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Mailman of the Birdsville Track

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26th February 2015

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For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic – but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the Birdsville Track.

Tom delivered everything from the mail and newspapers to fuel and food – whole communities waited in anticipation for him to drop off their supplies. But it was a hard life, from regularly making running repairs to his truck to unloading and reloading tons of stores so that he could ferry his cargo across flooded creeks. Come sandhills, hell or high water, Tom Kruse kept faith with the locals up and down the Track.

Tom was a real Australian hero – and no matter what happened, the mail always got through.

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