On Sunday the 1st of November, at a lovely little church tucked away in the quiet, bush clad hills of Mount Crosby, in southern Queensland, a capacity crowd of more than one hundred and fifty people gathered for Music on the Hillside, a benefit concert for the Frontier Services Cunnamulla Patrol. Compèred by the much-loved …
Today marks the end of an era – “KFS”, the plane that has served the Centralian Patrol well for many years is being decommissioned from service with Frontier Services. Rev Colin Gordon, the Centralian Patrol Minister and pilot, reflects on KFS’s final day: November 18th 2015 will not be one of the happiest days I …
When Outback Links volunteer Geoff Cochrane arrived at Mary Birchley’s place, it was an emotional first time meeting between children whose fathers had shared life and death experiences in a long ago war. In their wide brimmed hats and khaki uniforms the two “Diggers” from the 2/9th Battalion picked their way down the precipitous path that clung …
While many of us were priming ourselves for rest and recreation over the October long weekend, volunteer tradies in Frontier Services’ Outback Links program were travelling back home after a hot and dusty week fixing farms and equipment in the remote northwest of NSW. For five days mechanics, plumbers, electricians, painters and a host of …
