Short: From Dead Heart to Inland Sea

S9E50 - Short: From Dead Heart to Inland Sea

Published: August 27, 2025

Duration: 13:30

With Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre now flooded, we look back on the first time this happened in white history. Seventy-five years ago, Australia’s driest and most inhospitable region became a huge inland sea — and was explored by Elliot Price, a salt-lake-of-the-earth sorta bloke tooling around in a home-made boat.  


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