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“There is no way that Bradman broke his leg Mr Sanderson,” said the spokesman for the Bradman Museum in Bowral, NSW. A young Don Bradman in 1930. I chortled that “I was tipped off by Rockhampton’s Stella Newton, who saw him carted off to hospital, when she was a young lady in 1930.” “OK OK, we will phone the Don at his home in Adelaide and ask if he ever broke his leg,” the museum replied.” Everything possible had been written about the greatest cricketer in recent living memory so how would a girl in Rockhampton know something the museum didn’t know? One of Central Queensland’s oldest cricketing fans Stella Newton was about to jog the memory of the great Sir Donald Bradman whose only visit to Central Queensland ended in complete disaster. It beganin the summer of 1930, when sports mad Queenslanders flocked to Rockhampton in trains and buses to watch a rare event, the country eleven taking on the visiting New South Wales team. The visit would see Bradman sidelined for three months and

The first time I encountered grey nomads, I was irritated trying to get past them on Queensland’s Bruce highway However as retirement approached, I hooked up my $4,000 Hyundai to my $3,000 Jayco and proudly joined the annual migration. Immediately I spotted a problem on a toilet wall in Bourke, where a truckie had written the words: “vans, not trucks, kill people.” To further add to the chorus, the truckers association appeared on ABC TV asking Grey Nomads to “please drive considerately and to stop clogging rest areas,” however there is another side to this story. Unlike city roads,  Australia’s outback highways have a calming effect on most drivers.  Lets not focus on my irritating slow driving speed that conserves diesel, 90 to 95 km per hr, but consider the  hundreds of outback towns in all states, that are being saved from extinction. Outback towns admire Grey Nomads but there is no need to keep this secret any longer. I propose a National Grey Nomads Day.  And can we please consi