People from Far North Queensland - People from Cairns, People from Innisfail, Queensland, Billy Slater, Justin Hodges, Owsley Stanley (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: People from Cairns, People from Innisfail, Queensland, Billy Slater, Justin Hodges, Owsley Stanley, Steve Corica, Caleb Shang, Kerry Boustead, Susan Kiefel, Thomas Henry FitzGerald, Matt Bowen, Mark Shield, Jimmy Maher, Tjandamurra O'Shane, Scott Higgins, Ryan McGoldrick, Shane Stefanutto, Warren Entsch, Michael Thwaite, Rhys Wakefield, Zenon Caravella, Brent Cockbain, Ringer Edwards, Ben Dunk, Jarrod Harbrow, Charles Rappolt, Desley Boyle, Vicky Kippin, Tom Pyne, Kevin Byrne, Ty Williams, Tania Major, Brett Anderson, Jackson Nicolau, Brenton Bowen, James Venture Mulligan, Candy Devine, Patrick Johnson, Nick Yakich, Val Schier, John Abbott, Annette Shun Wah, Scott Bolton, Peter Myers. Excerpt: Billy Slater (born 18 June 1983) in Nambour, Queensland is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League (NRL). An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative fullback, he has played his whole NRL career to date at Melbourne. In 2008, Slater was voted the best player in the world, winning the Golden Boot Award and the RLIF Awards international player of the year. In 2009, he was the winner of the television game show Australia's Greatest Athlete as well as the Clive Churchill Medal. He successfully defended his title in the second series of Australia's Greatest Athlete. He holds the current tryscoring record for Storm with 115. He also shares the same birthday as fellow club, state and country teammate Cameron Smith. Slater began playing rugby league for the Brothers club in Innisfail, Queensland at only four years old. He continued to make the Innisfail representative side every season until his final year with the club. At fifteen years of age his passion for the game of Rugby League faltered so he quit to concentrate on one of his other pas...