Witta sits in the green rolling hills of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, where the air smells like eucalyptus and rain. It was here, surrounded by rusted tractors, dormant dozers, and the ghosts of Queensland's timber industry, that the Empathy Ledger recorded its very first story. Barry Rodgerig is eighty years old and has spent his life hauling timber, digging gravel, fixing engines, and making do. His property is a museum of rural memory. Every machine has a story, every scar on the steel tells a life. This is where listening begins.
Barry Rodgerig has spent eighty years building, breaking, and mending things in the Queensland hinterland. His shed holds fifty years of stories told through rust, grease, and the quiet persistence of a man who never stopped working.
The voices behind the stories. Each person carries a world of knowledge.
Every stop brings new stories, new connections. If you're in Witta, QLD or know someone who should be part of this, reach out.
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