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Sometimes, net fails to catch those who fall
Martin Flanagan | August 2, 2008
ON WEDNESDAY, Geelong Football Club issued a statement concerning the death of former Geelong and St Kilda footballer Jeff Fehring. It began: "On behalf of Jeff Fehring's family, we sadly announce that Jeff tragically took his own life on 25th July 2008 as a culmination of drought and depression."
I don't know a lot about life on the land. Certainly not like the people who live it. But I do know the character of the land is changing around us and while there may be people who have thought through the implications of that, I think most of us would prefer not to think about it at all. So we talk about other things.
In the city, we equate what is commonly referred to as "the drought" with stage 3A water restrictions and when we can and cannot water our gardens. It can mean so much more than that to people living on the land in places their families have lived for generations so that years of stories surround them. When they leave the land, they close the gate on all that, too. Then, for young men in the country, this thing called the future stares them in the face with hard, empty eyes. Two years ago, during that terrible summer of fire we had in this state, I spent time in the Wimmera. In one town, I was told of young men selecting the tree they were going to crash their cars into.
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Jeff Fehring
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Welcome Stoney, but think you will find Con is just a nickname as may posters adopt "favourite players".bedrock wrote:GorraCon Gorozidis wrote:man. i was there at moorabin day of that kick - the only day i have ever been in the cheer squad behind the goal where it was kicked. i was about 7.
he cant be old. poor fella.
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Iwas standing next to him when he kicked it
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