It's a busy Sunday afternoon in a rustic cafe in a mountain-top village, and behind the coffee machine Dave Everingham concentrates on the task at hand. It's a long way from his comfort zone. A few months back he was regularly doing the Hong Kong run from Sydney as a pilot for Virgin Australia, now he's running a cafe in rural New South Wales.
Juru and Kanaka man Gerald Power often hears from people that food eaten by First Nations people in the tens of thousands of years before colonisation did not have much seasoning. It is a myth he is keen to correct.
Bush tucker is normally something foraged and found in the outback, but work is underway to build an Indigenous bush tucker farm in Central Victoria. Aunty Julie McHale has been working with native plants and botanicals for decades, growing more than 90 varieties of native bush tucker food from all over the country at her property. She wants to share her knowledge and the cultural significance of these ingredients with local Indigenous youth.
There aren't many sports clubs where being 80 makes you one of the youngsters. Then again, there aren't too many sports clubs like the South Tweed Sports Table Tennis Club in far northern New South Wales. The club's oldest member, 100-year-old Teddy Marchwicki, loves giving the 80-year-old whippersnappers a run for their money.
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