Bring out your dead and dying fans . This is the loud call on Magnetic Island .
The above public notice gives the Cranky Curlew as the contact . This bird is actually George Hirst , prize winning film maker , onetime island media mogul , environmentalist , campaigner for many causes, including free Julian Assange .
In fact, he drives a ute bearing a free Assange sticker . When he called at this blog to pick up a fan he expressed the hope that Assange , who had lived on the island when he was a boy, would soon be able to come back to the island .
The fans will be used to create an entry in the annual ephemera seaside sculpture event in Townsville .
George curated the l993 exhibition at Townsville's Perc Tucker Regional Gallery of Australia's top black and white cartoonists dealing with the environment , which toured widely .
