Outback Red

Outback Red is the end-point of a journey that began in 1996 in the historic small town of York, 100 kilometres from Perth. In those days, we ran an emu and ostrich farm on the outskirts of town and concentrated on developing a range of by-products from the birds including leather wallets and handbags, cosmetics and soap from emu oil, and of course, carved emu eggs, all made by us or by local craftspeople. These were sold from our first shop - a converted tin feed shed on the farm property. It was through our experience in the shed that our philosophy was established. We wanted all of the goods that we sold to be of the highest quality and to be Australian made. As time went by, we realised that selling high quality product from a tin shed just did not work so we moved the retail side of the business to a small shop in nearby York. With this slight change in direction, we also realised that we needed to supplement our stock with a wider choice. To put this in place, Adele went off to the Eastern States to find new and unusual items from other small Australian operators/companies.