The volunteer hospital ship MV Pacific Link berthed ahead of the historic vessel Failie
After committing a petty crime, Ken Mulligan’s great-great grandfather was sent to Australia in November 1818 on the sailing ship Morley which took 121 days to get here.
In Port Adelaide we found a vessel of a different kind — MV Pacific Link, a volunteer hospital ship Ken is sending on a longer voyage to Papua New Guinea via 16 Australian ports.
Ken Mulligan, organiser of the voyage to Papua New Guinea
Ken is CEO of YWAM-Marine Reach Australia which operates MV Pacific Link, now on a mission to provide clinical services, primary health care and health education in PNG.
In August 2010 the ship will sail to Cairns and Thursday Island then on to Port Moresby in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea. The Australian leg of the voyage will promote PNG’s millennium development goals.
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Josey from the new café La Caz Creole has an approving smile for Graham's car.
When Graham Rogers drives down Semaphore Road, people stop and stare.
Graham took me for spin along the Esplanade and I understood how good his 1978 Leyland Californian really is.
“It was lying in a mate’s barn for 15 years and it was rusted and needed a major makeover, so he gave it to me, Graham said.
“I’d always promised the wife I’d get her a convertible and that’s all I could afford.
“So I stripped it, every nut and bolt, down to nothing and rebuilt it.”
Graham, 62, had never worked on a car in his life, but he’s a former waterside worker who’s been in the building industry for many years, so he knows how to create things.
Like many, he’s a dedicated local and remembers earlier days when Port Adelaide was a bustling port and he was a wharfie waiting outside the First Commercial Hotel each morning for the tray truck to arrive to take workers to the docks.
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With forum chair Cath Duncan and Centre volunteer and forum organiser Stuart Gifford, candidates face the electors
Audience appreciation is demonstrated in this letter to the Port Messenger newspaper.
Candidates for the electorates of Lee and Port Adelaide faced locals in an election forum for the South Australian state elections in the Semaphore Masonic Hall.
The forum, organised by the new Semaphore Information Centre and Adelaide Eco Info Exchange, is just the first of many events in the Centre’s community-building programme and there was some very lively debate.
