FED:Gillard teary as flood dead honoured=4

AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-2011
FED:Gillard teary as flood dead honoured=4

Mr Abbott said there had been many acts of heroism throughout the summer disaster and
a host of local heroes.

"Mother nature has been at her worst but human nature has largely been at its best
over this summer," he said.

The opposition leader said Jordan Rice, who sacrificed his life for his 10-year-old
brother Blake, should be to this generation what Simpson and his donkey was to earlier
ones.

"Of all the acts of heroism there was none more emblematic of the Australian spirit
than that of Jordan Rice," Mr Abbott said.

It was not …