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Miranda knows a great future lies ahead
Marcus Priaulx 29 November 2013
M
iranda Fisher is glad her parents refused to buckle when she cried and begged for them to collect her from St Saviours College boarding school in Toowoomba. Miranda had been there a fortnight when a deep seated homesickness set in. “I missed being around my family; my brothers, my parents, everything; sitting around yarning, having a good time…,” she said. But mum Rosetta and dad George told her to see out the term. When Miranda, then aged 13, returned to Cherbourg she realised
Miranda Fisher knows there’s a good life over her Cherbourg fence and has been inspired to help other people by family members such as (left) her uncle Greg and (right) Nan Dorreen. Image supplied.
the grass wasn’t greener on that side of the paddock. Too many young people her age had no dreams or ambitions. “I realised it had become natural for me to go back to school,” she said on Monday (25th November). “It had to be done to succeed and show all those other young, little kids they can be whatever they want to be.” It’s what her Year-6 teacher, Eric Law and his wife Shirley, at St Joseph’s school, Murgon, had told her. The talks they gave students made Miranda realise she wanted
a career that would have her help other people to have an easier life. She graduated on November 15 and is about to embark on a community services course in Brisbane. “Youth justice is the way I want to go because of family and all these other young kids,” Miranda said. “I want them to see there’s a better future for them than doing nothing. “It’s not easy. They have to want it too. You can’t force them to do it. “I want it and I want them to have a better future too.”
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