Hi everyone yesterdays
11 th Anniversary of the
NATIONAL APOLOGY for FORCED ADOPTION ,
was really nice & held at a new Venue.
Chris Mundy was our MC for the event,
ex senator Claire Moore gave a really
lovely memorial speech for
our late member Marg Hamilton,
also Marg's daughter Claire
(who was our photographer )
at most of our functions
gave a lovely tribute to her mum,
Claire was given a Bonsai
to take to her father
( Hugh who no longer
want's anything to do with adoption )
understandable in the circumstances
We also heard from Charlotte Smith
was CEO of Vanish for a years),
explained the law changes in
Victoria regarding the $30.000
compensation payment,
more information
via the Vanish website.
Kerri Saint wrote a new
song sung by Rachel Clancy.
The morning tea was nice
gave so many of us time to catch up,
Meredith who was Claire Moore's
secretary was there,
so lovely to see her after so long,
i came away feeling that was
one of our most successful
Anniversary events we do need
some new ideas for next year.
we got to meet Helen the person taking
over from Tevor Jordan
On the 1st July when he retires in,
The Queensland Adoption Committee we be
meeting with David Crissafulli
to educate him on ADOPTION
as he's Planning to re introduce ADOPTION.
Which of course is
UNACEPTABLE
in this Day & Age.
The next ALAS meeting is
South side Saturday 6 th April
East leagues Club Main st.
Cooparoo
at 12 pm until 3pm.
for more information please phone Trish 0417077159
