Great Australian Railway Journeys | Port Augusta to Darwin | The GHAN | Series 1 E01

[Music] by 1913 Bradshaw's handbook to the chief cities of the world has brought me to Australia I will ride some of the longest trains and the world's steepest railway our prime blue mountains and cross red desert our swim above coral reefs and walk upon golden sands as I journey across the spectacular continent our discover the gold and silver coal and wool on which this nation was built I'll encounter her indigenous people and her national heroes and discover the origins of the millions of immigrants who now call themselves Australians [Music] [Music] Australia is vast Bradshaw says next to the great continent it is the largest mass of land known its greatest length from south to north being 1971 miles in 1878 they began to lay tracks here to traverse that daunting distance but they didn't complete the line until the 21st century medieval cathedrals were built faster I will experience the Dan one of the world's great railways and in what the guidebook calls the barren lands and stony deserts I will encounter the peoples who have inhabited them for sixty thousand years my journey begins on the south coast at Port Augusta where I bought the first leg of an ambitious railway took Warren before heading to Alice Springs Australia's Red Centre I'll continue north to Catherine and it's spectacular River Gorge and finish in Darwin to mark the anniversary of a battle that defined the nation on my tour I'll marvel at the power of steam to cross a desert the day is arid and hot the terrain is hostile this is an Australian railway I'll discover the importance of storytelling for Aboriginal people it's a way of transferring knowledge to the next generation so you'd get familiar with how to survive in your environment it's like the whole map to go right across Australia and meet the emblem of the nation well she knows how to do that doesn't she she does yeah cool half the bottles done already [Music] Port Augusta says Bradshaw's is a fine natural Harbor the most northerly in South Australia a transcontinental railway is being constructed by the Commonwealth of Australia to connect it to Darwin on the north coast it would be nearly a century after my guidebook before it would be completed Europeans arrived here in 1802 and pioneering farmers established a wool town is success led to a rarely through the Flinders Ranges via the pitchy Ricci pass to form in 1879 it was the first stage of the Great Northern Railway intended to link the fortress Darwin on the northern coast of Australia morning today Jeremy oh good morning Michael welcome to the commissioners carriage [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jeremy brown belongs to the pitchi Ricci Preservation Society which operates the oldest part of the route as a heritage line [Music] [Applause] Jeremie in the early days what was the emphasis to build a railway from Port Augusta to Darwin in those days each state of Australia was a separate colony and there was a lot of rivalry and South Australia was worried Queensland might try and build a railway so that there was a political motivation to to grab the Northern Territory and make it linked firmly to South Australia there were also a developing agricultural and mining industry and it there was a great beliefs that inland Australia could become a massive breadbasket and another pastoral area and why does it take more than a century to build probably one of the big things was there was a massive depression in Australia in 1890 192 and the railway really stopped for quite a long time the line was to take the route carved by one of Australia's most famous explorers the scotsman john mcdougall stuart his intrepid expeditions between 1858 and 1862 had charted a path across the continent and plotted sources of water along the way was it physically so difficult to build just extreme conditions really it's very high temperatures and in between that flash floods that would wash everything away right through the years of the railway operated it could be closed for a matter of weeks with a following a big storm that's an extraordinary sort for me then what I think of is an entirely arid place you get these what flash floods do now you can get very very heavy rain and there's record - more than a meter of water over the railway line on top of the bridge now the other big problem was when you've got these flash loaders these giant gum trees would would get washed down the river and they'd smash the bridge and wash the bridge away sneaking through the Flinders Ranges and the pity Ricci pass this narrow gauge track form the first few miles of what has become today's mighty transcontinental route railwayman corded the Afghan Express or simply the gap hello Tom hello Michael going forward welcome aboard thank you very much indeed [Music] the gun is one of the world's great railway spent today you ride it in great luxury and comfort this is where it all began [Music] [Music] the day is Arabic hot the heat from the boiler is intense the terrain is hostile this is an Australian railway [Music] [Music] [Music] we pull into corn unimaginably different from quondam the village in Leicestershire in england after which it's named just 25 miles from Port Augusta what was once the railway hub of Australia and I feel as though I've arrived at the frontier well certainly in the outback I love its architecture which has been wonderfully untouched and unchanged the site for the railway town was surveyed in 1878 at a time when transport was by foot or on the backs of animals many animals have been successfully acclimatizing Australia says bradshaw's such as the camel alpaca and Angora goat camels are useless beasts of burden and thrive yes indeed there are now said to be 200,000 feral camels which is about one for every hundred Australians which is remarkable for an animal that's not indigenous so how did they arrive here [Music] let me have a guess Ryan yeah Michael nice to see Michael very good to see you and I see you have some company yeah this is part of the family Ryan McMillan runs camel tracks in the Flinders Ranges how did camels arrive in Australia the first big shipments of camels started coming out in the mid-1860s border by Sir Thomas older he was a large land holder in the northern parts of South Australia which were off and getting caught up in drought and he saw the the benefits of using camels where he was able to bring things off his property like their bowels of all that brother Weis left stranded there because his horse and blood teams will not able to transport him in a drought times and this it was at a time of course when the road rose weren't yet connected yeah they'll used a lot fed carting supplies up for the railway lines for that for the building of the line believed and once the railway line went through that didn't always link up to be one continuous line the camels were often used to transport the goods from one rail head to the to the next one so their heyday was I suppose before the period when all the railways were joined up here sort of from the 1860s up until the the late 1920s when you had the invention of Motor Vehicles truck started being bought out into the air pack areas and just started putting the camels they have their jobs then and the old camel is I love their camels and lovey might say anything happened to them so it basically walked into the edge of the deserts and just let them go then how do they cope with the Flies I'm not coping too well myself now that I do pretty well with him yeah it's one of the hazards of the outback isn't it yeah easier [Music] today the gang is one of the world's epic trained germs it may get its name from the camel ears some of whom were Afghans it covers the 969 miles from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 24 hours [Music] I've arrived in the rust-coloured region who'd the red centre where white settlers founded the town of Alice Springs in the second half of the 19th century the population is twenty five thousand one in five is Aboriginal I imagine that if you cut out a map of Australia and tried to balance it on a pinhead you would find that the central point was not very far from Alice Springs and consequently today local people like to boast that no Australian city is much more than two hours flight away indeed the centrality of this town was its making midway on the route pioneered by John module Stewart Alice Springs was chosen as the hub for a project to connect the isolated continent of Australia with the rest of the world I lie down I'm Michael nice to meet you Mike this is a really historic spot isn't it yeah well this is the original town of Alice Springs this is where it all began back in 1871 these buildings sat at the midpoint of a 2,000 mile Overland telegraph line which spanned the continent from south to north Dan Fitzgerald can tell me how this tremendous feat of construction transformed Australian life dan this part of Australia used to be very isolated but it occurs to me that before the arrival of the Telegraph Australia itself was very remote if you wanted to get a message back to the British mother land where really most people had friends or family in those days in Australia you'd have to put it on a boat we're talking a communication time over three or four months back to England and that stage is all the more frustrating for the British colonists in Australia to know that the British Empire can connect with with America and with Iser in a matter of hours and yet it still takes months for them to be able to connect with their friends and family back home in England the British Australian Telegraph company laid a cable under the sea from Java to Darwin at the colony of South Australia took charge of erecting a line overland from Adelaide when a ruse has been established how difficult does it prove to be so it's still still very tough going I mean even even once they've charted out the best possible course these men are filling trees working with you know two-man jigsaws from from the backs of horses and camels and some of the harshest terrain and climates in the world it's it's brutal the northern team that went round the coast my boat I mean they had to deal with a very severe monsoon period you know the polls of dead sunk were washed away that the men were were trapped isolated they were suffering from mosquito-borne diseases in droves they were coming down with you know typhoid diphtheria cholera dysentery despite terrible obstacles the telegraph wire was completed within two years it was held aloft by 36,000 poles an electric signal which spelled out the message was boosted by 11 repeater stations this was probably one of the great engineering feats of the the 19th century they've gone literally within the space of connecting these two wires from a three or four month communication time with the rest of the British Empire out of three to four hours the Overland Telegraph was the Internet of its day messages were relayed from this telegraph office until 1932 hello there my name is michael pleased to meet you Mike Laurie Wallace worked as the telegraphist in the 1940s I suppose some of this work was private telegrams and some of it would it be an official business with it this you were handling about 60 kilograms per hour did people have clever ways of abbreviating in order to keep down their words the telegraphers of yesteryear used acronyms because that speeded up his sending of the messages the congratulations we would use CNG TNS and for that TT just two signals instead of Morse is music it's music to the ears you're laughing you can laugh in Morse you were laughing hardly yes and if you were at the dist minion told me a funny joke yes and that you laughed my and I thought it was you Billy you must I would laugh like this but if it was not very human I thought oh that's pretty corny I would laugh like this that is amazing thank you Laurie thank you very much [Music] a hundred years ago the British in common with other peoples were instinctively racist and that is amply reflected in my Bradshaw has died the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia are low in the scale of humanity and the women are inferior to the men that outlook today shocks us for much of the 20th century it underpinned the official policy of governments in Australia [Music] I've arranged to meet dr. Pat Miller who's an errand a woman tell me a little if you would about the under people and their way of life the earned people have had their a very strong association with this country for some 40 50 60 thousand years you know we foraged off the land we drank the waters in the south and we hunted for game and animals for food and survival when the first white men came to this part of Central Australia it was the under people that showed him the waters showed him the trails they're always very welcoming and today is no different tell me about your grandparents if you would who are they my grandmother was an errand a woman from tempera here and my grandfather was a Scotsman from the Shetland Islands what happened to your grandfather's children we know poor Assad and the police officer and the welfare officer went to where they were living and demanded that they take the children in and put him into an institution that institution was known as the bungalow it was where part Aboriginal children taken from their families would spend their childhoods under the guardianship of the state protector the children were put into the institution purely because they were of mixed race is that right yes what was the institution's attitude to their ethnic origin and their culture well the attitude was to assimilate get the Aboriginality right out of them even I witnessed when I first started school children getting cane for speaking language in the schoolyard what sort of conditions were there in the institution well you know dad used to tell us that there and there was never enough food in the middle of cold winter nights they will slip on one mattress and and got warm or holding onto each other and they had one old army blanket to cover them you know if the people didn't like where they looked at you or well they didn't hurry up when they were called they got came though they were deal really hassling quite cool hmm did he have any connection with his parents while he was in the bungalow nah while he was in the bungalow but he always knew that they around cuz it often did the fence line and call out of an odd Tom in language and let them know that they're not far away what has been the impact on on you and your annual peoples of these lost generations of children we've had people who've been removed and pay on their way back and we've never questioned we've just wrapped their arms around them and welcome back in the family but do the people feel wounded by these experience of the Lost Generation certainly certainly add that pain for some never heals for a modern-day traveler like me the millennia old culture of the Aboriginal peoples holds great fascination hello really hello Michael how are you it's great to see you great to see you in the centre as well raylene Brown is an expert on indigenous bush tucker Wow what is that you have there roasted Waddell which I've just put me the hot coals in the fire hmm it makes it easier for grinding so this is a very traditional indigenous way of preparing food it is I have a go at that yeah just put a little bit in there it's a real art to do this it would take a long time to get enough to make a seed cake but it's releasing a lovely scent as they go yeah it's a beautiful nutty corner scented hairs what are these other things that you have here so here we have a bush tomorrow so these were our vitamin tablets of the desert but they're very suitable for making chutneys and things but we just eat them like this off the bush yeah like it tastes quite like chutney just as it is yeah that's nice and what we have here is a little bush banana hmm somebody been along and saw one hanging there so all the indigenous people eating it that's all that was so like a green banana so that's what what I've got called and you can eat the flowers of this little fruit as well and you were brought up to understand all this yes I was as a young child we had a very pneumatic family we lived off country from for many many years eating what we could get our hands on and I'm so glad that I had that time to learn and to get a respect until I look back at my ancestors and how they survived [Music] I wonder how these ancestral traditions have been preserved [Music] a dreaming story is how people would have shared knowledge about country and plants and you started learning these dreaming stories as a very young child so you'd be a you've been observing your parents when they were gathering foods or going to a site and that story would be repeated over and over again as you grew up it's a way of transferring knowledge to the next generation so you'd get familiar with how to survive in your environment and if you look at things from above it's like a whole map of stories and Dreamtime stories to go right across Australia [Music] as darkness falls I'm invited to join raylene and her friends around a campfire hi how are you you see hello you might need this for the Flies thank you no that is a brilliant invention I've needed that all day is this where you might tell Dreamtime stories yeah it's about sharing and and it's also about connecting with each other was there any way that the stories were recorded everything in in our culture had a song like every tree every animal AB Dreamtime stories and history stories all have a song about it and that's how our people were able to maintain these records about the environment around us because because songs were were memorable yep people didn't have to write things down but these songs were brought to life through ceremony art drawings in the sand and storytelling what's that painting over there it's painting here is one of my paintings and so these are women and the smaller ones are the children so it's like you're looking down on the scene and the ladies are teaching the children where to dig for the honey ants and and then gathering them all together and then they eat them it's like a little sweet treat yeah you've done that yourself yeah they're good yeah and how long is this sort of painting existed in 1971 was the start of the western desert art movement and it was started by a white school teacher who was watching some Aboriginal men telling stories on the ground he thought how can we record this so he gave boards and paint to his school students and then the men wanted to try as well so it's almost it's almost like a written language now in itself it is yeah yeah how far is Australia got to think in moving towards being a generally multi-ethnic place we are a multicultural country but there's a lot more acceptance to be heard here I think yeah it's about acknowledging the first people that were here at because because I working so long before before anyone else came and so they have an intimate knowledge of the land but there wasn't that sense of we owned the land that belong to the way it's a huge cultural difference isn't it between white people believing in ownership and indigenous people not believing in them completely well you've told some wonderful stories by the glare of the fire and I found it literally enlightening thank you very much indeed [Music] I'm making an early start to experience a moment that must be special for any visitor to Australia [Music] of kangaroos says Bradshaw's that giant kangaroo is the largest standing at six feet high while there are over a score of species besides wallaby 3 kangaroo rat kangaroo etc in truth the relationship between kangaroos and Australians whom they vastly outnumber has had its ups and downs but today there is no doubt that this creature is the undisputed icon of this great country [Music] brogre hello hey going Michael g'day Michael and this is Jerry I imagine this is a little max max max but he is a Jerry is that me yeah yep he's unfortunate he's orphaned mum was a ride kill and I'm now he's new mum is it alright to to touch Jerry is that how you can take him yeah max yeah hello max oh oh well he seems very accustomed to human beings years as long as you hold a baby kangaroo in a pillow case like this uh-huh sort of imitates mums pouch Collison security like mums pet right well Mert Kris bombs also known as Braga set up his kangaroo sanctuary in Alice Springs in 2005 the hundred and eighty-eight acres site is currently home to around 50 kangaroos whose mothers have been killed in road accidents how do you communicate with the ones that are further afield that well work before I go out in the bush I always call to them but it's sort of quite lay outside echoes right it's like and they've just lets them know that we're on our way up let me see whether I can give that one a go that's not certainly paralyzed [Music] so I suppose kangaroos and Australians had a somewhat complicated history English came to Australia and set up farming and kangaroos have found our farms to be a great place to reside lots of water and and crops and so that's of course become competition with the farmer so they've been regarded as pests then it hasn't been a good relationship and yet today we think of the kangaroo as absolutely the symbol of the country don't we it is the kangaroo is a part of who we are there's nothing more Australian than the kangaroo why is it that you sometimes see kangaroos portrayed with boxing gloves kangaroos when they fight that boxes you know it's toe to toe like guys in the boxing ring right so kangaroos have really become renowned for not backing down in a fight right the early 1900s I mean just before World War one around that time for entertainment some circuses theatres fairs things like that they used to put a pair of boxing gloves on a big male kangaroo and and have people go in and box him and good lord that's why in war the boxing kangaroo kangaroo boxing gloves being painted on our aircraft and our warships it's a sign of we don't back down in a fight we'll stand toe-to-toe with you and and take you on see it at this age a kangaroo like Tillie still like a bottle of milk she's picked you out mate would you like to give her this Wow she knows how to do that doesn't she does yeah half the bottles done already don't waste any time it's all gone [Music] I'm catching a ride to bond Springs to find out how settlers tamed the outback [Music] bradshaw's tells me that Central Australia is in parts suitable for agriculture and fit for grazing purposes unlike the koala the crocodile and the kangaroo the cow is not indigenous to Australia and yet by the time of my bachelor's guidebook there were about seven million here so there must be a story there as I hope to discover at this cattle station [Music] this is home to the Heslip family who took over the station in the 1960s the place is managed by husband and wife Ben and Laura hi Laura hello Michael Ben it's so good of you to happy here Laura I feel like I'm amongst Australian Capital history here how far back does the station go bond Springs was first settled Michael in the early 1870s by I'm two men Mr Ewell and mr. Willoughby that originally immigrated out from England they were in South Australia to begin with so they walked from South Australia up to the Northern Territory took them about a year to get here that is amazing [Music] cattle pioneers faced great hardships but serious fortunes could be made and numbers more famous than that of the early 20th century cattle king Sidney kidman in 1910 he bought the lease he had about 83,000 square miles of land we're talking about cattle stations here which are the size of European country yes that's correct he started off when at the age of 13 and he left home on a one-eyed horse with five shillings to his name it's a real ranks to rich his story do you think it was all done by fair means well you'd like to believe so cattle thieving used to go on in those early days if he came across what we call clean skin cattle which is an unbranded beast he would put his brand on it and claim it as his own yeah the wild center was kind of like the Wild West today there are some 47,000 cattle producers in Australia and beef production extends over nearly half the continent Ben he's lip looks after up to 5,000 cattle at this 900 square mile station I would like to separate a few of these cattle would you be able to give me a hand please I would this is a drafting platform we can sort them out right here okay very handsome cattle I'll run them through can you please and operate the gate yep I'm gonna leave it Yankee walking it'll make them close this one and Ready's let them through in you go job done thank you very much Michael great job done [Music] I think I've earned a tea break [Music] thank you very much who plays a plays lead guitar I started playing around the campfire in the stock camps really can we hear one of yours this is a born down under oh no no no babe [Music] Oh [Music] and now for a big moment in any train lovers life a journey of more than 1400 kilometers on the Gann across some of the most forbidding terrain in the world Australia's Northern Territory the train itself is nearly a kilometer long thirty-eight carriages and the best thing of all in outrageous luxury [Music] the train is hauled by two locomotives and free power bands it contains four kitchens five restaurants five bars four carriages of staff accommodation and nineteen of passenger bedrooms [Music] ah very nice bathroom including shower I think this will convert into two bunks even though I'm on my own and plenty of room to hang my my journey north from Alice Springs continues through the night and arrives at Catherine in the morning are then complete the route of again finishing in the coastal city of Darwin [Music] I think when you're on a luxury train with fine dining you really have to dress the part it's one enough of maintaining standards rumor has it there's a group of imposters on board so I'm heading to the bar to investigate we need a theme reconnected sorry no obviously a fan of yours we thought we do like my your gear so we thought why don't we try and match it so we've gone to enormous trouble can I tell you we've been researching for day had worked out that I was on the train absolutely brain that's been in the planning for six straight months and this just happened to be the timeslot that suited every order to be able to come along it's an opportunity of a lifetime to meet us excuse me sir this this kind addition does not look at its contents easy what is this this is some cheap very spot we'd love you to help us tonight judge the winner now plus the competition about is it the best press or the most Michael definitely got to be the most Michael Portillo all right gentlemen stand up these look at you I've decided that the one who is the most Michael Portillo light is you sir [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] this morning kid money Wonka hey it's wedding good to see you good morning step well thank you [Music] overnight the dan has propelled us nearly 700 miles north [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] despite having traveled such an enormous distance we are still in Australia's Northern Territory and now approaching the town of Catherine Bradshaw says it would appear that Aboriginal numbers were never large and that the life led by them was in many parts of the country affect carriers one I rather doubt whether a century ago indigenous history had been deeply studied by white scholars and I shall be interested to know whether that contention holds good today [Music] goodbye Kenny thank you I've alighted close to the Catherine River which runs through the traditional lands of a number of aboriginal groups [Music] Jamie hi good to see you what a beautiful spot [Music] absolutely exquisite beauty this is such a special place and I imagine for as long as human beings have known it it must have been regarded that way through thousands of years of history Jamie Brooks is a guide to the katherine gorge which forms part of a national park I use a guidebook which is more than 100 years old and forgive me for saying this a guidebook says that the aboriginal existence was precarious but that the truth no it definitely wasn't because you know obviously people have lived here for thousands and thousands of years otherwise they the aboriginal nation wouldn't have lasted you know a hundred years everything you see around us had a use of some sort to the people not only in the past but even to this day it's not only a permanent water source but 45 species of fish in here crocodile turtle and also being the only water attracts all the animals that live up the top layer kangaroo wallaby down into the gorge they're very important for creating a source of food [Music] since my guidebook was written scientists have dated Aboriginal life in this area back many thousands of years using evidence discovered in the gorge so Jamie this is this is what would come to see very magnificent how long ago might these have been painted well these paintings that were looking at up on the wall here actually around eight to ten thousand years old do we have any idea why the people painted them was it for the joy of art or were they trying to communicate something um this area is to be a very popular camping ground so we've got paintings done by women children men and what it is is a record to passing families through the area of what foods are here okay well kangaroos by the look of it is that right yep so up and high set we've got kangaroos we also have a lot of extinct animals okay throughout the gorge mmm which ones um so you might be able to notice right down the bottom in the hiset there's like that large sort of a turtle shape that's an animal which we don't know what it is as you look at these paintings and what do they make you feel it's quite amazing to be able looking at something so clear and so old like we're looking at something that was some of these paintings we've done before the pyramids were made yes and it gives you goosebumps sometimes yes magnificent thank you for bringing me not a problem or glad you came I am too I am too I'm rejoining the gang for the final leg of this journey [Music] the route from Adelaide to Darwin was completed only in 2004 at long last achieving the 19th century ambition to join Australia from south coast and north and creating one of the longest south-to-north passenger rail journeys in the world [Music] having crossed the Elizabeth bridge we know that our destination is at hand but Dan has crossed the confident to arrive at Australia's only tropical capital Darwin [Music] really entirely thanks [Music] Darwyn looked out across the Timor Sea towards Asia is the most sparsely populated capital city in Australia and is named after Charles Darwin elaborate er of the theory of evolution [Music] it boasts the oldest colonial-era building in the Northern Territory [Music] Your Honor what a pleasure to be here the administrator of the territory her honor the Honorable Vicki O'Halloran represents Australia's head of state Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second what a house I mean with this veranda wrapping around and the ceiling fans here has a very colonial feel how old is it this house was built between 1870 and 1871 the great thing is that this house it hasn't changed a great deal for decades people of Darwin have a reputation for being resilient and in this humidity and heat I begin to understand this but is there more to it people of the whole of the Northern Territory had the reputation of resilience versa goes hand in hand we have a diverse community and that brings a sense of resilience that it's holding your own on to your own culture and having the stamina to do that and share it brings that certain depth I think of courage in turn asset II there we are my brother our beautiful Darwin Harbour spectacular and they tell me it's bigger than submit it is bigger than Sidney's it's a tropical view and you can't capture that anywhere else and we must dream it you are set apart I've arrived in Darwin on the eve of Anzac Day this nation's most important act of remembrance on the centenary of the end of the First World War Darwin was also heavily bombed during the Second World War military historian norm cramp can tell me what these events meant for this city and for the whole of Australia norm and that day is marked on the 25th of April which in 1915 was the day of the commencement of the Gallipoli campaign what role does Gallipoli play in the Australian psyche it was a baptism of fire it was the first time that the Australians had fought as a as one unit prior to that we'd fought at the Boer War but as colonial units so Gallipoli was was our first event where we actually fought this Australian forces the British Empire sent thousands of Australian and New Zealand volunteers known as anzacs to Gallipoli to capture the Dardanelles from Turkey after eight months of stalemate and heavy losses the battle ended with the evacuation of Allied troops what came out of Gallipoli and out of the First World War was as Australia developed its own identity you know and I think that's really important to Australians and that remains across the Australian community today here we are faci Asia I'd leave does that make Darwin a very special place in terms of the defense of the homeland yeah absolutely and as history is proven you know in 1942 when the Japanese raided it was Darwin that they attacked because they realized the strategic importance of Darwin our military history here I would say is is more important than anywhere else in Australia [Music] it's long before dawn on the 22 thankful and a huge crowd has already gathered in Darwin because this is Anzac Day some veterans are here displaying their medals but amongst the crowd were many people in shorts and t-shirts this is an extraordinary display of public commitment to commemoration of the day back in 1915 and the hour when Australian and New Zealand forces stormed Gallipoli [Applause] [Music] 100 years ago the first world war ended it was a war that took an enormous toll on our young country more than 400,000 men enlisted 60,000 lost their lives on this day and throughout this year we remember their sacrifice I offer this nature's heartfelt gratitude [Music] [Music] [Laughter] lest we forget [Music] it costs the lives of many courageous Australians to pioneer the roots of the Telegraph and the railway across the continent along the course that I have traveled when the Anzacs set out to defend their country and the British Empire some chose that combative boxing kangaroo as their emblem we must never forget them but thousands of years before that Empire Australia was already populated and nowadays those indigenous people are being remembered - next time our ride on the world's deepest railway looks more like a roller coaster than a tray get stuck in with a life-saving patrol on Bondi Beach please and travel in style on the Transcontinental Indian Pacific Railway this is all part of my fantasy of living in another age [Music] an ass here next Saturday at 8:00 next tonight an intimate and revealing portrait of one of Britain's greatest designers Westwood Punk icon activist then step back into the realm of eleganza extravaganza the new series of pause struts in with a double bill from 10:20 [Music] you

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Published: Sat Jun 06 2020