The fourth of five documentaries for the nation's bicentennial. Journey to the Interior with self-made millionaire and pilot, Dick Smith
'We're taking this helicopter into the Outback. Not many of us live there, but I reckon it's the most Australian part of Australia.'
In a journey of more than 1,000 miles, Dick Smith swoops low beside kangaroos, wild horses and black swans. He drops down to talk to drovers, prospectors, lonely cattlemen - their children have lessons by radio while mum goes shopping by plane.
Eventually landing at the desert township of Birdsville (normal population 60) for that most Australian of occasions - a race meeting Sound RON CRABB
Film cameraman JIM PEIRSON Film editor MAX WHEELER Producer TONY SALMON
Series producer TIM SLESSOR
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