Rural

Gulf cattleman Barry Hughes recalls Noeline Ikin as a trail blazer for NRM

Posted February 13, 2017 19:08:13

The Gulf country community of Georgetown has lost a leader and a woman whose heart was almost as big as the country she loved and represented so well. Noeline Ikin lost a battle against an aggressive brain tumour on Saturday. Georgetown was a community she adopted when she began working with the Northern Gulf Natural Resource Management (NRM) group. But it didn't take long for Noeline to make it her own, as her friend, colleague and mentor Barry Hughes recalls.

Source: ABC News | Duration: 7min 16sec

Topics: rural-women, community-and-society, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000