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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Mandy McKeesick

The South Australian retired farmer: ‘I only vote because I’ve got to’

Composite for Anywhere but Canberra series on John Sparrow from the Lower Murray region in South Australia.

John Sparrow is a retired farmer who lives on a 16-hectare property near Tailem Bend in South Australia, a small town on the lower Murray about 100km from Adelaide.

His working life included 35 years on a family market garden in the Adelaide Hills and a stint on remote Kalamurina station off the Birdsville Track, before buying his own 650-hectare mixed livestock-cropping property near Keith.

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