Tag: Norman Baird
Remembrance Day 2020 / One Kuku Yalangi man’s story
While 2020 looks a little different to previous years, with an emphasis on protecting our more vulnerable elderly from the risks of COVID-19, members of the Douglas Shire community are invited to lay wreaths at cenotaphs in Mossman and in Port Douglas. Douglas Shire Council and Mossman RSL flags will fly at half-mast to commemorate the occasion. Today we take a closer look at the life story of Norman Baird, one extraordinary young man who put his life on the line for his fellow Australians, over and over again. Norman has been described by one of his grandsons, Noel Pearson, as “the first modern Kuku Yalanji and should be a model for our people’s future”.