Tuesday,
30 April 2024
Making the most of every day

“EVERY day above the ground is a good day,” laughs Kevin Nikkleson.

And he should know.

As a youngster, he plummeted 80 feet down an open mine shaft in the Grampians, breaking his back and spending an unimaginable 15 hours waiting to be rescued.

Kevin was taken to hospital in Melbourne where he contracted polio and became a partially functioning paraplegic.

Seven years later, at the age of...

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