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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
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Megan Doherty

MYSTERIOUS: Send off he deserved final santa speedo shuffle will be bittersweet - You Need To See This

June Gunning, Kate Daly, Hamish Hughes, Heidi Prowse and Sally-Anne Clarke gear up for the next - and final - Santa Speedo Shuffle to support local families with cystic fibrosis. Picture: Keegan Carroll

It's one of the more colourful fundraising events in Canberra - runners and walkers donning Speedos and Santa hats - and completing a hot lap of Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of winter to raise money to support locals with cystic fibrosis.

Later this month, the final Santa Speedo Shuffle will be held, a celebration tinged with sadness as it honours the event's founder, Andrew Prowse, who last October died from cystic fibrosis, aged 34.

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