Born in 1908 on a farm in mid-north South Australia since the age of 16 he's worked through more careers than there are stitches on his brand-name boots.

Camel boy, drover, well digger, bootmaker, miner, businessman, historian, author and leatherworker just to name the main ones.

He was born seven years after Federation to the optimism of the words of

Australia's first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton -

"For the first time in history we have a continent for a nation and a nation for a continent" - and has lived to see the eyes of the world focused on Australia for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

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