Aunty Pat Doolan is one of those rare people you meet in life who radiate goodness. As a result she’s been a game-changer wherever she’s lived. You can’t help being touched by her rare blend of determination and kindness - that’s how she’s got things done. She leads by being a servant and she never wavers in declaring her faith in public. ​

Bill Ferguson is one of Australia’s unsung heroes. I think he qualifies (along with his friend  William Cooper) as the ‘Martin Luther King of Australia’, but for a long time he was forgotten by secular historians and uncelebrated by Christians. Someone left this description. ‘He stood tall, with a calm and reliable manner, his strong Presbyterian faith supported his pride in his people.’  He led the Day of Mourning protest on Australia Day 1938 which has been described as the first clearly identifiable beginning of the Aboriginal political movement.    ​

‘We need to share our stories, accept our stories, and write a new story together.’ - Billy Williams.

​In recent years, the  story of  Bill Ferguson has  been highlighted in the main street of  Dubbo.   While  Martin  Luther King  and his 'I have a dream' speech is well known,  Bill Ferguson and William Cooper and others who  played similar roles on behalf of the  Aboriginal people, are not.     Paul  and Riverbank Frank  take as many opportunities as they can to tell the Bill Ferguson story in schools and groups of young people. Paul wrote this short story after   speaking with  Bill Ferguson's daughter Isabel.

'A curtain of steady late-winter rain swathes the evening sky. Dwarfed by the leaden expanse of cloud, three figures plod steadily along the sodden roadway, picking their way through the puddles. The man is a tall, erect figure,​  his muscular shoulders filling out his dark suit coat, water streams from the Fedora hat pulled firmly down over his eyes. The stripling boy struggles manfully with the battered suitcase, now and then swapping it from hand to hand, while his sister strides alongside her father, head held high, hair bedraggled, clutching a parcel of food wrapped in grease-proof paper.  ( Read the rest by clicking on Read More.)