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A documentary profiling the humanitarian work of Professor Fred Hollows (1929-1993), a New Zealand born, Australian based eye specialist who saved the sight of thousands of underprivileged people in Australia, Eritrea, Nepal and Vietnam through a mix of common-sense and temerity. The "intellectual with the wharfie's manner" became an Australian folk hero and was named Australian of the Year in 1990. Producer John Harris went on to found Greenstone Pictures, along with Director Tony Manson, who later became a Senior Commissioner for TVNZ.
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This man and his vision is amazing. Thank God for Fred Hollows, and men and women like him. Who is carrying on his life of service to this field. It is service like this that continually needs to not only be praised, but practiced by all.
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Barry Blackford
Posted at 09.27AM - 23.01.2011
Re Fred Hollows, what a truly amazing guy/foundation, it is good to know his work carries on after his death, it'd make a great movie or doco.
Barry