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Fiver for a Farmer: Jack Berne's passion to help Aussie farmers

Nadine Morton
Updated December 15 2021 - 6:13pm, first published 4:00am
WHAT A KID: Curl Curl teen Jack Berne's changing the lives of farmers right across Australia. Picture: Geoff Jones
WHAT A KID: Curl Curl teen Jack Berne's changing the lives of farmers right across Australia. Picture: Geoff Jones

YOU can smell the ocean before you see it. Then, as you walk down the long driveway and across the road, you can hear the waves pounding and seagulls calling overhead. Curl Curl Beach with its golden sand, brilliant blue ocean and bronzed lifesavers is the stuff many dreams are made of. Yet 13-year-old Jack Berne's mind is often elsewhere.

Nadine Morton

Nadine Morton

Senior journalist

Breaking news journalist at the Illawarra Mercury. Email: nadine.morton@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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