Wide Bay · Queensland
Maryborough
Where Mary Poppins was born
Mary Poppins wasn't born in London. She was born above a bank in Maryborough, Queensland — a town most people know only as an exit sign on the Bruce Highway.
Towns You Drive Past
Australian towns. Real stories.
Slow down. Look closer. Discover what makes a place matter.
What this is
Short documentaries about the small Australian towns most of us pass at a hundred kilometres an hour.
Every one of them is there for a reason. A river crossing. A gold road. A stretch of flats that turned out to grow good fruit. One was nearly the capital of Queensland. Another keeps a First World War truck that still runs, in a shed behind the oldest brick house in the district.
I take the turnoff, spend a day or two, and come back with a short film about what makes the place tick — the history, the people, and the things you'd never see at speed.
Queensland to start with. Then wherever the road goes.
What you get every time
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Real places
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Local history
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Real people
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Short documentaries
Next stop
Know a town people only see from the highway?
Put it in the comments on any video. That's where the next one comes from.
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