When reading the February Frontier News, many of the east coast readership might think it redundant, with frequent showers around Sydney and coastal NSW. News reports of rivers beginning to run again in the drought-stricken inland is a relief, “surely they are fine now”. But it’s a long road to recovery after drought, so in …
Music on the Hillside
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 …
So long KFS, a good and faithful servant
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 …
Geoff Cochrane: The ties that bind us
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 …
Outback Links tradies restore farms and hope at Lightning Ridge
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 …
Pine Plains Great Outback BBQ
We are always excited to hear from our fundraisers and how their Great Outback BBQ went. Our thanks to Elaine Nitschke for sending in these great photos and story from the Pine Plains Great Outback BBQ: Sunday, 20th September 2015 was a beautiful spring day in the mallee area of NW Victoria and members of …
Uralla celebrates our Great Outback Barbie in style
If you want to experience the hospitality of the Bush, drop into the little western NSW town of Uralla. Uralla is a heritage district famous as the birthplace of local Bushranger ‘Captain Thunderbolt’- whose story features prominently in the museum there. But it’s the friendly folk you’ll meet who’ll stay in your memory long after …
Outback Links returns to the ridge – September 26-October 3
Outback Links ‘tradie’ volunteers are hitting the road again, giving up their time to help farmers doing it tough in remote NSW. In September, an enthusiastic group of 15 professional and 10 apprentice ‘tradies’ will get their boots dusty giving a hand to 30 farms around Lightning Ridge and Goodooga in North West NSW. The …
Outback Links returns to the ridge – September 26-October 3
Outback Links ‘tradie’ volunteers are hitting the road again, giving up their time to help farmers doing it tough in remote NSW. In September, an enthusiastic group of 15 professional and 10 apprentice ‘tradies’ will get their boots dusty giving a hand to 30 farms around Lightning Ridge and Goodooga in North West NSW. The …
Andamooka Golden Anniversary
Friday 28th August commemorates a golden anniversary in the South Australian opal mining town of Andamooka. It is 50 years to the day since the Andamooka hospital was opened, a facility built and staffed by the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) and continued to this day under the AIM’s successor, Frontier Services. The opening of Andamooka …