Grampians National Park

She's in my ear about country people being ripped off, not being looked after.

They're right on the edge of the Grampians.

They fight fires every year.

They pay a whopping big levy.

Great bakeries.

I love Grampians.

132410 is our number if you want to have a crack at winning this holiday.

Classic Jason.

Lauren and Clint on Nova.

All right,

guys, let's do it and try and put people in the running for this trip to the Grampians.

Now, how this is going to work, guys, think topic tennis.

But I've had some times in the afternoon, sun's setting, I'm tired, I'm still walking, and I've walked over a snake.

And I was walking over in the Grampians and its head was lifting and it decided to just keep going.

And I was like, I could have stepped on that.

Just like unlucky.

And so they thought, why can't we transfer little joeys into a similar animal's pouch, get them to raise them and see what happens? So they did, yeah, quite a bit of trials, but it was very successful.

The upshot was they managed to put back the, rock wallabies into the back into the grampians where they had been extinct so the brushtail rock wallaby yep so the last single animal was removed from the grampians because there was only one left she was taken into captivity and taken to Timbinbilla, I believe.

But from the cross foster program of breeding the brush tails, they were taken back and released into the Grampians.

So hugely important program.

So I was lucky to be involved in that program.

Shout out, that's where I'm from.

And they come together to make works that tackle pretty important political issues and racism, but it's often interjected with tongue-in-cheek humour, which is kind of evident in the... like title of this work, you know, why don't white fellas like trees? Um, but the, the trio of works or the trip ditch, as we would say in the art world, um, is exploring the removal of, uh, sacred trees on Jabberong country, which is in the Western district kind of past, uh, Beaufort towards the Grampians or Garryward.

Um, And these trees were set to be removed for a road duplication of the Western Highway.

So if you've ever driven to Adelaide or anywhere that direction, you've probably driven on the Western Freeway.

I kind of did want to go because the line-up's good, but I just can't handle the crowd that goes there.

One down the Grampians?

Yeah, beyond the valley.

It's like every pea platter in Victoria goes.

You think about my workplace is Eddie Wilson's prom.

It's the Grampians.

It's the Alps, Alpine National Park.

We have spectacular parks.

Like now just thinking about it, how closely tied most of Australia's climbing areas are to bush, which are high volume fire areas and everything like that as well.

Like it is like they go through the Grampians, they go through the Blue Mountains, they've come through here.

Like a lot of where there's rock, there's vegetation and bush and fires are going to go through.

So like I think it is important to learn how to manage it and i mean your first-hand experience around it all now but for a lot of people who who don't know like they do just see it on the news and what the feelings are like and i know when the grampians ones tore through a few years back and like the media around that and especially on social media it was pretty wild to see like actually now knowing people who lived in halls gap and everything like that as well and like what they were putting out about it and it just seems so damn scary to be a part of

Yeah.

I saw your video to the high ball of beanstalk.

In the Grampians.

And it's one of those, just like another one where I feel like when you see it on camera and it just doesn't give height justice as well, like you can kind of see that you're already like a whole person off the ground.