This week we’re out at Curtin Springs Station in the heart of the Northern Territory, having a yarn with Ash Severin — a tough, no-nonsense outback bloke with a lifetime of stories from one of Australia’s most remote cattle stations.

From the early days in the 1950s, when the homestead was little more than a roof and four posts, to the station’s transformation into a bustling stopover for travellers near Uluru — Ash has seen it all. He shares cracking yarns about mustering on horseback, life-saving ingenuity, switching to Murray Grey cattle, solar pumps, and even how a Nuffield scholarship took him all the way to England.

A straight-up, salt-of-the-earth man with grit, humour, and heart — this is one outback story you don’t want to miss.

If you need to talk, Lifeline’s here — 13 11 14.

www.curtinsprings.com