Frontier Services bids a fond farewell to Bush Chaplain Rev. Rowena Harris, who announced her retirement late last year. We, along with our friends and supporters, wish her the very best heading into the new year. Rowena will be remembered for her unfailing support and commitment to the people in and around the High Country ...
Christmas in Oodnadatta – We are all in this together
As we all look forward to 2022 and the opportunities of reconnecting with loved ones, I want to share with you the story of people who have faced extreme hardship, injustice and isolation for many centuries. The people I’m talking about are those that Julia Lennon, one of our much-loved Bush Chaplains, helps in our ...
Like father, like son
During National Volunteer Week in May, we took the opportunity to celebrate many of our Outback Links’ volunteers on our Facebook page among them were two we described as “our incredible father and son volunteer duo, Michael and Alex Ziviani”. We recently caught up with Michael and Alex who were more than happy to share …
Hats off to them all!
In the 2019-2020 bushfire season, more than 500,000 hectares of land burned in the Snowy Monaro region of New South Wales. In the worst bushfire season recorded in NSW history, homes were destroyed and countless lives were upended in just a few months. The devastation caused heartache right across the region, a lot of residents …
Through fear and uncertainty, we must remain strong.
Since the onset of the pandemic, we all appreciate what social isolation feels like in lockdown. With so many Aussies currently in lockdown, the stress continues. So yes, we do understand what it feels like to see our friends and neighbours struggling financially from impacts completely outside their control and how hard it is to ...
Birdsville Races 2021 Postponed – If the Olympics can do it, so can we!
Birdsville Races is an event unlike any other, an iconic Australian race day and weeklong event taking place in the Simpson Desert in the far South West of Queensland. We’ve spent the last few months planning to attend Birdsville Races 2021, but unfortunately, COVID-19 had other plans. “The Birdsville Races, known as the Melbourne Cup …
Hope and positivity In the face of adversity
Hope and positivity In the face of adversity In the last 18 months or so, we’ve heard from so many of our farmers that life feels like a never-ending cycle of hardship and disappointment. It’s just been one major disaster after another, and nobody appreciates this more than our friend Melissa and her two boys. …
Celebrating International Volunteer Day
Today we celebrate International Volunteer Managers Day. Here at Frontier Services we’re so proud of the difference that our Outback Links volunteers make in the lives of people living and working in remote Australia. But none of that would be possible without our amazing Outback Links team - Michelle and Eloise. They both do a ...
Why volunteering is good for the soul
First time Outback Links volunteer, Jackie, says she and her family will remain lifelong friends with the farmers they supported while volunteering at a farm in Tarong, in Queensland’s South Burnett Region. Along with her husband Wayne and their 33-year-old-son Chris, Jackie spent a month at the property of Des, a farmer in his mid-70s …
Frontier News August 2021 “Sunny, I’m Speechless”
Frontier News August 2021 is out now! In this month’s issue of Frontier News, we take the NRMA down to the Snowy Monaro region to help and assist our friends who were affected by the devastating 2020 fires, we share stories of trials and triumphs from across the country and inside this month’s issue, Christmas …