Don’t mollycoddle the boy
Oct 27, 2021
2 minutes
HAMISH COOPER
IT’S THAT TIME of year when volunteer fire-fighting brigades earn a few bucks doing burn-offs for locals. In the old days, even into the 1980s, landowners would do this themselves. I used to light up the roadside verge of our small rural property in northern Victoria, chasing the flames down the fence line with a damp hessian sack.
Back then I was actually being
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