Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw braved minus 60 temperatures and polar bears to run the North Pole Marathon Adrian loves a challenge – and many have come his way since he joined Robert de Castella’s Indigenous Marathon project last year. Adrian ran the 2014 […]
I’ve just spent a week in my car – driving across the top of Australia, from Cairns to Broome. It’s an epic road trip, almost an odyssey. A bit late in the year for it, with the build-up to the wet season well underway. I […]
In September 2014, I moved across the top of Australia, to Broome. It looks and feels very different to far north Queensland – dry tropics instead of wet, and the country has very different stories to tell. Enjoy some pictures of the west Kimberley from […]
It happens at least once a week, sometimes more often, and it usually makes me cranky. I’m listening to radio news, and someone makes a pronouncement about the future of “northern Australia”. More often than not, the view comes from someone who lives deep in […]
It’s expensive to build and maintain houses in remote parts of Australia, the cost steadily increasing with distance from capital cities and regional centres. The rigours of our tropical climates require a determined approach to maintenance & repair – none of it cheap, all of […]
This morning I met the volunteers working on the Broome Community Seagrass Monitoring Project as they came ashore at Town Beach. They’d just finished almost four hours looking at the seagrass that is home or food for many of the marine creatures living in Roebuck […]
It’s one of our most important responsibilities, and one of our biggest challenges – delivering relevant education to kids in remote indigenous communities. It was a real pleasure to visit just such a community and see a school that’s doing just that – mixing the […]
I’ve always had a deep connection to pilots and aviation, so it was a privilege to be on-hand for the unveiling in Broome of a memorial to an RAAF crew lost here 70 years ago to the day. Flight Sergeants Ronald Smith and […]
I moved across the top of Australia, from Cairns to Broome in September 2014. Here’s the photo collection from my first weeks in the remote north-west, where I had the unusual experience of watching the sun set into the sea instead of rising from it, […]
Career decisions can be momentous, and disastrous. Here’s one that turned out to be both. In September 2014, I decided to leave ABC Far North in Cairns and move to Broome, to run ABC Kimberley. It was a tremendous opportunity for me, but required me […]