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Double the glory By Jon Lewis The Ray White Noosa Dolphins have claimed the crown of Sunshine Coast Rugby Union Premiers in both the men’s A Grade and the Senior Women’s competition in front of over three and a half thousand spectators at Sunshine Beach. With both matches in the balance until the final whistle, the locals were able to mount a rear-guard action to defeat their highly fancied opponents University and Caboolture. The Dolphins reserve grade was not so fortunate going down to University in a nailbiting 22-19 defeat. For the second year in a row, the A Grade Dolphins faced a University side stacked with quality, including six Queensland Country representatives, and the pre match predictions of Dolphins coach Jim McKay in the Noosa Today proved prophetic. In assessing where the grand final would be won in last week’s Noosa Today, McKay said the match would come down to the team who is able to play at their best for the longest period of the match and that is what transpired, with the Dolphins trailing for 77 minutes of the match, but sticking the longest to take victory. Continued page 41
Noosa Dolphins celebrate with their trophy post grand final win. (Supplied)
In the line of duty By Abbey Cannan Pomona auxiliary firefighter Trevor Landsdown, diagnosed with occupational cancer, is pushing to have deaths from the job’s health impacts recognised and honoured as line-of-duty. Trevor began his firefighting career in Victoria in November 1982. Just 16 days after his 16th birthday in 1983, he was on the frontlines of the Ash Wednesday bushfires, which claimed 75 lives and destroyed more than 3000 buildings. “Out of that little volunteer station that I started with, there were about 20 to 25 firefighters ac-
tive in that fire. I know over 40 per cent of those people from that station have dealt with cancer, are dealing with cancer, and three of them have passed away from cancer,” Trevor said. In the early 2000s, Trevor trained at the former Fiskville facility, later revealed to have exposed firefighters to toxic chemicals. A 2016 parliamentary inquiry, where Trevor gave testimony, confirmed that dozens of firefighters who worked and trained there developed cancers linked to chemical exposure. Testing at the Fiskville site found concentrations of PFAS chemicals were up to 12 times
higher than those recommended by international safety guidelines. The site was permanently closed in 2015. “When I walked away from that, I just looked at my wife and said, ‘It’s not a case of if, it’s a case of what and when,’” Trevor said. His colleague Brad Waterhouse became widely known as the “poster boy” of the 2009 Victorian bushfires (Black Saturday) and died of cancer in 2017 at just 45. “The picture that went viral on the front page of every newspaper virtually in the world was of Brad on his knees with his hands in his face,”
Trevor said. “We worked together and spent a lot of time together over the years. His death was a pretty big shock and resonates pretty hard in our family and our life to this day, losing Brad.” Now, Trevor is determined to protect the next generation, including his son Lachlan, from facing the same risks. “My father and grandfather and generations of my family have been involved in the fire service, so I was kind of forced into it,” he joked. Continued page 4
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