They Cried For Their Mothers - A Poignant Anzac Poem
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They Cried for Their Mothers The words in my poem They Cried for Their Mothers are an evocation of my personal connections to Gallipoli and explained as follows: My Great, Great Uncle Herbert Hare and his brother Charles ‘I think of all those farm-boys’ landed at Gallipoli with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 25th April 1915. A few months earlier Herbert had written home from a village called Mena in Egypt, the Christian pilgrimage centre in late antiquity, ‘in the lands of Bible Lore’ to advise (left) that he was “leaving Egypt for the Dardenelles to fight the Turks”....
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Founding Bravery Co & Beating the Big "C" Three Times
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Bravery Co. was born to a girl called Emily. A dreamer and a traveller, a collector and a designer, she spent her days as an Art Director in a bubble of colour and happiness. Then she got sick. Real sick. She got cancer. Not once, not twice but three times. And do you know what, she beat it. Not once, not twice but three times. Inspired by her own experience of chemo, cancer, naps, and turbans, she's on a mission to create some cool cancer headwear in the hope to give bravery to others going through something she knows only too well. Emily and Bravery Co. is located in Melbourne, Australia....
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The Worlds Most Admired Crime Writer!
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Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, most recently Darling Girls. Her novel, The Mother-In-Law (2019), has been optioned for a TV series by Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler. Drawing on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are laced with quirky humour, sass and a darkly charming tone. Sally's novels are available around the globe in English and have been translated into 20 languages. She has sold more than one million books...
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Sports Conscious - 43 years - Always Pivoting and on Trend
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Proud Local. Since 1981. ________________________________________ For 43 years, Sports Conscious has been delighting customers in Brighton with a unique range of premium outdoor and sporting fashion brands. Every day, the passionate team of experts lead by Andy Stuart Menteth provides the highest level of customer service. It’s just one of many reasons why Sports Conscious become known as “that store”. Andy continuously searchs the globe for innovative, sustainable, and environmentally conscious brands whose products are kind to the planet. From well known to small up-and-coming, he is...
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Angel Babies & Perinatal Loss, The story behind Possum Portraits
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Possum Portraits was founded in Bayside in 2021 The timing was significantly influenced by COVID, in the sense that I had just moved to Melbourne with my Aussie husband and then 6 month old daughter in late January 2020. We had not been in the country 6 weeks when the first lockdown was announced in March. I knew no one and was being kept from making friends by continuous lockdowns for the better part of 2 years; so I decided to found a charity that was based on work I had been doing in Germany since 2018 (drawing infant loss portraits) in order to give myself a purposeful project and feel...
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My Future's So Bright...I Gotta Wear Shades
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An Artist, Podcaster, Author & Consultant - leading a very busy life. Heading into retirement Andrew wanted a plan and decided it put it on paper and help others with his story. So he wrote a book and It’s called "My Future’s So Bright…I Gotta Wear Shades", it’s a practical workbook including 18 fun but life changing exercises, a signature Goal Setting tool, Planning checklists and Bucket List ideas designed for those seeking reason and meaning in Retirement. It's my hope that the information in the book will help people to: • Define their purpose in this next phase of their...
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A Master Educator - Creating Better Cultures & People
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A Career educator who has dedicated her working life to developing better people through positive leadership. Meg has continued her personal development in an educational journey through Melbourne's elite private schools including Trinity Grammar, Caulfield Grammar, Scotch College, Brighton Grammar and now Mentone Girls Grammar. Meg has a proven track record in developing People and Culture. It is no surprise she has moved through the ranks and is respected as one of Melbourne's leading figures in the education space. Her experience across the spectrum of Co Education at Caulfield Grammar and...
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Olympian - Chef de Mission - CEO
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Olympian & Leading sporting administrator, Kitty Chiller has been appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) for her significant services to sport. Kitty Chiller AM has been honored for her work in Modern Pentathlon as both a competitor and senior administrator, plus a broad range of achievements across 35 years in domestic and international sport. Ms Chiller’s services to Modern Pentathlon as a competitor include being the first ever female to represent Australia in Pentathlon at the Olympic Games (Sydney 2000); earning the world number one ranking and...
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On top of the World at 19 Years - Everest and Beyond!
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Gabby Kanizay is a young adventurer who on May 14th, 2022, became the youngest Australian to summit Everest. While Everest alone is quite literally the highest point for many adventurers to aim for, it wasn’t quite enough for Gabby, who went on to summit the adjacent Lhotse (the world's 4th Highest peak) on May 15th. Prior to Everest, Gabby was also the youngest woman to ever summit Cho Oyu, the world's 6th highest peak, meaning at only 19, she has summited 3 peaks over 8,000 metres. All these incredible achievements have been with the support of her family, friends, and global community,...
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Environmental Economics and the Fight for Goldstein
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Tim Wilson has served as the Federal Liberal Member for Goldstein since 2016, and is the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Tim the MP for Goldstein and is the Minister responsible for building Australia’s industrial future and driving job creation, while reducing our emissions. He is the only Member of the House of Representatives that has completed postgraduate studies in climate science, has studied ‘transitioning to a carbon neutral economy’ at Cambridge and carbon accounting at Murdoch University. He previously served as the Chair of...
info_outlineDriven by the love for her son Connor – The journey of the Dawes family is a testament to this wonderful Bayside person.
A savvy businesswoman and passionate about helping her community, Liz Dawes founded the Robert Connor Dawes foundation after her son passed away from brain cancer in 2013. She has grown the charity to be the biggest paediatric brain cancer foundation in Australia.
As CEO and Chairwoman of the board, Liz now manages Connor’s Run, the country’s largest paediatric brain cancer event with 5000 participants, and has been crucial in lobbying the Federal Government to secure funding for a disease that kills more young people than any other cancer.