The Just Cuts kicking off with the Katarama on the first night is like a tradition.
It's a big thing here.
Everyone sort of casts off their work mode and casts off their hair as they then go into
track mode.
Just do it.
If I lose in here, I lose in here.
It's all for a good cause.
Yeah, a bit of a, I don't know, a third year in a row as well actually.
How are you feeling?
Excited.
We're going to be part of it on one day, but I'm certainly going to be part of it.
I'm going to be part of it on one day, but certainly all the money raised to the rule-flying
doctors is great that they do that and to see so many supporters here and so many support
vehicles, it's a wonderful charity to have.
I'm going to be part of it on one day, but I'm going to be part of it on one day, but
certainly all the money raised to the rule-flying doctors is great that they do that and to
see so many supporters here and so many supporters here and so many supporters here and so many
supporters here and so many supporters here and so many supporters here and so many
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What do you reckon?
It was fun England.
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What year is this?
1966 HR.
You've done a bit of work on it?
Not too much. Dad does most of the work on it.
I just sort of come along for the fun.
Most of the driving?
They do most of the driving.
The boys reckon I'm not so good at that.
Introduced by being a passenger in another car.
Loved it.
Then ended our Toyota troop carrier.
That was a lot of fun.
This is my fifth track.
My third track.
We're lucky as a family.
We can actually do these sort of trips together.
We do tend to argue a bit,
but we're good at getting over the arguments.
We're the only South Australians.
Everybody proud of it.
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I might want to do the tire pressure.
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The fuel station's been run off their feet.
It's a good hotel, the general store.
It's all good for the community.
It puts us on the map from people that may never have the opportunity to visit
Outback Queensland and Wendora and Channel Country.
They all crossed the Pippers Creek yesterday,
which is such an iconic part of the world.
So far it's been good.
Today's going to be better.
I deny everything.
Getting to know a lot of different people that you would never have run into
in normal circumstances.
You don't have to off the beaten track and do some private property and places
that you just can't go and visit on your own.
It's all great.
You can't wait to eat for breakfast.
We missed Jaffers yesterday morning too.
We're great as well.
Food's always good on the track.
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You can't put a price on what they're doing for us.
It's just the airplane that's next to us, the amount of medical equipment that goes into it.
We wouldn't be able to function, survive and provide a service for the Outback
if it wasn't for these sort of things that come through.
I love it.
There's nothing, I wouldn't even say it's a job.
It was probably more of a calling for me.
I grew up out here and I was the youngest of ten kids.
So all of us got flying out at some stage, one time or another.
So it's fantastic to come back and combine love with the bush and flying.
I couldn't ask for anything more.
You couldn't survive out here without it.
That's the thing.
We've come 600Ks a day to provide a service for the people of Junder.
Quite often we will cover, it's not unusual to cover 3 or 4,000Ks in a day.
Some of those people will be 1,000Ks from help.
So people wouldn't survive if it wasn't for the RFDS.
There's more and more people coming to the bush now as well.
So we cover everything from a kid off a motorbike to rollovers.
And now we're getting a lot more tourists, better cars, better roads.
There are a few people heading out of the birdshole twice a year.
We've got an older population of tourists that are coming out in caravans and so forth.
So we see everything from one spectrum to the other.
So you never know what's going to get when you get up in the morning and go to work.
I started this nine years ago as a support crew.
And I said to my husband, I love it.
I want to buy me a car and he did.
So I've been doing it ever since.
I asked him.
Carol asked me.
Yeah, I didn't have to think twice.
It was like, yes, I'm there.
I would recommend it to anybody.
In the sad part, there's not enough more women coming.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They want to know what you run, but it's cattle and sheep.
They want to know how far your property is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
They want to know how big the country is.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
The country was beautiful yesterday.
It's owned by a guy called Ross Alexander, and his father was the CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
It was given to him, and when he retired, it had about 3,000 miles on the clock.
And then he died, and so his son Ross bought it, put in all this stuff.
I still keep dirty, but Jesus can't go with me.
I actually look forward to doing this every year, and it is a super break.
I get to meet up with fellows that I haven't seen for a whole year.
I certainly get to see a little bit more of Australia, and for me it's relaxing.
We're able to help contribute and keep the flying doctor service sustaining itself and out there committed to it.
It's good for us, it's empowering.
When we see communities, we go into other places.
It's pretty cool when they see Aboriginal flag up, and they're all coming across and asking.
Not just Aboriginal people too, because we don't want it to be just about Aboriginal people.
I want to show that this trek is really inclusive.
There's a number of towns where people have fuel, so you're going to have to really make sure that it holds the business stock up.
Good job!
Good job!
Good job!
Good job!
The trek was great. There was a bit of wet weather.
We've had to change route a few times, and everyone's just joined in and helped out.
When we did get on the dirt, it was bloody good fun.
Enough to bring you back next year?
Always!
We haven't spent a lot of time off-road, but it's the journey with your friends and our team had a fun time.
Sticky, but it's good, isn't it? Driving through the gorge, that was amazing.
I'm pretty tired, and I could use a few hours of sleep, but it was really good, really good.
Awesome, it has been absolutely 100% the best experience ever.
And to see the outback and to be with such an awesome team, that's really made it awesome.
How did you go with the four blokes in the car? You'll get along famously?
We'll get along famously, never an ill word.
Come on, I don't know, it was never an ill word.
Ill but not an ill word!
It was good, we had quite a few noises at different times, so we're a little bit worried.
So we're very happy that we're here.
Yeah, this was my first track, so I survived and loved it.
Definitely back in the next year, it'll be my 18th year.
It's the 17th of the year next year.
The weather was a bit disruptive with the roads and stuff, but that was good.
Could serve a bit of rain around.
It was good, it's always fun.
This is the handbrake, obviously we've got one.
Welcome Bob and Greg, welcome to a beautiful port.
That was fantastic.
Never put a spanner on it, only worked on other people's cars.
You look all pretty refreshed and relaxed in here.
Yes, we do it in star.
They sound like they're really good help too.
And then after all that we'll see it six o'clock for pre dinner drinks.
Like the hat too?
Yeah, well good.
Six o'clock, yeah.
Well good.
Big week for you, you celebrated your 70th big week?
I'm not 70, I'm 68.
My daughter's got a very bad sense of humor.
This is good.
This is really good.
Living it up here around the pool.
We all get separate rooms tonight, so the storing's not an issue.
Great week, great cause and it's good to get here and have a bit of relax now.
Unbelievable, yeah it always is every year.
It was very nice to check into the room and have a shower.
We are smelling a lot better.
Yeah, I could have gone another week.
Absolutely fantastic, except that our car broke.
Are you kidding?
No, we got three kilometres out of Cloncurry and the gearbox dissolved into pieces.
It was a bit of a surprise actually when I was asked to do it.
And yeah, no, it's a great way to put it.
Privileged actually.
It's a great way to finish.
We've had a swim, the cool down.
Washed all the dust off and having a good mingle with everyone.
Everyone across the line, it's such a cool feeling.
Yeah, well we've sort of left the Midwest or the Far North West of New South Wales
through Central Queensland, through some of the biggest cattle properties in the world.
To the Gulf of Carpenteria, the pruning capital of the world,
across to the Great Barrier Reef on the Coral Sea at Townport Douglas.
It's been an interesting ride.
It's been a great seven days.
I think it's disappointing that we couldn't get on the roads we wanted to get on,
but there's not a man or a woman in this room tonight
that is very appreciative of what that rain means to the people of rural Australia.
Well, the Trek community said that's not good enough.
Around the buckets went and the target was 5,000
and within eight minutes, $5,000 was provided to that school community.
So that epitomizes exactly what I've heard Bill say and others say
and I was privileged to experience that.
Well, there's no other service like it in the world.
It's just on $25,500,000.
Thanks everybody for 2016.
I hope you had a great trek.
And we look forward to seeing you all in 51 weeks time.
Awesome. It's been absolutely 100% the best experience ever.
Yeah, I could have gone another week.
I actually look forward to doing this every year.
It's really good.
Parts of Australia that know not the average under seas.
I would recommend it to anybody.
Change of scenery in one day is amazing.
Bring you back next year.
Always.
Cheers to that.
