Trucking advocate urges screening after bowel cancer diagnosis

A man who spent years fighting for the dignity of truck drivers across Queensland now turns that same advocacy inward, using his own bowel cancer diagnosis to illuminate a quiet epidemic of avoidance. Wes Walker, 63, ignored the free screening kits that arrived at his door — as did millions of other Australians — and now faces surgery while urging others not to repeat his mistake. His story sits within a larger human pattern: the tendency to defer the uncomfortable reckoning until it can no longer be deferred. In making his illness public, Walker transforms a private misfortune into a collecti