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barrafish
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To all aussie fan's of motor racing, word is coming out of Western Australia that Peter Brock has been killed in a racing accident. Motor racing fan's around the world would be familiar with 'Brocky, King of the mountain', Mount Panorama race in Bathurst N.S.W.
To all who do not know, this race is held once a year and is 1000klms, a classic V8 Supercar race.
Grew up with this guy on TV. A great champion to all fan's and a fine ambassador for the sport.
Too young to go but you lived it to the fullest and flatout most of the time. Another aussie legend that will hit home hard. My sympathy to your wife and family.
R.I.P mate.
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Posted on: 11:24 pm on Sep. 7, 2006
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dcutter
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Jeez....first 'ole Steve Irwin and now this. It really does come in threes huh?! Two down, one to go..
Again Aussie bro's of the brotherhood....our condolences...cheers mates!
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Posted on: 11:31 pm on Sep. 7, 2006
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FIB
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Well, my condolences and all that, but...
Is BTF the necrological column of the Coober Pedy Herald or whatever the local australian newspaper is called? Or is it the Grieving Mates Support Website?
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Posted on: 12:08 am on Sep. 8, 2006
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Yurune
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SYDNEY - The death of an elderly Aboriginal man beside a remote airstrip after being dumped there following hospital treatment has sparked demands by Australian doctors for a royal commission into the state of indigenous health.
Peter Limbunya, 78, was flown to the settlement of Kalkaringi, in the Northern Territory, after receiving treatment at a hospital in the town of Katherine.
Shoeless and wearing a cowboy hat, he had no escort on the August 21 flight and no-one to meet him.
Almost blind, barely able to walk and with limited English, he apparently wandered off into the bush, disoriented and confused.
A police search involving quad bikes, a helicopter with thermal imaging equipment, officers on foot and Aboriginal trackers failed to locate him.
Eight days later locals found his body in long grass a few hundred metres from the airstrip.
The Northern Territory's health department has launched an internal inquiry into his death, but the Australian Medical Association has called for a much broader inquiry.
"We say there are pockets of deeply entrenched racism within the bureaucracy, across several departments," Paul Bauert, the president of the AMA in the Northern Territory, said yesterday.
"It's manifested by the bureaucracy's acceptance of repeated failures. This man's death is a tragedy but it's the tip of the iceberg in terms of mishaps in moving Aboriginal people across long distances."
A royal commission would allow the entire Aboriginal welfare system to be subjected to scrutiny.
Mr Limbunya's niece, Josie Crawshaw-Guy, also accused health officials of chronic neglect. "It is hard-core, systemic racism," she said. "I can't begin to imagine how terrifying it must have been for him."
Each year about 8000 patients, many of them Aboriginal, are flown from hospitals in the Northern Territory to remote Outback settlements.
The health department says the vast majority are successfully returned home.
"I've worked for many years in the health industry in the Northern Territory and have never seen evidence of institutionalised racism," Health Minister Chris Burns said.
"Unfortunately, there have been a couple of cases where the system has failed but that is not the basis for a royal commission."
Aborigines, who make up about 2.5 per cent of Australia's population of 20 million, live nearly 20 years less than mainstream society. One in three indigenous Australian men can expect to die before the age of 55.
Here's number 3...shame no one seemed to give a shit about him
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Posted on: 12:09 am on Sep. 8, 2006
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Mr Alan
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Quote: from barrafish on 11:33 pm on Sep. 7, 2006
...word is coming out of Western Australia that Peter Brock has been killed in a racing accident
He wasn't by any chance driving a Corvette Stingray, was he?
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Posted on: 12:19 am on Sep. 8, 2006
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Minder
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Well, the loss of Peter Brock the gentleman legend and veteran of Australian V8 motorsport is certainly going to get Steve Irwin off the front page here. Steve was a loss, Peter is a tragedy.
Peter Brock is a household word in Australia and this is a shock for all Australians. That he has died is the shock, that it was whilst motor racing is actually comforting. He was 61 years of age.
In context this is the loss of Fangio, Stirling Moss or Ayrton Senna to us Aussies.
That you did not know him or share Conrod straight with him at least once well that is your loss not ours.
Speak ill of our King (of the Mountain) in the presence of any true Aussie at your peril.
Vale Peter Perfect.
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Posted on: 12:59 am on Sep. 8, 2006
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BIG BEEFA
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Next it'll be Greg Norman being hit by a Golf Ball
Beefa
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Posted on: 1:03 am on Sep. 8, 2006
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barrafish
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Yurune,
The death of the man in NT is a tragic story, it is a newspaper report and the jury is out on this one at the moment. Hopefully the investigation will see where the truth lie's, so I would not jump the gun at the moment.
FIB, dont know where you come from, but us aussies get behind some of our sportsmen/women, dignitaries, achiever's and community minded people. We may bag them, give them a bit of stick now and then and it's all in good fun.
When some of our champion's rise to the occassion and other's like me can only stand in awe of them, we are deeply hurt at their untimely passing.
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Posted on: 1:24 am on Sep. 8, 2006
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