Pride Of Australia

XXX EMBARGOED SUNDAY FOR MONDAY XXX Mia Findlay during a photo shoot in Surry Hills. Mia battled with eating disorders all her life and then turned it around and started a youtube channel which has hundreds of followers. Picture: Jonathan Ng

‘I don’t look sick enough to get help’

THROUGHOUT her six-year battle to overcome an eating disorder, Mia Findlay didn’t look like she was in the grips of the deadly disease — after all, she wasn’t that skinny.

Pride of Australia

Quick work and training saved coach’s life

FORMER Australian women’s rugby union coach Steve Hamson would have died on the side of a country footy field if not for the quick actions of a rival team player.

5/10/17 (LR) Jack Bartlett (11) wit his sister who is giving him life saving bone marrow, Ava Bartlett (9) and who she is having a bone marrow transplant with, pictured at their home in Seaforth. Adam Yip/ Manly Daily

Manly

Family pride in Ava’s brave gift

SHE might be just nine but when Ava Bartlett was given the chance to offer her brother Jack, 11, potentially lifesaving bone marrow, she did not hesitate. She’s the latest Pride of Australia nominee

Allen Hilton (67) poses for photographs with his Cessna airplane at Bankstown Airport, Bankstown, NSW, Australia, 29 October 2017. Allen has made 243 flights in the past 12 years volunteering for Angel Flight. (AAP IMAGE/Melvyn Knipe)

The Express

Allen clocks up 242 trips

Allen Hilton wouldn’t call himself an angel — but he has the wings and many would see a halo too. The Milperra pilot has just clocked up 10 years and 242 flights for Angel Flight.