Firsts: Breaking Ground

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In this episode of The Yarn, we meet people who broke new ground without setting out to. The team behind Victoria's first golden kelp restoration project, a sailor who raced a yacht through the roughest water on the planet, and the first woman on the fireground in her region. Stories by Theoné van der Merwe, Bea Chirnside and Eamon Leggett. Hosted by Preeshita Shah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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