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The RSL has a history dating back almost one hundred years, and is arguably one of Australia’s you all is to look most respected organisations. The service of your members while wearing the uniform accounts for some of the high esteem Australians hold for the League. at what you can Australians recognise the enduring nature of the RSL, to look after our veterans and their families, to lend support when it is required, and to honour those who laid down their lives in the service of this nation. do and to extend I have spoken at many RSL state congresses around the country and I’m heartened to see the League’s membership continue to be strong, with committed individuals. On these occasions, I have spoken about the need for the RSL to look ahead and to engage with the younger veterans returning after service in Afghanistan and the Middle East, as well as East Timor a hand and and the Solomon Islands.

These young veterans, many of them who are still serving and will be, like those who have welcome to these preceded them, in no less need of the support and camaraderie which the RSL can provide. My appeal to you all is to look at what you can do and to extend a hand and welcome to these young men and women who have served with such distinction, to get to know and understand young men and them. This is not a new concept for the RSL and indeed it is familiar to the League’s leadership, as it is to the broader membership. women who have The draw-down of troops in Afghanistan will challenge not just Defence and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), but also the RSL. To put this challenge in perspective, the average ADF member joins at age 21 and a half. On average, they will serve for eight and a half years. In this time many will have seen multiple served with such deployments. This will produce an influx of much younger members with very diverse needs, unlike anything in the past more than 40 years. distinction, to Defence and DVA have been working closely together to ensure all ADF members receive the support they require as they transition from service to civilian life. As in years before, the veterans of Afghanistan, Iraq, East Timor and the other modern deployments will seek out brothers and sisters in arms for support and friendship following their get to know and service.

Supporting their needs, being able to guide them through their post-service life, to share a story or two and to care in a small part for their mental wellbeing that is the role I hope the RSL will understand them.” provide these new veterans.

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his ‘The Special Edition’ of The Last Post Rolf Harris now will be joining us at The Last Happy reading and remember to become magazine marks our first anniversary. Post for the Christmas/Summer edition with a subscriber if you’d like to see the TEach year, ‘The Special Edition’ will be his self portrait painting as a likely cover. We magazine continue to succeed. Go to released with a theme. This year it’s tolerance, thank Rolf and Pat Lake Smith very much for www.thelastpostmagazine.com for a look at something that we should take as naturally being making the work of art available to us and we past issues. If you’re interested in advertising part of the Anzac Spirit. To highlight that we look forward to the summer issue (as well as with The Last Post, you’ll find specs and prices have interviews with Buzz Bidstrup, CEO of The the warmer weather) already. Also, appearing at the website too. Contact details are there too Jimmy Little Foundation. Rob de Castella also with Rolf in the summer edition will be the so, give us a ring. joins us and talks about his career and how his legendary Australian musician and former Marathon Project and healthy living programs Masters frontman, Jim Keays. Cheers, are improving the lot of young Australians. We also chat to Sex Discrimination Commissioner Presenting itself as an intelligent option for Elizabeth Broderick about positive ways to those seeking positive news on things being improve the lot of all Australians as well as done and achieved in this country as well as sitting down with well-known media presenter bringing to you the people that make these Waleed Aly. Waleed has been a lawyer, positive things happen – that’s you and I, The academic and even gigged as a rock musician. Last Post and staff look forward to blowing out And, as usual, we have stories and updates of the candle on this birthday issue, knowing there G r eg interest to all our readers. will be many more candles to come. Whether the magazine – available online as well as in Greg T Ross Appearing for the first time this issue and hard copy – is being used as an educational Publisher, ‘The Last Post’ becoming, like ‘Education and the Anzac Spirit, tool going into schools, as an historical and [email protected] a regular feature, is ‘Regional Matters’ with a contemporary document or as an access page foreword from the Federal Minister, focusing for returned service people to find points of on a particular region in Australia and having a interest or what’s available to them through look at it’s people, history and attractions. This Government provided services, we trust inaugural ‘Regional Matters’ feature takes a you’ll enjoy this 1st anniversary edition of this look at Victoria’s Surfcoast Shire. wonderful new Australian magazine.

to the following for their help with ‘The Last Post’ Special edition: thanks... Thanks on this edition to – Australian Red Cross, Che Cockatoo-Collins, Dr Roger Hunt, Palliative Care Australia, Rob de Castella, Allen and Unwin, Paul Sykes and Veterans SA, Elizabeth Broderick, Dr. Noah Riseman and the Australian Catholic University, Waleed Aly, Buzz Bidstrup and The Jimmy Little Foundation, Kate Still and The Australian War Memorial, Julie Ralph and the Adelaide High School, Defence Health, Corene Strauss and Legacy Australia, the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs, Regional Australia, the Federal Department of Education in Schools, the Department of Mental Health and Ageing, Surfcoast Shire, Murray and Sharon Walding, Lyn Amy and The Brotherhood of St Laurence, Michelle Waterford and Anglicare, Adelaide Secondary School of English, AVCAT, Penrith RSL, Geelong RSL, Torquay RSL Sub Branch, Mitcham RSL Sub Branch, Freya Norman and Outward Bound, Louise Stack and Artlab, Jeff Winterburn and The Salvation Army, Alana Johns and Slater and Gordon, Hugh Miller, Beyond Blue, Chris Appleton and The Office of Australian War Graves, Lucy Brown, Joy Smith. Segue Financial Services, Petros Markou and Wild Fox Wines, Ausglobal Travel.

4 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 Jose Ramos-Horta former President of Timor-Leste and Mike Kelly MP

Parliamentary Secretary for During his time in the United States Dr Kelly Whilst in New York, Dr Kelly also met Defence visits the United met with a number of officials from the United with Australian Defence Force personnel Nations to discuss Australia’s long-standing serving with the United Nations Department Nations in New York and US commitment to UN peacekeeping and reform, of Peacekeeping Operations and commended officials in Washington D.C. and the Australian Government’s capacity to them on their important contributions. support successful transitions in Timor Leste He then travelled to Washington D.C. to The Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Dr and Afghanistan. meet with United States officials from the Mike Kelly travelled to the United States from 4 – 8 “Australia has been an active contributor Departments of Defense and State to discuss June 2012 to represent Australia at the international to United Nations peacekeeping for over 65 planning for transition in Afghanistan. He also launch of the inter agency report ‘Partnering for years and continues to support the UN through took the opportunity to call on a number of key Peace: Australia’s Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding operational contributions and doctrine and think tanks to discuss Australia’s contribution Experiences in Bougainville, Solomon Islands, and training assistance,” said Dr Kelly. to global peace and security and our enduring Timor Leste’ at the United Nations in New York. alliance with the US.

Mission Australia signs Defence child care deal

The Minister for Defence “We are committed to providing quality child sessions being conducted during the coming Science and Personnel Warren care for defence families,” Mr Snowdon said. weeks. In addition, Mission Australia Early “Mission Australia Early Learning Services Learning Services has established a helpline for Snowdon has announced that and Defence will facilitate a smooth transition families and staff seeking further information. a new contract to operate to the new contract and will work closely with the outgoing service provider, B4Kids Pty Ltd, The helpline number to call is 1800 757 343. Defence Child Care Centres to ensure families and staff experience minimal Defence families seeking information about disruption. has been signed. the transition to Mission Australia Early “The majority of B4Kids Pty Ltd staff will Learning Services can also contact the Mission Australia Early Learning Services not be affected by the change and will continue Defence Family Helpline on 1800 624 608 or has been contracted to manage Defence’s 21 their great work in providing child care for email [email protected]. Child Care Centres from 1 July 2012, following defence families.” Up-to-date information will be available an open tender process. Mission Australia is Families and staff at Defence Child Care at the Defence Community Organisation a national not-for-profit organisation that has Centres will be given the opportunity to talk website www.defence.gov.au/dco. a proven record within the industry for the to Mission Australia Early Learning Services provision of quality child care services. representatives at a series of information www.smh.com.au BLOOMBERG

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With winter over and the mild, longer days of spring ahead, there’s no better place to get back in touch with nature – and rejuvenate body and soul – than the Great Ocean Road. One of the world’s most renowned travel routes, the Great Ocean Road stretches more than 180 kilometres from the surfing hotspot of Torquay to the iconic Twelve Apostles, offering a host of diverse experiences along the way. Victoria’s

with its spectacular coastline, scenic rainforests and magnificent beaches, is at the start of the Great Ocean Road and is located in southwest Victoria, 20 minutes from Geelong and 75 minutes from Melbourne.

It is an area of 1556km2 with S some 55km of u coastline and r the start f of the fabulous Co Great Ocean Road defining a its southern st boundary. The Great Ocean Road celebrates its 80th birthday in November this year, so come and join the locals in honouring the vision and courage of those who built it. Begun in 1919 and finished in 1932, the road is dedicated to the memory of the returned WWI soldiers and sailors who carved the route from the rugged cliffs using only picks and shovels. Prior to the road being constructed many parts of the coast were only accessible by sea, making life isolated and difficult for those who lived there. Today, the Great Ocean Road offers visitors and residents alike an easy means to appreciate the wild, natural wonders of the region. Torquay Lorne The journey begins in Torquay, a town synonymous with surfing heritage and From the Arch, the Great Ocean Road winds its way past stunning coastal culture. Pay homage at world-renowned Bells Beach, site of the annual Rip scenery to the major holiday town of Lorne, where the main street buzzes with Curl Pro, where you can watch in awe as others glide effortlessly through the activity as locals and holidaymakers hit the many shops, cafes and bars. There pounding surf. Find the latest surf fashion, have a surf lesson with any number are many beautiful nature and beach walks and waterfalls to explore around of local operators in the more sheltered waters or visit Surf World Museum to Lorne, all just a short drive away in Great Otway National Park. Waterfalls learn about the fascinating history of surfing in the region and see the amazing include the 30-metre-high Erskine Falls, Henderson Falls and the Cora Lynn collection of boards and other memorabilia. Cascades, or try the popular walk from the Sheoak Picnic Ground. Anglesea Winchelsea The newly rejuvenated Surf Coast Walk is the place to stretch your legs and The historic town of Winchelsea, inland from Lorne and set on the banks take in gorgeous coastal views as you continue on to the pretty coastal of the Barwon River, is central to a robust rural community. The spirit of hamlets of Anglesea and Aireys Inlet. The Anglesea Heathland, just north of history is alive here in the convict-built bluestone bridge and a range of period the township, superb native flowers and rare orchids bloom during spring, buildings well-worth exploring. making it a glorious place to visit. Over a quarter of Victoria’s plant species grow here, including more than 100 varieties of orchids, some of which are Twelve Apostles It’s not far from here to the region’s most recognisable landmark, the Twelve extremely rare. Apostles, gigantic limestone stacks off the coast of Port Campbell National Park. Aireys Inlet View these wondrous formations and the sheer cliffs around them from the coastal At Aireys Inlet, visit Split Point Lighthouse on one of the public tours or follow boardwalks, or perhaps take a scenic helicopter flight to get a bird’s eye view. the surrounding discovery trail that offers insights into the area’s history as well as great views of the Eagle Rock Marine Sanctuary. In April 2007, during the 75th Anniversary of the Great Ocean Road, a special ceremony was held at the famous Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch, Eastern View to unveil “The Diggers”. With one of the workers handing the other a drink, this work reflects the great Australian mateship that was not only a part of the building of the road, but which was so often on display in the First World War itself. MORE EXCITING NEW ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE FESTIVAL OF PERFORMING ARTS IN LORNE - CULTURE BY THE SEA Excitement is building in Victoria’s favourite swig of the over-sized cocktail Cardwell shakes studios as well as Lykke Li’s more recent tribal seaside town, Lorne, as the program evolves up in ‘Margarita”. Abbie comes to Lorne from pop. It’s the type of cultural melting pot beloved for the 2012 Festival of Performing Arts, being the recent hit show The Voice where her dulcet by cannibals as a morning soup! Rufino & the held on the weekend of 7-9 September, across a tones proved an asset to the team of country Coconuts are sure to weave some magic. variety of local venues. The town will be at fever legend, Keith Urban. Get the kids involved with Monkey Bike and their pitch as the festival comes to town, invoking a The Massive Hip Hop Choir: Australia’s first show Splash Out! Kids will join the Monkey Bike sense of unmatched pride and community spirit. hip hop choir! MASSIVE combines original rap team for a celebratory sea-side themed workshop The full line-up is a veritable wonderland lyrics, fresh beats, lush three part harmonies, and performance where kids are given the chance of entertainers including; the inimitable body percussion, traditional pacific island dance to create new worlds and performances by using a Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen, The and street choreography. MASSIVE is a group colourful, hyperbolic style of dance and theatrical Massive Hip Hop Choir, Captain Frodo, Tom of young urban artists aged 18– 25yrs who interaction. Kids will find their inner creativity Flanagan, The Town Bikes, Body Beautiful identify as Tongan/Fijian, Cook Islander/Niuean, and movement when swinging with Monkey Street Performers and much, much more! Samoan, Lebanese/Tongan Caribbean/North Bike and experiencing their unique workshop and Adding another dimension to the eclectic African, Filipino, Comoros islander/Tanzanian, performance, inspired by the sea! program, new festival acts include: English/Spanish, Indonesian and Madagascan. And the festival fun isn’t limited to indoors. Abbie Cardwell & the Chicano Rockers: A Rufino & the Coconuts: A band of castaways and Promenade along Mountjoy Parade and keep your ten-piece Mexican ‘Rocanrol’ “explosion of misfits hailing from the fertile rhythm-rich jungles of eyes peeled for buff exhibitionists Body Beautiful – foot stamping joy!” Singing in fluent Spanglish, Haiti. Part Afro-Latin Tumbele, part Jamaican Rock- Behold their exquisite human form, marvel at their Cardwell makes an enigmatic front-woman, steady, part island-holiday sleaze-pop wrapped up posing prowess and revel in their pearls of wisdom. with all the animation of Ann Margret in Viva in a wild Voodoo ritual! Rufino’s blend of sounds Still the topic of hot talk is the promise Las Vegas! Backed by her mariachi outlaws, no doubt influenced Serge Gainsbourg’s Reggae of ‘a show like no other’, born from the you’re in for good times and - if you’re lucky - a recordings, Grace Jones’ work at Compass point masterful minds of Mikelangelo and his Black Sea Gentlemen. With the charming crooner Mikelangelo at their helm, the Black Sea Gentlemen plunge headlong into The Otway Harvest Trail a netherworld of intrigue and imagination. The Otway Harvest Trail is a celebration of Autumn is a time of harvest. The Black Sea Gentlemen have entertained the seasons that bestow their rich bounty on a The days become still and warm, and the crisp and beguiled audiences and critics luscious part of Victoria. The unique combination cool nights are perfect for sleeping. With the throughout Australia and the UK, playing of aspect, soils, climate and farming practices of the winter rains not far away, the wineries are busy major arts festivals and theatres including Otway hinterland produce distinctive and exceptional harvesting their fruit and the vignerons hands the Edinburgh Fringe, Sydney Opera House flavours in our produce that cannot be found anywhere become garnet red as they nurture the new wines and London’s West End. else. Join in the trail and find 26 producers, wineries, through their ferment. It is also time to harvest The show entitled Salty Sea Dogs and farm gates, provedores and places to see, eat and stay. the olives from their groves before the first frosts Skeletons of Lorne is reshaping the salty old of winter arrive. Smell the fruity aroma of the sea tales of the age old fishing community of Spring is a time of plenty and promise. extra virgin olive oil as it flows from the presses. Lorne, redefining how the town’s history is As the winter gives way to warm sunny days, The last of the berries are picked. remembered for future generations. see the bright patchwork of yellow canola fields Other new additions to the exciting appear, the farmers out mowing their grass and Winter is a time for taking stock. program include: DJ Ken Eaval (PBS baling their hay and the spring lambs frolicking The seasons have passed and it’s time to make FM), DJ Blossom (resident DJ at The on a frosty morning. The first berries appear. ready for the farming year ahead. The farmers Famous Spiegeltent both nationally and Green shoots can be seen in the vineyards plough their fields and sow their winter crops. internationally) and DJ Dr. Love. And coming as the vines burst their buds and flowers and Vineyards, olive groves and orchards are pruned out of retirement for the ‘Lorne’s Got Talent’ spring vegetables appear at farm gate stalls. and readied for a new season. Fences are mended. Olympics the infamous Floating Cows Sink- New release wines can be found at cellar doors. The days shorten and become colder. Cattle turn ronised Swimming team. Surf Coast locals their backs to the wind. Dams spent over the Victoriana Gaye and her Magic Band and Summer is all about being outdoors. summer begin to refill. Root vegetables appear High & Lonesome will also be highlights of All the berry farms have opened and their sweet at the farm gate stands. It’s a time for reflection the weekend’s entertainment. juicy berries are ripe for the picking. The lush and for savouring the joys of recently harvested Come to Lorne on September 7-9 to emerald green of the vineyards become more produce. Lengthy conversations occur over bottles be swept up in the vibe! Tickets are on distinctive as the land around slowly turns a golden of wine in front of toasty log fires. Eventually the sale through www.mosthtix.com.au or brown. People clamour for outdoor tables and tell-tale signs of another Spring begin to appear. visit www.lovelorne.com for details or chairs at cafés and restaurants to soak in the warm see the attached program for a complete days, mild evenings and glorious pastel sunsets. We invite you to discover all this for yourself. rundown of the weekend’s events. Local wines and beers go so well with the seafood, Go to www.otwayharvesttrail.org.au to plan The Festival of Performing Arts is sponsored vegetables and fruits in plentiful supply. Wine lovers your adventure. by Little Creatures, Yering Station, Festivals are welcomed at cellar doors and their curiosity is Australia, Lions Club of Lorne, Mantra Lorne, rewarded with the discovery of new wines. Tourism Victoria and Surf Coast Tourism. 40 Things to See and Do on the Surf Coast 1. Go to the beach, Enjoy the sun and remember to Slip Slop Slap. 2. Walk on many of our walking trails in the Great Otway National Park . 3. Explore the 10 waterfalls in 10kms near Lorne – including the famous Erskine Falls. 4. Walk or drive to Teddy’s Look-out or admire the view from many other stopping points on the Great Ocean Road . 5. Find trash and treasure at the Lorne Op Shop. 6. Hire surf boards and wetsuits from the local surf shops or try a surf lesson from the many surf schools (it’s what we’re famous for). 7. Walk the main street shops on Lorne’s famous Mountjoy Parade. 8. Build a sand castle or play a game of beach cricket. 9. Play tennis or 9 holes of golf at the Lorne County Club, Torquay Golf Club or share the Anglesea Golf Course with its famous kangaroos. 10. Join the locals casting a line off the Lorne Pier or other great local fishing spots around Anglesea and Spring Creek in Torquay. 11. Spot a whale! Whales travel along our coast between April and October. 12. Check out the many local art galleries, public art in our towns and the work of talented local artists. 13. Explore the Otway Harvest Trail, with berry picking, olives, gourmet produce and local wineries on the coast and in the hinterland– some of the best wineries specialising in premium cool-climate wine. 14. Take photos of our lovely vistas. 15. Revisit your childhood and go rock pool rambling. 16. Receive a pampering at our day spas. 17. See the latest movies at the Lorne Cinema. 18. Find fine food with a view at some great local restaurants. 19. Speak with the friendly staff and volunteers at Surf Coast Visitor Information Centres and take advantage of their local knowledge. 20. Enjoy some excellent shopping and buy your family a present. 21. Observe local bird life and wildlife. 22. Admire the spring wildflowers around Anglesea. 23. Simply sit, relax and watch the waves roll in on around 55km of spectacular coastline. 24. Watch the moon rise over the water on Loutitt Bay. 25. Eat fish and chips on the pier or beach. 26. Try and find glow worms at the Sheoak Picnic Area. 27. Find a koala, parrots or more wildlife in the local trees of Lorne. 28. Have a splash on a sea kayak or try stand-up paddle boarding. 29. Explore the Split Point Lighthouse at Aireys Inlet, home of Round the Twist. 30. Discover a hidden beach. 31. Visit the historical hinterland towns of Deans Marsh and Winchelsea. 32. Visit Torquay – the largest surfing museum in the world and the home of Australian surfing culture! 33. Take on the Surf Coast Walk – an amazing adventure. 34. Visit Point Addis and walk through the Ironbark Basin. 35. Check out the Surf Shops at Surf City, Surf Coast Highway. 36. Have a barbecue with friends on the Torquay Foreshore. 37. Visit the surf photo galleries, restaurants and more in Bell Street, Torquay. 38. Watch the sun rise over Point Danger in Torquay and see the sun set from Point Addis – a few kilometres down the Great Ocean Road. 39. Challenge your friends to a game of tennis on the local courts. 40. Head down the Bowls Club for your own “day on the green”. surf coast shire events December 2012 November 2012 10 October 2012 E E Week GolfClubOpen Anglesea BikeMountain Festival Coast Surf Exposure Southern Exhibition Sculpture Lorne Craft and Market Art Anglesea Music Festival Anglesea E Rock2Ramp Swim Rock2Ramp Falls Music and Arts Festival Falls Music Arts and Anglesea Carnival Anglesea Anaconda Adventure Race Adventure Anaconda Torquay Festival TourRoad Celebration RACV 80Years Ocean Great Championships) Wool Sports Australian (inc. Festival Winchelsea Torquay Motor Show 2012 Toast Coast tothe Trials Dog Sheep Marsh Deans Show Photography and Uniting ChurchWinchelsea Art Name vent Name vent Name vent THE LAST POST - TheS pecial Edition -A ug Sunday 21October. GolfClub,starting Anglesea renowned ofgolfatthe 8 day carnival 4pm-10pm. 20October, Saturday Anglesea. near located Park Eco Eumeralla challenge Bike inthe A Mountain team Monday from 15October. 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Torquay Cowrie Market Elephant Walk, The Esplanade, Torquay, Handmade home produced [email protected] Third Sunday of the month, products, environmentally friendly products, promoting local artists September to April, 10am-3pm. and crafts, bands, busking, and food.

Lorne Craft and Produce Market Held on the last Sunday of each month in the Ballroom at The Grand [email protected] Last Sunday of the month, 9am-1pm. Pacific Hotel, Lorne - 9am-1pm. Sample fresh produce from the local area, handmade art and specialty crafts. Aireys Inlet Community Market Held at the local hall. The market specialises in fresh produce, locally [email protected] 11 November and 9 December, made goodies and art and craft. 9 am onwards.

Torquay Farmers Market Located in the car park of the Torquay Central shopping centre, this www.surfcoast.vic.gov.au Every Saturday all year round, is a genuine European style farmers market with great fresh food and 8.30am-1pm. produce from around the region. Bristol Road Torquay.

Anglesea Riverbank Market Set in one of the most picturesque locations, this market is a sprawling www.surfcoast.vic.gov.au Sunday 4 November 2012 treasure trove of eclectic stalls and stallholders. Food, fashion, tools, Sunday 6 January 2013 toys & trinkets, jewellery & books, plants & gardening good and much Sunday 13 January 2013 much more!

Torquay Nightjar Market Celebrating the creativity and diversity of the Surf Coast, this is a great place www.surfcoast.vic.gov.au Thursday nights in January, 4pm-10pm. to unwind after a day at the beach. Meander through the stalls, sample some great food, and kick back and enjoy the quality live music on offer.

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Coppertone, Kreem-B-Tweens, and Cappuccino. by Murray Walding

It’s the late Nineteen-Fifties and The Great Ocean Road is clogged with bond wood caravans as post-war Oz holiday makers and day-trippers head back to their favorite beach resort, and in Victoria, this means Lorne. And Lorne has changed. There’s something Even the Melbourne cast of West Side Story, new in the main drag. It’s a coffee lounge, hi-jacked make Lorne their summer home and the scene from the smoky Pigalle and dumped in Mountjoy rotates like a kaleidoscope over the next decade Parade. Full of beatniks, and bohemians, it’s called Out at the end of the bay stands The Pacific The Arab, and it’s the brainchild of three local Hotel. Its lounge is known as The Jet Bar and brothers; Graham, Alistair and Robyn Smith. it’s unashamedly named for the jetsetters who Down on the beach, just above the high tide hang out under its wide verandahs. On the mark, and smothered in cypress trees they’ve also roadside, E-Types and MG’s jostle for car-parks opened a dance; The Wild Colonial Club, housed in with clunky station wagons, their rusting roof- a crumbling beach-front hall racks armed with twang finned surfboards. The three brothers have stuffed the old hall Back on the beach, the prime spot to be with salt drenched Australiana, gathered the seen is in front of the surf club, where you can the four corners of the surfing world and both cream of the countries jazz musos, squeezed lean your board up against the stone wall and return, arms laden with trophies. them onto a small stage under the stairs and between sessions on the Point, Lorne’s hot-dog And Lorne stays hip. Even when The then filled the place with kids straight from the surf spot, check out western district squatocracy, Arab changes hands and becomes a Greek beach, their faces flushed with post atomic- city groovers, tent dwellers and bleached beach restaurant, even when the jetsetters desert blast sunshine, their nasal passages clogged kids, all lying soft in the sand, sticky blobs of The Pacific Hotel. Even The Wild Colonial Club with water after days dodging dumpers on new melted Kreem-B-Tweens making pools in their succumbs. It stands derelict for a few years. fangled balsa boards. collective belly buttons. The more adventurous Then, one winter night, it burns to the ground. Surfboard riding is their latest craze, straight make the half mile trek up the beach to the river And come the new millenium, the Great Ocean from the Malibu shore by way of Hawaii. These mouth where the crowd and waft of Coppertone Road is clogged with Four Wheel Drives and surfniks with their blonded hair and faded thins out. The rest parade the main street, only a Beemers draped with thrusters and new longboards. shorts, and the Melbourne hip cats in their Frisbee throw back from the beach. They’re heading to Lorne, to The Point, to their desert boots and turtle necks, are all locked in The top line waves of The Point breed two holiday apartments. If they hurry they can catch the to Lorne’s beach jive. They go together like the Australian surfing champions, the archetypal next low tide, perhaps grab a latte in the main street. chocolate dusted over The Arab’s cappuccino. ‘hot local kid’ Wayne Lynch, and one of the And stay hip. Queens of Oz surfing, Gail Couper. Both travel

12 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 1 3 Navy Clearance Divers Step Up For Their Mates

Royal Australian Navy divers past and present have come together to care for members who have paid a high price in the defence of their country.

The Navy Clearance Diver Trust has been mine detection methods, using a “disruptor” to Minister and current Ambassador to the USA, established to ensure former Divers who have seek out and destroy an enemy mine. Hon. Kim Beazley, AC, former Chief of Navy (and been injured in the line of duty are properly Navy Clearance Divers first saw action Clearance Diver) Vice Admiral Russ Crane AO, cared for financially. The trust is also being in the Vietnam War. They are an elite, highly CSM, RAN and author Peter FitzSimons, AM. made available to the families of former Navy skilled force, trained to diffuse explosives The Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Ray Griggs Clearance Divers, who have passed away. and in covert operations. They are currently AM, CSC, RAN was pleased to support The Trust was launched earlier this year deployed in the Middle East both on land the event. “The Navy Clearance Diver Trust at the West Australian Maritime Museum in countering improvised explosive devices in is a terrific initiative which I know will be Fremantle. Current Navy Clearance Divers from Afghanistan and at sea as Boarding Party supported by the entire Clearance Diver Australian Clearance Diving Team 4 (HMAS experts in counter piracy operations. community,” Vice Admiral Griggs said. Stirling) put on an impressive display of modern The Trust has already attracted some high level supporters, including former Defence

14 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 A Brief History of the your rsl at work Torquay RSL Sub-Branch by Kevin Egan, President, TORQUAY RSL

The Torquay RSL Sub-Branch was formed in 2002, after Torquay original ex-servicemens’ organisation Torquay RSL was formed in 1947 as the Torquay and District

Ex-Servicemens’Club (known in the area as “The Heroes”) was transposed, as there appeared to be 6 Walker Street more benefits both for a Sub-Branch and importantly, Torquay ex-service people, veterans and families. In the latter VIC 3228 years of it’s existence, TDEC was well served by (03) 5261 4225 Executive members, Jack Bailey and Syd Smith.

So the Torquay RSL Sub –Branch officially Thanks to the dedicated efforts of a few working positively with the Bowls Club to have this opened in April 2001, by the then President of RSL members, the Sub-Branch continued to provide project commecing in the next twelve months. (Vic) HQ., State Council Mr Bruce Ruxton at the excellent Welfare Services through Surfcoast The Torquay Sub-Branch assists and cares for Geelong RSL. Regional Welfare Centre. Peter Thomas and various ex-service organisations in the area including New executive members were appointed - Sally O’Toole’s admin experience and skills in the the Laurel Ladies Club (War Widows); the Seabreeze Kevin Egan and Peter Thomas leading the new Sub- Surcoast Vet Centre were able to obtain rented Club, for veterans and families in their retired years. Branch through it’s early years as the Sub-Branch premises from Barwon Health at 39A Puebla Street, The Sub-Branch has in recent years, developed sold the old TDEC premises in Beales Street and Torquay, run the Veteran Centre with competent a good working relationship with our big brother, with finances also from the generosity of the Estate staff and provide an office for the Sub-Branch. Geelong RSL Sub-Branch, thanks mainly to Rodney of John Spittle, the Torquay RSL Sub-Branch built The Sub-Branch meanwhile have been working Meeke, particularly in the Welfare and Social areas. new premises at 6 Walker Street, Torquay. towards a new permanent home and thanks to A major service is also providing commemoration The two storey building provided ideal offers by the Torquay Bowls Club, that possibility is ceremonies for ANZAC Day and Remembrance accommodation for the Sub-Branch and for the proceeding well. Day Services at Point Danger, Nursing Homes and Surfcoast Regional Veterans Centre that was formed The Sub-Branch hope to be able to build new Hostels in the area including Anglesea and in the principally by the leadership of Paul Copeland who premises for the Surfcoast Vet Centre and the four schools in the Torquay District. dedicated his time to the UN Peacekeepers and Sub-Branch onto and adjoining the western end The ANZAC Day March, Dawn Service and Peacemakers Assn of Australia and providing DVA of the existing Bowls Club building. Thanks also Gunfire Breakfast is the largest outside the capital and any other services available to veterans in the to GORCC CEO., Richard Davies and the State cities in Australia. Some 8,000 to 9,000 people Torquay District in an effort to ensure they received Member for South Barwon, Andrew Katos, a have attended in recent years which gives the three all available entitlements. $1.5million State Grant is available to ensure this Sub-Branch Committee members a great deal of Unfortunately due to mismanagement of the project is a reality. The Sub-Branch looks forward to pleasure to be so serving our local veterans, their Bistro area and lack of monitoring in this area from families and the district communities. headquarters, the Sub-Branch went into considerable debt and these purpose built premises had to Image courtesy of www.petermarshallphotography.com be sold. A huge task also for the Sub-Branch’s Committee who endeavoured to recover as much finances as possible from all the furniture and fittings that were not part of the sale of the building.

Image courtesy of www.petermarshallphotography.com Tuesday is the popular $17 steak night, with the initial feedback on this price level and product being very good!

Wednesday’s $13 “Parma and Pot” night is very popular, attracting a very Everyonegood range from the local community of allis ages. welcom e The club’s Belmont building has just undergone major refurbishments, expanding the car-park to fit 155 cars and sprucing up and extending the front of the building.

your rsl at work at rsl your Members will pay only $8.50 for lunches and $3.50 for pots of beer.

“We’re here for everyone,” “You don’t have to have served in the Geelong RSL defence forces or be A service persons relative, you’re very welcome here.” 50 Barwon Heads Road. Belmont, Victoria

03 5241 1766 at Geelong RSL.

The club also have bands every Saturday night can be booked for any occasion for $250. Half “Every day at 6pm we honour the people that and holds jazz nights every Sunday where you price if you support my footy team! guard our freedom with a moments silence.” can purchase a two-course meal is just $18. Manager Chris Bennett says despite common Regular meal and show nights started off on misconceptions, anybody can become a Chris says the most anyone pays for October 28, with Iconic Australian rock star member. membership is just $35 but non-members are Everyone is welcomRonnie Charles in his band, Ronnie Charles and e also welcome to come and enjoy some of the the Retro Bandits. More great acts on their way. “We’re here for everyone,” he says. “You don’t facilities. have to have served in the defence forces or be The Geelong RSL also features a large function service persons relative, you’re very welcome Come down and try us out! room with fully-serviced bar and kitchen which here.”

...come down and try us out! Governor-General A WOMAN named Linda stands in the dripping dark telling Michael Bryce the dreadful circumstances of her life, sipping soup served by Quentin Bryce. Linda has three children aged 13, seven and four. At the age of 45, she is 30 weeks pregnant. Her husband abandoned the family months ago, she says. The house was next to go. Bit by bit, she has sold everything to keep her children together. Yesterday, she says, she sold her wedding ring. Now there’s nothing left. And here she is, on a cold night on a rain- slicked footpath in North Melbourne, waiting in a queue of night people to be fed. Linda will take nothing more than a cup of soup for herself. She fills a bag with sandwiches so that her children will have something to eat tomorrow. ‘’I’m from the middle class,’’ Linda says. ‘’I have a master’s in psychology. I didn’t realise people lived like this, but now I’m one of them.’’ She is weeping. Michael Bryce reaches out a hand to comfort her. ‘’He’s like the favourite uncle you always wish you had,’’ Linda confides later. A couple of metres away, Mr Bryce’s wife, the Governor-General, is pouring hot soup, coffee and hot chocolate from a battery of thermoses. Cup after cup is held out to her, and she fills each. ‘’There you are,’’ she says. ‘’There you are.’’ Their excellencies have come to the night people with the Society of St Vincent de Paul Australia Governor-General, Ms Quentin Bryce visiting Melbourne soup vans. Tuesday 16 May 2012. Photographer - Craig Abraham, Fairfax Syndication. The vans, two of them, come every night to this street kerb by a park in North Melbourne. The hungry, the lost, the hopeful and the sometimes disoriented simply appear out of the dark, dozens of them.

18 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 by endless whirl of engagement with e n e r gi scommunity e d The presence of the Governor-General of by Tony Wright Australia and her husband on this night offers a curious departure from routine. Yet many of conversation with a fellow wearing a beard, those gathered on the footpath hardly notice. dark glasses and sandals clinging to bare feet. They are there for the food. ‘’Doesn’t it exhaust you?’’ The Saturday I’ve learnt so Sandwiches, hot pies, soup, coffee and - Age asks late the next day, after trailing tonight - toiletries, are handed out by volunteers the Governor-General to and from six more and the vice-regal couple. engagements, each in a different suburb. And then, when the doors of the vans close, all She had talked privately in the morning with those people melt away, swallowed by the night. mothers and young women undergoing drug and much from so alcohol rehabilitation at the Salvation Army’s It is another stop along a very long road for Bridgehaven centre in Preston, listened to students this Governor-General. at Collingwood Alternative School describe how Since her appointment on September 8, the Hands-On Learning program had reignited many people, my 2008, Ms Bryce has undertaken 2700 public their excitement about attending school, met engagements (‘’community engagements’’, elderly people at the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s she corrects). That’s an average of more than Coolibah Centre in Fitzroy, where for 82 years the two a day, every single day, more by a long lonely from rooming houses have found meals and understanding stretch than any of her predecessors. The word social connection, attended a Women’s Network community means much to this Governor- luncheon, visited indigenous women and children General. It implies connections everywhere, sheltering from family violence at Elizabeth from women in remote outback homesteads Hoffman House in Fairfield, admired the works of of who we are to the night people of North Melbourne, and intellectually disabled artists at the Q ArtStudio everyone between. Ms Bryce has set herself the in Kew, where she buys her Christmas gifts, and task of listening to all their stories. dandled babies at the Melbourne Citymission Early She is patron of no fewer than 275 Childhood Development Program in Brunswick, organisations, from the Access Dinghy the sun gone. is deeper, I’ve Foundation to the Young, Pregnant and Parenting Ms Bryce, mother of five, grandmother of Network. Mr Bryce is patron of another 32. nine with a 10th due any day, will be 70 in It doesn’t stop on Australia’s shores. December. As Commander-in-Chief of the Australian ‘’Exhausts me? Oh, no, it energises me.’’ she says. become more Defence Force, the Governor-General flew to Those years as Governor-General, she says, Afghanistan for Anzac Day. She insisted on have changed her. staying the night with the troops - her troops ‘’I’ve learnt so much from so many people, my - the first Australian dignitary to do so. Today, understanding of who we are is deeper, I’ve become reflective and a she is off to East Timor for the 10th anniversary more reflective and a little wiser,’’ she says. of that nation’s independence. The connection with people devastated by Early this week, she visited Melbourne for bushfire, flood and cyclone, the correspondence three days of dawn to after-dark engagements, with 32 families who had lost boys in Afghanistan little wiser,’ all of them to organisations offering succour to … these, she says, prompted profound reflection. those who need it most. Which is why she and her And those people from the night in North husband took to the street with the Vinnies vans. Melbourne and Fitzroy, and all the others. After North Melbourne, it was off to ‘’I thought I knew a fair bit about Australia, I’d a backstreet in Fitzroy where Mr Bryce, been involved in so many things during my life. introducing himself to the late-night hungry as But what I have learned in the last 3½ years … ‘’just the trainee’’, doled out Chiko Rolls and in some ways, I’d just scratched the surface.’’ pies, and Ms Bryce, having emptied the hot And then she is off to her next community chocolate thermos, fell into a long rambling engagement, with a stream of them yet to come. www.theage.com.au A simple phone

can make caall ll the difference to an older Australian The Hon Mark Butler MP Minister for Mental Health & Ageing, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Mental Health Reform

A few minutes chatting For many, one such phone call is the daily Similarly, when I travelled the country for contact by Telecross. A friendly voice calling Conversations on Ageing to discuss aged-care to a son or daughter, a to say ‘good morning’ and make sure that reform with about 3000 of older people, in friend or relative, can everything is okay. every state and territory I was told the same, When PricewaterhouseCoopers evaluated staying at home and engaged in the local brighten their day, and Telecross in NSW in 2011, an astounding community was a top priority. 100 per cent of family members declared We understood what our seniors were telling let them know that themselves ‘very satisfied’ with its service. us, and we took action. people are thinking Clients were scarcely less enthusiastic, with The $3.7 billion Living Longer Living Better 97 per cent endorsing the service offered by aged care reforms that Prime Minister Gillard about them. Telecross. and I launched in April are about exactly that, Over four decades Telecross, a service first creating a flexible, fair and sustainable system launched by the Red Cross in South Australia in of aged care, a system that will give older 1971 and which now operates across Australia, Australians more choice, better control over has saved hundreds of lives and provided daily their lives, and easier access to the services reassurance to older people and those who care they need, where and when they need them. for them. Importantly, the package includes 40,000 Telecross is a simple solution to a challenging new home care packages that will ensure more question: how can we help older people retain Australians are able to live at home for as long their independence, while securing their safety as possible with the right support. and wellbeing? Looking after others is an essential part It’s a question we want to answer. Last year of Labor philosophy, and a great Australian the Productivity Commission’s report Caring for tradition. As Telecross continues that tradition, Older Australians said Older Australians generally they remind us what we can achieve by working want to remain independent and stay connected together. and relevant to their families and communities.

20 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 A simple TELECROSS phone VOLUNTEERS ca ll A little bit of history…

Just over forty years ago, Little did they realise it at the time, but that to maintain their independence and a better pioneering group was a catalyst for similar connection to the community. a group of homebound programs in NSW, then Victoria and Western In the event of three calls going unanswered Australia – that were enthusiastically taken up in one day, Red Cross commences an people in an Adelaide by branch members and staff to become the emergency activation procedure to make sure national service called Telecross. the client is okay. In the year from June 2010 to suburb got together to Every day of the year, trained and friendly June 2011, Telecross recorded 749 emergency Telecross volunteers call about 5800 people activations where the client was found to be trial a “telephone club”. to check they are ok. This simple call makes ill or injured and 37 instances where the client all the difference to people living alone or had died. The idea was they would recovering from illness, giving reassurance “Volunteers are the backbone of Telecross,” to elderly clients who want to continue living says Ian Coverdale, Red Cross National stay in regular contact by independently in their own home – and peace Manager for Social Inclusion. “It’s their voices of mind to family and friends who may live on the end of the line that provide reassurance phone, with an emergency some distance away. to clients, and connect them to the outside An evaluation of Telecross by Price world. For a number of people we call, we may back-up to call if someone Waterhouse Coopers in 2011 reported that be the only person they speak to that day”. clients found the service gave them the didn’t answer. confidence to live in their own home, support

... how can we help older people retain their independence, while securing their safety and wellbeing? Four decades of Telecross helps them maintain their independence and that the people who use the service are ok. It Adelaide celebration, 7 June 2012 provides reassurance that someone is looking is unusual to receive a call from a person who Celebrity cook Maggie Beer helped Red Cross out for them. needs help. celebrate four decades of its daily phone call “The caller sounded like he wasn’t well, service by thanking volunteers at an event in Adelaide CarLson – the first he was struggling to breathe. I said, ‘Are you Adelaide. Maggie attended the celebration in WA client alright?’ and he said: ‘I think I’m having a heart her role as Commonwealth Bank Ambassador. Thanks to detailed archival records and a history attack’. I was stunned. I knew I shouldn’t panic. The bank, also celebrating a milestone in 2012 written by Telecross coordinator Sheryl Foster, I told him to take a deep breath and I called for with its Centenary, announced its commitment we know that Adelaide (Adeline) Carlson was the Claudia. She got his address and then the phone of $100,000 to Red Cross and 100 volunteers to very first Telecross client in Western Australia. went silent. All day I was really worried about support the Telecross service. The West Australian ran a story about “Addie” this person,” she remembers. Guest speakers included the Federal Minister and her volunteer caller Muriel Vinden dated Volunteers are trained by Red Cross and for Mental Health and Ageing and Social March 7, 1985. It’s a touching example of the receive ongoing support for the valuable Inclusion Mark Butler and South Australian special bond between them even though they had work that they do. Claudia and Bindhya knew Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion never met before the story was published. to remain calm, respond quickly and call an Ian Hunter, who both highlighted their support Under the headline Daily call service her lifeline, ambulance. of Telecross and acknowledged the value it adds 91-year-old client Adelaide Carlson talks about “It’s a wonderful program,” says Bindhya. to the lives of vulnerable people. her hobbies of darts and crocheting, and how “I have never heard of a program like this Despite the high-profile guests, it was much she looks forward to her evening chat (as that makes calls everyday – people know that the personal stories of Telecross clients and was common in those days). someone is there to look after them. This is a volunteers that had the biggest impact on the Muriel is quoted as saying: “I could tell by good program to prevent incidents.” audience. John, a volunteer, relayed some of the talking to her that (Addie) is a happy, chirpy sort Bindhya says that volunteers come from all humour that he shares with the clients during of person.” walks of life but are often older people, who feel the calls and how enjoyable it is for him to speak that they’d like to offer some support to people with them. Eighty-six-year-old Ethel told the Telecross volunteers save in isolated situations. For many clients, having audience how she had had a fall one morning the day regular, friendly social contact can become an and couldn’t get up. She didn’t panic because As Red Cross workers Claudia and Bindhya important part of each day. she knew her Telecross call was due in 15 found one day, Telecross can also save a life. minutes and that the volunteer would be able to Bindhya was working as a volunteer Telephone skills a plus for arrange for help. administrator and answered the phone. young volunteer Sarah The overwhelming message to come out of “It was about 3pm and I was sitting on my One of Telecross’ youngest volunteers is 18-year- the event was how important it is to Telecross desk when I picked up the call,” recalls Bindhya. old Sarah Coshan. She has a family connection clients to hear a friendly voice on the end of the The Telecross service usually operates with with Red Cross through her aunt, Barb Coshan, phone every day, and how the simple gesture volunteers calling their clients, making sure

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Hon Mark Butler MP, federal Minister for Social Inclusion; Adrienne Smith, Regional General Manager South Australia, Commonwealth Bank; Sue Vardon, Chair of Advisory Board, Australian Red Cross South Australia; Maggie Beer AM (former Senior Citizen of the Year 2010); SA’s Hon Ian Hunter MLC, State Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion; Kerry Symons, Head of Community Programs, Australian Red Cross

22 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 who is team leader for Social Inclusion programs in Victoria (Telecross is one of the programs). Barb says of Sarah’s involvement: “I found out she was volunteering when we got together last Christmas - I am so proud of her for wanting to help older people who need a check-in call.” Sarah was recruited through Mt Gambier Telecross coordinator Ruth Cameron, who needed more volunteers and thought the local high school students might be interested. “I went to Ruth’s presentation to the year 11 and 12 students and Telecross appealed to me because it was a way I could help people and fit it into my study and work schedule,” Sarah says. “I would recommend volunteering to people my age not only as a way to help the elderly, but also because it’s been a great help with learning telephone skills and developing a good phone manner.” Sarah is spending her gap year working at her former school, Tenison Woods College, as a The church in Glenelg where some volunteers meet to make their Telecross calls trainee administration assistant. “It can be hard to volunteer when you’re being John volunteers for both Meals on Wheels anyone spent hours meticulously researching the pulled in so many different directions by work and and Telecross (his wife Mary is a life member of history of Telecross in every State and Territory. study, but being a volunteer has really benefited her Meals on Wheels branch). Last year he took Asked to describe what she took away from me and made me a more confident person.” over as a base coordinator for his branch of 46 the experience, Moira says: “What comes clients in the Adelaide suburbs. out more than anything in what I’ve read are Following his neighbours’ John likes to joke with his clients, many of the relationships formed between Red Cross example whom are well into their 90s, he says. volunteer and client.” When John Francis retired as a Telstra And his oldest client keeps him on his toes: “Our Telecross operates around Australia offering construction manager he decided to give oldest client is 99 and still drives,” says John. “She flexible volunteer arrangements, which can vary something back in memory of two “wonderful, says she’ll keep going as long as her car does.” in each State and Territory. To learn more about caring neighbours” who kept an eye on his The last word must surely go to Red Cross’ becoming a Red Cross volunteer or client or to make a mother when she was alive. very own archivist Moira Drew, who more than donation to support Red Cross programs like Telecross contact 1800 811 700 or visit www.redcross.org.au

Maggie Beer enjoying morning tea with some dedicated Telecross volunteers

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 2 3 (From Left to Right): Mr Colin Watt OAM DFM; Mr Bill Denny AM, Director, Veterans SA; Mr Angas Hughes; Mr David Mattingley DFC; Mr Don Looker; Mr Kingsley Pryor DFC; SQNLDR David Leicester DFC & Bar OAM and the Hon Jack Snelling MP, State Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Bomber Command Veterans Honoured

On Wednesday, 1 August, The morning tea for 90 people was attended The highlight was the 28 June dedication 2012 South Australia’s Bomber by 25 of the State’s Bomber Command and ceremony for the very impressive Bomber other WWII veterans, their families and Command Memorial at Green Park, London, Command veterans were representatives of the service and ex-service which was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen honoured when the State Minister communities. Elizabeth II. The ceremony was attended by for Veterans’ Affairs, the Hon Jack A number of the Bomber Command veterans more than 5,000 people, including several present had recently returned from the United hundred Bomber Command veterans from Snelling MP hosted a morning Kingdom where memorial dedications were around the world, various government tea in the Combined Ex-Services held to commemorate the contribution of representatives and other members of the Mess, Torrens Training Depot. Bomber Command in the Second World War. Royal family. an extract of the speech delivered by Minister Snelling:

I would like to begin by from the UK where they witnessed the That leaves a mere 27 who survived welcoming our guests of honour, unveiling of the Bomber Command their tour of duty unscathed. the men of Bomber Command, Memorial at Green Park by Her Majesty who served this country so the Queen. These statistics remind us of how lucky valiantly during World War II. we are to have you among us today. That Memorial remembers the 55,573 I would also like to welcome all the members of Bomber Command who died When I think of your service, and other ex-servicemen and women who during World War II. that of your brothers who were taken have joined us this morning, especially prisoner of war and who are with us those who suffered as Prisoners of This staggering figure represents a today, four words come to mind. War – we have two veterans of Bomber 44.4% death rate, while a further 8,403 airmen were wounded in action These simple words say much to me Command who ended the war as about the totality of military service prisoners of the Germans and two and 9,838 became prisoners of war. The extraordinary dangers to airmen – and especially about your particular veterans of the war closer to home who war time experience. became prisoners of the Japanese. are laid bare when you consider that of a sample of 100. The words are ‘choice’, ‘opportunity’, I would suggest that such a • 55 were killed on operations or died ‘fate’ and ‘courage’ – they are simple distinguished group of veterans has not as a result of wounds; words – not all that emotive, but they been brought together for many years. • 3 were injured on operations; are the very hallmarks of your service. Some of our Bomber Command • 12 were taken Prisoner of War; & representatives have recently returned • 3 were shot down and evaded capture.

Register of Aboriginal Veterans of South Australia A call for information on Aboriginal men and women who have served in the Navy, Army and Air Force of Australia.

Aboriginal Australians have served in every conflict in which Australia has been involved from the Boer War to Afghanistan. The large majority of this service was rendered despite bans on enlistment and many Aboriginals had to deny their Aboriginality in order to enlist. As a result, the record of Aboriginal men and women who served is woefully inadequate. Thus many Aboriginal Australians have been inadvertently excluded from our greatest story - the ANZAC story - and all that it has come to stand for. A project is underway to rectify this inequity before the Centenary of ANZAC in 2015. A Register of Aboriginal Veterans of South Australia (RAVSA) is being established. A team of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal veterans, supported by the Council of Aboriginal Elders of South Australia, the Returned & Services League, Reconciliation SA and Veterans SA, are creating a document that will, for the first time, allow full identification of the significant contribution of Aboriginal South Australians in the defence of Australia. If you know of an Aboriginal South Australian who served in peace or war you are invited to contact Veterans SA. Any piece of information, no matter how insignificant, will be of value. Please contact Veterans SA via: Email: [email protected] Post: gpo Box 2264, ADELAIDE S.A. 5001 Tel: (08) 8226 8552

In the very beginning your decision as of the Germans or Japanese, where your You are the giants of our lifetime young men to serve our nation was existence was subject to the whim of your and your courage and sacrifice has simply a question of altruistic ‘choice’. captors, the one thing you have all shown allowed subsequent generations to see is your exceptional courage. further and to make the most of the You were not obliged to enlist or serve. opportunities you have helped deliver. Your courage and contribution to our The very core of your contribution sprang nation did not cease in 1945 but still We are privileged to have you here from a conscious, informed ‘choice’ lives on in every way some 67 years later. today. to offer your life in the service of your country and your countrymen. The second I recall the quote: Thank you for your service and your word is ‘opportunity’ or, for some of our contribution to our nation. former Prisoner of war guests here today, “If I have seen further, it is by standing I might use the word ‘fate’. on the shoulders of giants.” We are forever grateful and we will never forget. What I want to alert you to is the fact that having chosen to serve, then either by ‘choice’ or ‘fate’, you all South Australian Bomber Command Veteran SQNLDR David Leicester DFC & Bar OAM meeting found yourself in a most extraordinary Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Image sourced from Department of Defence. situation, in which you clearly knew, you could very likely lose your life. As a member of Bomber Command you chose a career path in the services that was going to bring you into the teeth of battle. As a prisoner of war ‘fate’ dealt you a different hand, but one that was no less dangerous or praiseworthy. My final word is ‘courage’. To me that is the overarching characteristic that applies to you all. Whether as a member of Bomber Command, where you faced death on a daily basis, or whether you were a prisoner

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 2 5 A Trail of Remembrance along the Western Front This approach to commemorating Australian Gallipoli looms large in our nation’s story, efforts on the Western Front recognises and builds on the significant local efforts of French so large that it overshadows in our public and Belgian villages, over almost a century, to honour the memory of the Diggers. understanding, the triumph and tragedy of The Project is assisting to improve existing museum facilities and interpretive displays Australia’s extraordinary wartime service on and, at a number of sites, establishing new visitor facilities. Once completed the the Western Front in France and Belgium. Australian Remembrance Trail will link a series of sites stretching along the former Almost 300,000 Australians served on touched almost every community and most of Western Front, from Villers-Bretonneux, south the Western Front between April 1916 its families. of the Somme River, right up to the Belgian and November 1918. More than 46,000 The Australian Remembrance Trail battlefields around Ypres. Australians lost their lives, more than 100,000 along the Western Front is an Australian The first element of the Trail, the Jean and were wounded and countless others incurred Government initiative aimed at improving Denise Letaille Museum – Bullecourt 1917, less visible scars. Yet Fromelles, Pozières, our understanding and appreciation of the was officially reopened on Anzac Day 2012. Bullecourt, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux, achievements and sacrifices of Australians in The Museum recently underwent a major Mt St Quentin and the other great battles where the main theatre of the First World War. The redevelopment in order to accommodate Australians fought in France and Belgium, are Trail Project has seen the Office of Australian contemporary displays and modern exhibition known to relatively few. War Graves working in partnership with features. Yet the structural features of the More Australians were died on the Western local communities and regional authorities original Letaille family barn and stable remain, Front than in all other Australian campaigns in France and Belgium to establish improved along with the unique collection of weapons, and conflicts of the 20th century combined. visitor facilities at former Australian First machinery and other relics left behind in fields For a nation of less than five million, the losses World War battlefields. around Bullecourt by Australian, British and

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26 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 A Trail of Remembrance along the Western Front German soldiers. A new Fromelles museum, Jean and Denise Letaille Museum after renovations adjacent to the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery will commence construction in August 2012. All elements of the Australian Remembrance Trail will be completed in time for the Centenary of the First World War. The Project will also provide for a range of digital resources which in time will become a virtual visitor’s centre. More information about the Project is available at www.dva.gov.au/art.htm

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1. How old were you when you went to Vietnam? What 3. Do you think your time as a soldier has influenced your was your perspective of the war back then? Has this method of writing history? changed over time? Yes. I tend to view reports and tales very carefully and make an effort I was 21 when I first served in South Vietnam with 1RAR. The battalion to analyse the information in detail to decide if an incident is firstly was the first Australian battalion to serve in Vietnam (1965) and it was believable and then to understand how it may have influenced a battle or assigned under the operational control of the 173rd Airborne Brigade other decisions. I believe that my three years of service in Vietnam give (Separate). We were based at Bien Hoa, a large airbase to the north of me a solid background to dissect and write about the war. I know what Saigon. I distinctly recall the Gulf of Tonkin incidents that happened in I’m writing about. 1964 (an attack against the USS Maddox - a later attack against the C Turner Joy proved to be false) with some trepidation because I felt a war against China might also break out. I sailed to Vietnam aboard HMAS 4. Why were you compelled to write Vietnam? Is it time Sydney (a converted aircraft carrier) on its first sailing (May 1965), and that the Australian consciousness about the war was looking back now those few days at sea with associated lectures and challenged? talks about the war established a belief in my mind that the intervention by the US and Australia was a correct decision. My perspective has not The concept for Vietnam was discussed prior to me joining the writing changed. Although, my thinking about how the war was fought has team. When I was appointed to write the story, it was my intention to changed - it became an almost unmanageable bureaucracy. open our senses to the wider war in South Vietnam and its impact upon world affairs. To make an attempt to go beyond a blood and guts manual 2. Did you have a keen sense of history back then, or has about Australian soldiers in the jungle fighting the dreaded Viet Cong. this interest developed? To seek out information on what the enemy was doing at the time, what were their objectives, what did the South Vietnamese think, where did No, I probably had a schoolboy vision of worldly affairs. I left school at an the Australian efforts fit in the overall conduct of the war, were the early age and the world remained a dark and far away place. I suppose, Australian efforts more sound than the plans of the Americans, to show there was always a sense of adventurous travel in my mind to go to these that within the war there were many types of warfare being fought - it distant and unknown places. (I know, the old joke - Join the Army, Travel was not all Malayan style counter-insurgency. I want to entice readers to to exotic locations and meet interesting people and kill them!) go beyond a one-dimensional Australian point of view.

within the war there were many types of warfare being fought - it was not all Malayan style counter-insurgency. I want to entice readers to go beyond a one-dimensional Australian point of view.

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 2 9 Supporting Australia’s peacekeepers, peacemakers, veterans and their families

VVCS provides counselling and group programs to veterans, peacekeepers, partners, widows, sons and daughters and eligible ADF personnel and F-111 Fuel Tank Maintenance workers and their immediate family members. VVCS is a specialised, free and confi dential Australia-wide service. VVCS can provide you with: • Individual, couple and family counselling • Case management services • After-hours crisis telephone counselling service via Veterans Line • Group programs for common mental health issues (e.g. anxiety, depression, sleep and anger) • Psycho-educational programs for couples, including a residential lifestyle management program • Health promotion programs including Heart Health – a 52 week supervised exercise and health education program offered in group and correspondence formats • The Stepping Out Program, a 2-day ‘transition’ program for ADF members and their partners preparing to leave the military • Changing the Mix, a self-paced alcohol reduction correspondence program • Operation Life Workshops • Information, education and self-help resources • Referral to other services. VVCS counsellors can assist you to work through stress, lifestyle, relationship or family problems, and emotional or psychological concerns associated with your military service. If you need support, would like more information about us or if you know someone who does, please give us a call or visit our website. 1800 011 046* www.dva.gov.au/health/vvcs * Free local call. Calls from mobile and pay phones may incur changes.

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AG59730 Bringing together military historians from Britain, the United States and Australia, this conference will reassess the principal battles fought in Papua in 1942 and discuss the campaign from both Allied and Japanese perspectives.

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Rosemary and Tony of Frankston appreciate the I’m Tyler and I help. Brotherhood’s support of carers. I’m Tyler and I’ve been volunteering at the Brotherhood’s Grovedale (Geelong) store for over a year. I love it! I wanted to help other people. Last year while op-shopping, I visited the store to buy a video and I met the store’s manager who offered me the chance to help out in the used videos and DVD section. I love watching movies and one of the best parts of this job is taking home second hand DVDs and videos to check them out before they go on display. I’ve learnt a lot: dealing with money, serving customers, and using EFTPOS. My confidence has grown and the staff are supportive; I help them Tyler is a keen volunteer at the Brotherhood’s community store in Grovedale, Geelong. and they help me.

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financial reasons over many years. David left David Scott, while Executive Director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence from 1969 to 1980, school early and at 18 began service on the HMAS made the organisation even more vigorous in its Arunta. There he saw the horrors of war including fight for an Australia free of poverty. the largest battle of naval history in Leyte Gulf. David returned to champion Australia’s most disadvantaged people and social policies that prevented poverty. As the director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence he showed robust leadership. He chaired the Australian Council of Social Services, and founded the magazine Australian Society. David was the first Victorian Commissioner for the Environment. David Scott had a global concern for disadvantaged His long-term leadership of Community Aid people. He became the founding director of Community Aid Abroad (now Oxfam) in 1962 and would play a Abroad (now Oxfam) was critical to many and significant role in lives of the East Timorese. it related to his pivotal work in East Timor. Said colleague Richard Tranter, ‘Social and political Champion of the poor and movements are never a matter of one individual, disadvantaged. Returned but there are times when the role of one person is critical. Without his central role in organising serviceman. Conservationist. practical and political support for the Fretilin Editor. external representatives immediately following the invasion, it is far less likely that the people of Timor You have experienced the difference his life Leste would have eventually gained their freedom’. made. Now meet the man, an Australian hero and Of his own life David Scott said, ‘I was 13 giant of social justice. when I decided what I wanted to do. It was to David belonged to a compassionate family, travel and have adventures, be of some use to but his childhood saw hardship. Born on his other people, and have a family. These ideas father’s solider settlement near Holbrook New came out of the values and attitudes of parents, South Wales, the family was forced to move in people I liked and admired, and …the world of David Scott remembering some the Brotherhood of the depression and would continue to move for books. Life worked out pretty much as I hoped.’ St Laurence’s original work in the inner-city slums during the Depression.

Defence signs $1.3 billion health services contract

MHS won the contract after a competitive and cost-effective health care services to the Minister for Defence tender process and will deliver a broad range community, to business and to government at a of services, including on-base health support, national level for over 35 years. Science and Personnel, pathology, imaging and radiology and a 24- “The Australian Government is Warren Snowdon, has hour ADF national health hotline. committed to ensuring support for our ADF “Defence’s highest priority is the health and members is seamless, particularly during announced a new $1.3 well being of its personnel. Under this contract, the transition from active service into the our servicemen and women will continue to veterans community,” Mr Snowdon said. billion contract between receive the highest quality health care services. The current health services contracts Defence and Medibank The agreement will support Defence’s goal of have been extended to November 2012. seamless health care from point of injury to MHS and Defence will facilitate a smooth Health Solutions (MHS), recovery,” Mr Snowdon said. transition to the new contract and will work There will be no change to health care closely with the outgoing service providers, to provide health care entitlements for ADF personnel. to ensure no disruption to services for ADF services to ADF personnel “This contract with MHS will also assist personnel. Defence to streamline the delivery of health Transition of contracted health services across Australia. The MHS services, and optimise current services began in early July and will be completed through the adoption of new innovations and by 5 November 2012. agreement is for an initial technology.” There will be no change to health care on four year term. Medibank Health Solutions has a proven deployment with ADF health professionals record for providing high quality, innovative to continue providing these services.

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HELPING CHILDREN TO A BETTER FUTURE D iamonds o n th e In a world that seems to be increasingly moving toward an ‘i’ state with less and less regard for each other and the communities in which we live, Anglicare Australia and its network members are inside working hard to build communities of resilience; of hope; and of justice.

Our core belief is that every individual has inherent value and can offer something valuable of themselves to the communities where they live and take something equally valuable in return. It’s what we say to politicians when we talk to them about the policies that they’re making; it underpins research like that undertaken by Anglicare member Benetas in Melbourne who looked at respect between generations; it drives the work of Anglicare Tasmania as it seeks to engage the voice of its clients in all aspects of the work it does; and at places like The Buttery, tucked away on the north coast of New South Wales, where it motivates workers to engage with those struggling with alcohol and other drug dependencies and help them rediscover their own worth, helping guide them in how they can share that worth with others. We also share this belief, when we can, with the wider community at events like the St Luke’s co-sponsored Bendigo Executive and Director Sleepout (BEDS). person. One particular finding was that there display respectful behaviours but also that there Benetas’ research shows that respect is a are different ways to show respect; and these is an opportunity to meet in the middle. major component of quality of life for older differ again across generations. Young people, As demonstrated by the research from people. It found that there are particular it says, see respect as being equal to and not Benetas, respect can be shown in many ways. ways older people believe respect should be subordinate to older people and the greatest One way that Anglicare Tasmania shows shown. Most notably, a person taking the time way they feel they can show respect is by respect and values the people who use its to listen - genuinely - and to show respect interacting as an equal. The research shows that services is by engaging with them in a way through valuing the contribution of the older there is a divide between how the generations that tells them their voice will be heard and

40 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 that what they have to say is important. the community that believed so fully in his worth Embarking on an organisation-wide Consumer even when he didn’t. Engagement Strategy, Anglicare Tasmania has Belief in the value of those people making D iamonds sought to include client voices in the planning up our communities is at the core of what and delivery of services and client driven Anglicare Australia network members do. The research to better understand how clients want commitment to this belief often goes unheralded to receive support. If changes are going to be as staff and clients work together quietly to made in their lives, who better to be the driver change circumstances and change lives. But of that change than the clients themselves? every now and then the wider community gets At The Buttery all residents complete their own to share in the belief we hold in the form of journey of recovery supported by a network of public awareness raising events. One recently people who believe in the self worth of each of held by a partnership between St Luke’s them. David’s story is compelling as it shows just Anglicare, Strategem Community Foundation how rewarding believing in people and what they and many local businesses in Bendigo saw can achieve really is. Facing court proceedings executive directors and managers sleeping out after a lifetime of drug and alcohol misuse, David in the cold for one night, and talking with young In fact, they are worthy and worthwhile of our had hit the bottom. Working through the program people and service providers, to help increase respect, of our effort and of our understanding. at The Buttery, David began to see his own self understanding and raise money for young people If you would like further information on any worth particularly when one day he looked in the who face sleeping rough every night. It takes of these services or the Anglicare Australia mirror and saw himself as he never had before. commitment to a cause to sleep out in the cold in network in general please contact us on From that day, David never looked back and ten the middle of winter to help others see the merit 02 6230 1775 or at [email protected]. years on he has completed his Masters in Social in supporting it. Work and volunteers at many of the local youth It’s activities like these that show people All pictures and content have been published with organisations. David knows – because he has who are experiencing the very toughest of the permission of Benetas, Anglicare Tasmania, seen the worst of himself – the value of the best circumstances that they are not the total sum The Buttery and St Luke’s; Anglicare Australia of himself and so takes great joy in giving back to of their disadvantage but rather so much more. would like to acknowledge their contribution. Show your support by donating to Anglicare Australia or any of its network members by visiting

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 4 1 A conversation with

The Last Post: Thanks very much for joining WA: I’m not sure that we universally do us at The Last Post magazine Waleed. cherish the contributions of people from other Waleed Aly: My pleasure. societies. It’s true at a certain level of society WaTLP: Australia 2012, leed what are the good but it’sAly not necessarily true of everybody. points and some things that could be improved Particularly where you have some sectors apon? of society that are experiencing some kind WA: A massive question. Overwhelmingly of dislocation and that can get back to the Australia’s a successful society. That’s true difficulties caused by globalization because as Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author, economically and that’s true socially and an economy grows and changes it’s structure, academic, rock musician and former AFL Australia’s managed the changes that come certain sectors survive better than others. mascot. His social and political commentary from globalization reasonably smoothly. We’ve Certain people win and certain people lose has produced an award-winning book and managed a level of immigration that’s pretty and we should acknowledge that there will multiple literary short-listings, and appears high in relation to our population. Except maybe be losers, even in a society that’s handling it in newspapers such as The Guardian, The the United States and maybe Canada, partly as well as ours and that happens with social Australian, The Sunday Times of India, The because it’s a young country an adaptable change. Those sorts of people are often looking Australian Financial Review, The Sydney country and a reasonably open country, it’s for scapegoats, not necessarily a conscious Morning Herald and The Age. He is the author, well suited to the times and because of that decision but if you talk to them about the range most recently, of What’s Right? The Future of we’ve managed not to be blown too far off of food available in Australia, for example, Conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37). course by any of the currents of globalization. that doesn’t necessarily change that sense of His debut book, People Like Us: How arrogance That’s really going to challenge most countries feeling that something is amiss or that they is dividing Islam and the West (Picador, 2007), around the world, I’d say. As far as things are in a worse position than they were and was shortlisted for several awards including the that could be improved, I’d say, is our ability that for them, Australia was a lot better place Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for to recognise that success. Australians are, before the last wave of migrants. We do need to Best Newcomer at the 2008 Australian Book by world standards, fairly well off and even realise that there are pockets that are genuinely Industry Awards. relative to Australians in the past, Australians concerned about it and that those attitudes Waleed Aly is the host of Big Ideas on ABC1 today are relatively well off but we don’t feel come with genuine prejudice. We can’t wish and News 24, and has frequently hosted ABC as though we’re well off. We do have lots of them away. They are there, although I think they News Breakfast and 774 ABC Melbourne moments of angst really about how we are are in less measure than they are in other parts Mornings. Waleed is currently a lecturer in going to manage our diverse society without of the world. That doesn’t make it any less politics at Monash University, working in their realizing that by and large, we’re doing pretty concerning or any less real. Global Terrorism Research Centre. well. We have this capacity to work ourselves TLP: Is the way to be found through In 2005, Waleed was made a White Ribbon into a lather about things that are not problems something as simple as migrants or those from Day Ambassador for the United Nations’ and make them problems and that I think, is migrant backgrounds playing sport? International Day for the Elimination of a real issue, particularly if you consider, in WA: It certainly helps but I think in some Violence Against Women, and was named one areas of multiculturalism in media reporting sports it’s going to be more effective than of The Bulletin magazine’s ‘Smart 100’ in 2007. and commentary and people generally within in others and in some sport there’s more He was also an invited participant to the Prime society start talking and hyper-ventilating opportunity than in others. I know it’s Minister’s 2020 Summit in 2008 and in 2011 about Australian society being under threat something that’s concerning Cricket Australia he was named Victoria’s Local Hero in the because of waves of migration and that sort of at the moment, it’s level of multicultural Australian of the Year Awards. rhetoric is damaging in and of itself. It creates engagement. The Sheffield Shield competition a perception within certain sectors of society is very narrow, culturally. The Australian Test that is damaging and it doesn’t need to be true team is almost as narrow culturally. If it wasn’t to be damaging but it divides people socially for the presence of Usman Khawaja on the “....we need to relax. and starts tearing at the social fabric and that fringes of the Test team, there is a big lack of For a country can be dangerous. The problem is, I think, cultural diversity there. And it’s reflected in that’s doing really, that a whole lot of that rhetoric is imported the Stands. If you look at a cricket crowd at a really well and from Europe which is a very different place one-day match or at a Test, it’s a very narrow that prides itself with very different problems. We don’t seem section of society. In a country that has one to be prepared to acknowledge that these are of the biggest Sri Lankan population’s in the on being informal, problems that we don’t have. world as well as Indian and Pakistani, to find we’re actually very TLP: Why do you think that is when the records that not reflected in cricket, for example, says uptight”. show that migrants, by and large have settled in, that something strange is going on. I think and contributed well, to Australian society? Rugby League has exhibited quite a large

42 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 people 4 3 /Sep 2012 , I’d TLP: Has the media become confused? they tend to news day to follow Well, WA: TLP: All the best with Richmond football anything I don’t have particularlyWA: profound were and are acknowledged as great reformist governments but reformed through liberalising saw the Labor Party You the economy, really. embarking on quite liberal reforms and, whatever the arguments are about how necessary that was or how good they were, I think one thing that falls out from that is that it meant Labor politics was The old argumentschanged forever. about Labor v Capital became redundant and that been had the traditional, or part the of it, divide. At same time, the social way politics has progressed over the last few has been in a more liberal direction and that has traditionally been associated with the There’s left. consensus not so on every much policy now but a consensus broad on policy of becoming liberal socially and liberal economically. There are always attempts to restrain that from various parts of the political spectrum but really, there’s very little to that the challenge over broad spectrum so that the and meaning of left right, I actually think they lost their long meaning a long, So thetime gap between ago. the two parties actually shrunk and true it’s probably everywhere. As there’s less and less philosophical grounds for dispute, politics becomes more petty and personal because there’s nothing really worth left about. fighting andday not through great sweeps of history. It’s not built into the of news media DNA to analyse daily events through the prism of decades. It does happen at times with an opinion or essay but, generally speaking, that’s not the grammar, of the if you like news media, so that they don’t become with engaged the philosophical questions and the more in realm of academia and commentary. News media does follow politics It’s a lot a game. a bit like better than it is in America but that’s the nature of a half hour news bulletin and that probably goes back to the advent Now, of television. with the advent of the internet, you don’t really a situationhave that’s built around reflection of political matters. club mate and this summer, with the cricket and also with you got Finally, have your music. a message for Australia in 2012? that we needexcept to relax. For a country that’s really,doing really and well that prides itself on informal,being we’re actually very uptight. .” ’s . That ation - Aug THE LAST POST - The Special Edition TLP: Is it a great release for you? I didn’t really think of it as release,AW: it had a group, Robot Child. AreTLP: they You just finished Oh yeah. recording We’ve AW: don’t do Pink Floyd covers? TLP: You yeah, Oh (laughing), we still do some of WA: were a prefect at Wesley? You WA: amazing. it’s I was only thereTLP: for Yes, TLP: Australia at the moment, the and left right I think was change the back in the big WA: I was it. ‘Bohemian by blown Rhapsody’ away was favourite my it from I got into there song. and all the I grew up liking music was guitar driven andlearnt I guitar and stuck with it. Along the I played saxophone way as and well started studying theory music so that’s what it Where pickingwas. it up from Me my brother. he picked from, it up know, I don’t from school was He 10 years older thanprobably. me. was just something I could get immersed in. The more you do it, the more serious you take it. It became something I had to do. still going? in the processan album. We’re of mixing it and not too we’ve played someSydney shows in So, yeah, It’s a veryago. we’re stilllong going. talented group and it’s a lot of fun and it’s an original band, we write our own stuff which is also something that’s really rewarding. them. I think But there comes a time for every where theymusician want to write and paly theirand own sing I don’t know things. any who doesn’tmusician to do that. like two years 11 andbut I crammed 12. Year a lot in. Along the opportunity way after opportunity got thrown and my way I took them all and figured to makeout how I was them going work. I ended 12 but through music, a prefectup being in Year got involved in drama. Drama school was putting on musicals and I did musicals in years 11 and 12 and on a performing ended up going arts tour that went pretty around the much world at the the 12. At same time I wasend of Year playing cricket in the first 11 and on a ended up going cricket studying tour to England, too, crammed a A verylot in. profound experience, the probably two most formative years I look in my life really. back at what I did in those two years and what I’ve done since and it can all be traced back to that time, I reckon. seem merged to have and it’s become a bit of a quagmire. What’s happened? Governments Theeighties. Hawke-Keating improved be could that things as s far . A off far too be blown to not ) managed ustralia , I’d say success that recognise to , is our ability TLP: When cricket playing I was in younger, That’s a really interestingWA: question. I TLP: I suppose another of ‘slotting way in’, it really came At Well, from my brother. 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Now, they were playing that’s starting I’ve been to change, told, there are more juniors through coming from these communities that are mainstream playing cricket. When I was representative playing cricket at a it was a fairjunior level, while ago, I think what’s happened, what had happened or is that these communities were still the playing game they just weren’t really interested into the in plugging mainstream game, for whatever reason. It may beenhave that it wasn’t a comfortable place for them to be, the they didn’t like cultural settings thatof cricket felt They it was have clubs. may a easier,much fun thing within to do, to play their So, they’re thereown and community. playing it in acricket it but just doing and enjoying different forum and Cricket Australia, I think, is recognising that that As has farto change. as the financial goes, angle if this group of people do not become represented in mainstream cricket a whole basethen you’re losing of fans there and I’m not sure it can survive without that. so to speak would be and, through of music course, commercial radio still has a very anglo- saxon feel and sound to it. I know you’re a Wheremusician. did that come from? age I becamea young quite about excited guitar driven So in Grade 1, I was music. listening to my brother ‘Queen’s playing Greatest Hits’ and ve (A “ ...we’ z of globali the currents of any by course the around countries most challenge going to really world Rob de Castellatravyyelpeople and fitness and physical health emotional well self-confidence, relationship between “There’s avery close in particular. athletics and marathon running remains apassionate advocate for to live and work inCanberra and 1995. As of 2008,hecontinues 1990, a position he held until Australian Instituteof Sport in Rob became Director of the throughout his career. athlete, apartnership that endured and successfulunit as coachand and Rob became aclose knit representative Pat Clohessy. Pat 1962 Commonwealth Games fortunate to have asateacher, Xavier College where he was schoolboy athlete at Melbourne’s eleven and was an outstanding Rob began running at age the World in the 1980’s. number one marathon runner in internationally acclaimed asthe marathon races. He was rightly to watch or participate in encouraged manypeople amazing runsinthe1980’s during hisathletics career. His marathon running on the map is affectionately known, put Rob deCastella,‘Deek’ as he An interview with Rob and2011IMPmemberNadineHuntduringtheNationalSelection Tour. ....” -being Nadine isnowworksfull-timeforIMPasaProjectOfficer. before we met them and in nine months we took wetook inninemonths and wemetthem before running who’dnever been indigenous runners bigger. bigger and is getting We eleven took Obviously ourIndigenous program running kids. those with working results great we’veseen and eight forabout weeks runs that program school after- an That’s process. screening the through kids risk highest 250ofthe toabout delivered That’s Program. Living and Exercise and Eating isHealthy which HELP WeGovernment. run also the with inconjunction schools ACT Primary the through kids thousand tothree half and two about wescreen year life. Each active toenjoy and inclined ahealthy, tobe need they that motorskills fundamental and fitness basic developing young are ensure that children the and outtotry butnowit’sextended obesity ofchildhood epidemic the through originated It coordination. and motorskills poor or very fitness cardio-respiratory poor have very that kids orunderweight, overweight whoare kids are These kids. those with program school after an werun then and illness related oflifestyle risk atphysical whoare children identify children, school We Primary schools. screen Primary through werun that program fitness and health gotachildren’s I’vestill 240, 250kays aweek. running whenIwas Evenever been. busierthan I’ve I’mbusiernowthan out.Ithink RdC: Flat uptolately? have youbeen What TLP: pleasure. much Greg,it’sa very Thanks Rob deCastella: Post. Last forjoining usatThe Thanks TLP: more intimidating environment where there is a isa where there environment more intimidating ismuch High school school, Primary leave they once because goontohigh they school before change them and try 6to11and say, age from atayoung children togetthese we’retrying so in wouldcontinue tobe alotofthem that spiral downward circuitthe short Itcan educational. also and italotoffun make and ontothat kids high risk many ways togetthese are there and body and to developing mind ahealthy paramount exercise and isabsolutely activity We physical dobelieve that peers. really their over dominant orphysically emotionally either tobecome try and bullies tobecome tend and way other gothe they orwhether withdrawn and shy very become they and it’sinsecurity whether problems social ontoother flows that and class in have paying attention problems that kids the also are Start Smart through wescreen that kids high risk alotofthese isthat what wefind and fitness and health well-being physical and emotional self-confidence, between relationship close avery There’s right. exactly RdC: That’s Iguess. adults, positive productive, becoming way to onthe they’re age,then early an from fit and gethealthy kids help the ifyoucan age and early an from starts that pride, personal and Rob there place agood coming from All TLP: programs. nonforprofit forKids, Start Smart the and Project indigenousthe Marathon Ido, things other the Ihave with that business acommercial Sothat’s foods. gluten-free and We grain all produce auto-immune diseases. whohave onpeople focuses really which Foods Health Deeks foods, health produces that business gotasmall life. I’vealso oftheir areas intoother flow tohave that them with work and dignity and pride personal away toinstill as running use and fitness and health about them We communities. remote teach very very, some Australia, around all comefrom they 30and and 18 between young womenaged menand these with wework so year each is oninNovember NewYork the for2012and our squad marathon NewYork the We’ve marathon. collected just toNewYork finished them and ran all they and “We took eleven indigenous runners who’d never been running before we met them and in nine months we took them to New York and they all ran and finished the New Rob with the 2010 IMP team after they all finished the 2010 New York Marathon: Caleb York marathon”. Hart, Joseph Davies, Juan Darwin, Charlie Maher and Rob De Castella, November 2010 lot more pressures and obviously the girls and there’s an amazing wealth of opportunities out boys are going through physical maturity as there and things that you can experience. well so that adds another level of complexity TLP: Sometimes simple things are the best to their lives. We want to give them a sense of and it does give you a feeling that anything is physical confidence and then work with them possible, I guess. and their families to have that go into other areas RdC: It does and there’s been a lot of books of their lives. Healthy and happy individuals released that chronicle man’s development and Rob with 2010 athlete Joseph Davies at the finish in society. It’s the same with the indigenous running is one of the things that set’s us apart. of the New York Marathon, November 2010 program as well. We have this massive Our ability to run long distances has set our disconnect and disparity between the health of species apart. They say that man is the best non-indigenous and indigenous Australians. We long distance runner of any animal and that work in communities like Alice Springs where it’s our ability to run over long distances that Alice Springs is the largest dialysis centre in the has allowed us to become such great hunters world per head of population so there’s more and gatherers and for hundreds of thousands people on dialysis machines in Alice Springs of years that’s what mankind did and that than anywhere else in the world. Obviously allowed us to get the very important protein 2011 IMP squad member Jamie Wunungmurra most of them are indigenous Australians so and nutrition that we needed to evolve. It’s with Rob at the Boston Marathon, April 2012 we’re spending a lot of time up in the Alice and something we’re very good at and it resonates more remote areas working with young men with us so it’s a great opportunity to help and me so much about the fundamental values and and women and getting an appreciation of the support and encourage these young indigenous principles that I think are imperative to our own challenges they go through on a daily basis. men and women. The other side is the hope that health and well-being. Some of these sometimes Two of the runners we worked with last year one day we may be able to find an indigenous get lost in our quest for the latest plasma both have friends who suicided and another running champion. The distance events are television along with the other technology that one had a friend who was killed in a motor dominated by the Africans and we know that we’ve created and convinced ourselves that we vehicle accident. That’s only out of a group indigenous athletes have had enormous success need. We need not distance ourselves from these of eleven so it’s a pretty challenging situation on the football field in all the codes and in men tools and culture of comfort. We must challenge but we believe that something as simple, yet and women’s basketball but we’ve never had an ourselves and only through that can we grow. powerful as running can help. Even if you go endurance athlete. One of the girls we’ve had TLP: Was running something that you felt good out for a 3, a 5 kilometre run, you come back had been struggling to run 3 kilometres and by about, from an early age? and you feel good about yourself, this sense of the time she went to New York she completed RdC: Well, back when I went to school it personal contribution and accomplishment and the 42 kilometres at a good pace. Wonderful. wasn’t a matter of whether you did sport, it you can only begin to imagine, anyone that’s TLP: With the life expectancy of non- was compulsory. I tried cricket and football run a marathon, when you cross the finish line, indigenous Australians along with our general and gravitated towards running. It was a case what it’s like. A lot of these kids don’t know health, we owe it to take the indigenous of finding a connection with running and it that distance running is a sport or even what a Australians with us and not leave them behind. became a personal thing, getting together with marathon is, let alone that it’s 42 kilometres. RdC: Absolutely. I think it really goes both ways my mates and going for a run after school. The When you take them to New York, from not too, Greg. We can learn a tremendous amount personal satisfaction of bettering my times was knowing anything about the event to a city like from indigenous Australia. There’s a realization something good also. I became more committed New York, from their red-dust communities that the technological world that we have created and grew through that. For over 1000 days I and towns to the streets of New York, Times for ourselves may not always be good for our went without a day off. I was constantly pushing Square. Wow. And to put them in this race, the health. Up until white man came here, the native the boundaries to get myself into a position to NY marathon is the biggest in the world, there’s Australians were still operating as basic hunters run marathons. You don’t need to go to that 48,000 runners, 2 and a half million spectators and gatherers and there are aspects of that culture extent but it was a great period for me and I look on the course. For them to go from such a small, that are good for mind and body. Our mental and back very satisfied. I feel very privileged to have isolated community to such a city and event physical health can be put at risk by some of the done what I’ve done. Coming from a health and helps to give them a realization that the world’s things that we’ve built up around us in the 21st science background, I now want to pass that on. an amazing place and if you’re prepared to do century. I’m learning a lot Greg and it’s been a TLP: Thanks Rob, it’s been a pleasure and all even simple things like put one foot in front of privilege to work with indigenous Australians over he best for this years Nw York Marathon. the other on a daily basis, to do some training, the last three, four years because it’s teaching RdC: Thank you so much Greg

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 4 5 INGRID Scheffer is getting Female scientists in Australia do not get the recognition, funding or careers they deserve. But serious steps are being usedThe to the limelight. Just soundtaken to change that. Bridie Smithof reports. breaking glass back from Paris, where have a genetic base, rather than solely being Scott - a pioneer radio physicist and advocate attributed to trauma or a tumour. for women’s rights in the 1940s - the award of she received the L’Oreal- Since then, Scheffer and Berkovic have up to $35,000 supports women returning to worked with their molecular genetics work following the birth of a child. UNESCO Women in collaborators and discovered 14 of the 24 genes Until November 1966, the Australian public linked to epilepsy. It’s a partnership which has service required married women to resign, so Science award as the Asia- been incredibly productive and satisfying. Payne-Scott had kept her 1944 marriage secret. ‘’We both feel that by working together, the But her pregnancy bump was harder to disguise, Pacific laureate, Professor sum of our output is far greater than either of and by 1951 her research career was over. us alone,’’ she says. As head of the CSIRO’s Virtual Nanoscience Scheffer feels that, finally, her But the job interview illustrated that the Laboratory in Parkville since 2009, Dr Amanda collaboration she enjoys so much is not always Barnard is one of today’s torch-bearers. She is 20-year career is emerging seen in the right light. It served as a reminder one of only a few women to head a lab. that sometimes shadows fall where they CSIRO figures show that outside of scientific from the shadows. shouldn’t. roles, women dominate: they make up 85 per ‘’There is still a glass ceiling for women in cent of administration staff and 55 per cent of A paediatric neurologist, she is just one of science in Australia. More than 50 per cent of general services staff. However, just 12 per cent many women working in the sciences who is PhD students are women and more than 50 per of senior specialists are women and just over a frustrated her work doesn’t always get the cent of medical students are women. And yet quarter of general management and executive credit it deserves. This has an impact on her when you get to professorial level, it’s fewer roles are held by women. profile, which isn’t as prominent as it would be than 10 per cent,’’ she says. Barnard says that while representation of were she a man. A 2010 survey of more than 1000 female women at the CSIRO is steadily increasing - and As recently as two years ago during an scientists and engineers by the Association of in some cases has more than doubled in the interview for a fellowship, one female professor Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers past 15 years - there is still a long way to go to on the panel implied Scheffer’s work was Australia found almost a quarter expected to reach equality. ‘’Momentum is going in the right primarily that of her colleague - her former have left their profession within five years. The direction but it’s not happening fast enough.’’ PhD supervisor, now her ‘’partner in scientific most common reasons included pay inequity For example, she often finds she is the only discovery’’ Samuel Berkovic - rather than her and lack of flexible working conditions. female keynote speaker at overseas conferences own. But change is afoot. In the past 12 months - partly because women find it hard to travel The interview took place in Australia - where the scientific community has made a concerted when they have families. Scheffer feels the ‘’shadow effect’’ on her effort to address the issues faced by women, in Indeed, having children is widely acknowledged career has been much more pronounced than it an attempt to ensure they get their fair share of as the biggest interruption to a female scientist’s has in the rest of the world. the spotlight. career. Motherhood often coincides with the ‘’It’s partly because Sam is so exceptional Following a summit organised by Science completion of PhD study and the start of serious but partly because people have assumed my and Technology Australia in Canberra last science - a vital time when reputations need to thinking has been his thinking, not my own,’’ April, some of the nation’s top research be established in order to attract funding for she says. institutes, academies and funding bodies independent postdoctoral research. The assumption was made despite the fact pledged to make motherhood and scientific After a decade of tertiary study, New that her work has significantly changed the research more compatible. Zealand eco-physiologist Dr Zoe Hilton gained way epilepsy is researched and treated. Now And next month, a federal parliamentary her doctorate in 2010. working at Melbourne University and the group for friends of women in science, maths ‘’I’m 34, but I feel like I am just beginning,’’ Florey Neuroscience Institutes’ Melbourne and engineering will be launched by Nobel she says. ‘’You put a huge chunk of your life Brain Centre at Austin Health, Scheffer was a laureate Elizabeth Blackburn to promote into studying and then you’re considered a baby key member of a team that discovered the first policies that encourage women to enter and scientist because you’re just starting.’’ gene linked to epilepsy, a mutation that causes stay in scientific careers. But by their 30s, these baby scientists are violent seizures during sleep. Australia’s largest employer of scientific often thinking about having babies of their The 1995 discovery changed conventional researchers, the CSIRO, has increased the own. ‘’You’ve spent years of your life working thinking on a disease that affects 2 per cent number of Payne-Scott awards and also opened really hard and you don’t want to stop there but of the Australian population. For the first time the award to early-career researchers. Named then you’re at that age when you want to have there was proof that the condition could also in honour of gifted CSIRO scientist Ruby Payne- kids,’’Hilton says. ‘’It’s really tough.’’

46 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 The pull of home doesn’t vanish once medical research community has seen little grants awarded last year, nine had a female children are at school either. Walter and Eliza progress in the area in the past 40 years. chief investigator. Hall breast cancer researcher and mother of ‘’It’s not possible to wave a magic wand at Chief executive Professor Warwick Anderson The sound of two Professor breakingJane Visvader says leaving for the highest level, when the problem is occurringglass says it is a trend the council is keen to address. overseas conferences doesn’t get any easier. 10 or 15 years earlier,’’ he says. ‘’Otherwise you are really throwing away so Visvader was this week inducted as a fellow However, in addition to the measures introduced much talent in research,’’ he says. ‘’And to of the Australian Academy of Science. Of the 21 to make motherhood and research more crack the health problems in the country, you new fellows, four are women. They will take their compatible, Hilton argues wider cultural change is really need the brightest people.’’ place alongside 34 other women, representing just required in a sector where it is so often a case of However, he says keeping women in science over 8 per cent of fellows at the academy. publish or perish. He says instead of the emphasis requires teamwork, particularly between the While this is still a small fraction of the being on the quantity of journal publications or funding bodies and the researcher’s employer - overall number of fellows, the academy’s citations, it should be about quality. be it a hospital, institute or university. first elected female president, Professor While this sounds simple enough, the idea If workplaces can provide or subsidise Suzanne Cory, says it represents a dramatic represents a significant cultural shift. In the legal childcare and offer family-friendly improvement. sector, it would be akin to getting rid of billable environments, women are more likely to During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, there hours as a measure of productivity and potential. continue working during their child-rearing was just one woman elected each decade. ‘’Surely it’s about the quality of ideas and the years - which in turn will mean a deeper pool By the 2000s, there were 20. The academy’s influence of the papers,’’ he says. ‘’If we can of senior researchers applying for grants. diversification committee is also charged with be more sophisticated about the way we judge Last year, the NHMRC committed to boosting under-represented groups, including academics, this will also benefit women.’’ considering work done in any five-year period women and young researchers. Also at play, Scheffer and Hilton agree, are rather than just the previous five-year period when ‘’There is a big drop in numbers when the different ways women present themselves assessing grant applications from researchers with women reach their early 30s, when they are professionally. It’s a point which does rely on interrupted careers. Similarly the ARC now takes making difficult decisions about having a family generalisations, but Hilton says there is truth in it. into account the impact career interruptions such and keeping careers going. That’s the period ‘’Women are much less willing to objectively as the birth of a child have on research output. that we have to focus on,’’ Cory says. appraise their own capacity,’’ he says. ‘’I’ve The Australian Academy of Technological However, she believes developing a career seen women unwilling to put their hand up for Sciences and Engineering is also on board. From is easier than it used to be, thanks in part to senior roles because they are only 90 per cent this year, a third of new fellows elected each a growing number of fellowships designed to prepared for it. But you get men who will give year must be women. Currently, women make up support and encourage women to combine it a go even though they are only 10 per cent 6.5 per cent of the academy’s 800 fellows. work and motherhood. prepared for it.’’ Vice-president Susan Pond says that while One of the fellowships - introduced by This reluctance to back their work means it will take years to achieve gender balance Walter and Eliza Hall Institute director Doug women are not putting themselves forward for in such a male-dominated sector, it is an Hilton - carries her name. The $1.25 million, senior roles, and they are also under-represented important start. ‘’Failing to foster the careers five-year Cory Fellowship is awarded to new in applications for awards and grants. of the women who qualify in applied science, women laboratory heads. It is one of a range In one year, of the nominees for the most engineering and technology leads to a waste of measures to retain female scientists that prestigious science prizes in Australia, the Prime of valuable talent and adds to the well- Professor Hilton introduced after taking over Minister’s Prizes for Science, only 10 per cent documented skills shortages in these fields in from Professor Cory in 2009. were women. According to a spokesperson, Australia,’’ she says. Others include a $15,000 childcare subsidy the proportion of women science researchers Science and Technology Australia, the peak for postdoctoral researchers and funding for awarded one of the prizes is highest in the prizes body representing more than 68,000 scientists women to employ research technicians to catering for early to mid-career researchers. Australia-wide, has welcomed the measures. continue their work while on maternity leave. At the Australian Research Council, acting But chief executive Anna-Maria Arabia agrees Faculty meetings are no longer scheduled after chief executive Leanne Harvey says women change will take time to rid the sector of the 5pm, there is a lactation room available at the compete well with men for funding - when shadow effect. Parkville institute and a plan for a childcare they apply. ‘’There are exceptional female ‘’It is a bit of a catch-22 situation,’’ she says. centre has also been developed. researchers out there, just as there are male. ‘’If women aren’t progressing through their HILTON says the multi-pronged approach The problem is fewer women researchers careers, then they are not getting to senior reflects the complexity of the problem. But he apply,’’ she says. positions to be able to become fellows or chief says there are no quick-fix solutions. Two of the It is a similar story at the National Health investigators and therefore it’s harder to find 21 professors at the institute are women - and and Medical Research Council, where of the them. Over time though, I think it will change.’’ it’s not a ratio that is going to show dramatic 96 grant applications received last year - 75 of Bridie Smith is science and technology improvement any time soon because the them were led by men. Of the 55 successful reporter. www.smh.com.au

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THE BIBLE Tindale Uniform and Purchased by Alex Nichols for his best chum Tindales Medals Len Harrison in Colombo when on his way to Owned by Tindales relatives on loan to SAM the trenches in 1918. Owner – Private client Norman Tindale, famous South Australian This bible belonged to my Grandfather, Len Anthropologist Harrison. Born 1900 Died 1993. He didn’t go to war until very late because, His parents were in the Salvation Army. according to my Mother, his mother didn’t want His family moved to Japan in 1907 for 8 years Harefield Flag him to go and his eyesight wasn’t so good. where his father was responsible for accounting Owner: The Harefield flag is owned by the But by 1918, late in the war, when they were for the Salvation Army in Japan. Adelaide High School. less fussy and his mother relented, he joined up. Whilst a child Norman was chosen as an The Harefield Flag, as it is known, is a large After training in Australia he travelled with English speaking companion for Prince Konoe and very battered Union Jack, belonging to his best chum, Alex Nichols by boat to England, who came from a household close to the the Adelaide High School. The story behind stopping in Colombo on the way where Alex Imperial Household. Konoe eventually became the flag is fascinating. During World War 1 bought Len the bible. Len carried the bible with Prime Minister of Japan during World War many Australian soldiers were stationed near him throughout his short time at the war and he 2 and committed suicide shortly after being Harefield, north of London. They worshipped kept it as a treasured possession until his death indicted as a war criminal in December 1945. at the local church and wounded soldiers were in the 1960’s Tinny, as he was fondly known, starting working treated at the Harefield hospital. He was initially in England and then fought at SAM in 1919 as an Entomological Assistant. The flag, which belonged to the local school, with the Australian Division of the Field of One of his first assignments was an was draped over Australian soldiers’ coffins when Engineers as a Sapper at the front in northern Entomological Assistant and on a field trip they were taken from the hospital to the Australian France, for 3 months, from September 1918 to Groote Eyindt in the Gulf of Carpentaria, cemetery, within the Harefield churchyard. until surrender in November 1918. his daughter wrote that “he went there During this time the Adelaide High School As he was so late to go, he was one of the as an entomologist and returned as an community also sent relief parcels to Harefield. last to come home – working for a year in anthropologist. After the war the Harefield School presented England before he was demobbed in late 1919. While working at SAM he gained a Science degree. the Union Jack to the Schools Patriotic Fund His is not an exceptional story of particular He became deeply interested in the study of who in turn presented it to Adelaide High bravery or courage but an ordinary story of an Australian Aborigines and was well known for School as a token of thanks. The much loved ordinary Australian. the thoroughness and accuracy of his research. flag has belonged to the school ever since. A newspaper clipping with the Later in his career he was involved with Adelaide High School later sent Harefield an announcement of my mothers wedding was many Universities in the United States but Australian flag, which they still have. To this found inside the bible. continued his study of Australian Aborigines. day, the children of Harefield continue to tend The bible was treated with Artlab cleaning He joined the RAAF in 1942. He worked the graves of the Australian soldiers buried in and carrying out repairs where the pages were with the Allied intelligence during the war and the Australian section of the cemetery. The torn. The newspaper clipping was encapsulated his knowledge of Japan from his childhood village celebrates Anzac Day each year by with repairs carried out on the leather cover and his research skills were of great value. raising the Australian flag at the churchyard and and a box made for storage He was a senior figure involved in translating placing flowers on the soldiers graves. and interpreting information found on the

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A stainless steel dowel was used to reattach Joe was wounded (“Compression of the the tail. The ear was adhered back on to the spine – Severe”) in France and spent some time head and the excess adhesive over the proper in a hospital in the UK before returning to the left leg was removed. A small amount of in- front. He was also hospitalised with Mumps. painting was undertaken on areas of paint loss The 10th Battalion lost 1015 killed and 2136 to integrate surfaces. wounded during it’s time abroad. Upon his return Joe worked for the South Joseph Thorsby Ross Australian Railways and in the early 1920’s – Gravesite married the sister (May Carrig) of his best mate (Grandfather of The Last Post’s Publishing from the battalion (Andrew Carrig) who also Editor, Greg T Ross) survived the war. Artlab’s Projects conservation section Joe and May had four children – Raymond, can develop and facilitate a treatment plan my Dad, was the eldest. Joe Jnr and John Kangaroo with Joey for gravesites, monuments, sculptures and followed. Between Ray and Joe a daughter, mascot memorials. Artlab have completed treatment Edna was born. She died of SIDS before her Owner: Private client on gravesites in the past. With the gravesite first birthday. An Artlab client bought in this very of Joseph Ross as an example, Artlab can Joe died in Adelaide in 1941 from a brain interesting object for conservation treatment. consult with the client on how to preserve this tumor at the age of 45. The Kangaroo with Joey mascot belonged to the gravesite from further deterioration. Shortly after Joe’s death, my father Raymond clients grandfather. Her Grandfather, Captain E Joe was born in 1895 and joined the 10th Thorsby Ross joined the South Australian 2/10th F Pflaum, trained initially in England as a pilot Infantry Battalion when it was formed at Infantry Battalion in Milne Bay, New Guinea. He and flew in France during World War 1. He later Morphetteville within weeks of the start of the war. served with them at Buna-Gona, Shaggy Ridge returned to England to train other pilots with the The South Australian 10th was part of the 3rd and Balikpapan. He contracted TB toward the Australian Flying Corps. Captain Pflaum flew Brigade which was the covering force during the end of WW2 and lost a lung. He died (and was biplanes such as the Avro 504K and Sopwith ANZAC landings and were first ashore at 0430 buried) in Perth, WA aged 60 in 1983. Camel, and adorned the top of the fuselage hours. The Battalion remained of these aircraft with the Kangaroo and Joey at Gallipoli until the evacuation mascot, which also doubled as a fuel cap. in December 1915. When the mascot came to Artlab it was in three The 10th spent the rest pieces with the tail and an ear detached. There had of the War in bitter trench also been an attempted repair to the proper left leg. warfare in France and The attempt had failed and there was a lot of old Belgium before returning to adhesive smeared around the break. Australia in 1919. Let’s cWherehat do you want to die?abou Have you given t the idea any thought? Have you chatted with your family or doctor about it? Would you trust them to carry out your wishes? These are By Dr Yvonne Luxford some of the questions Palliative Care Australia dying CEO, Palliative recently put to the Australian public. Care Australia

I wonder if your immediate answer was able to take control of decisions which affect We also need to develop consistent national that you would prefer to die at home? Three their care, such as where they would like to be legislation and terminology to make it easier quarters of people completely agree with you. cared for and who they would like to have with for everyone to understand and use advance In fact, 88% would choose to stay at home if them. We know that when asked, Australians care plans, and to include them in new eHealth they could be certain that their loved ones were have some pretty firm ideas and preferences records so information is shared with the health well served with health and other care options. when it comes to end of life. But we’re not professionals who will be making decisions Of course, staying at home will not suit every telling anyone. about your care. person or family, and some may like to be at There is a simple solution. Advance care But on a personal level, you can make a home until close to the end and then transfer to planning is a process which allows people to difference right now. Just thinking about your a hospice or another appropriate facility. think ahead and talk about the kind of care end of life wishes isn’t enough; you need to I wonder if you would also answer that they want at the end of their lives, and appoint record the decisions you make about how you you would be comfortable talking about this a substitute decision maker for situations where would like to be cared for, preferably in an and your end of life care with your partner they might not have the capacity to make advance care plan, and share this with your or spouse, children and health professional? decisions for themselves. Advance care planning loved ones and health professionals. Appoint a No surprises there either, and nor would you makes it much easier to care for a person substitute decision maker and make sure they surprise me if you said that you were confident according to what they want and it also removes are fully aware of your wishes. that your family will follow your wishes. the pressure of decision making from family and Starting the conversation now will mean What would surprise me is if you have loved ones, at what is often a very difficult time. that you really will be able to have confidence actually told anyone those wishes and prepared If it’s so simple, why do so few Australians have that your wishes will be followed, it will relieve an advance care plan. an advance care plan? To start with, most people stress on your loved ones, and will ultimately Let’s face it, for most Australians the idea (78% in our survey) don’t know what one is. lead to better quality care at the end of life. of talking about our own mortality is very We need to raise awareness of the value For more information about palliative confronting and not something we particularly of advance care planning and ensure that care and advance care planning, visit want to do. Most of the time we are happy to leave GPs, nurses and aged care facility staff all www.palliativecare.org.au any discussions about the end of life until we get encourage people to have these conversations. there - we seem to take for granted that everything will ‘be OK.’ But is care at the end of life something Starting the conversation now will mean that that should be left to chance? you really will be able to have confidence that Quality end of life care is realised when it meets the person’s needs and respects their your wishes will be followed, it will relieve care preferences - including any religious or stress on your loved ones, and will ultimately cultural requirements. Everybody should be lead to better quality care at the end of life.

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Funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing www.palliativecare.org.au Dr Roger Hunt ON Palliative Care DR ROGER HUNT Palliative care specialist and Head of Western (BM BS GDPH FAChPM MD) Adelaide Palliative Care, Dr Roger Hunt, who • Current Clinical Leader- Respecting Patient has been working in this field since 1984, says Choices Program, The Queen Elizabeth Australia is in a good position when it comes Hospital (TQEH) to looking after patients and their loved one’s during this sensitive period. • Current Clinical Leader—Respecting Patient Choices Program, The Queen Elizabeth “Palliative care has changed a lot since I Hospital (TQEH) started”, he says, “the range of medications has expanded and better therapeutic options and • Current Director of Western Palliative Care procedures have come along and procedures Service—TQEH & Health Services have come along that allow us to be more interventionist than we were in the early days. • Extensive experience assisting patients complete Medical Power of Attorney/ Emotions and the range of family reactions Anticipatory Direction forms and ensuring remain similar”. Having recently visited the preciousness of life and encourages all of us to that hospitals abide by them United States, Dr Hunt believes we are very make the most of our time. fortunate to have a health system that can treat Dr Hunt, who appreciates he might not • Former Senior Consultant, Southern Adelaide Palliative Services everyone without fearing medical bankruptcy. always have been headed towards medicine, “There are great advantages here”, he says. acknowledges that it’s “a pretty good fit”. How • Longest serving palliative care specialist Dr Hunt, who started working in a hospital to help others and to have access to “brilliant physician in South Australia hospice, found his work was appreciated and knowledge” of the human body, is very this encouraged him to continue in that area. pleasing says the longest serving palliative care “It’s quite rewarding to be able to help people specialist in South Australia. through a very dramatic and often difficult In addition to the scientific aspects there time”, says Roger, “and this guiding them is also the humanities and, according to Dr through the terrain makes it a bit easier” he Hunt, the “ability to work with people” is so said. important in medicine”. Like all in the field of palliative care, Dr Hunt regularly travels around Australia confronting others mortality makes one and overseas to attend conferences to keep confront their own and to appreciate the updated and to network.

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These are all valuesE q u a l i ty . denied to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Portrait of an Aboriginal serviceman, Private Walter Christopher (Chris) George Saunders. Islander people for A native of Warrnambool, Vic. Photo courtesy much of Australia’s of the Australian War Memorial, P00889.012 history. Nonetheless, Indigenous Australians R e s p e c t. have served in the Despite generally being treated better in armed forces in every the Australian military than in civilian life, the service experience has not always been carefree conflict from the for Indigenous personnel. Many ex-servicemen and women have testified to experiencing racial Boer War through taunts at various stages of their military careers. Afghanistan. They have Most Indigenous ex-service personnel report these as isolated incidents, but they were still also served during episodes that could have lingering mental and emotional impacts. Until recent years there peacetime, in reserve Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, Private were few channels through which Indigenous Samuel Alexandra Peacock (Sam) Lovett and his personnel could challenge discrimination; it was niece, Aircraftwoman Alice Lovett, an Aboriginal units and as members servicewoman, standing on a Melbourne street. Photo not until the 1990s that the Australian Defence courtesy of the Australian War Memorial, P01651.003 of special guerrilla and Force adopted specific policies against racial vilification. veterans. Being a veteran could not even protect scouting units. Another challenge that has confronted Aboriginal people from having their children Serving in the armed forces has proved Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex- forcibly removed by state authorities. a mostly positive experience for Indigenous servicemen and women has been the return Australian society has come a long way in Australians. Those veterans who served in to civilian Australia. Veterans of the First and its acceptance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait combat especially have consistently testified to Second World Wars especially had hoped that Islander people and cultures. Throughout the sentiments of mateship breaking down barriers, their loyal service would be rewarded with process the ADF and its predecessors have challenging racial prejudice and creating lifelong citizenship rights and respect. Yet Indigenous played a key role facilitating the education and friendships based on mutual respect. Aboriginal veterans were denied access to soldier employment of Indigenous Australians and and Torres Strait Islander veterans have regularly settlement schemes and RSLs. Veterans of the challenging racial discrimination. Indigenous asserted that bullets do not discriminate, and First World War did not have the right to vote in servicemen and women continue their as such non-Indigenous and Indigenous soldiers, most states. Restrictions on movement, wages, longstanding service tradition – challenging sailors and pilots have always worked together to marriage and almost every other aspect of life stereotypes, empowering Indigenous protect each other in battle. applied to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and nobly defending Australia.

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Are you a current service person or an ex‐serviceman or ex‐servicewoman of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent? If so, we would like to speak to you as part of a new project documenting the experiences of Indigenous service personnel and veterans both in the armed forces and civilian life.

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That’s why the Gillard Government is century by putting computers in classrooms for determined to raise education standards and kids from Year 9–12. This will make schools reduce the gaps between student achievement. better places to learn, teach and work, with We want all children to have the same new facilities and state-of-the-art technologies. opportunities, regardless of where they live, what Because we know the key to a great school they go to, or what their parents earn. education is great teachers, we’re improving Whilst our education results are still teacher quality by developing National generally pretty good, worryingly over the last Professional Standards for Teachers that set decade the performance of Australian students benchmarks for the accreditation of initial in international assessments has declined. teacher education programs, nationally Minister Garrett receives a painting made by the children of SDN Milperra Children’s Education This is especially the case in comparison consistent registration and national certification and Care Centre from 4-year-old Asha during a with some of our Asian neighbours, including for highly accomplished and lead teachers. visit to open the centre on 1 August. Korea, Japan, Singapore and the Chinese cities In the previous edition of The Last Post I of Hong Kong and Shanghai. And critically, wrote about the Australian Curriculum, which children who are learning in schools in low will remove inconsistencies in the way school socioeconomic communities are falling behind subjects are taught across different states and kids from schools in high socioeconomic territories. communities. I recently announced that every Australian We need to improve the way we invest in our student will now study the arts from their first schools to help Australian students achieve better, year of school under the new national arts which is why we commissioned David Gonski AC curriculum, which was released on 9 July for and a panel of experts to conduct the first review public consultation. of school funding in nearly 40 years. This is great news for the future of our Minister Garrett unveils a plaque to open SDN Milperra Children’s Education and Care Centre on 1 August with The review recommends a new way of creative industries, which have been valued at (R-L) Centre Director Melissa Cama; SDN President and allocating funding based on a benchmark of $30 billion and provide significant employment Board Member Susan Salter; and SDN CEO Ginie Udy. what it costs to educate a student across public, opportunities. Catholic and independent schools. The arts is one of the three new learning Extra resources would be available for area to be developed for the National students and schools that need it most, Curriculum, to add to the four core subjects of including schools with kids from poorer English, maths, science and history. backgrounds, Indigenous students, students One dimension of the ANZAC legacy is that with disability, lower English proficiency, our national identity has been shaped by those remote schools and small schools. who bravely made the ultimate sacrifice for the This is about making sure no school misses country. In understanding and reflecting on Minister Garrett meets Bernadette Compton, mother out on getting a world-class education. this legacy, all Australians have a responsibility of 19-month-old Ti-Alee at the SDN Milperra Children’s That’s why we’re working to have legislation to ensure that young Australians have the high Education and Care Centre, which he opened on 1 August. for a new school funding system introduced level of skills to reach their full potential and into Parliament this year and to have it in place make a valuable contribution to our national Minister Garrett cuts the SDN cake to share by 2014. way of life. with staff, children and It’s also why we have more than doubled This Government is focused on making every parents at the opening of SDN Milperra Children’s investment in education to more than $65 school a great school, so that every child can Education and Care billion, which is already providing more money reach their full potential and make valuable Centre on 1 August. for teacher quality training in literacy and contributions to our society while looking numeracy and bringing schools into the 21st confidently towards the future. Adelaide High School’s focus on citizenship AND human rights initiatives

Tree of Human Rights by Professor Smolicz AM which hangs in the Hallway of Human Rights at Adelaide High School

Adelaide High School has a rich and culturally diverse The Vision and Priorities Statement and the community, with its 1260 students coming from over 60 different school motto - Non scholae sed vitae: Not only cultural backgrounds. To add to the richness of the school, for school but for life - are the guiding principles of an education at Adelaide High School. we also have a Centre for the Hearing Impaired which caters Part of the school’s Vision is to build on our for up to 20 students with a hearing impairment. The cultural linguistic and cultural diversity by offering a wide diversity, both within Australia and the school community, is range of active learning opportunities connecting reflected in the range of curriculum programs and resources our school with local, national and international communities, and the school also has a which are employed to actively promote international priority of maintaining a safe and welcoming understanding, intercultural and global awareness. The United environment based on respect. As such, Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights underpins the Adelaide High School has a strong commitment curriculum and directs the work of many student-led initiatives, to global education, respect for all, and civics both within the school and in the wider community. Students and citizenship responsibilities. Civics and Citizenship education takes many are taught to understand, value and celebrate cultural diversity forms at Adelaide High School, with students and citizenship responsibilities. developing knowledge, skills, attitudes, beliefs and values which enable them to effectively

60 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 education develop a number of skills including community of universal human rights through painting, mindedness, respect, responsibility and special ceremonies and visual displays. The inclusion. Our aim is to encourage students to Tree of Human Rights by Professor Jerzy move beyond tolerance to embrace diversity in “George” Smolicz AM, who was the leader of all its facets. the Multicultural Education Committee (MEC) In 2003, following the development of the and had a strong relationship with Adelaide Student Representative Council Manifesto High School in the area of the human rights, is 2000 which celebrates diversity, the Student a treasured artefact in the Hallway of Human Leadership Forum developed a school Rights and hangs there proudly as a reminder Reconciliation Statement which was ratified that we are all connected by our humanity and

Student Representative Council members in the Hallway of Human Rights on Open Night participate in community and leadership activities locally, nationally and globally. “Non scholae sed vitae”: Through numerous programs, the school provides leadership training and opportunities Not only for school but for life for students in all year levels, and students are actively encouraged to participate in by the school community. Concurrently, the hence our universal human rights. decision making forums and to gain experience Indigenous students of the school designed and The school takes great pride in the work as leaders. Through the work of student painted a mural which symbolises Adelaide it undertakes in the area of human rights, leadership groups such as the Prefects, Student High School as a pathway to various walks of with a number of curriculum programs and Representative Council, Interact, Peer Leaders life. This work and other student leadership student-led initiatives reaching out locally and and House Captains, the activities undertaken initiatives were celebrated by the official beyond Australia to the global community. The by students in the Active8 Youth Leadership opening of the Hallway of Human Rights day-to-day respect which is shown throughout course, and the work of students in community in late 2003. The Hallway of Human Rights to those of differing nationalities and creeds, projects such as Adopt-a-Grave, Ecovision and stands today as a constant reminder of the the many acts of compassion and charity which Adopt-a-Train-Station, students are able to student commitment to the United Nations occur each year, and the spirit of understanding engage with society, gain an understanding of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is which pervades the whole school are all the importance of their role within both their a specially designated space where students testimony to the living of the ideal. immediate and the global community, and symbolically make commitment to the idea

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 6 1 The ongoing work of Adelaide High School in the area of human rights has been acknowledged by the National Committee on Human Rights Education who presented Adelaide High School a Citizen of Humanity Award in 2005. This Award was in recognition of the commitment made by the Adelaide High Student Leaders celebrate Harmony Day in 2012 School community to Human Rights Education. As well as their work in the area of human The student leadership groups, coordinated rights, students have also been involved in by the Student Leadership Forum, have a number of programs which give them the been active in promoting international and opportunity to connect with individuals and intercultural awareness through a number of groups within the local and global community Anti-harassment poster developed following the activities, including Harmony Day, National and to make a real difference to their world. Peer Leader-run Anti-Harassment Program Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week, World Refugee Day and Peace One Day, and in raising underpins our Priority to have a safe and funds for organisations such as World Vision, welcoming environment based on respect. In Uniting Care, the Cancer Council, the “Build a response to their learning from the Peer Leader School” project in India, Amnesty International program, and in conjunction with the National and “Médecins Sans Frontières”. Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence Students also present workshops to student held early in the year, the Year 8 students and adult audiences on human rights issues. created anti-harassment posters signifying Every year student leaders represent the their commitment to a safe and harmonious school at the MEC Conference and present the environment locally and globally. In presenting Students maintaining graves in the school’s human rights work and set a model West Terrace Cemetery their poster, one group said, “No matter where for other schools to follow. Student Leaders we are from, what colour we are or what have conducted professional development In 2011, the Adopt-a-Grave program began religion we are, everybody is the same; we are for teachers across the state on human rights with the historic West Terrace Cemetery near all equally important. We can all work together issues, highlighting a range of materials in the school, and the aim of this program is to to make the world a place where bullying and human rights education, some of which have involve students in helping to maintain the harassment stops now.” been developed by students, thus influencing graves at the Cemetery. After an induction both the content and the delivery of the process, students go to the Cemetery after Centre for Hearing Impaired curriculum at Adelaide High and elsewhere. school to help restore and maintain the To highlight the school’s Centre for Hearing In 2011, the school was finally able to action graves. Improvements to the graves due to the Impaired, and in line with our commitment its longstanding dream of holding a Multicultural students’ work are clearly evident. to inclusion, Year 8 students participate in Convention to share the school’s passion for The improvements at the Mile End Train introductory Auslan sessions as part of their human rights and showcase the work of our Station, adjacent to Adelaide High School, are transition from primary school to secondary school’s community to other schools. The also clearly evident after 3 years of work by school. Auslan classes are also held each Convention, supported by funding provided students from the Active8 Youth Leadership week for interested staff and students. The by MEC, saw presentations from a number of classes, with the assistance of local artist John Deaf students have taken on a leadership different organisations and the Year 12 Society Whitney. Through the Adopt-a-Train-Station role during these sessions, mentoring the and Culture class. The Convention ran over program, students have painted murals on participants while developing their leadership two days and involved more than four hundred various areas of the station including in the skills. These classes assist staff and students to students in the school. The theme of the underpass, on the water tanks and on the communicate with Deaf or Hearing Impaired Convention was based on the United Nations 8 shelters on the platforms. people within the school and wider community. Millennium Development Goals, and each of the In a partnership which began in 2010 with As part of the Extended Curriculum Group, an workshops addressed one of these goals. Trees For Life and the Adelaide City Council, initiative of a number of local schools, Adelaide This year, the Student Leadership group the Ecovision Club has planted hundreds of High School has been running an Auslan course successfully applied for a MEC grant to trees and shrubs along the northern boundary for staff and students in other schools since facilitate their work in human rights education. of the school. Students have been involved in 2008. A Signing Choir has also recently begun Their major focus was promoting literacy as a sowing native seeds in tubes, thinning then rehearsals with a view to performing at formal fundamental human right. In September, student planting out the seedlings, and maintenance of school assemblies later in the year. leaders will head to Raukkan Aboriginal School the planted area. The group will undertake the on the lands of the Ngarrindjeri people near the planting of another 500 seedlings on July 27 as International Understanding Coorong as part of their “Lend a Hand” project. part of National Tree Day and Schools Tree Day. Assembly Student inspired stories of cultural journeys The annual International Understandings will be shared and children’s books, both Peer Leader Program Assembly, traditionally held just before Easter, is a created and donated, will be read so that each The work of the Year 11 Peer Leaders in formal and very moving occasion where members community comes to respect the importance of outlining the cultural diversity of the school of the school community reflect upon their own literacy in our lives. Student leaders will revisit population, explaining the United Nations identity and experiences and their learning about Raukkan later in the year and it is hoped that Universal Declaration of Human Rights and others in the global community. This assembly is a these visits will be the beginning of a close presenting the school’s anti-harassment celebration of the way we work together and make relationship between the two schools. program to the incoming Year 8 students, connections with many languages and cultures.

62 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 education At this assembly, students, guest speakers and performers share something about their life, their culture and their language, highlighting their part in the rich tapestry that makes up Adelaide High School. In recent years we have had speakers from many cultures and walks of life; we’ve learnt about the Stolen Generation, about life as a Hearing Impaired person, we have been entertained by traditional singing and dancing performances from a number of cultures, and moved by the experiences of Afghani refugees as they tell of their dangerous journey from Afghanistan to Borneo World Challenge participants digging the foundations for a greenhouse Australia and the difficulties they face settling in another country. World Challenge to Borneo In 2011, a group of students and two staff members participated in a World Challenge expedition to Borneo. Prior to their expedition, much time and effort was given to raising funds to support the students with their volunteer project in Borneo which was working in a home for the disabled and contributing in whatever way they were needed. They were asked to dig and set the foundation for a future greenhouse so the inhabitants could grow their own vegetables and, despite the back breaking, hard work which followed, no one complained, as everyone shared the joy of giving something back. Not only did the challengers complete the foundation, but they also assisted with other smaller tasks in the home. The home also had Student from Pengalusan, north east Bali, with a list of items that were needed, as it depended a desk chair purchased with the 2011 Prefect strongly on donations, and the students decided fundraising money that they would buy a much-needed washing machine and lots of smaller items with the September to see how Adelaide High School can Adelaide High School students have assisted Zonta International by compiling more than funds they had raised. By embarking on this further support the people of Pengalusan and the 7000 Birthing Kits amazing journey of self discovery, Adelaide East Bali Poverty Project. High School students developed life skills Birthing Kits such as communication, teamwork, empathy, In his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Students, initially in the Interact Club and now risk-management, negotiation, delegation Human Future in Space, astronomer Carl Sagan from across the school, have been involved in and money management. Plans are already outlined his thoughts on a deeper meaning of the the Zonta International Birthing Kit Project underway for a second group to undertake a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the since 2005, assembling birthing kits for World Challenge in late 2013. Voyager 1 spacecraft, 6 billion kilometres from pregnant women in developing countries to help Earth. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a eliminate infant and maternal mortality rates. East Bali Poverty Project pale blue dot against the vastness of space. Sagan Zonta International, a business women’s group, In what the school hopes will become an ongoing said, “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great came up with the effective, yet inexpensive, project, last year’s Prefect group raised funds to enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all birthing kits in the hope of providing a clean purchase desk chairs for the school children in this vastness – there is no hint that help will come birth for women all over the world. With Pengalusan, a remote village in North Eastern from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up the help of Zonta’s birthing kits, infant and Bali. The purchase of the desk chairs was to us … To my mind, there is perhaps no better maternal mortality has decreased by 25%. organised by the Bali Dynasty Resort in Kuta demonstration of the folly of human conceits Adelaide High School students have made who support the East Bali Poverty Project, which than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, over 7000 of the kits which have been sent has been assisting families in North Eastern Bali it underscores our responsibility to deal more to Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Sudan and who were living in abject poverty without water, kindly and compassionately with one another Afghanistan. As the program has developed sanitation, roads, schools, health facilities and and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, over the years, students in the Year 12 Society electricity. Given the Adelaide High School motto the only home we’ve ever known.” At Adelaide and Culture classes, as well as working is “not only for school but for life”, the principles High School, our Vision is to deal more kindly alongside Year 9 students, Zonta and Interact behind the East Bali Poverty Project – “helping and compassionately with one another, and the members to compile the kits, are taking on the people to help themselves” – are similar to that curricular and co-curricular initiatives employed role of promoting the program to students in of the school. Through their fundraising this year, by the school are assisting students to develop the Middle School and the wider community the Prefects will be supporting the purchase of international and intercultural understandings, and are actively involved in raising funds to school uniforms for the children of Pengalusan, learn the importance of community service and continue this important project. and a staff member will be visiting the village in to become truly global citizens.

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 6 3 Adelaide Secondary School of English Adelaide Secondary School of English is a South Australian government school that offers specialist intensive English language programs to prepare secondary aged migrant, refugee and international students newly arrived in Australia, for entry into mainstreams high schools or alternative work and study pathways. education

The school presently has an average enrolment As reflected in the school vision, the school of between 450- 550 students between the ages of 12 and 18, from as many as 60 community places a strong emphasis on the different countries and 70 language and promotion of intercultural understandings. This cultural groups. Student numbers fluctuate significantly throughout the year because of also helps to prepare the culturally diverse continuous enrolment and students leaving at the end of each term on completion of their student population for effective lifelong learning course of study. Students normally spend up and participation in Australia and global society. to a year in the school, although those who have had disrupted or minimal schooling This work is also supported by the school values: can spend up to 2 years. Most students will transition to mainstream government, Catholic Cultural Diversity, Equity, Integrity, Respect and and Independent high schools across the Responsibility. These values are incorporated in Adelaide metropolitan area, although a few will travel interstate, overseas or seek out work everything the school does. opportunities. In 2002 the school was one of the first in South Australia to achieve Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation and became a recognized Mind Matters school in 2010. This recognition acknowledges a whole school approach to student mental health and wellbeing. The school has a unique, student body that is constantly changing in its cultural diversity, education and wellbeing needs. Staff provide a safe, caring and supportive learning environment whereby students receive a relevant and challenging curriculum, and an opportunity to learn about their new city and country.

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 6 5 The school has a unique, student body that is constantly changing in its cultural diversity, education and wellbeing needs.

uses their facility for classroom use during the The Adelaide Secondary School of English is an school day and MYSA uses the school facilities outstanding example of how students from a (specifically the gymnasium and oval) for after- wide range of cultural, religious, educational and school activities. When opportunities arise, jointly planned and managed activities occur socio-economic backgrounds can work in a positive, during the school day. These include a Homework exciting and productive environment to achieve Centre, Cultural Programs, End of Year activities quite remarkable personal and educational leaps and Refugee Week celebrations. forward in a short space of time. Sports matches and whole school sports activity days are part of the school calendar and are generally organised by the PE Positive student behaviour is constantly classes are taught across all levels, integrating Learning Area Leader, SRC and nominated encouraged and rewarded by teachers both in ESL, S&E and Health units. It also ensures that teachers. There is also an after school sports the classroom and at whole school assemblies wellbeing, in particular child protection strategies program on Wednesdays when students have and presentations. Students are supported to are formally taught within the curriculum. the opportunity to be involved in interschool take responsibility for their own learning and Students are assessed in English language sports competitions behaviours and to be sensitive to the rights skills on enrolment and placed into one of 4 Currently the Swimming Program, ESL and and needs of others. Students are provided levels accordingly (Foundation, Intermediate, subject specific excursions provide students with an opportunity to be involved in the Advanced or Transition.) Where possible, classes with opportunities to experience different governance of the school by their participation are divided into Junior or Senior according to the social and recreational activities, which are an on the Student Representative Council (SRC). ages of the students. Students also follow one integral part of the whole curriculum. Elected class representatives meet on a weekly of three Learning Pathways depending on their Families with children attending the school basis and are provided with leadership training previous educational experiences. live in suburbs across the broader Adelaide and opportunities to plan student activities. Students in Senior classes are given the metropolitan area with only a small percentage They also respond to the needs, values and opportunity to complete the Personal Learning living in the school’s local community. As choices of the student body by consulting and Plan (PLP) which enables them to gain units most families are recently arrived from many reporting back to their class. SRC members are towards their SACE. They are also eligible to different countries with different schooling encouraged to act as positive role models and receive additional SACE units for their studies systems, the school plays an important role mentors for other students, especially when of English across the curriculum. Vocational in providing them with information about they are new to the school. Education and Training (VET) opportunities schooling in South Australia. It is important The school welcomes and supports the are also offered within school. Some students for them to understand that the school works involvement of community groups and agencies complete Certificate 1 in Retail Operations in partnership with the families and that good that receive funding for projects which target or attend a variety of other VET programs communication between the parties is essential new arrivals, refugees and multi-cultural youth. including the Learner Driver course. to the educational success of their children. These special projects occur on a regular basis Class sizes are smaller than in mainstream As students attend the school during the and include: Dance, Hip-Hop, Cirkids and schools to enable a more focussed approach first years of their family’s settlement in Drumming. Other sporting programs include to teaching. School Services Officers (SSOs) Australia, it is not unusual for families to district sports competitions in soccer and and Bilingual School Services Officers (BSSOs) move accommodation several times during basketball and an Aussie Rules Program. There and registered community volunteers provide their short stay at the school. The majority of is also a Homework Centre as well as a range 1:1 or small group support to teachers and parent/caregivers do not have English as their of lunchtime activities including Choir, Maths students when requested. The school is well- first language so, like their children, they also club, Chess and a Gardening club. resourced with teaching and learning materials attend English language programs during the The school prepares students for that support the range of student needs. day and do not work. Many of them also rely participation in mainstream high schools, This includes information technologies with on public transport. It is therefore often difficult further education and training. English is taught interactive whiteboards in many classrooms, for the parent/caregivers to be proactive in the through the full range of curriculum subjects 2 dedicated computer rooms and a multi- education of their children. including Mathematics, Science, ESL, Studies media room. Banks of lap-tops and i-Pads are The Adelaide Secondary School of English is an of Society and Environment (S&E), Health and also available for classroom use. A Transition outstanding example of how students from a wide Physical Education, ICT, Technical Studies, process occurs at the end of the student’s final range of cultural, religious, educational and socio- Home Economics, Horticulture and the Arts. term whereby they are given the opportunity to economic backgrounds can work in a positive, The Personal Learning and Wellbeing (PLW) visit their chosen High School. exciting and productive environment to achieve program introduces the concepts and language With Multi-cultural Youth SA (MYSA) on site, a quite remarkable personal and educational leaps for the Personal Learning Plan (PLP). These joint-user agreement is in place whereby the school forward in a short space of time.

66 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 familyhistory 6 7 /Sep 2012 - Aug THE LAST POST - The Special Edition Penrith RSL Club

Penrith RSL Club prides itself on its Penrith RSL Club has been an integral part of the commitment to upholding the vision and the spirit of the RSL movement. Where many clubs Penrith community, ever since its establishment in have moved away from the image of the RSL, 1953. Located in the centre of Penrith, we are at Penrith RSL has strengthened its relationship, having one of the largest Sub Branch the Heart of our City. Since 1953, we have grown associations attached to the Club. Anzac Day Dawn Service and Club both in size and in members, yet continue to remembrance activities are the largest in operate under the same principles and values that Western Sydney and continue to grow each year. To compliment our commitment to the were established many years ago. Penrith RSL is brave men and women of the armed forces we wanted to produce an extraordinary a Club that puts members first. We exist for our display area for the memorabilia that has been members and our community. collected and donated by our members over the years. With so many upgrades and renovations made to the club in recent times, Neel Chand, CEO of the Club was determined to create an area where our members and guests could not only reflect and appreciate the sacrifices made by the men and women of our armed forces, but also appreciate a beautiful feature that would compliment the new and modern styling of the club. Knowing the importance this Memorial Display would have to the Penrith community, Neel enlisted the assistance of the talented students of our local TAFE’s Design Department. After extensive research, including interviews with local ex servicemen, the students produced an amazing design,

68 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 EST. 1953 which includes a time line of wars, pictures, seen in the hundreds of happy patrons that affordable prices, provides a family friendly memorabilia, listings of conflicts Australia has grace our Castle Lounge each week. atmosphere that compliments the Penrith RSL been involved in and a listing of fallen soldiers Our Castle Lounge is also home to our Bingo Club’s principals of community. form the Penrith area. and Raffles. Our Thursday night Spinna Winna Since 1953, Penrith RSL Club has thrived on The commanding feature of the display Raffle is more than just a raffle, It’s a night to putting our members and community first. The is an amazing piece of artwork depicting a meet old friends and make new ones. Penrith RSL Club’s Memorabilia Display is an Gallipoli diorama, which was created by local Our Legends Sports Bar features our TAB, astonishing and moving testament to the service artist, Terence Plowright and had unfortunately snooker tables, pool tables, darts board and our of the men and women of our armed forces and been forgotten in the old part of the club. Now big screen TV. There is no better place to meet to the efforts of a community to ensure that refurbished and brought to life in this beautiful up with your mates and watch the footy, or through the building of this display, the memory display. play a game of pool. of their service will live on for generations. The Penrith RSL Memorial Display We are currently undergoing renovations in Whether you are a local or from out of town, was officially opened by the Hon, Warren the Club, to provide our members and guests Penrith RSL Club is a place that you will not Snowden, Minister for Veteran Affairs with with a 700 seat Star Buffet. Star Buffet, famous forget. Come and visit us soon, Penrith RSL the attendance of many VIP Guests including for their wide array of delicious dishes and Club, at the Heart of our City. Local, State and Federal Ministers. The TAFE students who designed the display attended the official opening and were honoured with a plaque attached to the display. Not to mention, the attendance of many of our members and their guests, to view this personal and emotive memorabilia display. Penrith RSL Club prides itself on bringing the community together. We are one of Penrith’s leading Dining and Entertainment venues. With eighteen different intra clubs, from cricket to chess, no matter what your personal tastes are, Penrith RSL Club has something for everyone. We feature live music all weekend, with styles ranging from Rock and Party music, to Jazz and Country. We book only the highest quality of entertainers and the results can be

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 6 9 individuals so ensuring we have a culture that is inclusive of women is very important. TLP: Through these meetings with troops both here and overseas, have you been able to detect a willingness to change things? EB: I feel very positive about the change that is possible in the military. It is a very male dominated culture, particularly when you move right out to the front line, it is about the warrior culture and important to be sure we have an effective armed forces. Having said that, the enemy needs to be outside, not on the inside and those issues we’re looking at are issues that will impact on women and men’s effectiveness in theatre. So there are work and family issues, what they do on deployment and to ensure that the family issues are covered back at home. We’re looking at the issues of career opportunity’s so can men move outside the wire as easily as women and how that happens. We’re looking at sexual harassment and sexual A conversation with assault, so a whole range of issues that are

important to men and women in the ADF. TLP: How have you found the issue of sexual discrimination here in Australia? Elizabeth BroderickEB: I try to connect as effectively as possible Elizabeth Broderick was appointed for a five TLP: Thanks for joining us here at The Last with women but also with men because if you year term as Sex Discrimination Commissioner in Post, Elizabeth Broderick, what have you been look at women in work, the fact is men make September 2007. She was also the Commissioner up to lately? the rules around work, they have access to the responsible for Age Discrimination from Elizabeth Broderick: Well, it’s been a busy resources so I think if we want those rules to September 2007 until July 2011. time lately. There’s two main things that we’ve change, we need to work together with men During her term, she has been committed been up to. One is the treatment of Australian to change them. And we’ve had some success. to improving gender equality through her women throughout the military and that’s One is concerning the national paid parental advocacy in preventing violence against women across the army, air force and navy, that’s been leave, the second thing is making sure men and sexual harassment, improving lifetime taking a lot of my time over the last twelve and women are paid equally. The other thing is economic security for women, balancing months. I suppose the other area is looking looking at how we can strengthen the gender paid work and unpaid caring responsibilities, at what initiatives and policy responses can equality agency to make sure it has the power promoting women’s representation in be put in place to support working women. and resources to do what it’s designed to do. leadership and strengthening gender equality That’s from women who work in lower paid TLP: Have you found a difference in travelling laws, monitoring and agencies.Elizabeth has environments right up to those who are looking between regional attitudes and city attitudes? been a key advocate for Australia’s national at leadership levels. EB: I think there are particular issues across paid parental leave scheme, and domestic TLP: How big a role is it for you in regard to regional and rural areas. I was at the United violence reform. She has championed the women’s role in the military? Nations earlier this year and we were talking changes to the ASX Corporate Governance EB: It’s been a very significant review and about particular issues for rural women, where Principles to increase the number of women at inquiry. Just to give you some sense of it, there are examples of domestic violence. For decision making level. She has worked with the we’ve been to 40 military bases in the last six example, in metropolitan areas you may be Australian Government to strengthen gender months and I returned earlier this year from in close proximity to a refuge. In rural areas equality laws and agencies. Afghanistan, spending a period over there I spoke to women who have to leave with Elizabeth represents Australia in the United talking to our women and men about their their kids and walk 80 kilometres to the Nations every year and has facilitated the experiences on the front line and actually going nearest refuge. Examples such as there being attendance of marginalized Australian women out to some of the forward operating bases so it only on policeman in the town and he plays as key advocates to address issues such as has taken up a lot of my time but it is important football with the alleged perpetrator. They’re alcohol abuse and domestic violence. work. We have a military of around 60,000 the types of issues that are quite different in

70 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 people 7 1 /Sep 2012 and the right to a family Smart life. employers are realisingthat flexibility and programs that can be put in place will step be towards a big retaining their best shouldn’t devalue talent. We motherhood. It’s the most important thing As an I have a women thateveryday. I do expectation as a good to being mother but also to be and in work that that a I’ll have I enjoy stable form of income. TLP: is age discrimination prevalent How in the workforce? age discriminationEB: Yes, is quite insidious. Research shows that from the age of 45 onwards, your age becomes one of the great unaddressed barriers in paid to continuing work. With age discrimination we’re at the early stages of what needs need to happen. We to increase the awareness of it because it’s hard A reallyto combat in that it is invisible. positive step towards that has been the appointment of a full-time Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan So she’s taken Ryan. the over work in that area a terrific and is doing With the job. increase in the there’s of elderly, number no question that some we have issues to deal with there. It also presents some great opportunities and we need to see In it in that different light. cultures you see more of the extended families. TLP: the you felt need Had to make a change from an early age? as field playing we were on a level EB: I’d thought persona young and it wasn’t until I’d had my first child that I realised that wasn’t necessarily the case. that At age I was lucky to be in a role enough where I could start to try to make a difference. TLP: Is it true that you and your twin sister went to different schools, as children? we’d always been enrolled at different EB: Yes, schools. TLP: Did you used to swap places with your sister sometimes? used to swap schools,EB: We periodically, yes. I’d go to her school and Ha. she’d go to mine. TLP: The teachers didn’t notice but the classmates did? the classmates did. TheEB: Yes, teachers didn’t! to her GermanI remember going class and I’d spoken a word of German.never The teacher didn’t notice which told me her German was pretty from Life average! for me now, away work as timeis spending much with family as possible. That’s important in this a reasonably It’s job. high on the road a lot. There canstress be You’re job. hostile receptions because when you’re talking about gender relations you’re really to the going heart of a belief system and when you’re talking to Super Hornet pilots fighter about flexible work arrangements, that’s not designed to get a good response. That can be challenging! TLP: Thanks for your time at The Last Post Elizabeth. thanks It was Greg. greatEB: Yes, to speak with you. - Aug THE LAST POST - The Special Edition threatened in some but an way overt female presence? right. There are some men who EB: You’re feel threatened andthe fact is that men and women’s minds are so intertwined so that when one side is diminished then both sides are diminished. So it’s about working with men to understand that families,example, for when families a greater have deal of economic resilience, that benefits both men and women. Of course, there’s also a lot of responsibility involved with the being only breadwinner in If you lose your job there’s a lot of a family. pressure that comes from that, so I think it’s important that we keep the communication sohappening both gender’s create a partnership to make a better future and create more gender equal wealth because when we do that we all benefit. TLP: Does it come down to the art of communication? EB: I think communication is a really important part of it but communication itself, by of course, What won’t be enough. we need is action as andwell that’s something I’m keen to advocate, communication between different groups. Also between groups employers and like unions and civil society and Governments in a bid to get them to come together because a lot of these issues should be non-contentious. It’s about the lifting whole of society and making it more equal and it’s best that we know what each organisation’s vested interest is and make sure we take that into account when making decision’s. If were to take of the our eye ball, it tendmay to go backwards very quickly. TLP: On a personal side, how important is it for you to feel you’ve made a difference? EB: I do feel I am making a difference, just in the everyday conversations with I have people. If I can individual’s change lives for the better and work with them to suggest strategy’s then I think, made a positive overall, I would have It’s thosedifference. moments that are the most ratherrewarding, than the large scale or even wholesale changes. TLP: Things more respect like for motherhood so that it’s not an inhibitor to progress in the workforce? EB: That’s exactly right. Smart organisations understand that mother or fatherhood, I mean, people need deeply with to engage their families as as well in paid work. Both of those are basic rights human – the right to paid work male very . It is a rural communities and urban communities. So we need to be aware that no one-size- fits-all need to work. approach We is going to make sure the approach is tailored to the environment. TLP: Is it particularly indigenous in relevant communities? EB: That’s exactly a lot of work right. I’m doing with communities. In indigenous both urban areas and really remote parts of the country we’re really working to support indigenous leaders. There are a lot of wonderful female leadersindigenous and supporting we’re them to rebuild some of the social fabric in their communities. Some good examples of that is the work that’sin the done being Fitzroy In fact those women accompanied me Valley. into the UnitedNations a couple of years ago to tell their story about of their the rebuilding community there up in Fitzroy. TLP: you seen Have changes since you took the job on in ’07? there’s been a lot of positiveEB: Yes, changes. moved forwardWe’ve in a whole range of areas. As mentioned before, a we now have national paid parental leave and five years ago we were one of two countries that had no access to such a scheme so that’s been a major seen have an increase We development. in the senior of women in number leadership levels across business and corporate Australia and again, that’s a positive We’re development. getting a better on into what’s going insight with domesticviolence and sexual harassment and to measure we’ll continue that. That’s a positive that we’ve got the development hard data there so there’s areas many where there has been strengthening of legislation and some positive policy initiatives said but having that, there’s still a great deal of work to be done. TLP: I was talking with Ita Buttrose who insisted that you get a better company bottom women involved in decisionline when you have making with levels these companies. EB: That’s exactly right. The research shows that where there’s greater diversity at a senior the corporatelevel performance better. much is It just makes sense your – if you’re drawing talent from 100 per cent of the talent pool rather than just 50 per cent, that’s got to be better for your business. Common sense. TLP: Back to the importance of talking with and educating those men that feel may that the change about positive very “I feel the military in is possible when you , particularly culture dominated ....the enemy front line the out to right move ...... these on the inside , not be outside to needs and on women will impact that are issues .” in theatre men’s effectiveness Elizabeth Broderick Elizabeth Legacy’s role:

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by David Campbell for the drought hasjustbeen broken andeach patch of green’s a token He was wounded inthefighting inNew Guinea, andthat’s blighting While thedistant hills still shimmer and I wait for starlight’sglimmer I have searched for words quite vainly, yet muststate this very plainly, for I really need your blessing…your dismay would be distressing… Now Ihave one lastconfession, lest you get thewrong impression, We’re just partof thebeginning, in a battle well worth winning… But despitemyhomesickyearning there isso much I am learning He is strong, yet kindandgentle, andthere’s something elemental where the wildlife isquiteferal and each day isfraught with peril, You maythink I’ve lost my senses, but I’ve banished all pretences, You have heard, Iknow, of sorrow, of a place with no tomorrow, As I write, theheat isfading, anda gum tree’s leaves are shading There isharshnessintheweather, but it brings us all together… But itseems asthoughhe’s coping, and Ivery muchamhoping With thedamsalloverflowing and a breeze at twilight blowing, and the harmony of sharing brings a strength, a bond of caring, I remember you beseeching meto stay at home while teaching, Though I miss the village chatter, it no longer seems to matter for his colour hasno bearing on thelifethat we’ll be sharing, There islittle comprehension of thescale and true dimension All Iask is understanding, with a plea you’ll not be branding for Ilove him very dearlyandwould ask that you, sincerely, how the past has been translated to thepresent now created, In the people I am meeting there is joy, a friendly greeting, I amwriting, dearest mother, of a land that’s like no other, for this country isbeguiling inasense that hasmesmiling On our path lie many dangers, and thenecessary changes but I followed other voices, and,intaking up mychoices, I have meta man, dear mother, and he’s unlike anyother, But enough procrastinating, for, you see, I’mhesitating We will face discrimination with a joint determination But the tales of any nation are, in truth, exaggeration, In the turning of theseason I can find another reason that we’ll do our best to prove the doubters wrong, me in haste with hurtful names, as well you might. of the horror that they went through, and the fear. that I’ve left the lanesandhedgerows well behind, while the people, by andlarge, just couldn’t care. for the lifeblood of thetown flows with the rain. me from daylight’s final blaze of blood-red sun. to renew my strength andkeep my vow to stay, in hisknowledge of the land and nature’s laws. and alifestyle that’s so farfrom all I’ve known. the acceptance for all time of whiteandblack.

Ato this culture stillliedecadesdown the track. Letter Home and Ineed himso, with all my heart and soul. and I’msorry that I caused you so muchpain, at thesheltered way mylifewas once defined. so I pray you’ll grant a smileandnot afrown. but we know theroad aheadis hard andlong. will support us bothandmake our union last. and one needs to pauseand try to understand of alandscape that is starkanddrybare, with alifestyle that’s so very far from yours. quite a lot of lives as men return back here. I cantrulysayI’ve found so much to gain. for the man Ilove has skin as black ascoal. and Ihesitate once more to setthis down, that the two of uscanovercome the past, we uniteasone to face a common foe… I canponder on the life I’ve now begun. for Australiaisan ancient, timelessland. that there simplyisn’ttimeto feel alone. that assists us allto prosper andto grow. to explain the major reason that Iwrite. of afuture that at firstseemed far away. it is possible to see some hope again.

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Frank people Maureen biographical volume. named as part of the World Who’s Who of Women Biographical Centre, of Cambridge, Englandto be 2010, Maureen was invited by theInternational resource of women andtheiruniquetalents. InMay business leaders in over 150 countries marshal the the Gap gender diversity program she has helped Through her participation in PWC’s Closing and increased opportunities for women in business. global bodythat champions inclusive workplaces Headquartered in New York, Catalyst is the peak company to win the prestigious Catalyst Award. instrumental in Telstra becoming the first Australian initiatives and best practices. In March 2010 she was advancement,recognised globally for her acumen, expert on gender diversity and women’s Maureen Frank isAustralia’spre-eminent 80 THE LAST POST - TheS pecial Edition -A ug CEO, EmberinPty Ltd /Sep 2012 for ASXListed companies. of thenew ASX Recommendations need to implement, particularly in light businesses face andthestrategies they can analyse andquickly assess the risks and riskmanagement background, she value of gender diversity. With alegal far more successful by embracing the women andtheirbusinesses become organizational level to helpmen, Put simply, Maureen works at an global clients, and individuals. and clients, global anumber oflarge institutions, educational bodies, sporting national departments, government inAustralia, X 100companies AS Family. spans Smith tothe Emberin business her from profits donates and companies largest ofAustralia’s tosome advisor Gender Diversity a been Councils, has Diversity Resources Wesfarmers and Downer’s Amcor’s, Amatil’s, Cola facilitator.executive onCoca She sits VIP and speaker sought-after motivational sheisahighly addition In Australia. and Africa South India, States, United inthe conferences seller. best Australian an was edition, second nowinits in 2005and released first book, to. This minds puttheir they achievewhatever can women tobelieve they You her book, inspires which GoGirlfriend, in isreflected goals career and personal their forhelping womenachieve passion Maureen’s women. other supporting and femininity embracing their whilst success outstanding forachieving peers female and male by their respected leaders business offemale generation adisability. oneofwhomhas girls, oftwin mother being asingle whilst this in2005–all Star’ ‘Rising of Year aBRW Award named was in2004and shewonaTelstraAustralia Woman Business Within performer. astandout as recognized inAustralia. worlds equity private and banking investment hardnosed of newrevenue forAon, the having cracked producer largest the was herdepartment years, three Within team. acquisitions and mergers upAon’s head local and tocreate Australia to 2001shereturned In industry. insurance acquisitions and mergers fledgling player inthe amajor whereshewas mid-1990s UK inthe India. and Australia across by thousands undertaken programs men’s genderleadership and programs ofwomen’sadvancement suite MyMentor ofthe creator the and company; genderdiversity and women’s empowerment premier Australia’s founderofEmberin, is the She development motivation. and skill guidance, practical through lives their transform Maureen has been an expert presenter at presenter expert an been has Maureen foranew bearer standard She isthe was Maureen Aon internationally Within tothe moved Maureen lawyer, A former level shehelpsAt individual people an whatever happened to... 8 1 /Sep 2012 Lucky’s style ranges from to Rock & Roll, These his days polished performing style has centres. The show featured the cream of Australia’s entertainers from the 50’s, 60’s and its Due to 70’s. popularity it became the special.subject “It was of an ABC Television ten years back and it was sensational”, says Lucky, “and there’s every chance happen it may again”. Country through to Jazz and is in fact similar to the late great Darin. Bobby him working full time in the business he loves. Lucky Starr is one one is Starr Lucky founding the of the of members Pop Australian A Music Industry. television on regular as such shows also and Bandstand O’Clock Six hosted season. one for Rock made also He appearances regular Bramston, Mavis on 60-61 Revue ... Starr

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Lucky was also the first Australian 2002 and 2003 saw Lucky touring with and started I loved it and then working in the U.S. of course I arrived there in L.A. and recorded ‘Poor Little Jimmy Brown’ at Dot Studios. performer to entertain the troops in Vietnam; in fact his paying own there way and made five subsequent trips into the war zone. an Arena Spectacular The Top”, To “Long Way which toured Australia’s capitals and regional

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In early 1962 Luckysongwriter met In 1963, Lucky moved to the United States In Melbourne Tonight, Sing Sing Sing, plus Sing, Sing Sing In Melbourne Tonight, HA W Geoff in an Afro-Cuban Mack in nightclub GeoffKings Cross. played him “I’ve been everywhere” and Lucky recorded it a couple of weeks It was released later. in Australia on Festival on Dot Records. and in the USA It remains an all-time favourite and received the highest accolade in the industry, music the award. Platinum “It was heady back days then as rock ‘n roll here was in it’s infancy kidsand young would go to extremes to hear it, to see J O’K, The Storm, it. Roland Digby, Deltones,the we were first rock stars but, fame is fleeting and you handle it’s how it that’s important”, Lucky says. and had chart success with “Poor little Jimmy Brown”. During this time Lucky concentrated on the cabaret circuit and toured the world extensively for the With chain. Hilton Hotel the considerable success he had in Las Lucky Vegas was offered American “America residency. was sensational. I’d worked here with jazz vocalist EcksteinBilly and the famous Jimmy Rodgers and they sponsored me so that I got my Green Card many othermany entertainment shows. WEST WANGARATTA PRIMARY SCHOOL - VIC In 2004 I entered my school in ABC Classics Grab the Goanna competition amid sense of belonging, cooperation and confidence doubts that our school was worthy of such a prize. To our great delight we won! as we make music together. We not only received a Yamaha baby grand piano, but the goodwill of a nation of Reflecting on our win eight years ago I know Classic FM listeners. Such was the kindness that one listener donated a sizable that the piano is not just a sentimental memory. amount of money to start a building fund for a new music room. Six years on It is an ever present reminder that change can and we got exactly that. The occasion of winning the piano stands as a landmark and does happen. It stands as a symbol of the in our school’s history. It opened a door to a new culture; a new way of seeing status that music holds in our school and the things, creating pride in our school and a renewed sense of achievement. It value we place on quality music education. generated the inspiration needed to move the music program forward, and since Music at our school crosses all social and then music education at Wangaratta West has never been the same. cultural barriers. It is the thread that binds our school community together. Over the past eight years the number of to participate in rhythm activities and helping students who have taken up the piano and them learn traditional African drumming Celebrating the arrival of the grand piano in 2004 other instruments has dramatically increased. pieces. The partnership is hugely successful, A year on from winning the piano we held our benefitting both clients and students. Recently first music recital in the old music room as a we performed at the 7th World Congress for way of commemorating the birthday of our Neurorehabilitation and were applauded for our piano. Over the years the recital evening has efforts in the use of music therapy. grown into an event that celebrates how music Aside from weekly music lessons the school connects us. Students perform alongside their also runs two choirs and a senior percussion parents, teachers, friends and other community group. The choir program develops students’ members. The last few years have ended with part singing and has seen them give heart- a community drum circle or African dance led warming performances at local events, by our Senior Drum Group. nursing homes, retirement villages, Carol’s by The school runs an extensive African Candlelight and the school’s annual Christmas

schools across the nation schools across drumming program with junior, intermediate musical. Students at Wangaratta West enjoy and senior groups. The senior drum group, learning music because it instils within them a known as West Beat, perform and run drum circle workshops for local community organisations and events. In 2010 West Beat formed a partnership with the Northeast Neuro Support Group to assist adult clients in their rehabilitation for brain injury. Students are partnered with an adult client; assisting them

Celebrating the arrival of the grand piano in 2004 Heart Beat group (Neuro support drumming partnership) at the The school’s senior African Drumming group, called West International NeuroRehabilitation Beat, performing at Harmony Day celebrations in 2011 conference in Melbourne in May this year.

The school’s senior African Drumming group, called West Beat, performing at Harmony Day celebrations in 2011 OECD GIVES MY SCHOOL TOP MARKS

resolved. The report provides examples of A recent report from the OECD sound policy formation and strong political leadership which other countries may choose to confirms that the Labor Government’s learn from,” he said. “This Government launched the My School goal of giving Australian families more website in January 2010 to ensure everyone involved in education—teachers, school leaders, parents and politicians—can see how schools and students are information about their local school than faring, to help us lift school performance and direct resources to where they are most needed. ever before has been highly successful, “The report found that as a result of My School, we now have nationally consistent data that lets us thanks to the My School website. analyse policy options and better target our funding and resources.” School Education Minister Peter Garrett students, teachers, parents and decision- International research—including the OECD said the Delivering School Transparency in makers. Programme for International Student Assessment Australia: National reporting through My “The OECD monograph sets out the (PISA)—shows clear accountability for school results School report released late June, showed that rationale behind My School, the various encourages better results for school leaders, teachers the implementation of My School has helped challenges the Government faced during its and students and lets parents make informed development, and how these challenges were decisions about their child’s education.

Key observations of the OECD report include: Recognising Aboriginal • School transparency has placed the whole community in the same position as and Torres Strait Islander education officials in having access to new national data. peoples who championed • Policy details were based on evidence • The Government clearly articulated change the rationale for making nationally comparable school information publicly available, and promoted greater flexibility Defence has The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander for education expenditure in return for acknowledged the peoples who entered into service in World War more transparency and accountability. II are a great example of people who ‘dared to • Before NAPLAN and My School there was role Aboriginal and challenge’ in the interest of Australia. no nationally comparable data or single More than 3000 Indigenous Australians source of data on all schools on which Torres Strait Islander enlisted during World War II. A further to base policy reforms and the equitable distribution of funding. 150-200 served as de facto Servicemen peoples have played in and patrolled and performed other military “We know parents use and appreciate My defending Australia at a duties along the north Australian coast while School. On launch day, the site had around an additional 3000 Indigenous Australians 30 million page views, and since then up memorial service held supported the World War II defence effort as until late June, 4.5 million people have civilian labourers. logged on to get information about their at the Australian War “History shows that our Indigenous Service local school,” Mr Garrett said. Memorial last month. men and women dared to challenge the system “The OECD report acknowledges how by fighting for their country in a time of great important My School is in helping us The Chief of the Defence Force, General need and were among the early pioneers of a respond to the recommendations of the David Hurley addressed the ceremony and laid a reconciliation process that continues today,” Gonski school funding review. My School is wreath in honour of Indigenous servicemen and General Hurley said. also helping us implement other key reforms women, past and present. “There is a long list of exemplary Service such as Rewards for School Improvement, The ceremony was part of NAIDOC week men and women who also happen to be and ensure funding for programs such as 2012 which is celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Indigenous. We thank them for their service literacy and numeracy schemes goes to the Strait Islander peoples who have championed and welcome the next generation of Indigenous schools that need it most.” change. One of the themes for NAIDOC 2012 is Australians who will carry on their tradition of Mr Garrett said My School will continue ‘They dared to Challenge’. service,” General Hurley said. to be updated and improved over time, with “It is a powerful theme and what comes Defence provides education, training information such as teacher experience and to my mind is a spirit of courage and and dedicated programs like the Defence the number of students with disabilities at determination. Both are vitally important Indigenous Development Program and every school to be added to as part of site qualities shared by all Service men and Indigenous pre-recruitment course to assist. updates. women,” General Hurley said.

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Mr Snowdon said the funding is part of the Australian Government’s Veteran & The successful applicants include: Community Grants program, which provides REGIONAL • $14,570 for Arts in the Long Grass (Northern support for ex-service and community Territory). One of the most disadvantaged organisations. COMMUNITIES populations in Darwin will be offered access to arts and cultural expression through the “I am pleased to announce $555,589 has GET ARTS provision of arts materials and mentors which been allocated towards 62 projects around will allow members of this community access the country that help veterans, war widows FUNDING to a wide range of artistic expression. and widowers lead healthier and more • $29,670 for Crush Festival 2012 – Youth fulsome lives,” he said. BOOST Development Project (Queensland). Young “This funding will assist a range of people in Bundaberg will engage in a variety initiatives and activities, from undertaking Regional communities of street art projects such as making zines, QR bus trips to reduce social isolation, interaction games, pop-up acts and busking at to purchasing equipment to produce across Australia the 2012 Crush Festival in October. community newsletters and enhance social will be flexing their • $2,376 for Exploring OUR world through activities.” photography (South Australia). Local women Veteran & Community Grants are creative skills thanks from the Bowhill and Karoonda area will be available to ex-service and community able to participate in a two day photography organisations, veteran representative to funding for arts workshop exploring ways to express themselves, groups and private organisations to projects as diverse celebrate local life, and to find beauty within the support projects that aim to improve the harsh environment in which they live. independence and quality of life for the as busking, street art, • $15,000 for Inside/Out (Victoria). A site specific veteran community. performance project working with people with Since 2008, the Australian Government musical theatre and a disability exploring movement, sound, light has supported more than 1,200 photography. encountering space through the senses. organisations with over $13.6 million in • $25,000 for Staircase to the Moon (Western funding. Arts Minister Simon Crean announced in Australia). Theatre Kimberley will develop “It is important that the ex-service late June that 86 arts and cultural activities the story Staircase to the Moon (written by community has access to activities and throughout regional Australia will benefit from Indigenous author Bronwyn Houston) into a programs to give them skills to remain more than $900,000 in funding through the musical play for children by running puppetry, independent, healthy and active, particularly Regional Arts Fund. dance and voice workshops. The final production for the elderly living by themselves,” Mr Mr Crean said the funding will help kick-start will be performed as part of the opening season Snowdon said. arts projects in South Australia, Queensland, the of the newly refurbished Civic Centre Broome. “These projects improve access to Northern Territory, Western Australia, Victoria • $2,280 for the 140th Anniversary Gala Concert community care services, encourage social and Tasmania. (Tasmania). To commemorate 140 years interaction and ultimately enrich the lives of “Australia has a huge wealth of creative talent of continuous service, the Latrobe Federal Australian veterans, young and old. in the regions. The funding announced today Band will perform a reunion Gala Concert in “I encourage local and community allows artists to work with communities to November 2012 featuring past and present organisations to apply for funding to ensure create vibrant and memorable performances and senior and junior band members and debut our veterans continue to engage in a healthy artworks,” Mr Crean said. a commissioned work. Funding will assist lifestyle.” “The Australian Government is committed to commissioning composer Graham Lloyd with Organisations interested in applying for supporting creative and artistic expression in our travel costs and to engage Musical Director of funding are encouraged to visit www.dva. regional communities. the Latrobe Federal Band, Vivian Martin. gov.au/grants or contact their nearest DVA “The Regional Arts Fund encourages • The funding for each state will be provided office on 133 254 (metropolitan callers) or networking and partnership building in these through the local regional arts agency. 1800 555 254 (regional callers). regional communities to enable the exchange • The full list of recipients and of ideas which is so essential to growth and further information on the . creating new opportunities in the arts and Regional Arts Fund is available at culture space.” www.arts.gov.au/arts/regional_arts_fund

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“People want to be able to live in their own home and get the support services they need to continue having a meaningful interactive life in their community,” Ms Hall said. Mr Butler said it was also important to provide more choice and control to older people in the way services were delivered. “We’re replacing an aged care system designed a quarter of a century ago and which is now ill-equipped to meet the needs of retiring Minister for Ageing Mr Butler said the Australian Government’s baby boomers and their parents who are living Living Longer Living Better aged care reform longer and healthier lives,” Mr Butler said. Mark Butler joined provided a comprehensive 10-year plan to Other key aspects of the reform package local MP Jill Hall in July reshape aged care. include: “In preparing this package I held consultations • Increase residential aged care places from in Belmont to report with individuals, community groups and the 191,522 to 221,103. aged care industry across Australia, including the • Funding of $1.2 billion to improve the back to the community Hunter and Central Coast regions. We listened to aged care workforce through a Workforce on the Government’s what you said and now we are delivering.” Compact. Local Federal MP for Shortland Jill Hall said • More funding for dementia care in the aged $3.7 billion aged care the $3.7 billion reforms provide a strong focus care network, and more support for services. on helping people to stay in their own home as • A single gateway to all aged care services, to package. they get older. make them easier to access and navigate

Every student benefits from arts education under new National Curriculum

Every Australian student develop their sense of identity and can provide traditions. There is also a strong focus on Indigenous great benefits for learning in other core areas. art forms in the new curriculum.” will study the arts from “The value the Gillard Government places Minister for the Arts Simon Crean said a on the arts is reflected in the fact that the creative nation is a more productive nation and their first year of school Arts Curriculum is the first learning area to be teaching arts is vital to inspiring creativity in developed for the National Curriculum after the young people. under the new national four core subjects of English, maths, science “Research shows an arts-rich education and history.” prepares children for better academic arts curriculum, which Speaking at the Australian Major Performing achievement and creative flexible thinking,” Mr Arts Group (AMPAG) Arts in Education forum Crean said. was released last month for in Brisbane, Mr Garrett said the draft curriculum “The new national arts curriculum is an has been developed after close and extensive important dot to join as the Federal Government public consultation. consultation with the arts community and develops the first National Cultural Policy since educators across the country. Creative Nation more than 20 years ago. School Education Minister Peter Garrett said “The curriculum is divided into the five arts “The National Cultural Policy will link that education will be transformed with the subjects of drama, dance, music, the visual arts, traditional arts, creative industries, screen arts coming to centre stage. and media arts. It sets out how students from the production, digital platforms and school “This will be the first time every Australian first year of school to Year 10 will study these education to position the arts as a driver of school student will be entitled to arts education subjects, what they can learn and the achievement social and economic benefits.” from kindergarten onwards and I know the standards they will need to meet,” he said. Mr Garrett said the draft Arts curriculum positive impacts on students will be huge,” he said. “Each subject is developed to be appropriate was developed by the Australian Curriculum “I’ve been a passionate advocate of the for different age groups, so for example Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), importance of arts as part of a comprehensive, Kindergarten students will learn about dance following the blueprint set out in the earlier arts well-rounded education. Learning subject movements by playing games. ‘shape paper’ developed last year by Professor areas like music and drama inspires creativity, “Students will also use the arts to learn about John O’Toole, Foundation. encourages young people to think critically, helps local, regional and global cultures, history and

THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sept 2012 8 9 CULTURE RESCUE by The Zone’s Michael Short

“We are readers who the writer could not have imagined. We belong ... to the unimaginable future.” - Michael Heyward

THE Miles Franklin award is arguably Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. It was won three times by David Ireland. His books are out of print in this nation. This Michael Heyward is on seems absurd, a cultural a mission to bring out- shame, as does the fact of-print Australian that Miles Franklin’s literature back into celebrated My Brilliant the cultural ether, Career can only be writes Michael Short. bought in Australia in an American edition; it is out of print here. Michael Heyward. Photo by Simon Schluter, Fairfax Syndication.

Ireland and Franklin are but two of many ‘’The thing about old books that I find have their books published. And what that has writers of stupendous Australian literature mysterious and interesting is that reading them meant is that over time for a range of reasons whose work is out of print in Australia. now, we are readers who the writer could not we have lost track of some of the great books You can’t buy a new Australian copy of a have imagined. that have been written by Australians.’’ lamentably large number of works that are a ‘’We belong, from the point of view of the The other key explanation for the fundamental part of our heritage and are as book, to the unimaginable future, and it’s when unavailability of Australian classics, as Heyward fresh and enticing and engaging as they were at a book passes that test of moving beyond the would have it, is that our universities are failing their creation. circumstances of its publication, where people to offer enough courses in Australian literature. The Zone’s guest Michael Heyward has are either cheering it on or they’re howling The first chair in Australian Literature decided to do something about it. He is founder at it or whatever, and it encounters readers was created by public subscription at Sydney and publisher of Text Publishing, which is who have no prior interest in the book, no University in 1962. Fifty years later, there are poised to release - in paperback and e-book preconception about whether it’s good or bad only three such professorships in the entire - 30 Australian classics, many of which are at and different, that’s when you get a really nation, he says. ‘’This goes to a question present out of print. fascinating reading experience.’’ of what is the view inside cultural studies Each book in the series contains an Australia is a nation of readers; we have long departments, as they are called now, about introduction by a guest writer. The full list had a relatively high consumption of books per the primacy and the primary necessity of kids can be found here. As well as Franklin’s My person. Paradoxically, though, we publish a encountering the literature of their own country Name: Brilliant Career and Ireland’s The Glass Canoe, relatively low number of books compared with when they are doing their degrees. it includes Peter Corris’ The Dying Trade, other industrialised, rich nations. ‘’Kids are studying Australian books at Address Watkin Tench’s 1788, Shane Maloney’s Stiff, A key reason is that Australian publishing school and then they get to university and Kate Grenville’s Dark Places and Elizabeth began to emerge quite late. The industry unless they go out of their way to find these Harrower’s The Watch Tower. remains dominated by European and US courses, they may do an arts degree and not In explaining the project during our publishing houses. read any Australian books at all. Method of Payment interview, the full transcript of which and a ‘’Our book publishing, in its modern ‘’While the publishers have often not done short video are at theage.com.au/opinion/the- incarnation, is not really old - it’s about 30 a very good job to keep these books in print, I Credit Card Details: zone, Heyward gives a definition of what makes years old, maybe going back to the ‘70s. Before am mystified myself why Australian literature a book a classic. then, there was really one great Australian does not have a bigger footprint inside our Money Order or Cheque Number Details: ‘’There is something about them that remains company, which was Angus & Robertson. universities.’’ new, fresh, shocking, challenging, confronting ‘’So we have a history of being intensely Heyward’s epiphany about older literary and energising. curious about things with our reading, but of works came long ago when he discovered the our writers often having to go overseas … to writing of Watkin Tench, a lieutenant-general

90 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 who arrived with the First Fleet. He came could take older books - and there is a history Is there some sort of cultural cringe going across references to Tench in Tim Flannery’s of us doing this at Text - and present them to a on? ‘’Cultural cringe is an extraordinarily The Future Eaters, and finally tracked down in readership now in ways which will really entice potent phrase, because it not only identified a library an academic hardcopy that had been readers to pick them up.’’ a reflex in our culture that things had to find published in the late 1950s, the first reprint The digital revolution is creating cultural approbation outside Australia before since 1792. ‘’I read the book and it blew opportunities for publishers and media they could be accepted inside Australia. It’s me away. I thought every 15-year-old should companies, even while it disrupts their extraordinarily potent because ‘cultural cringe’ read this book, because here is an incredibly traditional business models to the point of has, with the fame of the phrase, helped to readable, lively account of the primary driving some out of business. It might be engender the thing that it’s meant to merely encounter between European and Aboriginal difficult for producers and distributors of describe. But I think that that is a common culture that the British encountered, and the content, but it is unambiguously positive for reflex. In some ways it’s an understandable environment.’’ consumers. People can now buy an e-book at reflex. He contacted Flannery, who has written any time of the day or night, and Text is feeding ‘’We are a recent literature, but there is the introduction to the edition Text is about this growing market by producing all but two nothing in literary history that says that recent to publish, and suggested editing a version of the 30 books in the classics series in digital literatures are not dynamic, fully formed and for paperback. They did, and it sold tens of form as well as paperback. as challenging as older literatures.’’ thousands of copies. ‘’Penny Hueston, my Michael Heyward and Penny Hueston Heyward describes his project as ambitious, wife, was in Readings the weekend that we launched Text Publishing in 1994. They have something that is about much more than his published the book and she came back and four children. When Heyward speaks of little publishing company. He is on a cultural said, ‘I couldn’t get out of the bookstore publishing, he does so almost with the same mission, seeking to create a rightful place for because someone had bought a copy of Watkin passion as when he talks of childbirth and works that capture our passions, our fears, Tench and he was standing in the doorway fatherhood. Almost. The first book they and that link us to our past and can inform our reading it and he wouldn’t move.’ published was Maloney’s Stiff, and it has not future. ‘’There is something so distinctively modern been out of print since. ‘’These books add to our stock of available about Tench’s engagement with a place that Heyward says many people he talks to reality … We simply won’t be fully culturally alive he’s trying to understand absolutely for the about the project are astounded that so much if those books are not part of the cultural ether.’’ first time that he really showed us how we great Australian literature is out of print. www.theage.com.au subscribe SUBSCRIPTION FORM SUBSCRIBE NOW!

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In late April Parliamentary Lieutenant Colonel Pilbeam briefed Senator Feeney and Mr Symon MP on the role of 4 CER, Secretary for Defence their rich history, connection to the community and active servicemen and women. Senator David Feeney and Recent domestic operations of 4 CER include deployment to Kinglake in the aftermath of the the Member for Deakin 2009 fires and a rotation to Shepparton in 2010 and Nathalia in 2012 after floods. Mike Symon MP visited Currently the unit has one member deployed in Afghanistan, seven members deployed in the 4th Combat Engineer Timor Leste and upcoming rotations to the Solomon Islands. Regiment (4 CER) in “It was great to meet the men and women of 4 CER and to be briefed on their significant Ringwood East. contribution to the Army Reserves and ADF,” said Senator Feeney. 4 CER has a long history in Ringwood East. “4 CER is a wonderful example of ordinary The Regiment’s lineage goes back to the 10th people in the electorate of Deakin living Combat Engineer Squadron who served in extraordinary lives by serving to their country WWI. The Ringwood East Depot has been in through the Army Reserve,“ said Mr Symon MP. continuous Defence use since 1956. The Ringwood Depot is certainly a good Ninety per cent of these Reservists live neighbour to the people of Ringwood, lending a within a 20km radius of the depot, making the helping hand to the community wherever possible. Regiment truly local to the eastern suburbs. “We often get requests from local schools and There are 195 Army Reserve officers and RSLs for assistance, especially around ANZAC soldiers stationed at the East Ringwood Depot Day. A particular highlight was the recent as well as 14 full-time Army personnel. Maroondah Schools ANZAC Day service on held Senator Feeney and Mr Symon MP were met 18th May at Ringwood Soundshell. Lieutenant by Brigadier Robert Marsh, Commander of 4 Green and 4 soldiers assisted with the official Brigade and Lieutenant Colonel Glen Pilbeam, ceremony,” said Lieutenant Colonel Pilbeam. Commanding Officer 4 CER. The Ringwood East depot is also home to 31st Army Cadet Unit and 408 (City of Melbourne Squadron), Australian Air Force Cadets. The combined strength of these cadet organisations is approximately 170, including staff and cadets.

92 THE LAST POST - The Special Edition - Aug/Sep 2012 lookingfamilyhistory back Burnet received honours many and Burnet married Edith Linda Druce in 1928. distinctions, which among the Fellowship of the Society Royal of London (1942), where he was awarded the Medal in 1947 Royal and Medal the in 1959, and Copley where he delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1950. He holds an honorary doctorate of the University of Cambridge, andwas of the made a Fellow was of Surgeons He in 1953. College Royal knighted in 1951, and in 1958 he received the Order of Merit. Burnet was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969. They one son, have Ian, and two daughters, Elizabeth Dexter) (Mrs. Paul M. and Deborah (Mrs.John Giddy).

Image courtesy of National Archives of Australia and the National Australia Day Council Burnet has embodied his experience and which paved the for successful way human organ transplants. was He awarded the inaugural Australian award shortly of the Year after his return from the Nobel Prize in ceremony When told of hisSweden. he observed: honour, ‘It does indicate that the community thinks that science is important, which pleases me.’ experimental results, not only in numerous scientific papers, but in several books which show that he is a master, not only of a clear and attractive literary style, but also of lucid exposition ideas of complex and scientific facts. Loo king B a ck In 1960 Burnet shared the Nobel Prize for Born in Traralgon, Victoria,Born in Traralgon, Frank Macfarlane and the first Australian of the Year – 1960 – 1960 Year of the Australian first and the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine Medicine for Prize the Nobel of Winner SIR Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE, AK KBE, OM Macfarlane Burnet SIR Medicine with Peter Medawar of Britain for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance, Burnet graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1923 and joined the Walter and Eliza Institute Hall of Medical Research (WEHI). His early research focussed on bacteriology but his major contributions were In 1944 he wasin virology. appointed Director of WEHI and during his 21-year the tenure institute became a world leader in the study of the influenza virus and immunology. Bequests_A4 Generic_Layout 1 7/08/12 10:34 AM Page 1

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