Walgett

I speak to her sometimes about him.

They live up on the Sunshine Coast, and I'm about... 150 k's west of Walgett, so I'm a long way from the Sunshine Coast.

Yeah, right, okay.

There you are.

You can never get the double R's right on that.

Walgett and Canamble to form a Barbarians team to compete out there.

So each of those players come together from a distance of over 442km across the central north to play together.

And Coach Maddy from Gunnedah and Armidale's team manager, Ruth, brought them all together.

from here too, Manly.

Got on a train three days after she was born, which she didn't get on it, she was put on it, and out to Walgett where she spent the first seven years of her life.

But, yeah, I'd have a gin with her.

She loved drinking gin.

Um, and dad being on TV is one of the funniest things I could have ever have imagined.

Um, this old black fella from Walgett walking around India is, is so funny.

And all he wants to do is just sing songs and like dance with people.

And I'm like, brah, we're in a race.

It's fantastic.

And, yeah, my mob come from Walgett.

I'm from Outback, New South Wales.

From Walgett? Yeah, Walgett.

That's where Betty from Home and Away was from.

Betty from Hey Dad.

But, yeah, that's my mob up there, Gamilaroi people.

That's proud Blackfella.

Yeah, yeah, correct.

So then Keepit only at 60% as well, and the water from that goes out the Namoy to Narrabri and then on to Walgett.

Further south in the state, you've got Windermere Dam at 83%.

That's above Burundong Dam, which is only at 36%.

The water from that goes out the Macquarie, which goes out Dubbo, Warren, and then also up towards Walgett.

Then, yeah, Wyangala, 68%.

That water goes Forbes, Lake O'Jelligo and then further downstream eventually floods, eventually flows into the Murray River down around Balranald.

Newcastle won it last year.

The year before that was Walgett.

Walgett pick a town and they had it in Tamworth.

I went up for it for three days and they pick a place where there's plenty of accommodation.

plenty of um devon and sauce and bread and uh yeah and so all the communities come it's a massive massive gathering and this year you'll be up at raymond terrace where there's lots of fields together that's been nearly a week there's juniors play for a couple of days and and the girls play and the women play and then the men play and they have all finals on the monday and it's um yeah