The Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action provides a new form of
nonperturbative O(a)-improvement in lattice fermion actions offering near
continuum results at finite lattice spacing. It provides computationally
inexpensive access to the light quark mass regime of QCD where chiral
nonanalytic behaviour associated with Goldstone bosons is revealed. The
motivation and formulation of FLIC fermions, its excellent scaling properties
and its low-lying hadron mass phenomenology are presented.Comment: 29 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables. Contribution to lecure notes in 2nd
Cairns Topical Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics 2003 (LHP 2003), Cairns,
Australia, 22-30 Jul 200