Gundagai’s famous’ Dog on the Tuckerbox’, based on a story about a bullock team getting hopelessly bogged in a river crossing, is a part of Australian folklore. But comparatively forgotten is Gundagai’s other claim to fame: the town was the scene of Australia’s worst, and deadliest flood. And the scene of one of the greatest rescues of all time, in which brave Aboriginal men in bark canoes saved almost a third of their fellow townsfolk.
Watch the program now, to discover what happened, and the key lessons it has for us today.
