Andrew Denton, Enough Rope, July 31, 2006:
“With all of Australia to choose from, we set a few criteria for the kind of town we wanted to stop in. We weren’t looking for a tourist town, we weren’t looking for a place famous for a particular event, and we weren’t looking for a town already well covered by the media. What we were looking for was a town that represented a distinct part of the Australian landscape. In the case of tonight’s show - a wheat and wool town living in the shadow of the drought.
When we got there the rains had just fallen and the drought had receded for another year, but it was the cycle of life, not the cycle of weather, that we were looking for, and as so often with our studio audience in Show and Tell, we were amazed, delighted and moved by who we found.
We’ve all done it - gone for a drive in the bush and shot through a little town with barely a glance, perhaps the only thought to cross your mind, “Who on earth would live here?” But if you stop for long enough and looked around and started to dig a little deeper, you’d find the truth that lies beneath the surface of every community, that nothing is ever quite as it seems, that even in the quietest street life has a way of catching you out. Welcome to Rainbow: Population 529.”