Alan James | Corporate & interpretive writer

Launceston, Tasmania

Tag: Outback

  • Birdsville’s Thutirla Pula Story Place interpretive signage

    Birdsville’s Thutirla Pula Story Place interpretive signage

    One of the most important Dreamtime stories from Central Australia is that of Thutirla Pula—the Two Boys. This series of interpretive signs at a significant Aboriginal ceremonial site in the Queensland Outback town of Birdsville presents a local telling of the story. Working with designer Adrienne Williams from See-Saw, we travelled to the very remote Birdsville to survey…

  • Hermannsburg Life

      Hermannsburg Life Artworks ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Debra McCoy The former Aboriginal mission town of Hermannsburg, 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, has a long history of contemporary art practice—from the evocative watercolours of Albert Namatjira in the 1930s, to the quirky, colourful ceramics of the Aranda women’s pottery group today. Brisbane’s Artisan…

  • Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½

      Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½ Street Stories, ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Claudia Taranto ABC Regional Production Fund   Man needs space to feel free. You can be desperately lonesome in a crowd, but in the outback you can be alone without ever feeling lonely. Johnny Kovac in “White Man in a Hole” by…

  • Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback cop

      Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback cop Street Stories, ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Claudia Taranto ABC Regional Production Fund   The role of the police officer in the small and remote rural community is both official and social, formal and informal. The position and mere presence of a cop are…