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Australia’s Homegrown Explorer

11/27/2021

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We've had some pretty wild weather lately and travelling home through some heavy downpours, we decided to take time out in the town of Yass in southern NSW. It was a great opportunity to seek out a story. We headed first to the Tourist Centre, had a bit of a walk around town and then hunkered down in the local library for a while. Here's the story we discovered.
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Bethlehem and Bourke

12/22/2020

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It was a raucous bush poetry night at the North Bourke pub on the banks of the Darling. ‘This one’s for you Roey’, Mal shouted... READ MORE
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2020 Christmas Greetings from Paul and Robyn Roe, Dubbo NSW

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Pilgimage: Dubbo to Bourke - Day 6

11/16/2020

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Bruce Feiler, a man who took a recent pilgrimage across the Middle East in the steps of Abraham, said the big thing that happened to him on his quest was that ‘my learning went from my head to my feet...the big transformation was being on the land...and finding the story in the geography itself.’ That’s precisely what was happening to READ MORE..
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Pilgrimage: Dubbo to Bourke - Day 5

11/16/2020

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The pilgrimage took on the nature of a sentimental journey today. Actually, it started the night before when Colin Buchanan took time to talk to Russell and Robert’s grandchildren live on their phones. Distance shrank and two grandfathers shed tears of joy - the ink READ MORE...
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Pilgrimage: Dubbo to Bourke - Day 4

11/16/2020

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Out past the old North Bourke Bridge Jen Greentree’s gallery opened the eyes of our pilgrims to the moods and colours of the Outback. She paints stories of hope in ochres and blues, to defy the thinking that this is God-forsaken country. Later in the day they saw READ MORE...
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Pilgimage: Dubbo to Bourke - Day 3

11/16/2020

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What do the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane, the Abbey and the Big Bogan, an ANZAC and an Outback Art gallery have in common? Absolutely nothing is the immediate answer. But then there is something.
Contrary to popular opinion that the backcountry is   
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Outback Radio 2WB Interviews The Outback Historian

11/8/2020

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2WEB's Chris Dover talks to the Outback Historian, Paul Roe about the Collin Buchanan concert in Bourke.
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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, READ MORE...
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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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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,​...READ MORE

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