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Northern NSW Helicopter Rescue Service Limited
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Drovers Run 2024
This WRHS provides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to anyone in need, and very importantly, anyone receiving help, not having to pay.
The WRHS operational area extends from the Hawkesbury River in the south, to the Queensland border in the north, and as far west as Brewarrina and Nyngan or even further if tasked. The WRHS operates from three bases across northern NSW, Newcastle, Tamworth and Lismore, using AW139 helicopters.
In March of 2015 a Doctor and Paramedic were included on the helicopter crew 24 hours per day, and the WRHS now responds to over 1,500 life-saving missions each year.
The AW139 Helicopter cost $1,000 per hour in fuel, $1,000 per hour to run the engine, $1,500 for the airframe and for $500 avionics, that’s a total of $4,000 per hour, not including crew.
The Drover’s Run 4WD Outback Adventure is a major fund-raising activity for the WRHS and is being held from the 5th to 22nd August, 2024. Scott and Warren are participating in the Drover Run, to assist with this fund raising.
We invite individuals, or your business to be a Supporting Donor of the 2024 Drover’s Run Outback Adventure, and in turn, we will not only promote your business to the broader community during the event but you will also be assisting to save lives through your tax-deductible donation.
We are looking forward to the 2024 Drover’s Run raising a substantial amount of money for the WRHS and we look forward to and, thank you for you supporting this event.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Mackay
🏃 Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman grew up in Mackay with an early ambition to win Olympic gold. Her progress included Commonwealth Games relay gold as a teenager, Olympic 400 metres silver at Atlanta in 1996 and world titles in 1997 and 1999. At Sydney in 2000, she lit the cauldron and won the 400 metres eleven nights later. Mackay belongs to her childhood and early development, preceding the schools, coaches and competitions elsewhere that also shaped her career. The connection was still publicly recognised when Queensland’s 150th-anniversary celebrations named her among the state’s leading sporting figures.
🎵 Graeme Connors
Singer-songwriter Graeme Connors has maintained a strong Mackay association alongside a nationally recognised country-music career. His songs have been recorded by performers including Slim Dusty and John Denver, and his own work has received Golden Guitar, ARIA and songwriting awards. The city’s records also document his involvement in local cultural events, while a community organisation identifies him as a Mackay ambassador. That continuing participation gives the connection substance beyond a line about origins. His career combines songwriting for other voices with performing his own material and remaining engaged with the community that knows him locally.
🏛️ Arthur Fadden
Arthur Fadden attended school at Walkerston near Mackay, worked in the sugar industry and became Mackay’s town clerk in 1916. His early life therefore has several concrete regional anchors before the accounting and political career that followed. He became prime minister in 1941, holding office for fewer than six weeks after Robert Menzies resigned. The Mackay story is not a claim of birthplace—he was born in Ingham—but one of schooling, work and public administration. A young council employee’s skill with figures proved useful long before he managed the much larger arguments of national government.
