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Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes

Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes

...and Communities that Count

by Peter Rees and Tim Fischer
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2003

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The gap between the city and the bush has never been greater3/4and the bush has never had to work harder to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing society.

This is a book about the never-say-die spirit of those who live in regional Australia; the people and communities who see opportunity and the chance for renewal where others see dust.

They're the people Tim Fischer and Peter Rees know best. In his 30 years as a parliamentarian, Tim has crisscrossed the country listening to the stories of rural Australians while Peter has maintained a keen interest in the people of the bush since his time as a journalist on the Wagga Wagga 'Daily Advertiser. Here Tim and Peter show that the 'have a go' spirit of the bush means adapting to the challenges of the new century with canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up.

Coming from every corner of Australia, these stories are real, rich and funny, with the power to inspire us all.
ISBN:
9781741141535
9781741141535
Category:
Cultural studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2003
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
195x130x15mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Peter Rees

Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), and Killing Juanita (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, as well as Desert Boys, Lancaster Men: The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command (2013), The Anzac Girls (2014) and Bearing Witness (2015).

Tim Fischer

Timothy Andrew Fischer was born on 3rd May 1946 in Lockhart in the New South Wales Riverina. His love of trains began when he was a small boy and it has become a lifelong passion. As Tim says, he has woven his lifelong study of rail in with his various careers, from farmer to army officer, from State politician to Australian Deputy Prime Minister.

Conscripted into the Army in 1966, he was an officer, a platoon commander and transport officer in Australia and Vietnam from 1966 to 1969. He became a member of the NSW Parliament in 1971 when he won the seat of Sturt for the then Country Party. In 1980 he won the NSW seat of Murray for the National Party (formerly the Country Party). After a 13 year career in State politics Mr Fischer went into Federal politics in 1984 when he won the federal seat of Farrer for the National Party. He became Leader of the party in 1990. Tim Fischer was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 1999.

In July 1999 he announced his resignation as National Party Leader, Trade Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. He retired in 2001 to spend more time with his family. Since leaving Federal Politics he has taken on a wide range of roles and responsibilities.

On July 21st, 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Tim Fischer would be the resident Ambassador to the Holy See in Rome. Mr Fischer will take up the position in January 2009. In April 2008 he was co-chair for the rural section of the Australian 20/20 Summit. In November 2007, he was appointed National Chairman of the Flying Doctor Service. In June 2007 Mr Fischer completed a three-year term as Chairman of Tourism Australia. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2005. In 2004 the South Australian government appointed him Special Envoy for the Adelaide to Darwin railway.

Tim passed away in August 2019, aged 73.

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