The road to Laverton from Kalgoorlie, where Frontier Services Bush Chaplain Lindsay Ginn is based, stretches over 760 kms. Every week Lindsay gets behind the wheel to make this lonely trip to (as he calls it) “the edge of No Man’s Land”. Laverton is a small town nestled in the far Northern Goldfields of Western ...
For veteran Outback Links volunteer Geoff, using his skills gained working on the land to help people in outback Australia is a true labour of love. At 84, Geoff has clocked up a staggering total of 1,577 hours of voluntary work in the bush. Most recently, he returned from a property in Gravesend, helping ease ...
This story is every parent’s worst nightmare. Little Cleo Smith’s disappearance sent shockwaves around Australia and the world. As a mother, I was personally feeling the anguish of not knowing where poor Cleo was. We all breathed a sigh of relief when she was returned to her family but the 18 long days she was ...
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 ...
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 …
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 ...
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. …
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 …
