Tasmania

It was '88 off-season, and my first year at Geelong was '89.

So yeah, it was daunting 'cause I'd never left Tasmania as a young bloke, so it w- I didn't even know where Geelong was.

I had to ask somebody once I got off the boat.

So there you go.

No storm watch running.

If more arrives, it'll be the northern tier of the United States, the UK, and Northern Europe first, and Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand down here.

Safety passage.

Yes, and it's in every episode for a reason.

Otherwise there is like a little bit of like a brim on the hood, but nothing crazy.

Jody says, doing the Overland track in Tasmania.

Looks like might be the option if light.

It is pretty light.

Yeah.

So Adam, who's a Kiwi from Tasmania, which means he's especially special.

Yes.

I know that one.

Could we use it just for, like, the wings and the fuselage and then literally 3D print all the other details so that way you keep your molding costs down? So, yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess you're right.

See,

a good friend of ours, Cal, who now lives down in Tasmania, he's really a big ship modeler, and he's just started producing, or will be releasing soon, a 1350 scale HMAS Parramatta model.

Yeah, a little river class.

It's when I was 18 years of age, when I was in year 12.

The last law in Australia changed in Tasmania, meaning it was now legal everywhere to be gay.

So I get a visceral response.

You can see I've got goosebumps on my arm there, Josh, sharing that.

there is a reason why the stereotype exists.

Though homosexuality had been decriminalized by Australian parliament in 1973, it would not be until 1994 when the Human Rights Act of 1994 would legalize sexual activities between consenting adults, and even longer until Tasmania decriminalized homosexuality in a repeal in 1997.

It's crazy.

It'll really shock you how recent there have been laws that have criminalized homosexual activity.

I understand the book was actually inspired by a story that Wells heard from Australia.

Yes, it was to do with Aboriginal people in Australia and, of course, the Aboriginal people in Tasmania had a shocking time of it and, you know, were so cruelly treated.

He heard about that and it sort of gave him ideas that would eventually result in the War of the Worlds, which was, you know, a phenomenally popular

book.

But places like Mary Kathleen where we camped, the...

The Georgina River at Camerwheel, on the banks of that, and the sunsets were just unbelievable, and we had a great time in the outback, and obviously we sort of made our way back here, and got back here a couple of days ago, and now here at the big four-wheel drive show in Sydney, and off to Tasmania next.

There's no rest for the wicked, John, in this business.

I'm keen to hear about Tassie.

And did that stay with me until I was in my mid forties? It was such a limiting belief that she, and she was highly competitive woman herself.

Like she played basketball for Tasmania.

She played netball.

You know, she was really artistically talented but she'd been brought up by her mother with the same and her mother was brought up.