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TRANSCRIPT OF DROUGHT STORIES INTERVIEW EXCERPT 2

Charlie Gillingham: Yes, well Murrabit, I’d say that the Murrabit community’s been, decimated was the word I used in a grant application the other day. Because when we used to go to Murrabit, every farm was a dairy farm, and there was dairy cows all the way from Benjeroop to Koondrook, and now you’d only find a dozen, I’d reckon. There’s very few farmers left over there, all the water’s been sold off, the makeup of the community has changed. I can’t think of the right word for that, but there is a word, and so, yes, the social, the social impacts it has, is huge.

Pat Gillingham: But the footy club’s going.

Charlie Gillingham: The footy club survives. Oh someone said the other day: “You never see a town go forward when their footy club folds, and they always go backwards”. So you’ve got to keep that football club, or any other sporting thing where it’s, you know socially interactive, to keep it going. So I’m involved at the Murrabit football club, kids, play netball and football and I’m secretary, or match-day secretary, or director of football operations, or something like that. It sounds good, (laugh), and actually we’re in the finals this year.

Pat Gillingham: Boy Friday, Boy Friday.

Charlie Gillingham: Mm!


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