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  • 6PR as Mr Music and Mr Travel

    6PR as Mr Music and Mr Travel

    6PR Perth is a commercial talkback radio station and I’m regularly invited to share my domestic and international travel experiences, including recent reviews of TransNusa Airlines and European entry requirements and descriptions of weekend escapes to remote towns across Western Australia. Also, I’ve been presenting a music show, theming discussions from songs about animals, songs…

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  • 6PR Perth: Regional shows make great roadtrips

    As we find ourselves feeling the warmth of Spring and looking up at bright blue skies, it’s time to think of getting out for a regional roadtrip. I love going to Narrogin each year for the Narrogin Agricultural Show, full of exhibitions and stalls, animals and of course sideshow alley. Through October and November is…

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  • On TV on The Couch: Sports Tourism

    Talking with Fred on The Couch about sports tourism was fascinating to explore the global size and rise of sports tourism and consider how often people travel for sport, where to see a favourite sport or tour an iconic ground. South Fremantle Bulldogs in the change rooms after a big win

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  • 6PR with Burgo: From Dams and Jetties to Lighthouses – let’s visit our WA man- made things

    Talking Travel on 6PR with Burgo (audio at the end) spends a fair share of time overseas but came home this week to visit the things we’ve made that we can travel to. Man-made attractions play a really important part in tourism, they represent heritage, engineering and sometimes are just there for fun. We had…

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  • 6PR with Burgo: We’re heading down south … with a blanket

    In the 1990’s my brother sang in The Neptunes and one of their best songs was, ‘Down South’. It was about surfing, heading down south once you’ve finished the exams and having a good time before having to come back to Perth. Just saying ‘down south’ is enough. If you’re from Western Australia you know…

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  • 6PR Weekend Wrap: Battlefield Tourism

    From rites of passage and pilgrimage experiences like Gallipoli, Kokoda and the Western Front. From lesser known but no less important sites at Parit Sulong, Sandakan and Roebuck Bay; we visit these sites for understanding, respect and perspective.

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  • 6PR … Mr Travel becomes Mr Music

    This summer, I accepted a challenge by Christina Morrissy to present a daily segment on 6PR that explored themes and genres of music while attempting to sound like I knew what I was talking about. Listen below to our episode on movie themes. How did I go?

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  • A Wheatbelt Weekender

    A Wheatbelt Weekender

    There’s some bias to be declared. I’m a Narrogin boy.  I haven’t lived there since 1988 but it’s still where I call home and my kids love getting back there every year to see where I went to school, got into fights, played sport (sometimes well, sometimes not) and the houses I lived in. For this…

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  • ABC Saturday Breakfast: From the Porongurups to Rotto, Tassy gin to South Australian cuttlefish and the wonders of Malacca.

    A recent conversation with the ever bubbly Andrea Gibbs on ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast explored some destinations that took us around Western Australia, over the border to some of my favourite states and finally overseas to a destination that’s just so cool to say and even better to experience. Firstly, with ABC Producer Molly Schmidt…

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  • Wadjemup Rites of Passage and New Opportunities for Adventure

    There’s a little island off the coast that for quite some time now has attracted Western Australians, other Australians and increasingly the international traveller seeking a genuine sand-in-your-toes destination or maybe just an insta-worthy-pic with the worlds cutest animal. Wadjemup (Rottnest) has just taken a couple of Red Bulls and is revved up for a…

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