Paying tribute to pioneering donkey

And finally a doctor in South Australia is responsible for preserving a living piece of Australian pioneering history.

The Australian Teamster donkey, imported from the Middle East, was responsible for most of the heavy farm work during Australia's pioneering years.
Dr Helen Robertson has been breeding the rare breed for thirty five years and thinks the donkey is the forgotten hero of the outback...
"At night they just turned them loose, they would forage for their food in the scrub and they would come back and be hanging about in the camp and be quite prepared to be harnessed up in the morning" she said.
"They didn't do what the horses did, which was to tend to try to walk back home. And in the words of one bloke I met who had actually had donkeys in Ethiopia in his youth, he said 'the donkeys are always there when you want them."