Nineteen-year-old teenager Sam Hughes from Maleny in Queensland is on a long slow drive around Australia on a tractor raising money for charity.

The Travelling Jackeroo, as he’s known, has racked up over 8-thousand kilometres since heading off from Maleny early last year.

This week he reached Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley on his way to Broome and then down the WA coast to Perth.

It was quite a sight for locals, towing a trailer packed with a donation tin, fairy floss machine, jumping castle, cinema screen, Suzuki Sierra, and a wingless Beechcraft Musketeer.

The Travelling Jackaroo has been a big drawcard for kids and adults alike as, and he has over 100-thousand people following him on social media.

Wangki Radio reporter Fernando de Freitas caught up with young Sam as he arrived in Fitzroy

Nineteen-year-old teenager Sam Hughes from Maleny in Queensland is on a long slow drive around Australia on a tractor raising money for charity.
The Travelling Jackeroo, as he&rsquo;s known, has racked up over 8-thousand kilometres since heading off from Maleny early last year.
This week he reached Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley on his way to Broome and then down the WA coast to Perth.
It was quite a sight for locals, towing a trailer packed with a donation tin, fairy floss machine, jumping castle, cinema screen, Suzuki Sierra, and a wingless Beechcraft Musketeer.
The Travelling Jackaroo has been a big drawcard for kids and adults alike as, and he has over 100-thousand people following him on social media.
Wangki Radio reporter Fernando de Freitas caught up with young Sam as he arrived in Fitzroy

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Wangki Yupurnanupurru Radio was developed in the late eighties. Elders and community, seeing the fast growth of media technology, decided to create a local radio station to service the needs of local people. They saw that we needed a way for us to pass on culture, maintain language, share stories, news and music that we like in the Fitzroy Valley. Community came together at Karrayilli Adult Education Centre and travelled all over Australia to lobby for a radio station. And in the late 80s, Wangki Yupurnanupurru Radio was born.

In the beginning, Wangki Radio was a segment on ABC Kimberley. They switched over to old man NP for a few hours and then switched back again. It wasn’t until later on that Wangki Radio obtained its own AM licence and began broadcasting full time on 936am.

Twenty five years later, Wangki Yupurnanupurru Radio broadcasts to over 40 communities from at least six language groups: Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Walmajarri, Nyikina Mangala, English and Kriol. It has a 400km wide listening diameter, stretching all the way from the Erskine Ranges to Halls Creek, up along the Gibb River Road and into the Peninsular and south to Bililuna, sometimes as far as Balgo or Lombadina. Over  5,000 listeners tune into Wangki Radio every day.

We run on up to six employees and also volunteers from our local communities. We bring you the best of local and Kimberley music, classic country and rock as well as what’s hot in the music scene. Tune in for news, entertainment, information, emergency services, culture, language and connection to your Fitzroy Valley mob!

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