Kerry state heads to Camperdown in south-west Victoria, a town nestled between dormant volcanoes and crater lakes. There she discovers a community that supports people going their own way, like local scrapyard owner Lawrie - who makes his living from other people's rubbish.
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00:00Come on in to the old shack.
00:05This isn't a shack.
00:07Yeah, the shack.
00:08This is a museum.
00:16Laurie's shack is called Purrumbeet.
00:22A ten bedroom estate built in 1842 by the first white settlers to the area.
00:28See this? Eight day Victorian clock, 1906.
00:33He's since filled it to the brim with collectibles.
00:38Clearly like a vase, do you?
00:40Yeah, I do like vases. I've got a few.
00:42800 Mary Gregory vases, yeah.
00:45Is this you being an art lover or a history lover? Is it the stories?
00:49I think it's a lot of that.
00:53I have been collecting a while.
00:55Yeah.
00:56It's just stuff that I really like.
00:59Laurie's love of antiquities
01:01has become one of the biggest private antique collections in Australia.
01:06I don't know if anyone's got any more than I've got,
01:09but somebody might be madder.
01:12This clock's 1851, made for the Paris exhibition.
01:16As much as Laurie loves Purrumbeet...
01:18How many clocks have you got? Oh, my God!
01:21..he's hoping to downsize
01:23and is selling his incredible collection while he's at it.
01:27This is the dining room.
01:29But it's not exactly going to plan.
01:32What are these?
01:33They're luster vases. I bought them last week.
01:35I thought you were trying to sell stuff, but you bought these last week.
01:38Yeah, I know. I couldn't help myself.
01:40When I was a kid, I watched that movie Pollyanna.
01:44They had a luster vase in there and when the sun shone on it,
01:48it made the wall go all rainbow-y.
01:50It dates back to watching Pollyanna.
01:52I watched Pollyanna. That's why I buy luster vases.