The insurance company just happens to be owned by an old and very close family friend who just happens to be the nice chap who wrote the glowing endorsement that won him the last award for all those accident free hours.
Conveniently forgetting the Kawasaki KH4 he wrote off in Katherine Gorge about fifteen years ago.
Tried to lift two Parks and Wildlife guys and their canoes up and
totalled the helicopter in the gorge. Like trying to pick yourself up by your own shoelaces.
I have been told that when this accident was mentioned to Mr GF, (the nominator), his reply was , "oh but that was a long time ago", brushing aside the fact that he had misrepresented the facts.
Certainly that award has lost some of its Kudos.
In the future the awarders will have to look a bit closer and more cynically at individuals that promote friends.
