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C. Video transcript
James Freeman
I’m going to drive a thousand-dollar rust bucket through some of Australia’s roughest roads. I lost
both of my parents to cancer… I lost my mother a few years ago, and my father twelve months after
Mum died. So, I myself and my younger brother especially nursed Mum and Dad through the last
stages of their lives.
When Dad died, am, I guess I was a little lost. I needed to find, am, something that was going to
excite me, and it was going to need to be something big because it was gonna take a lot to bring
excitement and laugh and fun back
Ben Freeman
James, he’s a very strong person isn’t he? Very strong-minded person. Am, he sort of, he can make
things happen which I think… that has really been proved with what he’s done with the rally,
definitely.
James Freeman
It is about having fun. I mean, you can’t launch a rally called the Shitbox Rally and expect it to be
serious. I put all of that together with how the rally itself could work and the idea that the cars being
worth only a thousand dollars. I mean there had to be challenge aspects associated with it. I was
fairly confident that if we received the support that we needed that the rally itself would grow fairly
organically.
This is the car I took in this last rally. It’s a 1985 Honda City pro. It’s ridiculously small. It has no
rhyme or reason why it should be on the rally, other than the fact that it fits the bill nicely and is
quite ridiculous.
The money that we raise goes to the Cancer Council. In this last rally, we had a hundred and forty
cars. At any stage, you pull over on the side of the road and a hundred vehicles that are all painted
up, look amazing with the Shitbox Rally logo on the side and people beeping their horns and giving
you a big wave as they come past. It’s hugely rewarding. It’s one of the best feelings I think you can
have.
Beth Freeman
And just to channel your emotions and your anger in something so positive that you know will make
a difference to other people is… I think it’s hugely important.
James Freeman
You know, before the first rally, I couldn’t even say ‘Mum’ or ‘Dad’. I couldn’t look at photographs of
them. And on the first rally was the first time that I could actually talk about them. And it was
incredibly hard but it was great because I loved them so much. And I wanted to be able to talk about
them.
I think, from the death of Mum and Dad and then from me wanting to do something proactive and
something different has borne something positive, which is the rally and the enthusiasm associated
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with that.
I always find that if you’re entertaining people, then people will happily hand over money to be
entertained, and really that’s what fundraising is. You’re doing something that appeals to you and
appeals to other people, and it’s always gonna work. And just some drive and enthusiasm, and
anyone, anyone, can fundraise.
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