The extensive promos for the ABC’s new 24 hour news channel have been running footage of the well known former Darwin journalist, the late Mike Hayes, reporting from the Cyclone Tracy devastated city in 1974.
Songwriter, musician, raconteur, comedian, he even won the World Yarnspinning Championship in Darwin from author Frank Hardy . His Prickle Farm ABC radio series , about the happenings at Gundaroo , near Canberra, in which he had a small holding , which rivalled the Vestey pastoral empire , was well received throughout the nation.
He and his brother recorded songs under the name The Fabulous Hayes Brothers. His biggest selling song, Narelle, about the travails of rural women in tough times, such as droughts, was recorded by Rolf Harris. Mike was 58 when he died in 2003.
In the Little Darwin files is a photograph of Mike , armed with a bow and arrow , to which is attached a fishing reel with a line to haul in the catch, in a Fannie Bay demonstration of a new exciting way to catch killer whales.
Songwriter, musician, raconteur, comedian, he even won the World Yarnspinning Championship in Darwin from author Frank Hardy . His Prickle Farm ABC radio series , about the happenings at Gundaroo , near Canberra, in which he had a small holding , which rivalled the Vestey pastoral empire , was well received throughout the nation.
He and his brother recorded songs under the name The Fabulous Hayes Brothers. His biggest selling song, Narelle, about the travails of rural women in tough times, such as droughts, was recorded by Rolf Harris. Mike was 58 when he died in 2003.
In the Little Darwin files is a photograph of Mike , armed with a bow and arrow , to which is attached a fishing reel with a line to haul in the catch, in a Fannie Bay demonstration of a new exciting way to catch killer whales.
