Warren Acott heads for Jerilderie after stopping in Finley on his 'Mow Down MND' campaign. Photo by Anne Freestone.
A man with big plans and a ride on mower turned heads when he passed through the Southern Riverina last week.
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Warren ‘Woz’ Acott is riding his lawn mower to Canberra as part of a Motor Neurone Disease campaign.
This is not a fundraising event, it is simply to promote awareness of MND and an attempt to make it a notifiable disease.
Doing so would give sufferers like Woz and their families more access to support services, and would allow for more research would be done to.
Woz, who is from Toolleen in Victoria, was diagnosed with the disease less than 12 months ago.
It forced him to stop working as a truck driver, but he is determined not to allow it to take over his life.
With this in mind, he took off from Toolleen with the intention of obtaining signatures on a petition to deliver to Parliament House in Canberra by this Friday.
It is being referred to as the 'Mow Down MND' campaign.
When asked why MND needed to be made a notifiable disease, he said: “Because if MND was a notifiable disease, more research could be done into the causes of it which would ultimately contribute towards finding a cure.”
“It is not widely known, but the Riverina has more cases of MND than any other area in Australia and possibly the world,” he continued.
Woz is being supported by his family and is hoping for a positive result to the petition.
Warren Acott (third from left) had support from the Solar Farm Solutions team when he stopped in Coleambally.
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