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There’s a whole mob of Prices – which is just as well, as it takes lots of hard labour to work a cattle station.
Curator’s notes
The director very effectively shows us life on an outback station. While the men folk are catching and branding wild cattle, wife and mother, Ruby-May Price is the hub of the station, feeding the men, educating the kids and bringing up the youngest Prices, two of them still under five.
Although made in 1979, the documentary has captured a way of life that seems not to have changed much since the very earliest pioneering days. It’s a hard outback life and wild cattle are unpredictable, but the Prices are determined to make a new life in the wilds of Cape York. This is an example of observational television documentary making at its best.
