General News
16 March, 2023
Life membership awarded
DERRINALLUM expat Tony Hudson was recently honoured with an honorary life membership of the Derrinallum and Lismore Community Association History Group.
DERRINALLUM expat Tony Hudson was recently honoured with an honorary life membership of the Derrinallum and Lismore Community Association History Group.
Mr Hudson worked as a shearer in Derrinallum for many years, getting to know various people within the community.
Mr Hudson said he was “very honoured” to be recognised.
“You don’t start off to get things like that, you just do it,” he said.
“It’s been a great life journey.
“I’ve been at the same house in Derrinallum for 78 years, so I knew a fair bit about the area. I worked on a lot of stations, sheared a lot of sheep, so I know a lot of people.”
Mr Hudson said he enjoys the comradery of the History Group.
“We’re all interested in the same thing,” he said.
“We get to see a lot of places that you normally can’t get into otherwise.
“We got to go to homesteads or woolsheds, wherever historic things are.
There’d be a lot of it lost if it was not recorded.”
Mr Hudson also spent three years supervising students working towards their Duke of Edinburgh awards.
“It was good to see them mature from what they were when they got there to when they left, and they all got their awards,” Mr Hudson said.
Mr Hudson’s passion for preserving history took a step up once the history room was opened.
“In my day, I was always around older people, so that means you learn a lot of things, you heard a lot of things, and that you’re always thinking about that,” he said.