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    Channel of hope

    Oct 31, 2018 2 minutes
    RICKY FRENCH

    IT’S 6AM ON A DECEMBER morning in 1969 on the Murray River, Victoria. Mark Thornthwaite, 21, slips into a kayak and pushes off from a boat ramp at Picnic Point at the edge of the Barmah Forest, 40km north-east of Echuca. It’s Day 3 of the first-ever Murray River Canoe Marathon. His boat is a double but his

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