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Owner-manager
"He doesn't get his hands dirty."
Sheep Head-hand
"Does all the work."
"Cruel, mean-spirited man!"
"But His Dogs!?"
Dogs run the flock
Good dogs won't mark a lamb
Work hard all day
Their work, their play
At night
An odd pair will run away
"Why not, the boys do?"
Havoc they will reap
Or at least, they'll get the blame.
Good boys, good dogs they all go out the same
Sheep stations getting smaller and smaller
By the day.

War Photographer

Sir George Hubert Wilkins
Australian Englishman was honoured during the First World War
He would not fire a weapon upon the enemy
But he would capture the horror of the trenches
When his time came, he acted in respect for mankind
To the best of his resources
The camera at this time being a relatively new French Invention
It had already travelled widely over Europe
The America’s
But its use as a tool to spread the wonder of the earth
Was only being established when in 1914 trouble struck
Mostly to this date it was a plaything of the Aristocracy
After the war his character and purpose seems to have changed
He tried to honour the deaths of Gallipoli
Then was sparked into an air race
His plane crashing before its destination
This is not an uncommon reaction to daily life
Even less to war
He was a party to one of Shackleton’s last attempts at the south
He was the ornithologist then
He witnessed global pressures and understood weather
Demanding a global study of this localised phenomenon
He was in the Soviet circa 1922 and saw famine
With someone else flying he managed an aeronautical feat over the Arctic
He was knighted in June
He dated and then married an Aussie lassie
Wilkins married Suzanne Evans, stage name Suzanne Bennett
What was wrong with Evens one wonders
He didn’t spend much time with her, they had separate ambitions
He much more inclined towards the poles
She the stage, it was that sort of life
No shit, he commissioned an ex-U.S. Naval Submarine and renamed it the Nautilus
He wanted to get under the pack ice and did
He was also interested in Telepathy
Further studies are possible at
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/ ... te=Wilkins
There have been some wild, remarkable and influential Australians
It has to be said