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MR FLICK’S CHURCHILL FELLOWSHIP By YVETTE AUBUSSON B AUBUSSON-FOLEY FOLEY
A MINUTE OF SILENCE Albert starts career in fire-fighting By JOHN RYAN ONE of NSW’s newest full-time firefighter recruits followed a long and winding road to end up in the job he loves, but Dubbo man Albert Wilson (pictured) is proof that if you want something badly enough, you can reach your goal – he’s starting his new career in Sydney but hopes one day to return to his hometown.
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Dubbo-based Joseph Flick is a 2019 recipient of the coveted Churchill Fellowship Award. With its assistance, he will soon embark on a project to research and document the burial sites of Indigenous soldiers who died during World War I in the UK, France and Belgium. It’s been a year since his application was submitted and six weeks since he learned the good news about his Fellowship. He attended an official ceremony in Sydney last Friday with his daughter where his award was officiated by Governor of NSW Margaret Beazley. This project really began six years ago when Mr Flick set out to learn the story of just one Indigenous soldier who fought in France – his grandfather. Now, the Churchill Fellowship will afford him an opportunity to do the same for over 800 families. It’s a story of reconnection and closure for descendants who, just like him, have family trees scarred by lives interrupted due to World War I, and for whom Remembrance Day does not always come around without tones of bitterness.
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Bob Brown: Dubbo’s future will be 40 days of 40-degree heat FORMER senator and arguably one of Australia’s best known environmental advocates, Bob Brown, addressed Dubbo Regional Council this week, warning that under current Australian policies the children of Dubbo today can expect to retire into a world which has gone from four days of 40-degree heat per annum on average, to 40 days. “That’s a tenfold
increase in the hottest days and therefore the drying out of the atmosphere and therefore the loss of water falling over the region and in our rivers,” Mr Brown said. He did offer hope, saying the region’s “abundance” of sunshine could be turned into renewable energy in a short amount of time.
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