By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
CRANBOURNE’S Australia Day showcase showed its soft side this year with an underlying message of motivation.
Australia Day Ambassador for Cranbourne Dr Christine Durham spoke candidly about her own life struggles, adding an inspirational theme to the annual Australia Day celebrations.
After almost losing her life in a car accident, author and former school teacher, Dr Durham officially opened the Balla Balla centre’s Cultural Heritage Oz Day Showcase.
Dr Durham told audiences of her discoveries in life and how she truly believes “pigs can fly,” since sustaining an acquired brain injury.
“The impossible can be possible,” she said, adding that Australia Day was the perfect time to reflect on what binds everyone together and about believing in one’s self.
This was Dr Durham’s second year as an Australia Day Council Ambassador and one she won’t forget.
“Since coming here today to Hampton Park I have learnt so much,” she said, after reading the Mauritian heritage display.
A carnival of red, white and blue, the Cranbourne event showed a diverse range of multicultural singers, dancers and speakers and included a free snag and animal farm too.
“To see how people celebrate is quite heart-warming and to see all the different flavours of Australia out here today,” Dr Durham said.
