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first grade cricket in Brisbane district competitions
for Toombul and the northern suburbs. After moving
to Europe to experience professional life, he settled
on the island of Jersey and then went on to play
international cricket for Jersey in International Cricket
Council (ICC) sanctioned tournaments in India, Nepal,
Malaysia, Singapore and Holland. In addition to this,
he is also a Life Member of the prestigious Marylebone
Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord’s.
Morrison is also the founder and CEO of LassWho,
the new global digital platform (website and app)
connecting people and organisations with inspirational
leaders for live virtual events.
DUAL LIVES
Morrison seems to have experienced two lives. The first
denotes his more straight-laced business professional
life, and the second, which has given him free rein to
encompass his many passions and interests.
This duality may be the result of his diverse
background. On his father’s side, he is of Irish American,
German and Danish ancestry, and on his mother’s side,
he is descended from one of the country’s most lauded
Indigenous stockman, Reginald Hart.
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Hart took up droving in the 1930s during the Great
Depression years, and had many notable experiences
throughout Queensland, New South Wales and the
Northern Territory. Famously he once herded 5000
head of cattle from Wave Hill in the north of the
Northern Territory to Walgett in New South Wales, a
distance of some 3000 kilometres.
He is considered among Queensland’s greatest ever
drovers, his name well ensconced in the Australian
Stockman’s Hall of Fame in Longreach, Queensland
and other history museums throughout Outback
Australia.
This only tells part of the story. Hart’s father, William,
was part of the Stolen Generations, taken from his
Aboriginal family in Bidjara country near Charleville to
be raised on a sheep station by the Hart family, who had
emigrated to western Queensland from Scotland in the
late 1800s.
William’s story of being removed from his family,
from his land and his people is a common one from
that time, under the White Australia Policy. The Stolen
Generations comprised a number of generations, and
the removal and placement of Indigenous children was
going on well into the 1960s.