Twice a year, Kamilaroi elder Michael Cain, known as Uncle Mick, makes the eight-hour drive north from his home in Gilgandra to the Tabulam correctional facility to teach detainees how to make didgeridoos from scratch.
Until recently, he collected the wood himself from Eura forest, just outside Gilgandra in western New South Wales. But a few years ago he saw signs saying there were no chainsaws allowed.
