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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Mondays aren't tough enough. A wet Monday like this is tough,

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Speaker 2: isn't it real?

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Speaker 3: But imagine losing everything. We put on Facebook over the

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Speaker 3: weekend just to see how one was going, just checking in,

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Speaker 3: seeing how everyone was, and we got contacted by a

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Speaker 3: young by woman called Lauren, and she told us about

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Speaker 3: her mum, Robin. Robin lives in Rawdon Island, which is

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Speaker 3: near Port Macquarie, and she's pretty much lost everything just

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Speaker 3: in the last few days. She's lost her home, she's

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Speaker 3: lost most of her cattle, everything is underwater. So we

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Speaker 3: thought we'd reach out and see how Robin is.

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Speaker 2: This morning, tribal drumas beating for this. Hello Robin, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Ah, hi Robin. You're the fourth generation of your family

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Speaker 3: to live in your home and it must be heartbreaking

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Speaker 3: it to see ip go underwater.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Just actually listening to you guys telling me that,

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, well that's me. Oh my god god.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I've lived down here nearly all my life, and a

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Speaker 1: month passed away here a couple of years ago, and

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Speaker 1: I've stayed here and the cattle like I've got names for.

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Speaker 2: Them all, all the cows have gone.

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Speaker 1: There was really special ones.

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Speaker 4: Dawn.

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Speaker 1: There's Dawn, There's Cappuccino, There's Princess, there's Linny and Amy.

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Speaker 1: I can't find them anywhere. There is two across the

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Speaker 1: river from me in the bush, and there's on the Saturday.

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Speaker 1: We the next door neighbor where I'm staying at the

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Speaker 1: moment they're putting me up. They had a little boat

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Speaker 1: and we actually seen kov bloating down the river and

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Speaker 1: we went out and we didn't We just got in

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Speaker 1: the boat and went out and had a bit of

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Speaker 1: rope at the end of the boat that they tied

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Speaker 1: tie the boat up and got that bit of rope

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Speaker 1: off and put the rope around the cow's neck and

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Speaker 1: we're just dragging them in one by one. And as

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Speaker 1: we went further down the river, we could see cattle

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Speaker 1: swimming and just getting this bit of rope, putting it,

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Speaker 1: just wrapping around the neck, holding them onto it and

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Speaker 1: just going to the bank and just dropping them off.

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Speaker 1: So I've got cattle down the river on other people's property.

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Speaker 1: I think I've got a cow down in Port Macquarie.

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Speaker 1: My son thinks there's one down there. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to have to try and get down there sometime and

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Speaker 1: see if if it was dawn. It'd be amazing if

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Speaker 1: I could find dawn again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the cattle. You've lost your house.

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Speaker 4: I haven't even been to the house yet. It'd gone

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Speaker 4: underwater again last night, and I don't know. I'm pretty

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Speaker 4: numb about what I'm going to expect. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 4: all my memories because I'm a bit of a freak

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Speaker 4: with collecting history of my family, so all my great

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Speaker 4: great grandfather's notes and stuff that I've collected over the years.

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Speaker 2: Oh, your poor thing. Have you been farming for long?

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Speaker 2: This has been something you're doing cattle for a long

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Speaker 2: long time now.

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Speaker 1: My grandfather they were dairy farmers, and then when the

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Speaker 1: dairy went it was hard, so they turned it into

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Speaker 1: beef cattle. And my grandfather, Poppy, had a pretty big

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Speaker 1: property like the property that I'm on at the moment

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Speaker 1: did originally belonged to my grandfather, and over the river

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Speaker 1: belonged to my grandfather, so there was quite a lot

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Speaker 1: of land. And when my grandparents died, the properties were

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Speaker 1: divided up between my uncles and arties, and Dad got

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Speaker 1: what we call the top dairy farm. And they turned

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Speaker 1: everything into beef cattle then, so Dad had beef cattle.

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Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to live in my grandparents' house

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Speaker 1: and Dad had a house up the back Mum and Dad.

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Speaker 1: When Dad died, Mom didn't want to leave, and I said, well,

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Speaker 1: we don't have to leave, because I was helping Dad

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Speaker 1: out before we passed away with everything, and so.

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Speaker 2: And you took over, and.

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Speaker 1: I took over. I took over and I was greenie, really,

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Speaker 1: I mean I did. I must have learned something from

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Speaker 1: Dad over the years. I was a bit of a

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Speaker 1: greenie and I took a lot of notice of a

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Speaker 1: lot of people that give me a lot of advice.

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Speaker 3: You've done it tough though, living where you are. You've

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Speaker 3: had drought, You've had bushfires and floods all in one year,

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Speaker 3: Robin Wow, Well.

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Speaker 1: We had the fires. We had the fires all around.

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Speaker 1: We had to. There was one Friday that was what

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Speaker 1: we called red Friday because in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: day all our solar lights came on and we had

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Speaker 1: ash and smoke and just shit everywhere. So that was

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Speaker 1: the moment passed away. And then we'd had fire, and

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Speaker 1: then we'd had drought. I had my big dam went dry.

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Speaker 1: It was dry for eight months. These neighbors that I

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Speaker 1: am with at the moment the most amazing people. They

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Speaker 1: my two wells went dry. And Scott, my next door

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Speaker 1: Ober he actually had a poet and put a trough

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Speaker 1: in to his windmill. I had water for the cattle.

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Speaker 2: And now those damns, ironically are totally underwater. But I

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Speaker 2: was just looking here, Lauren, your daughter has put up

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Speaker 2: a go fundme, Paige. I don't know if you're aware

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Speaker 2: of this, but they've raised already three thousand and forty

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Speaker 2: five dollars. She was hoping to just get two thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars there, but you've got three thousand and forty five

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Speaker 2: dollars and we should.

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Speaker 3: We'd like to match that to Robin's. We'll match that,

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Speaker 3: so you've got six thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: I know it's small change, yes, And.

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Speaker 1: My god, I thought I was just telling the story

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Speaker 1: because you know, there's a lot of other people.

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Speaker 3: Sure, absolutely, but our hearts have gone out to you, Robin,

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Speaker 3: so you deserve a pay yeah, And if other people

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Speaker 3: would like to help, we have the details of that

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Speaker 3: go fundme, Paige, and I hope you find Dawn.

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Speaker 2: Dawn gets back and Cappuccino. I have Cappuccino's.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's like a get Dawn, but it would be great.

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Speaker 4: I've had her by myself for the last ten nut.

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Speaker 1: She's been my cow.

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Speaker 4: A long time.

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Speaker 3: Robin, our hearts go out to you. Please keep in

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Speaker 3: touch and all our best to you. There's go fund

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Speaker 3: me details, we have those on our on our social Robin.

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Speaker 3: Please take care and keep in touch.

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Speaker 2: Look after yourself.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, oh thanks.

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Speaker 1: Robin with James and Amanda