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Porsche drives the desert to save lives


Porsche drives the desert to save lives
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Outward bound: Tom Barr Smith Senior with Andrew Burgess, Tom Barr Smith Junior, and Andrew Nikakis, getting ready to head off on their fundraising drive to the Simpson Desert. Also in the team are Nick van de Merwe, John Beresford and Andrew Hardy. Picture: Supplied
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TACKLING the Simpson Desert in a Porsche might seem a daunting challenge, but a group mates from Flinders believe the cause makes it all worthwhile.
They are hoping to raise $100,000 for research – and, more importantly, greater awareness – of the fight against motor neuron disease.   
Tom Barr Smith, his son Tom, and five old friends, took off at the crack of a cold Flinders dawn, Saturday 10 July, in the 2003 C4S Porsche knowing it was a mad cap idea but oh so exciting for the 80-year-old Tom Barr Smith and his team of seven. ....

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Tone on Tuesday: The four lives of Derek Wrigley | Architecture & Design


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Formidable designer Derek Wrigley, passed away last month, aged 97. You can find his obituary on the ArchitectureAU website and the DIA’s (Design Institute of Australia) website. I knew and worked with Derek for some years in Canberra and I think his design interests were so broad and deep that his exploits could have filled four lives.
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Derek Wrigley graduated in architecture from the Manchester College of Art in 1945 and worked briefly in the UK before emigrating to Australia in 1947. Very soon he purchased an abandoned quarry in Dee Why on the NSW Northern beaches for £100, and he set about building a house, which he called OB1 (for owner builder). ....

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