'Forgotten people' find a way forward

By Sally Cripps
Updated August 21 2015 - 2:29pm, first published June 23 2015 - 8:37am
Longreach's Danny Sheehan and Ilfracombe Picnic Race Club president Wes Irwin and wife Lorraine are ready to show visitors a slab of western hospitality even in the midst of one of the worst droughts on record.
Longreach's Danny Sheehan and Ilfracombe Picnic Race Club president Wes Irwin and wife Lorraine are ready to show visitors a slab of western hospitality even in the midst of one of the worst droughts on record.

WESTERN Queenslanders aren't waiting for the equivalent of a Premier’s Appeal in response to the escalating cash crisis being experienced as a result of a drought that refuses to go away – they are doing what they always have done and are helping themselves.

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