Australians love their sports men and women, but most of all they hold humility in high regard.
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We can find no better example than our very own Simon Poidevin (pictured) who is rightly recognised in today’s Australia Day honours.
Poidevin, who grew up on a Range Road farm, has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in today’s Australia Day honours. It adds to his Medal of the Order of Australia awarded in 1988.
The former Wallabies captain is a role model for any aspiring young rugby player, but also the broader community. He has never forgotten his Goulburn ties, staying loyal to the great Dirty Reds where he won his first premiership. The club has appointed him patron and named their home oval after him.
Many recall him as a young First XV player at St Patrick’s College and later, his steely determination, whether playing for Randwick or Australia and holding the trophy aloft on the 1991 World Cup. He seemed to us like the proudest man on the field.
Poidevin has enjoyed a successful stockbroking career, yet he’s also a generous contributor to education, community causes and to rugby union. He regularly travels home to the family farm and mother, Anne, who is just as down to earth and humble as her son.
These are the qualities Australians most admire. Not for them the brattish shenanigans of some of our younger sportsmen. They would do well to follow Poidevin’s example.
We congratulate him and his family on this thoroughly deserved recognition.
Get the new bus service rolling soon
With conservative estimates that more than 2000 people a day commute from Goulburn to Canberra for work or study, it is timely that a new operator will soon get rolling to replace the abandoned daily Greyhound bus service between the two cities.
It beggars belief that such a service was ever cancelled in the first place.
Many buses by various bus companies drive pass the city from Canberra to Sydney each day, yet don’t come in off the highway. It is frustrating for commuters, forced to suffer from the lack of other reliable or timely public transport options, such as a decent train service to the capital. The earliest train to Canberra leaves at 9.44am. The return trip is better, leaving from Kingston station at 5.29pm. But still – we need a bus.
