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Shepparton included in highway tourism film

Greater Shepparton City Council, as a member of the Newell Highway Promotions Committee, has secured this opportunity for marketing Greater Shepparton as a first and last stop on the Newell Highway for travellers along the inland route between Melbourne and Brisbane.

Travel Oz presenter Greg Grainger will be in town with a crew filming key attractions and scenery, as well as an orchard and dairy farm. The five minute segment will be broadcast to more than 20 million viewers over three years, via the Channel 7 Network and Australia Channel (Sky News) in Australia, and internationally as well as various international airlines inflight programming.

A winner of the prestigious Logie Award for Top News Reporter, Greg has worked for leading radio and television stations in Britain and Australia for the past 35 years.

Greg is an award-winning producer and presenter of topical travel and adventure documentaries. Greg Grainger’s coverage of the George Street, Sydney bombings in 1972, Australia’s first terrorism attack, won the Logie Awards for Best News Coverage.

Greg's Australian travel program Travel Oz, has resulted in him being appointed one of Tourism Australia’s cultural ambassadors, as part of the Friends of Australia program and Greg is also an annual Australia Day ambassador.

His adventures have captured film activities as diverse as sky burials in Tibet to shark riding in Tahiti, expeditions across the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as along the Andes and Himalaya. Greg’s documentaries are seen by tens of millions of viewers, from National Geographic and Discovery Channels to Channels 7, 9, 10 and the ABC in Australia.

He’s been bitten by a shark, gored by an elephant, knocked over by a cheetah - and lived to film more adventures. His favourite assignment has been tracking polar bears in the Arctic for a series of documentaries, capturing a seal kill in temperatures 40-degrees below zero.

His favourite location is the Antarctic where he’s scaled mountains, and crossed the island of South Georgia in the wake of the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

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