Vicki Jellie, the unsung cancer widow turned Australia Day Local Hero keeping families together

By Tom McIlroy
Updated January 25 2017 - 9:18pm, first published 9:00pm
Peter's Project founder Vicki Jellie has been named Australia's Local Hero for 2017. Photo: Rob Gunstone
Peter's Project founder Vicki Jellie has been named Australia's Local Hero for 2017. Photo: Rob Gunstone

As her husband Peter lay dying of oesophageal cancer, Vicki Jellie wasted too many hours driving from their home in regional Victoria to be at his bedside in hospital.

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