telling Our Stories to the World podcast, we meet the Queensland women carving out their best life on the land —from camel farmers reshaping the milk industry, a livestock auctioneer in Roma to small-scale growers mak...