Media Dragon: Rest in peace Tim Fischer

Farewell to a quiet, brave, gentle giant

That said, Ray Mullins of Wagga Wagga says: "In 1988, the then Department of Lands opened the wonderful Hume and Hovell Walking Track, extending over 450km from Yass to Albury, as a Bicentennial Project. One of its staunchest supporters was keen walker, Tim Fischer, instigator of Tumbatrek, the annual walk for politicians in the Tumbarumba region. May he rest in peace."

Tim Fischer - Author Q & A | Woollahra Municipal Council

5 minutes with Tim Fischer, AC. Tim Fischer has succeeded in more careers than most have attempted; from farmer to army officer, from State politician to Australian Deputy Prime Minister

*George Wilson Oration: The Hon. Tim Fischer AC, Ex-Deputy Prime Minister - YouTube

As we read the sad news about Tim Fischer, memories of yet another decent, kind and thoughtful Albury born and bred politician come flooding in ...

Ian Glachan was another great character and one of the most down to earth chairmen of the NSW Public Accounts Committees... Glachans and Fischersfamilies were as thick as thieves ... (Ian Glachan - Media Dragon)

Vale Tim Fischer Fischer

The ultimate gentleman, farmer, soldier, politician, husband, father, author, radio host, ambassador, rolling stock and train enthusiast, Tim Fischer has died after a 10-year cancer fight.

The former deputy prime minister is a Strewth Hall of Famer, from his famous mixed metaphors to his witty one-liners and missives musing about life.

Fischer’s talent for gentle self-promotion was based on a shrewd understanding of the rhythms of the newspaper business, says Steve Waterson, who edited Strewth’s predecessor, Melba, in the mid-1990s.

My memories of Tim Fischer: 'I couldn't have got it more wrong' - ABC Local

At 12 a Train Driver, at 18 a Member of Parliament and at 30 a Cessna pilot, I failed on the first and last!

When in Rome

In tribute to the Boy from Boree Creek, we’ve dug into the Strewth archives and hand-picked two of our favourites.

July 22, 2008: “Australia’s newly appointed ambassador to the Holy See, the normally motormouthed, Akubra-wearing Tim Fischer, was keeping tight-lipped about his appointment when Strewth ran into him on Sunday in Centennial Park, just outside Benedict XVI’s final mass. He told us he was a ‘less than perfect practising Catholic’ who was drawn to the mass by a ‘complex set of reasons’, but no mention was made of the job Kev08 had him lined up for. Fischer was busy waffling on about the soles of his favourite pair of joggers that parted company from the uppers during his trek to the overnight vigil on Saturday. “While I was walking to the vigil and back, I kid you not, I lost both soles. I hope I’ve still got another soul left.”

Jubilejný rok Prešovskej archieparchie na ... - Vatican NewsAndrej Imrich, emeritný pomocný biskup Spišskej diecézy, vladyka Ján Eugen Kočiš, emeritný ... As my cousin Andrej and others before him noted - there is no conflict between loving God and loving one’s country ...