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Ocker loves to tell a good yarn
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- Created on 12 February 2013
REPORTER: Lucy Short
IAN “Ocker” Austin may have received his nickname “Ock” in the schoolyard simply as a shortening for Austin, but the name would prove prophetic as he has grown to exemplify the true Australian character.
Straight talking, loyal, passionate, generous and humorous are attributes the Maitland-born man is well known for and, after spending 40 years as a stock agent, he is also quite the storyteller.
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