Back Roads - Season 5

Back Roads - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes16
DatesJun 17, 2019 - Feb 10, 2020
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Glen Helen Ride, Northern Territory
Season 5Episode 130 min

Glen Helen Ride, Northern Territory

Back Roads returns with an epic journey from one of the world's most remote cattle stations in desert country to one of the most spectacular landscapes in the heart of central Australia.

Jun 17, 2019
Tolmie, Victoria
Season 5Episode 230 min

Tolmie, Victoria

Heather visits Tolmie, tucked away in Victoria's High Country. In the past it was known as a hideaway for bushrangers, near the infamous Stringybark Creek ambush where Ned Kelly and his gang murdered three police officers.

Jun 24, 2019
Woolgoolga, New South Wales
Season 5Episode 330 min

Woolgoolga, New South Wales

Heather Ewart explores a vibrant coastal community in northern New South Wales, where East meets West and which the locals affectionately call Woopi.

Jul 1, 2019
Burketown, Queensland
Season 5Episode 430 min

Burketown, Queensland

Guest presenter, chef and farmer Paul West heads to the Gulf of Carpentaria to see one of the world's most extraordinary weather events.

Jul 8, 2019
Kulin, Western Australia
Season 5Episode 530 min

Kulin, Western Australia

280kms from Perth, Kulin is home to less than 400 people. From the 'Tin Horse Highway' - horse-shaped sculptures made out of 44 gallon drums to a giant waterslide, the quirky town is known for its generosity of spirit.

Jul 15, 2019
Fish Creek, Victoria
Season 5Episode 630 min

Fish Creek, Victoria

Fish Creek is a whimsical town straight from a storybook, home to children's book authors and illustrators, world-renowned botanical artists, musicians and sculptors. It is near the southernmost tip of Australia's mainland.

Jul 22, 2019
Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Season 5Episode 730 min

Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Incoming News Breakfast co-host Lisa Millar traces the footsteps of her Prussian ancestors who migrated to SA in the mid-1800s, discovering a town rich in film history and a spectacularly coloured yellow-footed rock wallaby.

Jul 29, 2019
Riverina, New South Wales
Season 5Episode 830 min

Riverina, New South Wales

Heather visits one of the flattest places on earth, the dusty Hay Plains. Home to a fascinating bunch with a dry sense of humour, the town hosts the Hay Rodeo and Rainbow on the Plains - the Hay Mardi Gras. (Midseason Final)

Aug 5, 2019
Snow Journey, Victoria to New South Wales
Season 5Episode 930 min

Snow Journey, Victoria to New South Wales

Heather Ewart discovers a very different type of community on the roof of Australia as she visits the peaks of Victoria and New South Wales' snow country.

Dec 23, 2019
Bulloo Shire, Queensland
Season 5Episode 1030 min

Bulloo Shire, Queensland

Heather Ewart catches a ride to the Bulloo Shire in southwest Queensland, a community that thrives despite its isolation.

Dec 30, 2019
Wynyard, Tasmania
Season 5Episode 1130 min

Wynyard, Tasmania

Guest presenter Joe O'Brien leaves the ABC newsroom for the wilds of Wynyard in north west Tasmania.

Jan 6, 2020
Clunes, Victoria
Season 5Episode 1230 min

Clunes, Victoria

Heather Ewart visits the preserved gold rush town of Clunes, in the Victorian Central Goldfields. Its golden days might be long gone, but a wave of newcomers is putting its untouched 19th century main street back on the map.

Jan 13, 2020
Koroit, Victoria
Season 5Episode 1330 min

Koroit, Victoria

Heather Ewart discovers a patch of Ireland tucked away in coastal Victoria. Koroit is reportedly home to the largest Irish community in regional Australia, and it's a place that thrives on music, poetry and potatoes.

Jan 20, 2020
Menindee, New South Wales
Season 5Episode 1430 min

Menindee, New South Wales

Last summer, Menindee in NSW made worldwide news when a perfect storm of drought and poor water management caused a mass fish kill of nearly a million fish. Guest presenter Lisa Millar uncovers the town behind the headlines.

Jan 27, 2020
Show Town, Queensland
Season 5Episode 1530 min

Show Town, Queensland

Heather joins a cavalcade of showmen and their little town on wheels on an 800 km run through far north Queensland. It's a journey that will bust every preconceived idea of what the travelling carnival life is like.

Feb 3, 2020
Jabiru, Northern Territory
Season 5Episode 1630 min

Jabiru, Northern Territory

Join award-winning journalist and Murawari-Gomeroi man Allan Clarke as he uncovers the small community of Jabiru. Buried deep in Kakadu National Park, it is one of the most extraordinary places on the planet. (Season Final)

Feb 10, 2020

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