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  • Travelling for Sport

    Travelling for Sport

    When we started Hidden Treasures on ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast in 2021, it was intended that I would speak every couple of weeks.  After a few months of fortnightly discussions, I was asked to come in every week. Well, we’ve reached a milestone.  This is our 50th episode of Hidden Treasures.  To mark this achievement…

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  • Have You Travelled for a Special Milestone or Occasion?

    It was Ro’s idea that we do a Hidden Treasure show about travelling for a special occasion or milestone. She had just returned from yet another trip to the Kimberley, this time for the birthday of a favourite aunty. On Hidden Treasures we often find ourselves focused, or more accurately – distracted – by the…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast Springs a Surprise

    Ro indulged me recently in a show about hometowns. I was allowed to talk about Narrogin in great detail and we only heard a little bit about Ro’s hometowns. So, I set out on a secret roadtrip to visit one of her hometowns and then turn it into a Hidden Treasures story. What is it…

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  • As Published in Have A Go News: Lakes in Western Australia for setting world records, watching birds and maybe even jumping on.

    I’ve always loved a lake. From Dad’s stories of the Bluebird on Lake Dumbleyung, to watching my kids leap into the sunset at the not so pink lake in Esperance, they are a great reason to travel close to home or further afield. Enjoy reading the story above or even better, grab your own hardcopy…

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  • It’s a Love Story

    It’s a Love Story

    For Hidden Treasures on ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast we made the big decision to travel further than we have ever done before. If ever there was a short four word sentence dominating water cooler conversations more than any other, it has to be, ‘Our borders are opening.’ While the anxieties are obvious, so too are…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast:  Hometowns … it’s not about being a hometown hero, it’s about having a place to go

    We’re all from somewhere.  Some of us are from towns and suburbs, some of us might be from remote pastoral properties or communities. Wherever you’re from do you still live there?  If you’ve moved away from where you grew up do you ever go back?  Why do you go back?  Why do you think people…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast: Getting back to our program roots by discovering a suburb!

    When Hidden Treasures started over a year ago, the idea was to explore suburbs and find ways to do more than just drive past them or through them. This year we’ve enjoyed expanding the program to explore topics like our lakes, movie location sites and rites of passage. Now we’re getting back to our roots. …

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast Discovers Our Rites of Passage

    As we grow up and find our way in our street, in our town and our state, there are experiences we have that aren’t connected to bucket lists or wish lists.  They might be things that our parents have done and now think we’re old enough for, or places they took you to that you…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast looks at the art, wildlife and wild rides to be had on lakes

    Whether they’ve got water in them or are just a salty plain, lakes are opportunities not just for our wildlife but for all of us. They’ve been used for land and water speed records and they’ve been used for sculptures. You’ll find lakes where you can sit and watch birdlife, you’ll find lakes you can…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast Gets Fit

    It’s normally around now that we remember the New Years Resolution’s that we made nearly a month ago.  It’s normally around now that reality kicks in as you realise that work outfits seem just a bit tighter than the singlets and bathers you might have been getting around in all summer. It’s time to combine…

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