BORN IN CAIRNS IN 1981, Lachlan McIver grew up on a beef farm just outside the small town of Millaa Millaa on North Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands. The property was bordered on two sides by World Heritage rainforests and on the other by a cousin’s dairy farm.
“When we weren’t helping our parents, we were rampaging around the rainforests – they were an excellent playground,” says Lachlan. “My cousins and I would go off (or be sent off by our mums) for the day with packed lunches and come back with the best stories. We’d discover new waterfalls, then get lost and have to climb a tree to find the valley to home, or follow a creek until we found a fenceline. Our adventures sound like they’re from another era. It was an amazing childhood…”
Lachlan lived on the farm with his dad Ian, a teacher, mum Mary-Jane, a midwife, and younger sister, – a memoir of what turned out to be an extraordinary career dedicated to rural and remote medicine.
