My Next Radio Interview : Photojournalist, Mike Bowers - Tomorrow, Monday afternoon, 24 August, 2026, at 03:50pm Live-to-air on the Current Affairs program The John Weeks Show, on 3MDR 97.1 FM Australia (and streaming 3mdr.com) at 3pm E.S.T. Mike Bowers found his love of photography while still at school. After working in the darkrooms of the Australian National University and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra he embarked on a career in photojournalism. Mike spent

Here are some of the images I captured yesterday at Sovereign Hill (Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) Sovereign Hill is a highly popular open-air living museum in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (about 90–110 minutes' drive west of Melbourne). It recreates the excitement and daily life of the 1850s Ballarat gold rush era on a large site (around 25 hectares) that includes a recreated township, diggings, mines, and shops. Costumed interpreters, horse-drawn coaches, demonstrations, a