i am guessing the back story involves confiscation, but what a bloody great photo.

What will the commissioner say?
an RS pic
Please tell us more Warwick

When Brandt and Todd were trapped underground the whole Beaconsfield community knew about it and were kept up to date with the local graevine. We were all concerned and involved, and turned up to welcome them back to the surface in our hundreds, and thousands came to the celebration in their honour. But the new museum building and display, built to commemorate this disaster that the whole community felt a part of, and built with Federal funds intended to be used to help the community recover, was opened by Australia’s Prime Minister in our tiny town with an audience of invitation only guests, and I guess the rest of us will have to pay to see what our money bought for us.  The council should have an open day for the community to see what the invited guests saw.  And Kevin Rudd didn’t draw the huge loal crowd like Mel and Kochy did.  Kevin’s welcome was about 60 TAP members, many of whom were local, waving anti pulp mill banners. I was one of them and it made my day when Brandt Webb reached for my sign and waved it for the media camera’s from within the troupe of invited guests as they exited the new museum.