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 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 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. …
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 ...
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 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 …
In the 2019-2020 bushfire season, over 500,000 hectares of land burned in the Snowy Monaro region of New South Wales. Properties in the rural towns of Bombala and Bumbalong were destroyed, and the lives of many of our farmers were completely upended. Our Outback Links program partnered with the NRMA to send volunteers to lend …
We are so blessed that we have so many amazing Bush Chaplains and talented volunteers who spring into action right across Australia. We are seeing the demand for our services increase at a level we have not previously experienced. Loneliness and isolation can take an enormous toll on the human spirit. Mental health in the …
Volunteering is in Lee’s blood Lee O’Neill couldn’t agree more with Maree’s (our previous Frontier News Story click here) observations about the benefits of volunteering with us. The Vietnam Veteran turned Volunteer Hero – Lee O’Neill’s served as an Army Major, who gave 20 years’ service to the Army, has experienced debilitating PTSD due to …
“Friends for life – A beautiful story” In the dozen or so years Maree Anning has been an Outback Links volunteer, our team estimates she has contributed more than 300 hours of unpaid service to farming families across Queensland. But Maree doesn’t measure her volunteering in hours, or even in the number of placements she …
