C’mon Aussies, step up!

Posted on June 20, 2013 by KG

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11 Responses to C’mon Aussies, step up!

  1. dondiego says:
    June 21, 2013 at 18:03

    I saw this post last night and thought “Now I’ve got a job I should put my money where my mouth is”.
    This morning my gearbox packed up. (In work carpark, phew)

    For now I can only support them in spirit, although this job relies on Aussie farmers.

    [A pledge for next month]

  2. Darin says:
    June 21, 2013 at 21:52

    Going to pass this around,I think there are a few cousins over here that will chip in to a good cause. :cool:

    • KG says:
      June 21, 2013 at 23:36

      Many thanks, Darin. :grin:
      I went for a hunt this afternoon and things are looking pretty bad. The hospital grounds here are overrun with wallabies and ‘roos at night and beef cattle are getting in and eating the plants.
      It’ll get much, much worse yet. :sad:

      • Ronbo says:
        June 22, 2013 at 00:01

        I send the Aussie farmers a few bucks to make up for all that free beer some Australian infantrymen treated me to in Hong Kong.

        This was during 1968 on R&R from The Nam, just after I lost my savings to a certain “Mysterious Dragon Lady,” who wasn’t so mysterious after all, she just wanted my roll. :mrgreen:

        Yes, just another white man hustled by the Far East :!: :mrgreen:

  3. Francis W. Porretto says:
    June 22, 2013 at 06:45

    KG, is this charity verifiably on the level? Does actual good with the funds it raises? (I’m not asking out of pure curiosity.)

    • KG says:
      June 22, 2013 at 11:38

      Yes, Francis, it’s absolutely above board. Right now I’m helping one of the organisers to change the offroad tyres on his Landcruiser and he’s been involved in similar fundraising efforts in the bush for years now.
      They take nothing for themselves, you have my word on it.

  4. KG says:
    June 22, 2013 at 11:48

    ‘Amazing statistics of Aussie Helpers work in the bush
    During the drought
    More than 3,000 farming families assisted in varying ways. 
More than 300 tonnes of groceries (15 semi trailer loads) freely given away. 
More than 4,000 tonnes of stock feed (200 semi trailer loads) freely given away. 
More than 20 tonnes of personal hygiene and pamper packs freely given away. 
Thousands of toys and sporting goods freely given to bush kids
.Hundreds of face to face counseling visits of depressed farming people.
More than twenty lives saved from suicide.
More than one and a half million kilometers travelled by our volunteers to assist farming families all over Australia
.Numerous free concerts put on with Lee Kernaghan (Spirit of the Bush).
Numerous free concerts put on with the Prairie Oysters Band (When the Dust Settles).
All this achieved without government funding‘
    http://www.aussiehelpers.org.au/

  5. Darin says:
    June 22, 2013 at 12:41

    Any hope the drought will break anytime soon?Is this one of those times when a good Tropical Depression is needed?

  6. KG says:
    June 22, 2013 at 14:09

    No chance of anything before the next monsoon season, Darin. And that may fail to eventuate as well, in fact history shows that it often fails to arrive for two to five years.
    The main problem is, it’s going to be 36-40 degrees for months before any rain arrives.