Luke Bateman
speaker
1,125 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Luke Bateman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And what's the work like?
Is it hard?
What kind of tools are you using?
Lead us through that.
Changes day to day.
Hopefully, on a good day, sitting in an air-conned tractor cab and everything's running smoothly and you sort of get in the morning, get out in the afternoon and you're just operating, you know, 30, 40 ton machinery.
But if you have a breakdown or something goes wrong, it can change very quickly.
And then you can be swinging off spanners in the middle of the sun and things like that.
So you're giving me this mental image of you working with your stepdad that's already isolated and alone in the bush.
And then you go back to your caravan where you're even more alone.
What are you doing in there?
Usually reading and writing.
Just a lot of reading and then over the past few years, a lot of writing.
My caravan, especially for the past 12 to 18 months, has been my writing hub.
It's my little writing sanctuary.
So I usually get home, cook dinner and then sit down, pull the laptop out and just start writing.
People talk about wanting a writer's retreat.
That is quite a retreat.
You lived your early life in the western towns of Queensland in a town called Miles, is that right?
But you weren't born there.
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