Outback Astronomer

Trevor Barry has called Broken Hill home his whole life. At 17, he started work in the local mines and built a good life there, married to his high school sweetheart, Cheryl, the Gorgeous and Adorable. But then Trevor fell in love again - not with Cheryl, but with a planet: Saturn. Just one look through a telescope changed his life forever. First he built his own telescope, and then an observatory - until finally, at 51, Trevor decided to gaze at the stars full time and enrolled at university to study astronomy. He now collects data vital to NASA research and is renowned for his extraordinary photographs of the planets.

Liz Hayes has been a journalist for all of her working life. Her career has traversed newspapers and radio but predominantly, television. Liz has spent over 40 years as a reporter and presenter for Nine Entertainment and in 2021 launched (as both anchor and Managing Editor) a new program, Under Investigation with Liz Hayes. As a senior correspondent with Nine’s 60 Minutes, she has reported on some of the world’s most important stories in some of the toughest locations; from Afghanistan to Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, the Arctic Circle, and just about every country in between. She has interviewed world leaders in business, sport, entertainment and politics, and covered a diverse range of stories including US presidential elections; the human horror of the Syrian refugee crisis; the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan; and America’s nuclear conflict with North Korea.