Helping your mates is a great Australian tradition. That’s why on 16 and 17th of April, The Great Aussie Bush Camp hosted the ‘NETS – 4WD4KIDS’ charity event. Around 100 or so families enjoyed the great facilities and accommodation of the Great Aussie Bush Camp, using it as a base for the ‘4WD4KIDS’ event.

This an annual event organised by Alternative Motoring Events (AME) to raise funds for the Newborn & paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS). NETS is a statewide service of NSW Health and is the only service of its kind in Australia. It provides expert clinical advice, clinical co-ordination, emergency treatment and stabilisation and inter hospital transport for very sick babies and children up to the age of 16 years. NETS operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The funds raised from the 4WD4KIDS event will help NETS continue to provide communities across NSW and the ACT with expert advice, fast response and a safe mobile intensive care service for babies and children up to the age of 16 years.

To say thank you to The Great Aussie Bush Camp for sponsoring the NETS - 4WD4KIDS event and helping less fortunate Aussies, AME donated one of the most significant symbols of Aussie mateship, a Gallipoli Lone Pine. This cutting, propagated from a tree at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, is a descendent of the original Lone Pine in Gallipoli.
Every year on ANZAC Day, the Dawn Service at Gallipoli continues to attract ever increasing numbers of Australians keen to remember and understand the beginning of the ANZC legend and the unofficial birth of Australia as a nation and the mateship that binds us together.

The gift of the Gallipoli Lone Pine is one that The Great Aussie Bush Camp will cherish and nurture for many years to come. We hope that it will stand as a reminder to all those who visit us of that great Australian icon, the ANZAC, and the spirit of mateship they fought to defend.