Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/macro-and-micro-isolation-a-bold-contrast/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Becky Klingenberg is the definition of hustle. As you’ll hear in this episode, she doesn’t let anything stand in the way of her dreams, including living and working on remote cattle stations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/has-anyone-got-a-copy-part-three/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever wanted to know more about the northern beef industry? Traditional opportunities to learn about the industry include: university, TAFE, short courses, schools, and on-the-job training. For a number of reasons, whether it be time, money, and/or access, not everyone has the same learning opportunities. The Cattle Station Classroom podcast is a free platform where anyone can learn about...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/has-anyone-got-a-copy-part-two/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine this: building a pastoral lease from scratch. I’m talking about walking onto a piece of land that has never been managed or developed – no fences, no man-made waters, no roads – nothing. Sounds like something from the 1800’s right? A story of the settlers? Well, this actually happened in the late 1980s, when Chris Henggeler purchased a new pastoral lease in the east Kimberley. In this epis...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/has-anyone-got-a-copy-part-one/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Ben Mills landed his first job managing a cattle station in the Kimberley, he didn't expect it to be easy. And, when the wet season storms brought just the right amount of rain, he knew there would be one less thing to worry about. But then the rain didn't stop... and what followed was a record-breaking flood. In a classic case of "too much of a good thing", the flood then caused a drought -...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/an-easter-calamity/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After 36 episodes talking about cattle, we thought we’d mix it up and talk about another four-legged herbivore that is also found on many cattle stations… camels! Our guest today is an incredible woman named Hannah, who, as you’re about to learn, knows an awful lot about camels and has no shortage of yarns about them. Hannah has managed to fit an incredible amount into her life so far, and in this...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/low-stress-wife-handling/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's it like growing up on a cattle station? In this episode we chat with Pip Bain, who grew up on Mt Clere station in Western Australia in the early 90s. Pip talks about her love for rural Australia, and how she followed in her family's footsteps to pursue a career in the pastoral industry. Pip also speaks candidly about losing her mother through suicide when Pip was just 18, and how important...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/the-humble-water-run/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

They say that "Good things come in threes", but as it turns out, so do the not-so-good things. In this episode I caught up with Caitlin Mills to hear about her initiation into station management by fire, flood and drought (literally!). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/stepping-up-during-a-crisis/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie works at Mandora Station which is situated on the 80 mile beach between Port Hedland and Broome in Western Australia. That’s right, Mandora is on the beach! Anyway, Katie has a very unusual story – I don’t want to give too much away – but let’s just say she didn’t set foot on a cattle station until the year of her 30th birthday, and now she’s one of the handiest people I know. But what...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/not-better-not-worse-just-different/     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Caitlin Mills has spent the past decade working on cattle stations in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. In this episode we chat about Caitlin's early days in the Pilbara, the different versions of how she supposedly met her future husband, and the day she had to call the Royal Flying Doctor Service. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/the-incident/   Narrated by Hugo Rickard-Bell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danielle Doyle has become an iconic character of outback Australia over the past 7 years through her insightful (and hilarious) blog and " Miss Chardy ". Labelled by her husband as an "indoor cat", Dan Doyle is not your typical cattle station manager’s wife. She doesn’t ride horses, and you won’t catch her out on a muster or in the cattle yards. She’s unapologetically authentic and has built a fam...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/things-i-miss-about-northern-australia-and-some-things-i-dont/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine this: you're fresh out of high school in the city, and you manage to land a job on Newcastle Waters - one of the largest and most prestigious cattle stations in Australia. But... you don't know where it is, or what even happens on a cattle station. You've definitely got no experience. Well, that's ok, because there's a two week induction training at the rural college in Katherine before yo...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/take-a-chill-pill-bara/     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Living remote can challenge you in many ways. Some people just flat out say “No, I couldn’t do it,” some people want to try it for a while and some people love the lifestyle.  The first time Meg lived on a cattle station when she was 18. She didn't work on another station until 10 years later - and realised she saw things quite differently as a 28 year old. In this episode Meg discusses some...

Central Station [SHORT STORY] episodes bring the stories from our website to life through the authors themselves.  Find the story from this episode here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/the-pastoralist-pregnancy-pact/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.