Stories of Australian Country People

The Top Springs Pub and camping Grounds NT, where the Buchanan and Buntine Highways cross paths, is a great meeting place for both travellers and people who live in the area. Lyle and Helen were happy to cross paths there with Jimmy ‘Never was a Ringer’ Mead.

Listen to Lyle and Helen chatting to Matt Brann of ABC Darwin’s NT Country Hour; talking about their 25 years of cattle station travel, and about Helen’s book, “Stories of Australian Country People”.

It’s been seven years since the events surrounding ‘The Case of the Missing Pocket Knives’. Wow, how Jess and Becky Miller have grown since then! Helen loved getting together with Jess and Becky when she and Lyle visited.

Well satisfied after a delicious chicken dinner, followed by Pavlova, Helen & Lyle had time for a catch-up and photo with Dave Love, Aroona Station’s cook.

It was a mixture of ‘Glad and Sad’ to find their dear friend Ethleen Barnett’s story. Ethleen passed away in 2015 and some of her life story is found in “..in the best of times”

Lloyd Hick, of Thorntonia Station in Queensland Gulf stopped long enough on his way to the cattle yards to smile for the camera and hold the Coffee Table Book “Stories of Australian Country People” which features the Hick family story ‘Looking at the Horizon”.

The “Ginger Ninjas” Riley and Shayla McDonald of Thorntonia Station in Queensland’s Gulf were just as happy in 2016 as they were in 2015 to front up for a photo shoot.

John and Leeanne Imeson, of Barkly Downs, Western Qld, and Helen looking through the Coffee Table Book ” Stories of Australian Country People”.

On 11 and 12 April, Helen Kent’s Stories of Australian Country People was officially unveiled in Broome during the two-day Beef Up forum presented by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the Kimberley and Pilbara Cattlemen’s Association in Broome.

“Love the book, some fantastic stories from way back and now. My girls love looking through the book and finding all the horses.” Naomi Mullaly.