There’s no more beautiful a sound than the gasp of a newborn drawing its very first breath. And no worse than the shallow rasp of a very ill child who’s fast approaching his last. For Brooke and Lachlan, hearing their seven-week old baby trying and failing to suck enough air into his badly infected lungs […]
One afternoon in February, Ric jumped on a quad-bike with daughter Clare for a short ride back to the house. The family had been working on their 54,000 acre property in south-west Queensland and had just finished in the yards, after a day of mustering. Ric’s wife Larissa was driving the truck back with the […]
As he rested in his cabin, he began to feel unwell. “We’d been fishing all morning. I can’t even blame the fact that I was fighting a big fish and it put strain on me. There was no pain, no shortness of breath, nothing at all.” Cliff’s mates had alerted Tex, one of the owners […]
Back to RFDS QLD site