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Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line. In the months leading up to a scorching Christmas in the bush, there's a lot more going on than the annual lizard race. Here, Aboriginal and white Australians live together but apart. Creativity struggles against indifference, eccentricity against conformity.

This Program was screened daily on the ABC in Australia to excite regional, rural and remote communities about the arrival of new Satellite Television and Radio services. It also explained some of the installation choices available for consumers.

With critical pasture and water shortages, kangaroos are very much in the spotlight. So why is the RSPCA calling for a ban on farmers shooting kangaroos? Well, it's a cruelty issue. The RSPCA says farmers have yet to prove they're culling kangaroos as humanely as the professionals and drought isn't about to sway its view.

Back Roads visits Cunnamulla in south-west Queensland with guest presenter, 24-year-old Yorta Yorta man and TikTok star Tom Forrest aka 'Outback Tom'. He finds a town transforming itself from a dark past to a brighter future.

Aboriginal stockmen astride Australian stockhorses used to be the backbone of the outback pastoral industry. Unfortunately, following the walk-offs in the '60s, employment opportunities for both dried up. As Tim Lee found however, stockhorses are staging a comeback on some of the country's biggest spreads, and young Indigenous stockmen are climbing back into the saddle.