Townsville Region Who's Who
Public Profile
Each month we have an opportunity to get together at:
- monthly meetings on the 2nd Monday at the Mittagong RSL (opposite Ironstone Café) Arrive at 10.15am. Order a coffee on your way in, listen to an engaging guest speaker and catch up on local news, recent activities and upcoming outings. You can than join other members for lunch after the meeting if you have the time.
- Craft days - 4th Friday of the month at Bargo Sports Club 10am
- Coffee and Chat - 4th Tuesday of the month at local cafes 10.30am
- Munch Club - 1st Monday at a variety of interesting venues across Wollondilly and Wingecarribee. 12pm
- Special Outings these are events that our members are interested in attending but would like to do so with friends. These outings vary, as an example we have recently attended a show at the Performing Art Centre in Picton, a Musical in Sydney and visited a Scottish Highland Cow Farm
Interested in finding out more? Were interested in meeting you!
Phone 0400824670, Email bargoprobusclub@gmail.com
or just turn up at a meeting on the first Monday of the month.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Townsville Region
🏉 Johnathan Thurston
Johnathan Thurston joined the North Queensland Cowboys for the 2005 season and became a central figure in the Townsville-based club. Fourteen seasons produced 294 Cowboys appearances, captaincy and the club's 2015 premiership. His connection continued beyond playing through an ambassador role and support for community programmes, including NRL Cowboys House. The relationship therefore combines a long professional career with wider regional work. Townsville was the club home from which he developed much of the career that also brought representative honours for Queensland and Australia.
🌿 Rick Farley
Townsville-born Rick Farley became known for finding shared interests among groups often assumed to be opponents. His work with the National Farmers' Federation included cooperation with conservationist Phillip Toyne to help build the national Landcare programme. He later contributed to Indigenous reconciliation and negotiations involving land, conservation and rural communities. Earlier experience in journalism, politics and the cattle industry informed that ability to work across different perspectives. His Townsville birthplace is a clear local connection in a public career whose major negotiations extended across Australia.
🌊 Professor Helene Marsh
Helene Marsh's long association with James Cook University has helped make Townsville an important base for dugong research and marine conservation. Her work brings population biology together with questions of management, law and relationships between people and the sea. It has contributed to the scientific basis for dugong protection in the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait. She also supervised many postgraduate researchers and became the founding dean of JCU's Graduate Research School. Her regional connection combines sustained research, teaching and the development of scientific expertise in North Queensland.
⚖️ Eddie Koiki Mabo
Eddie Koiki Mabo's Townsville life included work as a gardener at James Cook University and the establishment of the Black Community School in 1973. The school aimed to educate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children while preserving knowledge and cultural practices. Conversations at the university also helped bring the conflict between traditional ownership and Australian land law into focus. Those experiences formed part of the path towards the Mabo case. His island origins were on Mer; Townsville was an important mainland home and centre of community activity.
