Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest.

In his very popular Saturday column, the 'Fitzy Files', Peter FitzSimons usually writes about famous sports men and women. But from time to time, he throws in stories taken from grassroots sport and daily life.

These are heartwarming and generous tales that make us all puff up our chests with the pride at being from a country that doesn't just punch above its weight sporting achievements-wise but that still celebrates the kind of sportsmanship that remains the ideal of all good people. These are the stories that make us say, 'Gotta Love This Country!'