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Pilgrimage: Dubbo to Bourke - Day 2

10/28/2020

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The travellers met some lions today. The first wheeled himself out of a small museum in an electric wheelchair. Austin gently corrected me when I said he was stuck in the contraption. He told me he refused to think the stroke had invalidated him. This big-hearted man lovingly told us the stories of the young men of the Bush Brotherhood who had ridden bikes, driven T-model Fords through swamps and sand dunes shepherding the people on lonely READ MORE...
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Concert Under the Stars with Colin Buchanan

10/28/2020

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Join The Outback Historian and Colin Buchanan at the Back 'O Bourke Information and Exhibition Centre  for an amazing concert under the stars for the official launch of Paul Roe as The Outback Historian.
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Pilgrimage: Dubbo to Bourke - Day 1

10/26/2020

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The wide red country round Bourke on the Darling is Paul’s patch and even though he’s explored it for forty years or more, it still surprises him. That’s mostly because it’s story-rich. And it’s not just local yarns either – there are stories there that will knock your socks off.   Explorers, poets, bushrangers, cameleers, riverboat captains, and a host of plain folk are ready to tell us extraordinary things about our own country that we would never have realised.
​Join Paul as he takes a group of travellers on a journey of a lifetime in their own backyard. #D2B2020
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The Story of  Florence Nightingale

10/14/2020

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The Art of Storytelling - A podcast where Paul masterfully tells  the story of Florence Nightingale to a Medic to inspire and encourage him.
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Short Story: Crossing the Great Divide

10/14/2020

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‘We need to share our stories, accept our stories, and write a new story together.’ - Billy Williams.

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In recent years, the  story of  Bill Ferguson has  been highlighted in the main street of  Dubbo.   While  Martin  Luther King  and his 'I have a dream' speech is well known,  Bill Ferguson and William Cooper and others who  played similar roles on behalf of the  Aboriginal people, are not.     Paul  and Riverbank Frank  take as many opportunities as they can to tell the Bill Ferguson story in schools and groups of young people. Paul wrote this short story after   speaking with  Bill Ferguson's daughter Isabel.

'A curtain of steady late-winter rain swathes the evening sky. Dwarfed by the leaden expanse of cloud, three figures plod steadily along the sodden roadway, picking their way through the puddles. The man is a tall, erect figure,​  his muscular shoulders filling out his dark suit coat, water streams from the Fedora hat pulled firmly down over his eyes. The stripling boy struggles manfully with the battered suitcase, now and then swapping it from hand to hand, while his sister strides alongside her father, head held high, hair bedraggled, clutching a parcel of food wrapped in grease-proof paper.  ( Read the rest by clicking on Read More.)
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Brother John - Bourke's Boxing Parson

10/12/2020

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 Freddie Campion was a member of the Governor’s staff, the NSW golf champion of 1895 and an athletic horseman who loved to shoot. The neglect of the spiritual health of the Western people haunted him; he returned to England to train for the ministry. February 1902 saw him disembarking from the SS RUNIC in Sydney with two other passionate young Anglican missionaries, Charles Matthews and Reuben Coverdale. They were bound for Dubbo as the nucleus of a unique band of men who were to become known across the Western plains over the next century simply as ‘the Bush Brothers’. Click READ MORE
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