1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,440 Come on, Max. Hey. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,480 Yes. Come on. HE CLICKS TONGUE 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,640 Western Australians are fiercely proud of their way of life, 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:15,840 and they're not shy about telling you that this is 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,400 the greatest place on Earth - and always has been. 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,960 But apart from the white sand beaches 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,200 and the rolling surf and the endless sunshine 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:31,560 and the abundant produce and fine wines and artisan beers, 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,960 not to mention the high wages and the low population density 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,880 and the all-pervading sense of opportunity, 11 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:42,800 what exactly is it about the WA lifestyle that's so attractive? 12 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,200 DING 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,400 If you think you know Australia, think again. 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,480 Because there's an even wilder... 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,800 Here we go. 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,160 Phwoar! 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:57,920 ..weirder... 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,040 Even the kookaburras are embarrassed. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,280 ..and more wonderful version of the land down under... 20 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,040 I don't think there's anywhere like this on Earth. 21 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,600 ..and it's in the west. 22 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:09,280 There's so much space here. 23 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,680 You could put 13 Britains into West Australia. 24 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,240 Let me take you there. 25 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,120 Imagine a land of giants... 26 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,280 You look like Bill. 27 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:19,800 Yeah, you look like Luc. 28 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,760 ..of alien landscapes. 29 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,680 I mean, where else in the world can you see a waterfall in the ocean? 30 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,120 Whoa-ho! 31 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,160 ..and a bunch of characters you won't find anywhere else on Earth. 32 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,840 Well, if you're Space Gandalf, I'll be... 33 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,320 What'll I be? Space Gimli. 34 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,200 PLAYS KEYTAR 35 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,840 # You play so fine! # 36 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,240 I know - sounds too good to be true. But it's not. 37 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,640 This is the real Western Australia right here. Oh, yeah. 38 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,080 I come in peace. 39 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,400 Because here it is - the most remarkable part 40 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,840 of this great southern land is the western bit. Who knew? 41 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,640 In our DNA, we want this. We want to be amongst this. 42 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,400 Western Australia cracks open your soul. 43 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,560 This Western Australian Adventure is a chance to explore 44 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,920 the unique nature of this massive state. 45 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,320 It's an odyssey to meditate on this vast landscape 46 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,400 while the road unfurls before me 47 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,320 and I immerse myself in quiet contemplation. 48 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,120 My car, though, has other ideas. 49 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,160 BEEPING 50 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,800 The car... The car's just saying, "Go back, go back! 51 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,440 "Go back! Go back to civilisation! There's nothing for you here!" 52 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,040 BEEPING CONTINUES 53 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,200 This is insane. CAR: Arrived at Gnomesville. 54 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,400 Yes, I know. I don't need you to tell me that - 55 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,560 there's BLEEP gnomes everywhere! 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,880 This is Gnomesville. 57 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:03,880 Apparently, it started out that somebody had a gnome, it broke, 58 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:07,160 and what they did was they left it outside their house to be fixed, 59 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,320 and then someone fixed it, but mysteriously. 60 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,920 It just became fixed overnight. 61 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,120 Word got out about this, and more people brought their gnomes here. 62 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,040 And then eventually more and more gnomes - 63 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:21,920 and look what's happened. 64 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,360 They've proliferated. They have bred. 65 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,720 KOOKABURRA LAUGHS And now... 66 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,360 ..even the kookaburras are embarrassed. 67 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Oh, my God. 68 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,480 This is just...deranged. 69 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,720 These tiny statues are left as mementos for loved ones. 70 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,840 Because nothing says "I love you," like an unblinking ceramic imp. 71 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,280 I've got to say, if that was my family, I'd be really annoyed. 72 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,920 Like, I'm hoping for a massive statue of myself. 73 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,800 You know, like a Greek God, 74 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,320 with a boulder on my back like a giant, like, Atlas. 75 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,200 And a massive shrine and lights 76 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,680 and people just weeping daily, 77 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,440 "Oh, my God, he's died, he's died!" 78 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,960 That's what I'm hoping for, not... 79 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Not this. 80 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,320 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave a gnome. 81 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,160 I've brought a gnome, I'm going to write on it, 82 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,360 and then I'm going to leave it as a mark of respect, like I've... 83 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,960 I'm taking part, you know? I'm contributing. 84 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,040 All right, let's see if he's got any of his mates. There we go. 85 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,680 I'll stick him down here. 86 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,920 Yeah, see? Look. 87 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,920 "Help me!" 88 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,680 Let's get out of here. 89 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,080 With the car behaving itself, 90 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,120 I'm exploring the south-east of Western Australia, 91 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,560 from the artisanal hub of Margaret River, 92 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,720 to the buzzing metropolis that is the state capital in Perth. 93 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,800 It's here where the Indian and Southern Oceans crash together 94 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:11,000 in a salty standoff. 95 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,440 In Australia, this spectacular landscape is referred to 96 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,560 simply as the bush, and spending time in it is a rite of passage. 97 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,760 I've come to the Boranup Forest near Cape Leeuwin. 98 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,800 This unique pocket of national park was reborn 120 years ago 99 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,480 after the area was decimated by logging. 100 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,160 Hello! Oh, hello! How you going? Hi, Bill. Welcome. Lovely to meet you. 101 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,800 This is Gary, who's come up with an ingenious eco-friendly bit of kit. 102 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,080 Let me introduce you to the world's first electric quad bike. 103 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,280 Come on, we'll get you suited up and we'll get you out in the forest and see what you think. 104 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,400 OK. All right, let's go. 105 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:51,840 OK. 106 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,320 OK, Bill, let's go. 107 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:56,920 QUAD BEEPS 108 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,720 Whoa-ho! HE CHUCKLES 109 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,440 It's lively! 110 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,800 Yes, you heard correctly, these are electric quad bikes. 111 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,520 Just listen to them... 112 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,920 QUIET WHIR ..um... 113 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,600 ..whir, I suppose. 114 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:26,000 You can just smell the aroma of the eucalyptus. 115 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,760 It's just overpowering. 116 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,680 It's this intoxicating sense of where we are. 117 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,600 I don't think there's anywhere like this on Earth. 118 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,080 This kind of forest, this kind of landscape 119 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,520 doesn't really exist anywhere else. 120 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,680 No, it doesn't. It only exists in the Boranup Forest. 121 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,040 That's why the Boranup Forest is called the jewel 122 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:57,760 of Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park. 123 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,280 So it only exists in this little pocket around here. 124 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,880 Gary, what are these tress here? They're absolutely huge. 125 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,000 These are called karri trees. Yeah. Eucalyptus diversicolor. Right. 126 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,240 They're arguably the tallest tree in the world. 127 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,160 They grow to 80, 90 metres tall, 128 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,240 and they're also known as a widow-maker, 129 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,600 because they regularly drop their limbs as they grow taller. 130 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,240 So, yeah, if you hear a big crash or a creaking sound, run. 131 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,760 Just run? Yeah. Any direction. Doesn't matter. 132 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:23,960 Right, OK. 133 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,960 Widow-maker? That's the Kalashnikov, isn't it? 134 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,520 A tree named after the AK-47? 135 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,080 This country is not for the faint-hearted! 136 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,960 What's this one here, this little one? 137 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 That one in front of us there, that's a peppermint tree. 138 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,960 You can use the leaves to wash your hands 139 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,520 and disinfect your hands. And if you rub the leaves, 140 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,920 it's got a wonderful peppermint smell. Really strong. Oh. 141 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,720 I'll probably get my licence taken off me by the park managers 142 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,040 for desecrating... Oh, yeah, exactly. No, say I did it. 143 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,120 Yeah, that's right. "Yeah, Bill Bailey made me do it." 144 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,200 Righto, so grab some of these guys. OK. Yeah. 145 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,760 Now just scrunch it up. 146 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,120 Smell that. 147 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:02,800 I mean, that's just... 148 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:04,640 God, that's such a strong smell, isn't it? 149 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,320 Lovely, isn't it? Yeah. It's like... 150 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,760 I'd have aftershave made of that. There you go. 151 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,760 It's really good, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, that's... 152 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,080 It's what they call now native botanicals. 153 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,880 And they infuse things like gin 154 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,320 and all sorts of stuff with these native flavours. Yeah. 155 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,960 Yeah. I can just imagine that in a gin and tonic actually. I just... 156 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,280 Absolutely. Is it five o'clock? 157 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,640 Well, it must be somewhere. 158 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Yeah. OK, let's go. THEY CHUCKLE 159 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:39,440 I mean, this is just absolute classic Australian bush. 160 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,760 Beautiful tall gum trees spreading out 161 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,200 as far as the eye can see. 162 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,800 You can hear magpies, butcherbirds. 163 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,160 I mean, this is just beautiful. 164 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,960 Best trip to a G&T ever. 165 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,600 No sign of Gary, so it'll be a cheaper round, then! 166 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,040 Just south of Cape Leeuwin is this historic corner 167 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,240 of Western Australia. The local indigenous people, 168 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,240 the Wadandi Boodja, call it Wooditjup, 169 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,960 or "the meeting place between land and sea." 170 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,920 In the 1830s, the British explorer John Garrett Bussell thought 171 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,400 he could improve on "meeting place between land and sea." 172 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,200 He said, "I'll name it after my second cousin, Margaret." 173 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,160 So on the map Wooditjup now goes by the name of Margaret River. 174 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,840 Just a few miles inland, it's also home to some mighty fine wines. 175 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,720 About ten years ago, I heard about a bottle of wine 176 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,120 called the Bill Bailey Shiraz, 177 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,280 and I've always been intrigued to know why a bottle of wine 178 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,640 made on the other side of the world bears my name. 179 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:02,960 Well, today I've come to the Brown Hill winery, 180 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,880 where the Bill Bailey Shiraz is made, to get the full story. 181 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,640 Well, we're in the right place. 182 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:16,040 There's a lot of Bill Bailey barrels. 183 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,360 Hello! Oh, g'day, Bill. Hey. How are you? Nice to meet you. 184 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,040 Nathan, is it? Yes, it is. 185 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,240 Well, I was just wondering, am I in the right place? 186 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:24,960 But clearly I am! You are in the right place! 187 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,640 THEY CHUCKLE 188 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:30,040 Yeah, there's about 3,000 litres of Bill Bailey here. 189 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:31,760 Roughly 4,000 bottles. 190 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,040 I heard about this wine years ago, 191 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,680 probably more than ten years ago now. Yep. 192 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,920 And I was intrigued by it. 193 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,040 The name comes from my uncle. 194 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,760 Yeah, my uncle Bill. Right. 195 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,640 Yeah, he was sort of the glue that tied 196 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:50,080 the whole family together. He was quite unique. 197 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,680 When he passed away, I thought, this wine is so nice, 198 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:54,840 I'm going to name it after him. Right. 199 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,960 And now he's immortalised... 200 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 He is immortalised. ..in wine. 201 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,120 When I tell them that it's named after my uncle, they sort of go, 202 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:03,840 "Oh. OK." "Ah, OK!" 203 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,600 So they all think it's named after you. 204 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,640 Oh, right. There you go! THEY LAUGH 205 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,560 Drop of Bill Bailey. 206 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,440 THEY LAUGH 207 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,040 Let's give it a go. 208 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,760 Oh, yeah. This is delicious. 209 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,200 I'll give you some tasting notes on Bill Bailey. 210 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,400 It's got, like, a big forehead. Ah... 211 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,480 NATHAN CHUCKLES It's complex. 212 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:33,720 Couple of notes of, um... 213 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,160 Couple of musical notes in there. And, um... 214 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,440 ..it's got a good heart. 215 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,120 It's kind. Good finish. 216 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,160 What it needs is a nice big juicy steak. 217 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,840 It does. It does. 218 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,320 I guess you're not a vegetarian, Bill? 219 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,960 Um, I'm a postmodern vegetarian. 220 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,760 Oh, right. Which means I only eat anything that, 221 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,440 you know, lives in water. 222 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,800 OK. Or near water, like cows. 223 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,840 Oh, right, yeah! THEY LAUGH 224 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,680 I'm glad I finally learned the story of the Bill Bailey wine, 225 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,640 and the fact it's delicious is a relief. 226 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:10,400 If there's a Bill Bailey cheese, I'll die a happy man. 227 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,560 Nathan has also imparted some local knowledge. 228 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,800 As I venture north, the soil will turn red, 229 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,240 its nutrients scorched under the harsh WA sun. 230 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,480 So while I'm in this lush southern corner, 231 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,000 there's still a chance to get some rich, dark earth 232 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:30,760 under my fingernails. 233 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,280 This is fertile ground, like my West Country roots, 234 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,600 and my new best friend is a good boy named Max, 235 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,760 who has a finely tuned nose and a taste for leather boots. 236 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,000 Max also has a nose for the good life, 237 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,040 and I mean that literally. 238 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,640 With his humans, Mel and Gavin, they've built up 239 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:51,560 one of the world's great truffle farms. 240 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,480 Helped by Max, the earth gives up its nuggets 241 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,520 of black gold for export far and wide. 242 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,840 This is our orchard. 243 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,040 We've got oaks and hazelnut trees in here. 244 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,960 The truffles grow on the roots of those. 245 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,800 At this time of year - winter, obviously, cos it's raining - 246 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:09,960 they ripen and we use dogs to find them. 247 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,920 They've got an amazing aroma, amazing flavour... 248 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,200 I know about that! ..and that's what the dogs are seeking out. 249 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,720 He's not bothered about digging. 250 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,920 Yeah, no, no, he's not interested in digging them up. 251 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,800 No. Find it, buddy. Go on. 252 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:25,800 He's got one. Oh, that's a... 253 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,080 Jackpot! Look at the size of this one! 254 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,560 Call that a truffle? Oh-ho! 255 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,880 This is the...Koh-I-Noor of truffles. 256 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,160 It's the size of a flipping tennis ball! Look at that. 257 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,600 Whoa, my goodness. Jackpot! 258 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,440 Well done, Max. Cor! 259 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,200 I hear what you're thinking - what's so WA about truffles? 260 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,880 Having made its name mining gold, 261 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,120 iron ore and minerals from the Earth, 262 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,960 Western Australia is now earning a fortune form precious fungi too. 263 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,440 This place just keeps on giving. 264 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,360 That's a pretty good size of a truffle. 265 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,200 I mean, do they get much bigger than that? 266 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,600 Yeah, they can do. What's the biggest one you've ever got? 267 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,760 Ah, 998 grams is the biggest truffle we've ever dug up. 268 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,400 What?! It was about the size of Max's head. 269 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,600 BILL LAUGHS And it was the shape of 270 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,320 a light bulb. It was in the soil... 271 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,440 It went to a children's charity auction in Singapore, 272 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,400 and I think it went for... 273 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,800 It was a few years ago now. It was about US $68,000. 274 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,960 That's £52,000! 275 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Yeah, you got yourself a bone for that there, Max. Well done. 276 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,000 There you go. Where's your bag of dreams? 277 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,320 Bag of dreams! Yep. 278 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,000 There you go. Lovely. 279 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,960 Wet dogs are also very good at cleaning your hands. 280 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,280 Oh, yeah! THEY LAUGH 281 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:45,880 Sorry, mate! I don't want to... 282 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:47,400 Are you a chocolate Labrador now? 283 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,480 Don't want to use you as a towel, but, you know. 284 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,120 Fine wines and rich truffles tempt me to stay, 285 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,000 but the north beckons, and the city of Perth, 286 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,480 named after the austere Scottish version. 287 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,520 Oh, they love a renaming, those explorers. 288 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,160 For 45,000 years, the locals called it lyrical names like Mooro, 289 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,480 Beeloo and Beeliar. 290 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,960 But now the state capital is just... 291 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,520 ..Perth. 292 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,000 Perth is known as the most remote city on Earth, 293 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,080 but not in a bad way. 294 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,560 Being isolated has its advantages. 295 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,240 Take music. While the rest of the world embraces The Weeknd, 296 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,600 Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga, 297 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:47,120 Perth has defiantly declared itself a proud child of the '80s. 298 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,720 Not only is Perth the state capital of West Australia, 299 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,200 it's also the undisputed capital 300 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,320 of progressive rock for an entire continent, 301 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:04,000 thanks to the presence of epic synth metal tigers, 302 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,800 keytar-shredding progsters, 303 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,520 Eurovision conquerors, Voyager. 304 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,480 Voyager smashed it at the Eurovision finals in 2023, 305 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,840 representing guest entrants Australia with their song Promise. 306 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,880 CHATTER 307 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,120 ANNOUNCER: Australia! 308 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,160 CHEERING 309 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:31,080 For extra '80s flair, they brought along this design classic, 310 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,520 a 1988 Toyota MR2... 311 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,680 ..in which I get to go for a spin with lead singer Danny Estrin. 312 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,480 Do you like living here? 313 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,960 I haven't always liked it. I didn't like it as a teenager. 314 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,520 I thought it was boring and dull, 315 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,520 and I wanted to live in cool places like Melbourne and Berlin, 316 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,960 and all that sort of stuff. But now I love it. 317 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,840 I'm a big, big pro-Perth guy. I love it. 318 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,200 People have a good standard of living and... They do. 319 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,960 ..people are looked after, by and large, you know... 320 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,960 Yeah, absolutely. And like, you know, Eurovision, for instance, 321 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,680 Tourism WA helped us with funding, the Western Australian 322 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,360 and the Australian government helped us with funding. Ah! 323 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,520 Which other country does the government fund 324 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,800 a heavy metal band going to Eurovision? 325 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,920 That's pretty crazy. Yeah, I know! 326 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:22,280 But 20-odd years of prog metal magic can't come from just one man. 327 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,880 Oh, hello! Hey! Hey! 328 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,840 Look what the cat dragged in, eh? Hey! Hello! 329 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,640 Wow, look, you're already rehearsing and everything. 330 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,400 Yeah. Ready to go. Good to go. 331 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,320 So I just want to ask you about Eurovision, how it all came about? 332 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:40,080 It's just one those kind of surreal things that if someone had told us 333 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,520 25 years ago that we were going to be playing Eurovision, 334 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,120 a Perth progressive, epic, power-pop metal band... 335 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,280 I mean, you're quite remote here, a bit out on a limb. 336 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,080 Yeah. That's right. I think that's actually why it's forced bands 337 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,720 in Perth to become so... 338 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,360 ..I guess, so big in their sound, because we've... 339 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,600 I mean, when we were growing up, it was Sweden... Yeah. 340 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,480 ..and Scandinavia were the ones that we were looking to 341 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,240 to craft our sound. Yeah. And, you know, it just forced everyone 342 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,560 to level up in our own back yard. Someone did a PhD thesis 343 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,320 on whether there was an Australian heavy metal sound, 344 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:15,040 and I think the answer, the conclusion was no. 345 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,160 "You've wasted your life." THEY LAUGH 346 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,720 "Years and years of studying! Oh" 347 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,800 I did say I was going to do this. This is a little treat for you. OK. 348 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,520 Over the years of me touring Australia, 349 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,160 I ask my audiences, "Are there any metal bands in?" 350 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,160 And if they say "Yes," I say, "What's the name?" 351 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,440 And I've collected a few just for your pleasure. Ooh! 352 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,160 You might even know some of these. All right, here's a few. 353 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,720 Dissonant Bliss. 354 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,240 Ooh, that's a good one. That's a good one, right? That's a good one. 355 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,720 Yeah. I like that. The bliss of dissonance. Bliss-onance! 356 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,120 OK, here's another one. 357 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,200 OK, here's a good one - Chronolyth. 358 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,920 Ooh! LAUGHTER 359 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,560 Edgy! That's great. It's good, though, right? 360 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,840 That's a really good name! It sounds like something... 361 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:59,840 Yeah, but it's not. ..but it's just rubbish. 362 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,120 Chronological monolith! It's just nonsense. It's gibberish. 363 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,360 It's like a stone clock that doesn't work. 364 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,040 Oh, no, this might be the next one. 365 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,200 Heavy Tits. 366 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,560 THEY LAUGH 367 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,040 Anyone know them? 368 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,800 No! I've had some experience, yeah. 369 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,600 That might have just been a heckle. 370 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,160 THEY LAUGH 371 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,960 Well, I got to hang out with Voyager. 372 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,360 What a great bunch they were. What fun that was. 373 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:29,440 A fantastic embodiment of a West Australian success story - 374 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,680 Perth band, struggling for years and years, 375 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:37,560 they get a bit of success, a record deal here, an album here, 376 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,480 and all of that hard work pays off at Eurovision. 377 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,520 THEY JAM 378 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,440 # Oh, damn! 379 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,320 # You play so fine! # 380 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,240 And now they're getting the recognition 381 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,560 and the attention that they have earned 382 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,280 and which they deserve. I am so happy for them. 383 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,080 What a brilliant bunch they are. 384 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,200 And I got to play the keytar on the back of my neck! 385 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,080 I mean, that has never been done. I just want to say that now. 386 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:22,920 I have never seen a keytar being played on the back of the head. 387 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,360 That could be a first. On television, at least. 388 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,480 So I will now die a happy man. 389 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,800 Thank you, Voyager. Keep rocking! 390 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,520 We're Heavy Tits, thank you. 391 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,560 THEY LAUGH 392 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,760 I knew that was going to come in! 393 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,920 Would the owner of a blue Ford Cortina 394 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,000 please remove it from the... LAUGHTER 395 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,800 KEYTAR PLAYS 396 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,520 # You play so fine! # 397 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,760 All right. 398 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,160 There it is - Perth, the City of Light. 399 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,080 It's quite a unique place in many ways. 400 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:08,240 You know, there's a lot of money in the city, 401 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,560 there's a lot of mining money. 402 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,520 Um, I think it's got the most number of millionaires... 403 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,440 ..anywhere in Australia. 404 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,080 But it's also got the most number of serial killers. 405 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,160 So... 406 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,960 ..maybe those two things are connected. I don't know. 407 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,480 Perth's got some quite famous alumni - 408 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,320 Heath Ledger, our own Ben Elton has made his home here - 409 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:46,360 but there's one Hollywood legend who didn't quite make it. 410 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,560 In the '60s, America was in a state of paranoia 411 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,400 about nuclear war with the Soviet Union. 412 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,840 There'd been the Bay of Pigs disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, 413 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,960 and Americans were rightly jittery 414 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,720 about the real prospect of nuclear war. 415 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,360 And one of these was legendary 416 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,840 Hollywood film director Stanley Kubrick. 417 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,480 And Kubrick wanted to get away from America 418 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,200 and find some sleepy corner of the planet 419 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,680 that the Russians might not be interested in. 420 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,160 Somewhere low-key and understated. 421 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,800 And he chose Perth. 422 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,280 And what he did was, 423 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,120 he'd actually gone to some lengths to arrange this. 424 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,640 He got tickets, travel documents, visas, passports. 425 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,240 He looked into the prospect of film projects 426 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,120 that he could pursue when he got here. 427 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,360 He even transferred funds to Australian bank accounts. 428 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:41,440 And he was all set to go until his wife, Christiane, pointed out 429 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,120 that on the six-week sea voyage, 430 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,280 because they weren't going to fly because of Kubrick's fear of flying, 431 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,840 she said, "There's no en-suite bathroom in the cabin. You're going 432 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,680 "to have to share a bathroom with strangers for six weeks." 433 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,040 And Kubrick was so repulsed by that prospect 434 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,640 that he just abandoned the whole thing. 435 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:07,280 So, for him, the idea of sharing a bathroom with strangers 436 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,320 was more abhorrent than the prospect of nuclear war. 437 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:14,920 But I've got to say, if it meant picking someone else's hair 438 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,120 out of the plug hole for six weeks, I think, like Kubrick, 439 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,320 I'd take my chances with the mushroom cloud. 440 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,760 Perth is a city that's done very well for itself. 441 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,960 The money's come from mining and agriculture. 442 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,040 It's basically what Swindon could have been 443 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,800 if they'd discovered gold under the M4. 444 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,800 But it's also got a kind of frontier-sy spirit - 445 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,520 a place where you think if you come here and work hard, 446 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,200 the sky's the limit. 447 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,600 I'm about to meet someone who's done exactly that. 448 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,240 In a haven for self-made success stories, 449 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,440 I've lined up a chat with one of WA's greatest. 450 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,960 I'm imagining some sort of elegantly groomed CEO 451 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,080 in an ocean view office suite. 452 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,720 So why am I at a fruit and veg market 453 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,040 at four in the morning wearing high-vis? 454 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:10,280 Or trying to. 455 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,320 BLEEP 456 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,880 BLEEP thing! 457 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,720 Tony! Hello! Bill. Bill, is it? Yeah. G'day, mate. How are you? 458 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,880 How are you? It's a little chilly today, 459 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,200 but here you are in your short singlet. 460 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,000 It's probably all the fur that I've got! 461 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,120 Actually, I've got a bit of fur, I've got to say, yeah. 462 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,200 Got another layer of insulation. Yeah, I know. 463 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,160 Tony Galati may not sport the sharp suits, 464 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,160 but that didn't stop him from building 465 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,480 a 17-store empire of Spudsheds. 466 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:47,240 He's the quintessential Western Australian zero to hero battler. 467 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:52,760 He even sued big potato - that's the WA Potato Marketing Corporation - 468 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,440 to break their iron grip on the spud market. 469 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,000 The hairy guy wins again. 470 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,680 We fought it for about 20 years till we got rid of it. Right. 471 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,760 It's been pretty good since they've gone. Yeah. 472 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,240 Yeah, they were breaking all the laws, market laws. 473 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,560 They were trying to control the prices, trying to control the supply. Yeah. 474 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,360 It was totally wrong. You can't do it now. 475 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,560 So if Tony can take on the system, 476 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,520 maybe I can learn a thing or two about negotiation from him. 477 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,360 Do you like watermelon? Yeah. 478 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,280 We're getting $1.80 a kilo. 479 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:23,920 No, I'm not paying that. 480 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,960 He says no all the time. Just says no. 481 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,520 OK, lesson one, just say no and you'll make a fortune. 482 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,280 I like the way this city woks. 483 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,480 Tony's secret is to always drive a hard bargain... 484 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,280 ..right down to the last apple. 485 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,440 Morning. Morning, Joe, how you going, mate? Hello, Bill. 486 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,840 Good morning, hello there. How's it going? Nice to meet you. 487 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,200 Joe. Fellow Englishman. 488 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,960 It seems that every second person in Perth was born somewhere else. 489 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,280 Even Tony is the child of Italian immigrants who started with nothing. 490 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,720 But can anyone live the dream here in the City of Lights? 491 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,600 I'm just going to make an assumption here, 492 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,680 but I reckon people come here and they get a better lifestyle. 493 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,760 Oh, definitely. Oh, yeah. You know? Definitely. Yeah? 494 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,760 But there's more opportunities here, I think, especially for the youngsters. 495 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,280 If you want to work, there's the opportunities there... In this country, if you want to get ahead 496 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,320 and work, this is the place to do it. Yeah. If you're prepared to put a shift in. Yep. 497 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:16,320 These look good. How much do you want for them? 498 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:17,880 $3.50 a kilo. 499 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,440 Right, OK. That's pretty good, though. 500 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,720 The maximum I can pay for these is two bucks. I got to make 50 cents. 501 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,200 Can't do it, mate. You're too hard. 502 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,120 Harder than granite, he is. Are we dealing or not? 503 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,840 You know my price. 504 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,600 Not today, then. Not today. 505 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,400 Oh, God, he's harsh, isn't he? 506 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,520 Tony, he's not having it. He's just not having it. 507 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,520 He's trying to get the best deal for his customers, 508 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,600 so why wouldn't he drive a hard bargain? 509 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,240 Plus the fact he turns up in shorts and singlet. 510 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,760 And by the way, these apples are bloody delicious! 511 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,000 It's a bit early, though, for me. It's just... 512 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,800 It's gone to my head a little bit. I'm getting a bit of a sugar rush. 513 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,360 Might have to have a lie-down in a minute. 514 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,440 All right. We going? That's it, then. 515 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,080 I'll get rid of this apple. Just throw it down there. 516 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,640 Just put it in there? Yeah, just put it in there. That's what I do. 517 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,320 All right. THEY LAUGH 518 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:12,640 The poms can sort it out. 519 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,080 "The poms can sort it out"! HE LAUGHS 520 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:21,840 Ah, the poms! They brought their kitchen staples 521 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,720 and tried to turn the great southern land into an English garden. 522 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,680 But I reckon they missed a trick. 523 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,720 After centuries of ignoring indigenous culture, 524 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,200 food lovers have begun to realise that the local Noongar nation 525 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,880 enjoyed greater flavours than just apples and spuds, 526 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,320 even by Tony's eyebrow-raising standards. 527 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,440 WOMAN SPEAKS NOONGAR 528 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,000 Today we are in Whadjuk country. 529 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,680 Wandju, welcome. 530 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,880 SHE SPEAKS NOONGAR 531 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:07,120 So I've just paid respects to the ancestors and elders past, 532 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,400 present and emerging of this country, Whadjuk country. 533 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,480 This is Dale. She runs a bush culture business 534 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,680 that makes taste buds dance on the tips of everyone's tongues. 535 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,720 Her knowledge comes infused with the enduring experience 536 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,760 of First Nations people here in WA. 537 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:31,000 This land was part of the first land grant 538 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,120 of 3,000 acres given to John Septimus Roe, 539 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,200 who was not a great friend of Aboriginal people - 540 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,480 one of the plotters of the Pinjarra massacre. 541 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,840 So, for us, there was a lot of poetic justice... 542 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,400 That you now occupy this property? 543 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,600 ..we now occupy the homestead. 544 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,640 And we think he must sometimes turn in his grave 545 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,720 thinking that the black fellas have taken over. 546 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,400 BILL LAUGHS 547 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,040 There's poetic justice 548 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,640 to Western Australia's Indigenous people finally having a say. 549 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,680 And I don't mind Dale's idea of a feed either. 550 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,360 This plant is one of our local saltbushes, 551 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,680 and it's got a lovely big leaf. 552 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,240 So...I always eat one first. 553 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,640 I always say to people, if you're going to eat from the bush, 554 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,200 get a good local guide, and watch them eat the first one. OK. 555 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,280 So there you go. You can eat one. So take a leaf? 556 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Just take a leaf and eat it. Yeah? 557 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,920 Salty, sage-y, thyme-y. 558 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,840 Mm! 559 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,320 If you feed sheep on saltbush, 560 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,360 not only is the meat a better texture and flavour, 561 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,360 but it actually elevates the nutritional value as well, 562 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,480 particularly vitamin E. Right. 563 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,280 This looks like a peppercorn. Yes. It's called a native pepperberry. 564 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,480 A native pepperberry, right. 565 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,120 Can you taste the aromatics? 566 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,680 Mm. Then a little bit of heat will come. 567 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,680 Oh, yeah. Quite... 568 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,120 Little bit of heat? Bit of kick, yeah. 569 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,440 And there'll be more. 570 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,000 Oh. 571 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,480 Oh, I see, it keeps going. 572 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,560 I call it the gift that keeps on giving! 573 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,120 THEY LAUGH 574 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,400 Oh, yeah! 575 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,760 Gosh, that is... That is fantastic. 576 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,840 We use that for seasoning, but it's also so full of antioxidants... 577 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,360 Yeah. ..that, you know, it's medicine as well. Yeah. 578 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,480 So, you know, by the time you've had your lemon myrtle tea, 579 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,480 and some native pepperberries, 580 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,800 no bugs will be allowed into your body at all. 581 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,680 No, they wouldn't dare! No. They wouldn't dare, no. 582 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,960 How do you feel about the fact that all of this now 583 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,200 is being adopted by chefs 584 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,440 and, you know, sort of incorporated into these fine cuisines? 585 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,640 It's a great shame that more acknowledgement 586 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,800 and benefit doesn't go back to Aboriginal people. 587 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,600 Because, you know, people are very interested 588 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,520 about the provenance of their food. 589 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,360 They want to know where it comes from. 590 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,240 Of course. Yep. Absolutely. 591 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,280 I just got another wave of the pepperberry then. 592 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,720 Mm-hm. Sorry, just... THEY LAUGH 593 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,200 The gift that keeps on giving. 594 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,680 You're absolutely right! 595 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,520 Yeah, just suddenly, I went, "Oh, that's just another little..." 596 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,640 A little reminder. "..wave of heat." 597 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,840 But it's time to move on before I eat any more pepperberries 598 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,320 and I need a lie-down. 599 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,040 Every country has a glue that holds it together. 600 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,160 It could be history or culture or religion - 601 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,200 something that binds people into a shared heritage. 602 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,280 Australia is no different. 603 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,440 But this is a country of immigrants, 604 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,520 a smorgasbord of humanity, so what binds it? 605 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,280 Sport - in particular, footy. 606 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,480 And 14 miles south of Perth lies the port city of Fremantle, 607 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,120 where the Dockers ply their trade. 608 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,400 You need to be careful not to call it football. 609 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,040 No, it's footy, formally known as AFL. 610 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,840 The AFL is as Australian as the red earth, 611 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,840 the blue skies or...London bar staff. 612 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,800 And every time I've come to Australia 613 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,080 over the last 20, 30 years, I've always gone to a game. 614 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,360 It's full of action, it's fast paced. 615 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,720 The speed, the skill, the stamina, 616 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,520 the athleticism is really impressive. 617 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,760 But I've got to say, in all this time I've been coming here, 618 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,160 I'm slightly baffled by the rules. 619 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,840 I haven't quite wrapped my head around it, 620 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,280 so I'm hoping to learn a bit more about that today. 621 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,720 Two stars of the Fremantle Dockers Women's AFL team have volunteered 622 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,760 to enlighten me with a few tips on the game. 623 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,400 Hello! Hello, Bill. Hello, mate. Bill. Welcome. Is it Aine? Aine. 624 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,480 Hayley. Hayley, how are you? Lovely to meet you. 625 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,720 Aine, that sounds like bit of an Irish name, isn't it? 626 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,480 Not very Australian, is it? No. Yes, yeah. 627 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,840 Gets me in a lot of trouble over here, but that's OK. 628 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,040 And was it the game that brought you here? 629 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,040 It was. Yeah. Yeah, so, I got scouted playing some Gaelic at home, 630 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,720 and they asked me to come across and would I give it a try? So, yeah, I said, "Why not?" Brilliant. 631 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,600 And you're a bit of a local, then, are you? 632 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,880 Yes, I'm born and bred in Perth, 633 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,840 so have always grown up around football. You know, supporting it 634 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,920 when I was a kid, family's all for it. 635 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,080 My brother played just sort of local league, 636 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,880 so I've overtaken him now, which is fantastic. 637 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,520 Your game, though, as I understand it, 638 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,000 has now been incorporated into the AFL. 639 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,720 Has that made a big difference in terms of attendance 640 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,240 and awareness of the game? 641 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,320 Oh, massively, I think, since the AFLW itself has come in. 642 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,800 So there's obviously national exposure 643 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,360 and the young girls can see that there's a pathway to go. 644 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,720 The numbers have... I think it's something ridiculous - 645 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,960 a 300%, 400% increase. And it's just growing all the time. 646 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,880 Incredible. That's brilliant. Well, OK, now this is the bit 647 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,440 where I just need to ask you some technical questions, right? 648 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,560 Because I enjoy watching the game, 649 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,320 but there's a few things I need to know. 650 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,640 OK. And what is the action when you actually sort of punt the ball? 651 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,440 What is that? What's that called? 652 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,960 That's called a handball. A handball? Yep. Yeah. 653 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,200 So if you handball to someone, they can then get tackled. 654 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,240 But if you kick to someone and they mark it, then they can't get talked. 655 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,280 Yeah? You show me how you do that, then. All right. 656 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,520 So basically you're holding it in one hand. Yeah. 657 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,320 You can't throw it with this hand. It has to be sort of a punch 658 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,320 from here. Right. You want to hit that 659 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,760 to try and get it to spin backwards like that. 660 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,880 To spin backwards? Yeah. So you always want it to spin backwards. 661 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,680 Yeah. Yeah, there we go. Oh, OK. I see. Right. 662 00:34:25,720 --> 00:34:29,320 OK, that's the first question. And the next question is, 663 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,920 when you kick the ball and you catch it... Yes. 664 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,840 ..then everything stops... Yes. 665 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,280 ..is that the mark? That's the mark, yep. That's the mark. Yep. 666 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:39,960 So if it's been kicked, it has to go 667 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,280 ten, 15 metres, and if it's kicked from either team and you catch it, 668 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,200 it means nobody can tackle you. So I've got seven or eight seconds 669 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,200 to take my time, kick. Ah! 670 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:51,040 I can play on, I can handball if I want, but I can't be tackled. 671 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,760 So, then, once you've caught it, once you've had the mark, 672 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,840 then what's the strategy then? 673 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,760 So, say if you've marked it, I'll then stand on the mark, 674 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,320 so you have to walk...you have to move backwards. I have to go back. 675 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,200 Otherwise you'll kick it into me. Right. 676 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,920 So then you decide whether you're either going to handball it 677 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,600 or you're going to kick it. So I could handball it to you. Yeah. 678 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,720 Like that. Or better than that! Yeah. 679 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,280 Yeah. You've got the right idea. It's the right idea. 680 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,840 Yeah, the right idea. And then it's play on. And then it's play on. 681 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,880 Right, OK. And then the next thing is... 682 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,160 Well, that's interesting, though, cos that's a bit of the rule I didn't understand. 683 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,320 So when you're kicking it as well, what's the technique 684 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,960 for kicking a goal? Or kicking it to anyone? 685 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,160 So basically the same as what you did with the handball. 686 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,560 You want it to spin backwards. Backwards? Yep. 687 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,640 So laces at the front. Laces at the front, yeah. 688 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,840 So this is what we teach the kids - laces to faces. 689 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,120 Laces to faces, I like that! Yep. And then nose - so your nose... 690 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,000 ..to toes. Nose to toes. Yep. 691 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,960 Laces to faces. Yep. Nose to toes. Nose to toes. 692 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,680 Happy days. 693 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:49,400 There we go! Oh, right! 694 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,240 That's it, it's easy. You see? Easy as. Wow. 695 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,640 Well, I wouldn't say that. You're ready for a game! 696 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,240 Oh, that was brilliant. 697 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,920 No, that was great. 698 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,320 No, it's brilliant chatting to the girls 699 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,600 and to see the women's game, talking about 300%, 400% rise in attendance. 700 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,960 And it's good to get all the rules. That was the key. 701 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,360 I wanted to get the rules and the tactics, and I got that. 702 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,640 And now I think I've got a better chance of scoring a goal. 703 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,160 All right, watch this. Watch this! 704 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,200 I've just got to get it through the middle posts. 705 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:23,720 Come on! The other side! 706 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,040 Yes! 707 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,680 Oh, gone! 708 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:29,760 Bollocks! 709 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,600 It's hard not to see Western Australia as a land of opportunity. 710 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,640 It's sustained people for 65,000 years. 711 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,720 Longer, some think. 712 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,480 But you know when a civilisation's really taken off 713 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,800 is when you build yourself a jail, 714 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,840 and Fremantle is a beaut. 715 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,680 Not everyone was the beneficiary of the great WA lifestyle. 716 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,400 For many, life here was pretty bleak. 717 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,200 About 10,000 convicts were transported here 718 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:04,560 to Western Australia from overseas. 719 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,160 Many of them ended up here at Fremantle Prison. 720 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,920 But today it's a Heritage listed building 721 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,040 with 200,000 visitors every year. 722 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,640 Courtney, my guide back in time today, 723 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,240 has stories to share that are as dark as a windowless cell. 724 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,440 After you. Thank you so much. 725 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,080 So just let me get this straight, the convicts built this? 726 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,080 Yes. The prisoners built their own prison? 727 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,720 Yes. Talk about a psychological punishment! 728 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,520 Build your own cell... Mm! 729 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,960 That's quite a psychological minefield right there. 730 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,840 I love a good prison. If the walls could talk, 731 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,720 you'd hear great stories of jail breaks and hardship 732 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,600 and people done wrong. 733 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,720 But here the walls talk of tunnelling - with a twist. 734 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,120 Come on in. Thank you. 735 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,440 All right, so this is where we will be going. 736 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,080 Have a look down. 737 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,360 Oh, wow! That's quite deep. 738 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,480 It's nearly 20 metres to the bottom. 739 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:05,960 All right, let's get a harness on you. 740 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,240 All right, two words you don't want to hear in prison, 741 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,600 but turn around. OK. SHE LAUGHS 742 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,960 All right. I'm glad you said that! I'm going to throw this 743 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,960 over your head. Right, OK. 744 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,840 And then if you can, wriggle it down as low as it'll go. 745 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,560 OK, yeah. 746 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,280 And I'm going to pass you through a leg loop 747 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,160 if you're comfortable. Yes. I'm ready. Going to work for you? 748 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,000 OK. Hang on a second. 749 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,360 That seems OK. That seems all right. Snug as a bug in a rug. 750 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,240 Yep. Absolutely. Right, next thing. 751 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,800 This... Yep. ..is a fall arrester, 752 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,360 and that's what we're going to use to... A what, sorry? 753 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,680 A fall arrester. A fall arrester? 754 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,200 Yes. OK. 755 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,320 As the name suggests, it will arrest you if you fall... 756 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,840 So it will arrest me if I fall. So be grateful, cos the prisoners 757 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,640 of yesteryear that dug these tunnels did not have such fancy equipment. 758 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,520 No. Why did they dig these tunnels? 759 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,240 Um... What can't you survive without? 760 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,760 Ah... Oh... 761 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,280 ..broadband. SHE LAUGHS 762 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,840 Something a little bit more elemental. Oh, OK, water? 763 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,240 Yes. Ah. Fresh water. Oh, right. 764 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,320 That's what's down there. Oh, I see, so this was literally 765 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,760 just to dig a well, effectively, wasn't it? Yeah. 766 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,120 To get the water out. Not just for the convict establishment, 767 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,720 but eventually for the town of Fremantle. Right. 768 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,080 Thank you. There you go. I hope that's going to.... Oh, there we go, that's all right. 769 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,560 Is that going to fit? Pretty good, yeah. It's a good look, isn't it? 770 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,960 I know. Yeah. 771 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,040 Well, thanks. Thanks! I'll be off now. 772 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,520 SHE LAUGHS OK! 773 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,880 I'll be off round the markets. 774 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,160 Watch out. So I notice you're not wearing a helmet. 775 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,720 I will kit myself out now. Oh, OK. Yes. 776 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,920 I thought this was like some kind of hazing for new... 777 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,080 No! No, here, look. 778 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,640 ..for first-time visitors. 779 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,680 "Yeah, we dress 'em up with all this, just brilliant. We have a right laugh! 780 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:43,040 It's all going on some camera somewhere." 781 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,960 OK. OK, great. All right, then. 782 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,400 All right. Let's go. 783 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,880 This is the part we call leap of faith. So you can see where the terror has stripped away 784 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,160 the galvanising from all the other people that have done this before. Yes, I can see that. 785 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,480 So, hand. Hand, yes. Foot. Foot. 786 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,120 Turn the sponge up. Turn the sponge up. 787 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,000 Oh, I see. And that's it. Down we go. And that's it, I'm done? 788 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,880 Well, you'll be done when you get to the bottom. 789 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,280 Done when I get to the bottom, yeah! OK. 790 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,040 All right. And this is it, we're doing it. This is it, we're doing it! 791 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,360 Yes! Woohoo! 792 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,720 Descending into the tunnels. Yeah. 793 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:18,560 I'm on the full tour of these tunnels today, 794 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,160 but the convicts who were sent down here 150 years ago 795 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,200 had a very different experience. 796 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:28,280 No ladders, harnesses or cosy little canoes. 797 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,080 Just shovels, sweat and darkness. 798 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,960 Comfortable? Very good. I shall sit in the Buddha position. 799 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,520 Excellent. All right, off we go. 800 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,680 Oh, this water is actually quite warm. Yeah. 801 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:40,320 Not bad for a dip. 802 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,400 Except that I won't, because this once drinkable water 803 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,080 was contaminated by a diesel spill not long ago. 804 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,760 I-I'm just kind of trying to get my head round... 805 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,320 Where were the prisoners kept while they were digging this out? 806 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:55,880 Was the prison built by this stage? 807 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:00,120 Yes. So this is... The tunnels were excavated in the late 1880s, 808 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,800 but it's hard because we don't actually have any 809 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,520 very in depth first-hand accounts of people that were down here. 810 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,040 The only thing we do have is an excerpt of a prison guard's diary, 811 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,040 and he talked about the fact that a lot of the prisoners sent down here 812 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,920 to tunnel were actually long term, which potentially meant 813 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:22,720 that they were in prison for fairly evil things. Hmm. Yes. 814 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,880 So to give them pickaxes and shovels and crow bars and hammers 815 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,000 and send them underground is an interesting prospect... Yes. 816 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,800 ..for a prison officer having to watch after them. 817 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,200 Yeah, count the hammers in and count the hammers out. 818 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,040 It's... 819 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,760 It's very peaceful down here. It is. 820 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,200 Don't know why I'm whispering. 821 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,760 Well, because the limestone absorbs the sound, 822 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,320 so when you're sitting down here it's almost completely silent. 823 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,400 Yes. Quite peaceful. 824 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,160 I can imagine coming down here, just.... 825 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:57,480 Good part of the gig. 826 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,400 Yeah, just, kind of just for a bit of peace and quiet. Yeah. 827 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,800 After a while you do feel a bit like a troll living down here. 828 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:10,440 I know. 829 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,080 And I could be like Charon. 830 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,280 You know, the bloke that rowed people across to the underworld. 831 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,000 I'd quite like to do that. 832 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,400 "Where are you going? Underworld? All right." 833 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,720 "Good week? How was your weekend?" "OK." 834 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,120 "We're going to Hades anyway, 835 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,480 so whatever you've been doing, it's going to get a lot worse." 836 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,320 OK. Ready? BANG 837 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,840 Whoa! Easy, tiger. 838 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,840 Sorry! Sorry. BILL LAUGHS 839 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,080 I'm still on my L plates, there we go. 840 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,200 Coming about! 841 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:45,480 God, it's quite an amazing feat of engineering, really. 842 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,440 It's just the volume of rock and dirt, it's just... 843 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,560 I can't quite get my head round it. It's incredible. 844 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,280 There we go. Right, one out. 845 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,880 So this is where the potential for it to go wrong... Yeah. Disaster. 846 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,480 Oh! Agile. 847 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,240 Oh. Like a mongoose. Like a mountain...lion. 848 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,240 OK. Ready? Here we go. 849 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,680 A small leap... I've got you. Ready? 850 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:16,920 Don't pull me in, though. 851 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,400 That's it. OK, there we go. Yay! 852 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,480 Yay. All right. Thanks for that. 853 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,600 Pleasure! Fantastic. After you. 854 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,720 It wasn't an escape tunnel, as you would imagine under a prison. 855 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,840 It was actually a very vital water source. 856 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,240 That's the first thing. 857 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:32,680 And the amount of dirt 858 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:34,880 and rock that was hauled out of there is just 859 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,160 an extraordinary testament to the sort of convict workforce. 860 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:43,920 It was quite sort of staggering, really. 861 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,600 But also, the other thing I learned 862 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,960 is that I'm very comfortable in enclosed spaces. 863 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,880 I don't know what that is. 864 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,000 I must have some little flicker 865 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:59,640 of neanderthal DNA just still twitching in my cerebral cortex, 866 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,440 which means I like being in caves. 867 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,400 I'm a cave dweller. 868 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,800 So what do I make of the great Western Australian lifestyle? 869 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,520 Well, between the prog rock, the vintage Bailey booze, 870 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,160 the spud kings and the five-star bush tucker, 871 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,440 it's a hell of place to live. 872 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,320 Just lock me up and throw away the key. 873 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,920 On the next episode... 874 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,680 What a thrill to just drive onto the beach. 875 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,720 This is the classic Broome sunset view. 876 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,520 Oh, hang on. 877 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,000 Bloody hell! 878 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,680 Just all part of the Western Australian experience.