Western District

Um, so nineteen ninety-eight, [clears throat] I lost the farm, uh, through deregulation, demutualization, eventual corporatization.

And I, I was a Western Victorian farmer, so we were a big part of the problem that sort of swept right throughout Australia.

So us, uh, in Victoria, we thought we could produce milk cheaper than anyone else, and we were trying to obviously export into New South Wales and Tasmania and Queensland, and we, we were the, the ones who really preceded that eventual sort of dollar a milk Coles campaign by us being a bit too big for our boots and thinking we could sort of drop down all those tariffs and, uh, and, and obviously, uh, usher in deregulation, which was the, which was the big nail in the coffin for a lot of dairy farmers.

Um, but I was a, I, I was a big casualty of that.

No one was telling the stories of rural dads.

until now fatherland is australia's first podcast dedicated to the voices of dads on the land real unfiltered conversations about fatherhood identity farming mental health and what it really means to raise a family in the bush it's honest it's raw and it's about bloody time welcome to season two of fatherland Jack Kennedy is a livestock contractor from Dunkeld in Western Victoria.

He's also a dad of two little girls, founder of a local tough guy book club chapter, and someone you may recognise from season three of Mustard Dogs.

But behind the TV cameras, Jack was navigating a much bigger adjustment.