By day, Kateryna Argyrou is a fund manager at Maple-Brown Abbott. But in her spare time, she moonlights as co-chairman of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations – and gets some pretty interesting emails.

A retired helicopter engineer from Far North Queensland wrote in recently to offer his services. He and a dad’s army of former colleagues were ready to step in and reassemble the Defence Force’s controversially dismantled Taipan choppers, so they could be shipped to Ukraine.