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TALKING ABOUT COUNTRY IN FNQ
Looking west from Lakeland CYP When you hear people use the word “country” up here, they don’t mean a nation, or the opposite of “city”. Country means an area of land, usually defined by its natural...
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THE COEN BULL INCIDENT — THE PERILS OF LIVE RADIO
DOING LIVE RADIO CAN BE HAIR-RAISING. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GET OUT OF THE SOUND-PROOF BOOTH IN CAIRNS AND BROADCAST FROM THE REAL WORLD. THINGS GO WRONG BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON. Links fail, computers...
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COEN CAPE YORK PENINSULA – I LEARNED A LOT THAT DAY
Map courtesy of Queensland Tourism One of the best things about working in radio is that I’m always learning. I spend my days asking questions, so I live in a constant flow of information, ideas and...
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MUSGRAVE ROAD HOUSE – CAPE YORK PENINSULA
MUSGRAVE ROADHOUSE THE DRIVE FROM CAIRNS TO THE TIP OF CAPE YORK IS ABOUT 1000 KILOMETRES. AT ROUGHLY THE HALF-WAY POINT, YOU’LL FIND THE HISTORIC MUSGRAVE ROAD HOUSE. It’s about half-way between Laura...
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COEN FNQ — ON THE QUARANTINE FRONT LINE
DRIVING ON CAPE YORK IS NO EASY THING – DEPENDING ON THE STATE OF THE ROADS, A COUPLE OF HUNDRED KILOMETRES CAN BE AN ADVENTURE, OR A GRUELLING FEAT OF ENDURANCE. Any chance for a stop is welcome, and...
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MEET THE AURUKUN SCHOOL BAND – COMING TO CAIRNS FOR A CONCERT IN JULY
You’ll find the town of Yarrabah about an hour’s drive south-east of Cairns – an indigenous community of about 2500 people. It was formed in the 1890s, when Anglican missionary Ernest Gribble...
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STEADY STEADY – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TORRES STRAIT MUSIC LEGEND SEAMAN DAN
If you ever visit Torres Strait (and you really should) you’ll hear people use the expression “steady steady”. It might be in response to a “how you going” or advice on how to proceed. It’s a term...
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WORKING TOWARDS LIVING ON OUR COUNTRY – SAM ZARO AND DOROTHY SHORT OF NESBIT...
Many of Australia’s remote indigenous communities are in towns and centres that began as church missions or places to which governments re-located indigenous people from their traditional lands. People...
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CHECK OUT OUR CAPE YORK PENINSULA PICTURE GALLERY – THEN COME VISIT US HERE...
We did our annual Cape York Peninsula road trip early this year, in June instead of October. It was early in the dry season, the roads were in great shape and we travelled to Lakeland, Laura, Lama Lama...
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CREATING AN INDIGENOUS FUTURE IN COEN CAPE YORK PENINSULA
Back in 2008, the Queensland and Federal Governments, and the Cape York Institute for Policy & Leadership, introduced the Cape York Welfare Reform program in four communities – Aurukun, Coen,...
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