Truckies volunteer to spend Australia Day carting hay to farmers affected by the Victorian bushfires.
Julie and Gary Abrehart travelled from their home in Pakenham in Melbourne's south-east to deliver hay bales.
There's not much in it for them, except the good feeling that comes from helping others, said Gary, who's been shaking hands with farmers since Ash Wednesday in 1983. They've already been out twice in the past month, travelling through roads flanked on one side with burning stumps, and with blossoming fern fronds on the other.Don Petty has been involved with Need for Feed since the organisation began 14 years ago as a project of the Lions Club."We do enormous runs now. We cover five states, because of drought, because of floods," Don said.
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