Pretty amazing story. A guy from a six generations, on the same land, farmer marries a down to earth country girl. They discover suicides and depression and other mental health conditions are rife in their community. So they set up a kind of annual event, Mellow in the Yellow where they harvest a small section on a yellow field of some crop, not sure which. It's becomes successful then after a few years the wife enters in the miss Australia pageant to draw more attention to the event. Amazingly she does win the event despite being a tomboy farm girl not especially given to extravagant dress etc. She goes on to compete in the miss World in the USA and is diagnosed with cervical cancer.
Apparently her cancer was caught in the nick of time. After experiencing the miss World pageant, unbelievable as her story seems, she's interested to both decompress (unaware of this aspect of herself perhaps) and channel the glitz and glamour. She also appears on some Australian TV show like farmer wants a wife (channel 7 is dealing with longstanding cringy issues, no offence, I'm a pariah/snob whatever channel seven is a little cringy, let's call a spade a spade). Anyway she takes some acting lessons with the idea of making a film about a farming family with a husband that suicides. Some Australian theatre or film director gets on board and Hollywood bigshot Hugh Jackman adds some glamour to the mix.
NITV Australian channel, first Australians not descending from Ireland or England nor anywhere with modern psychiatry, ie., pre ancient Egyptian Australia, talk about their history in Australia under top secret apartheid. Some of these cats have European blood including English blood. Must watch tv as a historical document. Sorry I'm not sure the name of the documentary but it's an NITV documentary.
#psychiatry, psychiatric, farming, nomadic, Mrs or Miss Australia. Lifesavers (candy - non cane variety).
Gratuitous crazy Ben insert of Road Trip scene featuring candy cane (and bloody hell)...
https://youtu.be/2kD5pRrsUnA?si=_8C60xKvOPveVGJF
Mellow in the Yellow... This October 2024...
https://www.mellowintheyellow.com.au/
Ok it's about an hour west of Ballarat so probably too far for me. It's west of Melbourne two and a half hours.
Around the same date and also in the countryside, with more history, is the Boorowa Celtic (Irish) festival....
Boorowa Irish Woolfest
(02) 6385 3338h
Https://g.co/kgs/yoJKU29
That's a wool festival not a woolf festival.
You'd probably need to book one or two nights if travelling all the way from Sydney by car, to take advantage of the setting.
Check it out, ex Queensland cop suicides extravagantly in tunnel near Brisbain, taking out strangers with him. Should have had counselling, tragedy for victims and they [sic] families.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/police-investigate-speed-after-double-fatal-crash-in-legacy-way-tunnel/news-story/9713545b0e32aaec6308950932ba688b
TV media is crickets about this sensational and tragic story by the looks of it.
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