Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

This weekend the Duff family will be celebrating 100 years at DiDi Station and the launch of their book. DiDi Station is located near Durong and near the Boondooma Homestead in South Burnett in my electorate. Back in 2010, I met Michael Gavin Duff. We had an immediate rapport, possibly because we were both Irish. Mick invited me to visit his home at DiDi Station, where he had spent his entire life. Mick's father was Irish and his mother was English. He was one of six children. In 1959, Mick married his lovely wife, Lorna, better known as 'Sip', and together they had five children—Stephen, Kathy, Susan, Toni and Michael. So DiDi had three generations of Duffs. After Mick's passing in 2019, his children Kathy and Michael became the owners of DiDi. Kathy, like her father, has spent her entire life at DiDi. Congratulations to the Duff family on 100 years at DiDi and for their contribution to the cattle and timber industries, their local community and the Catholic Church. Well done, Duffs.

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