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On This Road – Australian travel storiesShort narrated stories about the people, places, and moments that live along Australia’s roads.Created by Anthony Byrnes onthisroad.substack.com
Stories from Australia hosts On This Road, a society show with 31 episodes published.
Just outside Derby, there’s an open block of ground and a single screen still standing. It doesn’t look like much. But this was once the town’s Picture Gardens — an open-air theatre where people gathered under the night
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The pearls gathered off the Kimberley coast didn’t stay here.Men like Edwin Streeter, a jeweller from London, helped carry them into global markets. A brief story of how Broome became part of something much larger. Explo
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In the late 1800s, labour was brought into northern Australia from across the region — often under coercion or false promise.Known as blackbirding, it became part of the early pearling and pastoral industries. This is a
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During the Second World War, the north-west of Australia was closer to the war than many realised. Across the Kimberley, station country became part of a quiet defence — stockmen trained, tracks were pushed through remot
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In the East Kimberley, the arrival of cattle stations brought significant change. Access to country shifted. Water sources were altered. Movement across the land was no longer the same. What followed, over time, was a pe
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Most days, the Fitzroy River doesn’t look like much. Wide. Quiet. Slow moving. But this river drains a vast part of the Kimberley — and when the wet season comes, everything feeds into it. What seems calm can become some
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The Ord River looks simple at first. But it isn’t. What begins as a seasonal river becomes something very different — shaped, held, and redirected along the way. This is not just one river, but a system. And to understan
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At King Sound, the tide doesn’t just rise and fall — it moves.Out from Derby, the water can be a long way out at low tide, then return with force as it’s funnelled back in. One of the largest tidal ranges in the world, s
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When the pearling luggers returned to Broome, the whole town shifted.Crews moved through the Roebuck, the Continental, the Mangrove, and Chinatown in between — a few days onshore before heading out again. Work, money, an
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Matso’s takes its name from the Matsumoto family, part of Broome’s Japanese pearling community in the late 1800s.The building itself predates the brewery, with a history tied to the town’s working past. Today it’s known
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When Lord McAlpine arrived in Broome, many of the old pearling buildings were in decline.He restored and rebuilt, shaping how parts of the town look today. Explore all episodes on the map — onthisroad.com.au On This Road
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Building the stations was only the beginning.Floods, distance, and the realities of the Kimberley tested what had been created along the Ord. Over time, the river and the land would change — and so would the future of th
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Before the dams, before the irrigation scheme, this was cattle country on a vast scale.In the late 1800s, the Durack family drove thousands of cattle into the East Kimberley, establishing one of the largest pastoral oper
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In 1879, explorer Alexander Forrest named the region during his expedition across the north, honouring John Wodehouse, the Earl of Kimberley. Explore all episodes on the map — onthisroad.com.au On This Road— Travel stori
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The Kimberley coast has been seen and described for a long time. Long before it was settled, ships worked their way along this shoreline — charting, observing, and trying to understand what was there. One of those visits
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Out in the east Kimberley, the country opens out into long, flat stretches of red earth. And then, without much warning, it changes. A near-perfect circle set into the ground.Wide. Quiet. Contained. It’s something you do
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Johnny Chi was one of the early figures in Broome’s pearling days — a man who arrived from overseas and became part of a harsh, complex industry on the edge of the continent. His story sits within a time of opportunity,
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Camels have been part of northern Australia for a long time. In places like Broome, they’re still visible today — sometimes in ways that feel familiar. But the role they once played was different. Set against country tha
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Gantheaume Point sits just south of Broome, where the red cliffs meet the Indian Ocean. At low tide, the reef reveals something unexpected — marks in the rock that reach back more than 100 million years, from a time when
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Joseph Lyons never looked like power — but in the hardest years Australia had known, he led with steadiness and care. This story traces his journey from a poor Tasmanian childhood to Prime Minister during the Great Depre
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