Ben Groundwater11:43, Jul 08 2021
This article was published on Australia’s traveller.com.au and is republished with permission. Juan Walker shades his eyes from the glare of the Queensland sun as he looks out over Kuku Yalanji country, his country, his ancestors country. He sweeps his arm across the vista of Four Mile Beach, the lowlands where Port Douglas spreads, out to the hills in the far distance. This is where his people are from, he says. Out to the mountains there. And then his voice barely changes pitch as he continues: This is where the white bounty hunters would roam. This is where they would hunt and kill the Kuku Yalanji people and carry their heads back to town to exchange for money.
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She completed Papua New Guinea s Kokoda Track as part of her award. The trek was very hard but it has given me the confidence I can achieve anything I put my mind to, Ms Healey said. It s also given me an appreciation of what soldiers went through during the Second World War. It was the hardest thing I ve ever done.
Prince Philip established the award, which started in Australia in 1959 and has since been completed by more than 775,000 young Aussies. It s what I like to describe as a do-it-yourself growing up kit, he once said of the award scheme.
Prince Philip died on April 9. He retired as patron of the award in 2017 and was succeeded by his son Prince Edward.
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