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Date Time Community Defib Project in Hawkesbury Hawkesbury community members are well known for doing many wonderful things for the area, and one of those people is Sophie Wills, who has been doing her best to make sure remote area residents have a better chance of survival if a ​sudden cardiac arrest occurs. A Registered Paramedic and Rural Fire Service volunteer, Ms Wills is the founder and chairperson of the Community Defib Project, which has improved community access to defibrillation in Wisemans Ferry and surrounding areas. This has been achieved using a $35,000 NSW Government ‘My Co...

In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I stared at the screen, hardly believing my eyes. After years of research, my own and others, I thought most of the Aboriginal names for the river were lost forever, destroyed in the aftermath of invasion and dispossession. Yet, suddenly, this cache of riches. A page from Rev McGarvie’s 1829 list of Aboriginal names for places...