Untold Territory

Who knew that some great life advice would come in the form of a washing machine analogy? What a story!

Kate Ganley, a girl that grew up in rural New South Wales and attended one of Australia’s top boarding schools. A cheeky kid and a rowing champion, who did well at university, Kate signed tup o do a medical degree.

The Northern Territory was a place she had hardly heard of and was certainly not on her planned life path, until, a short volunteering trip to a remote indigenous community in Central Australia, saw her life plans take a dramatic turn and she has been here ever since.

Feisty and passionate, Kate has run in NT elections, had a stint on Katherine Town Council, organised the famous Barunga Festival and had many adventures in between. Now Kate and her husband Carney along with their children Tjak and Goldie, are running a successful tourist venture, the ‘Gorge View Bush Retreat’ located on beautiful Jawoyn country at the gateway to the magnificent Katherine Gorge and Nitmiluk National Park.

When visiting the Northern Territory do not go past the Gorge View Bush Retreat - with glamping tents, swimming pool, and a beautiful outdoor deck to dine at night on homemade pizza, and be enveloped by the setting of the red sun and the haunting music of master didgeridoo player Dalabon man, Manuel Pampkal .

For more information log on to: Gorge View Bush Retreat : Katherine Gorge NT

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Alice Beilby is the Managing Director of Savannah Solutions, a consultancy and workforce development company, which she proudly founded in 2008. Alice is of Gungarri/Kamilaroi descent and has lived in the NT since 1982.

Growing up in Outback Queensland, along with her seven brothers and sisters, she was driving bulldozers for her hard working Father as soon as her feet could touch the pedals. She attended 15 schools in 9 years.

From putting herself through University, to managing the largest mango packing shed in the Northern Territory, and becoming the very first Chief Fire Control Officer of the NT... and most likely the first Indigenous Woman to be the Fire Control Officer in our country... Alice’s story is the epitome of determination and hard work.

She is continually learning and jumping head first into the opportunities that arise in our frontier Territory, and Alice’s story is not finished yet!

So sit back with us on the couch at Crow Corner and listen to this remarkable woman’s untold story.

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Toni had the pleasure of going on a journey with Carney Ganley who was born in the desert country, at Woomera, the rocket launching capital of Australia.

In part one we will hear his story and adventures, of signing up to a course at the Katherine Rural College after his father heard a story about it on the radio to becoming a 'ringer'.

He has worked on cattle stations and helped his parents run a remote road house in Central Australia. He loved the life of a tour guide, spending a couple of years going to ‘The Rock’ - Uluru - and many other spectacular places through out Central Australia, Kakadu National Park and across the Kimberly to Broome.

He celebrated his 25th birthday on the edge of Ngorongoro Crater, looking across the African Serengeti in Tanzania where he went for three months and stayed for twelve.

A great story-teller, Carney takes us across remote northern Australia, Africa, Europe, and India before finally settling back in Alice Springs and taking a life changing turn in his career.

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Deb is suddenly single with a baby girl with serious health issues.

She tries to make it work with co-parenting but living in a very Caucasian town rural Australia with a Chinese daughter proved very tough.

A 5 day holiday in Darwin changed her path again and becomes what Deb believes to be he best thing that could of happened to her and Mai.

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This episode comes with all the trigger warnings. He describes his story as a trauma factory - and he did not use that word out of context.

As the final drop for the year, we decided that we would release the interview with no editing of our conversation or anything else within it- I promise we sound checked it a hundred times, so why the Crow Gals are so quiet, we have no idea! Damo wanted everything to be left in, he has chosen to be honest about everything, and we are honouring that. Small caveat - there was some stuff about the previous court cases and accusations thrown at him around his young son, we could not air them so they were cut. So with that, we decided not to edit it as we usually would and just deleted those parts.

Damian (Damo) 'Wildman' Duffy turned 40 this year and it was time for him to tell his story. The man you see on social media has a heavy past but this interview attests to the fact that you can change your story despite the beginning. Damo is living proof of that. He has travelled the globe, made shows for worldwide audiences and gets watched across the world by millions of people. But he has found his home in the beautiful Northern Territory, and we are so thankful he has.

He began his life in NSW, his parents were Bikies and his Father went to the infamous Long Bay jail for his part in the Milperra Massacre - The Father's Day Massacre in 1984. When he was 9, his Mum had a horrific accident that she never recovered from. He became the child that no-one wanted. Bounced around ... until Dad returned.

Damo's Dad joined the Hells Angels and the violence in his early years escalated and became the norm for him. His Dad's death in 2008 left so many unresolved issues for Damo including a lack of love from the people he most needed it from in his life. He became a Paratrooper and walked away from his first born son who he believed didn't deserve him.

We will leave Damo to tell his story as only he can.

We want to thank Damo for being so open and honest - and trusting us with his story! We hope that his story will show you that no matter what you are going through, you can choose to fight for your place of peace and happiness.

Damo deserves all the happiness the world has to offer and we hope he gets it.

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