Letters and Messages of Support
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) was established in 1994 to address the particular disadvantage of women with disabilities in Australia. It is the only peak organisation for women with disabilities in Australia, and one of only a very small number internationally. WWDA has over 2,000 members, including individuals and organisations within and outside Australia. WWDA is inclusive of all disabilities, and is run by women with disabilities, for women with disabilities. The success of this national organisation run largely on the voluntary efforts of women with disabilities with only a small infrastructure is demonstrated by its impressive publications and its awards:
Winner: The Australian Violence Prevention Award 1999
Winner: The ACT Violence Prevention Award 1999
Winner: Capital Region Enterprise & Employment Development Association
Special Recognition Award 1999
Currently nominated for the United Nations Millennium Peace Prize
for Women Award 2000
The Australian Government has recently released a Discussion Paper on the future funding structure for peak bodies currently funded through one of its Departments (The Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (FACS). The Paper, entitled "Funding Peak Bodies - A Discussion Paper" proposes a new model which would see Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) disappear within the next 5 months.
The proposed model involves a two-tier system, and includes Level One ('umbrella') and Level Two ('satellite') organisations. The paper suggests that people with disabilities in Australia could be represented by one single 'umbrella' organisation, or alternatively, 5 smaller 'satellite' organisations. The paper suggests that the smaller 'satellite' organisations could be arranged by diagnostic group: Physical, Intellectual, Neurological, Sensory, and Psychiatric Disabilities.
The division of disability into diagnostic groups suggests that problems are located in individual deficit (such as blindness or deafness) rather than discriminatory attitudes, structures and institutions. It assumes people can be neatly divided into their impairments. Similarly, one disability organisation funded as an 'umbrella' would be very vulnerable to control by government as there would be no other voices to intervene and it is likely that the most powerful in the movement would have the greatest say.
The paper proposes that, whether people with disabilities are represented by an 'umbrella' organisation, or by 5 diagnostic 'satellite' organisations, it would be up to the organisation to 'ensure that they also represent the interests of indigenous, culturally diverse communities and women in their area of interest'. History shows that the experience of immigrants, indigenous communities and women are lost if the "mainstream" is left in charge. In fact, the very reason WWDA was set up was precisely because the needs and issues of women with disabilities in Australia were not being acknowledged or addressed by either the women's movement or the disability movement.
Women with disabilities are, from the government record, one of the most marginalised groups in Australia. They:
(Sources: Anderson 1996; Frohmader 1998; WWDA 1998; ABS 1993).
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) plays a vital role in providing a voice for women with disabilities at a policy, program and service level and in communicating their needs directly to government. This role is not fulfilled by any other organisation in the disability or women's sector. Individual and systemic advocacy undertaken by WWDA plays an important role in assisting women with disabilities to exercise full citizenship and should be supported by government to do so.
Write, ring, email, or fax:
Senator Jocelyn Newman
Minister for Family & Community Services
Minister for the Status of Women
Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
Ph: +61 2 6277 7560 Fax: + 61 2 6273 4122
Email: senator.newman@aph.gov.au
Write, ring, fax or email:
Director, Government and Community Team (CW2)
Partnership and Service Delivery Branch,
Dept of Family and Community Services
PO Box 7788, Canberra Mail Exchange, ACT 2610
Ph: +61 2 62445529 Fax + 61 2 6244 7321
Email: peakbodydiscussionpaper@facs.gov.au
If you would like to read the Government's Discussion Paper. Go to: "Funding Peak Bodies - A Discussion Paper"
If you need more information, contact WWDA:
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
PO Box 229, Dickson ACT 2602
Ph: + 61 2 6242 1310 Fax: +61 2 6242 1314
Email: wwda@ozemail.com.au
Below are copies of messages WWDA has received in relation to the Government's proposed funding model, as well as some examples of general feedback letters on WWDA's performance.
Dear Senator Newman:
I understand from the international networks of disabled women that there
is a discussion paper being circulated in your country that, if its recommendations
were implemented, would lead to the defunding and most likely the death
of Women with Disabilities Australia. In my view as an activist for disabled
women's rights in the US, this would be a tragedy not only for disabled
women in Australia, but for disabled women around the world. WWDA is a
model organization with innovative programs, research and materials that
groups of disabled women in many different countries are seeking to emulate.
It is a leader in the growing international disabled women's movement.
In my own work, I have used many of the WWDA materials, including the award-winning
packet on violence and abuse prevention, to raise public consciousness,
support laws and develop programs to stop the double discrimination that
disabled women in my country also face. It is my hope that you will recognize
the enormous contributions that WWDA has made toward promoting equity for
disabled women and girls, and make every effort to ensure its continuance.
Thanks so much for your consideration of this matter.
Cordially,
Harilyn Rousso
New York
5 August 2000
My dear Senator
I work in the domestic violence sector and as a political candidate for
the S A Legislative Council. I've found the work produced by WWDA to be
of an international benchmark standard. This is an organisation we can
be proud of and I know you have supported in the past. I thank you for
this and ask that you give consideration to continued funding support.
The work they do is absolutely vital, it has been to award winning standard
and deservedly so. It is of great concern to me that their funding is now
uncertain.
With kind regards
Edith Pringle
5 August 2000
To Whom It May Concern
Our thoughts and prayers go with you at your time in need. Perhaps Women
With Disabilities (Australia) should file a complaint against the Federal
Government of Australia for discrimination on the grounds of disability.
It would seem that in seemingly breaking down the disability movement into
its component parts that this risks loss and discrimination against the
population as a whole. It has the danger of creating an atmosphere of elitism
in different segments of disability and may break down the power of a cohesive
community of interest. Thus in a sense apparently breaking down the movement
by fractionalising it. We are reminded here of an old statement regarding
"dividing and conquering". The danger seems to be that people
with disabilities may be reduced to a powerless invisible minority instead
of being a powerful visible one. The portent of the report that you mention
seems to be quite shameful. Our thoughts are with you at this difficult
time.
Laura Rainville
Alberta , Canada
7 August 2000
Dear Senator
I cannot believe that such a National peak body as WWDA would even be remotely considered for de-funding now or at any time! It is the ONLY NATIONAL PEAK BODY that any and all women with disabilities can join and relate to for personal support, technical advice/support, and have a national voice on the numerous issues relating to, and surrounding us as women with disabilities.
We are already heavily marginalised. Are you willing to support the Howard Government in this move? John Howard and his government have already attempted to separate and marginalise married and single women with IVF. What is this Federal Government prepared to lay on women with disabilities? Our lives as women per se are difficult enough, I am sure every woman would agree, we don't need or want any more negativity or hardship in our lives to further disable us or make our lives even more difficult in any way.
The Howard Government is really out of touch with women in Australia. This Federal Government is out of touch with the reality encompassing the lives of women in Australia, particularly any woman with any kind of difference or disability. This will be at the heart of the downfall of this Federal Government at the next Federal election. All women will unite when services and facilities that they have worked hard to gain are taken away from them, for no good reason.
I will be interested in receiving your reply on this matter. Keep WWDA funded and going indefinitely!!
Yours Sincerely
Mrs Phyllis Rappaport
August 13 2000
Dear Senator
Re: Future of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
We write with real concern for the future funding of this Association. Our understanding is that the Department of family and Community Services has produced a Discussion Paper outlining changes in funding peak bodies. Primarily what is being proposed will directly affect WWDA. To change funding to a more medical model would seriously undermine WWDA given they approach the issues for women with disabilities in a more holistic and thus more effective and constructive manner.
This last point you are clearly aware of given they have won various awards and are now nominated for the UN Millennium Peace Prize for Women Award 2000. Such an organisation needs to be supported by the Federal Government and not have its present funding restructured causing WWDA to close. If anything Senator, we would urge you to increase the funding of the present organisation to enable it to more effectively work with its client group.
As one example of what WWDA has done to date, we are a remote area service. From contact with WWDA and information received from them (as well as contact with our local services who WWDA has supported), we have been able to recognise what we need to do as a service to make ourselves more accessible to women and children with disabilities. If WWDA continued to receive the present support and gained further funding from you, this relationship and its positive effects on women and children with disabilities in remote areas would indeed improve. Basically, women with disabilities and services like ours, need WWDA.
Again, we urge you to continue to fund WWDA in its present form and not introduce the system that is being proposed in the discussion paper. We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Esme Tyson AM
Coordinator
Alice Springs Women's Shelter Inc.
19 August 2000
Dear Senator Newman,
My comments are brief, but I hope you'll not interpret them as less worthy for that. I want to make two key points; one of a general nature about conceptualising disability and the second is more by way of an illustration of this.
My attention was caught by the proposal to fund Peak Bodies on the basis of diagnostic groups, and the symbolic and practical implications of such a strategy. The increasingly established view, around the world, is that disability is first and foremost a matter of social justice. Indeed, the social policy developments and activities of our own national and state governments, and that of other comparable states in western democracies, for some two decades or more, has reflected this view. It is one we are coming to better understand as we conduct social research and work to improve cultural and economic conditions.
This point is of inestimable importance, because it constitutes a powerful formula, as it were, for conceptualising and implementing actions to enable disabled people to be properly included as Australian citizens. The proposal to fund Peak Bodies on the basis of diagnostic groups is an equally powerful, contrary statement that, these social issues of disability can really be organised around medical conditions. Of course, through this lens, medical conditions are understood to be the problem of particular individuals and (diagnostic) groups, and following on from this, such individuals and groups come to be viewed as the source of the difficulty of non-inclusion. Such a view deflects in a most serious way from the complex social and structural ways in which people with a diverse array of impairments are excluded from or marginalised in social and economic life of our communities.
A significant illustration of the point I am making relates to the work of the organisation Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA). As you know, WWDA was established in 1994 to address the particular disadvantage of women with disabilities. Its work cuts across diagnostic groups, in supporting disabled women, who we know from all available evidence, are among the most disadvantaged in our community. Its work, which I should say depends on a considerable voluntary effort by disabled women themselves, has been exemplary. It has a strong and growing membership, and as you yourself are aware, has been at the forefront of important social justice issues for disabled women such as violence prevention. Whilst their work is specific to the interests of disabled women, the impact, as with all good social justice activity of this kind, is for the benefit of the whole community. Yet, it is my impression that if the logic of your proposal was applied, such an organisation would be de-funded.
I say with respect, and in the strongest terms that, aspects of this Discussion Paper, if carried out, are potentially very damaging. I think this is illustrated quite simply, by reference to the work of WWDA. Can you reassure me that, my impressions about these potentially damaging effects, are not true ?
It should be said too, that overall it seems that the disability sector should attract greater funding, and not be disadvantaged further in order to meet the resource needs of other sections of the community, who themselves of course, may also require better government support.
Sincerely,
Dr Mike Clear
Critical Social Science
University of Western Sydney
August 9 2000
To: Senator Jocelyn Newman
We join our friends Women With Disabilities Australia to strongly protest against the proposed discussion paper by government "Funding Peak Bodies - A Discussion Paper" which, by its discriminative nature will destabilise the disability movement in Australia leaving the national voice for women with disabilities to disappear. We urge you to reverse your decision and observe the rights of women with disabilities in Australia.
Your proposal to divide the disability community into diagnostic groups unfortunately suggests that problems are located in individual deficit (such as blindness or deafness) rather than discriminatory attitudes, structures and institutions. It also assumes that people can be neatly divided into their impairments. All you are playing is the DIVIDE and RULE principle. This is very unfortunate on your part and must be resisted. We call upon our friends around the world to resist it with all our might.
Richard Mugisha
Director
People With Disabilities Uganda
8 August 2000
Dear Carolyn
I am deeply concerned at the threat to WWDA. It is extremely important it continue its important work. I will see if I can make mention of the issue in an Australian article or conference paper soon. Ironically I am writing a book chapter for an overseas audience on representation and pointing to the success of WWDA!! Please send me a copy of the response from WWDA in due course.
Christopher Newell, PhD
University of Tasmania
Aug 9 2000
Dear Madam or Sir
I am emailing you with regard to the proposed restructuring of disability funding set out in the Paper, "Funding Peak Bodies - A Discussion Paper". I object to the proposed model for the following reasons:
1. The paper suggests that disability peaks could be arranged by diagnostic group: Physical; Intellectual; Neurological; Sensory; and Psychiatric Disabilities. Once again, the disability sector has been cast in a medical 'deficit' model despite the rhetoric of "social and economic participation" in this Discussion Paper and in the government's recent Welfare Reform Discussion Paper.
2. The model is underpinned by a principle of distribution of resources across the peak bodies which would presumably remove funds from the disability peaks in "fairness" to sectors that receive lesser funding. Clearly the disability sector should not be disadvantaged in order to meet the resource needs of other sectors.
3. Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), currently funded by FACS, does not fit into the Government's proposed model. In fact, it seems clear that under such a model, WWDA will be de-funded. WWDA plays an important role in providing a voice for women with disabilities at a policy, program and service level and in communicating their needs to government. Individual and systemic advocacy undertaken by WWDA plays an important role in assisting women with disabilities to exercise full citizenship and should be supported by government to do so.
4. WWDA is also the winner of the following awards: The Australian Violence Prevention Award 1999; The ACT Violence Prevention Award 1999; Capital Region Enterprise & Employment Development Association Special Recognition Award 1999; Currently nominated for the United Nations Millennium Peace Prize for Women Award 2000.
5. Speaking on leadership and mentoring skills development, Senator Jocelyn Newman (Minister for Family & Community Services, and Minister for the Status of Women) recently stated "I am delighted to be informed that WWDA's work in this area is receiving international as well as corporate recognition." (Melbourne June 8 2000)
6. The proposed model would put the most disadvantaged under threat. Women, indigenous people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds have been relegated to compete in the mainstream program areas. The needs of these particularly disadvantaged groups have only begun to be addressed by specified funding grants.
7. I remind you of the position of women with disabilities in society. They:
(Sources: Anderson 1996; Frohmader 1998; WWDA 1998; ABS 1993).
I therefore urge the Government not to adopt this model of funding.
Anita Devos
Lecturer, Education Development Unit
University of New South Wales
9 August 2000
The model of funding proposed.....is the same as the one used in Quebec.
Its based on medical/individualistic model of disability. Yes, group of
women with disabilities, issues specific groups will see a great reduction
of funding. AFHM a women multi disability group in Montreal and get less
than 1% , of budget allocated to disabled peoples groups in Quebec our
sister group in Quebec city lost all its funding . I don't have a solution
because I was on burn out when our government played that game and could
not fight it. A suggestion would be join allies with other equality seeking
groups and fight it. fight it before it happens.
Maria
7 August 2000
Dear Erica and all (Women's Electoral Lobby Australia)
I'm so pleased that you have decided to take up this issue. Well done.
I have already written letters of support for this excellent organisation
WWDA. It is particularly tragic in this the United Nations Year for a Culture
of Peace and Non-violence that WWDA, with all its awards and creation of
international benchmarks for issues surrounding violence against women
with disabilities has this funding uncertainty. When we find solutions
for those who are most disadvantaged then we have a real shift in society
instead of policies that play around the edge. Therefore the work of WWDA
is of significant benefit to all women facing DV. It is fitting in this
year of the Olympics to carry the torch for WWDA who have had a gold medal
winning standard for so long. Thanks Erica.
Edith Pringle
7 August 2000
Dear Carolyn,
My time with WWDA: Leadership and Mentoring Workshop and Celebrating Our
Abilities Dinner is truly one of the professional highlights of my trip
to Australia. The dinner and the workshop each offered unique and invaluable
merits. My participation in this wonderful event would not have been possible
without the generosity and support of WWDA. The dinner was an incredible
chance for an exchange of ideas, perceptions, realities, and problem solving.
Unless and until we understand and work together, there will continue to
be barriers to the productive and dynamic lives WWD have the potential
to live. WWDA made this opportunity possible for myself and the other women
in attendance. The workshop facilitated problem solving efforts and ideas
that would both not have occurred without bringing these women together.
I am honored and humbled not only by your support of my participation,
but by the gracious inclusion the participants extended to me. They are
an incredible group of women.
Finally, I want to comment on your publications. The content and format are exemplary and an invaluable contribution to WWD everywhere. They are well written, provide excellent content, and are in a format that is easily utilized. As you know, I am particularly interested in Abuse of Women with Disabilities. It would be my privilege to have further collegiate exchange and do some further work together. I do not take lightly the fact you have been able to obtain funding and support for your efforts. It can be a monumental task. Funding is an absolute necessity to produce publications, implement brilliant ideas such as the Leadership and Mentoring Workshop and Dinner, and further the productivity and contributions of brave bold women.
Carolyn, you, your work, and the WWDA are to be commended for your contributions. The dinner was a unique opportunity to further relationships and exchange, and the Workshop will generate change in the lives of disabled women all over Australia. They are well furthered by your meritorious publications. I wish you all the best in the future, and that you are able to obtain the funding and resources require to continue your work. Brilliant and creative minds and lives have been marginalized, negated, and squelched on the sole premise of outward appearances. Your work gives vice, hope and future to the lives of all women with disabilities.
It was a pleasure and a privilege.
Yours in sisterhood and commitment,
Jeanie Akamanti
MSW Candidate, USA
June 14, 2000
My dear Madam:
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of publications and other informative material. We appreciate your efforts in promoting and activating education and rehabilitation of disabled women. We would like to request to write our name in your mailing list because it shall benefit our members, definitely. Wishing you all the best and assuring you of our fullest cooperation at all times.
With warmest regards
Salah-ud-Din Malik
Secretary General & Member Council Asia Pacific Region
Disabled People's International Pakistan
August 11 2000
Dear Carolyn,
Belated congratulations from Mobility International USA on WWDA's award
from the National Violence Prevention Award. I hope that it is appropriate
to say that we feel proud of you! And impressed as always by WWDA's hard
work, clear analysis and effective strategies. Please convey our good wishes
and appreciation to your colleagues.........We will be posting your announcement
in MIUSA's newsletter, and on our website.
Best wishes,
Cindy Lewis
Mobility International USA
2 Nov 1999
Hi Carolyn
Thanks for the inspiring work that comes from WWDA!
Jill Fowler
Disability Action Inc SA
24/1/00
Dear Carolyn,
I am very touched by your attention to our organisation. I am sure your
work will be very useful for disabled women living in Ukraine. We are waiting
to receive your book and will look for funding to arrange for a translation
and distribution among non-governmental organisations of disabled women
in Ukraine. Our organisation is very interested to be in contact with your
organisation. We are interested in your activity and your experience. As
I already mentioned we have problems with translation because members of
our organisation do not speak English. Would it be possible to find some
Ukrainians living in Australia in order to keep and further this contact
between our organisations.
Lubomyra
Women's Information and Rehabilitation Center
Kyiv, UKRAINE
1 August 2000
Dear Carolyn
This letter is to acknowledge the valuable assistance WWDA was able to offer me regarding resources in the area of domestic violence and disabled women. As a third year Social Work student, I was extremely impressed with the thoroughness and promptness my requests for information were handled. Further, the resources that I was given access to were, I believe are at the forefront in research of this very marginalised group of women. Indeed, my lecturer had not seen some of the material before. I believe the 'High Distinction' I received for my presentation was very much a reflection of how my interest in this area has been energised through my contact with WWDA. Thank you Carolyn for your time and energy and best wishes to you and all the women involved in such a wonderful organisation.
Yours sincerely
Sue Partridge
NSW
November 6 1999
Dear Carolyn
Keep up the good work - WWDA News is an important resource for women with disabilities and valuable to rural women in our network who live with disabilities.
Yours sincerely
Dianna Rice
Coordinator
Rural Women's Network
Victoria
February 8 1999
Dear Carolyn,
You are all doing a fantastic job on the WWDA Newsletter and so many other things as well!
Tashe Wise
NSW
July 7 1999
Dear Carolyn
We believe your website is of great interest and provides generous information on issues that are mainly hidden or disguised in the mainstream agenda. Thank you for putting together such a ground breaking site. The information contained in your site will certainly dispel some myths about people with a disability.
Yours sincerely
Elena Sanchez
Ambitious Friends, NSW
May 31 2000
Dear Carolyn
Further to our recent contact, I just wanted to drop you a quick note expressing my thanks for your assistance. It is apparent that your organisation provides an invaluable resource for people seeking information and access to services for people, particularly women with disabilities. As you are no doubt very much aware, due to the different cultural expectations we have of women, disabilities impact us in an entirely different way than they do men. It is imperative that organisations such as yours exists to target those areas of women's experience that are neglected by mainstream policies.
The information provided by your office displayed a thorough knowledge of the current activities being undertaken by the key stakeholders delivering services to the disabled community in Australia, diverse as it is. ( It is apparent that this knowledge is balanced within a thorough understanding of disability within the global community.) Thank you also for connection to networks of women with disabilities. I have availed myself of some of these links and will keep you posted as to how my research progresses.
Sincerely,
Julie Pritchard
Post-graduate student (PhD)
University of New South Wales
July 13 2000
Dear Carolyn Frohmader, Ann Storr, and all the other wonderful women who contributed to the brilliant publication "Taking the Lead: A Leadership and Mentoring Resource Kit for Women with Disabilities",
We here at the Housing Resource and Support Service, HR&SS, would just like to express our gratitude for the hours of work you have clearly put into this monumental book. First and foremost, it is priceless in that acknowledges the unique dynamics of women-only groups and the lack of women in positions of leadership more generally. Further, its insights and guidelines are not just applicable to women but to community groups and collectives of all kinds. Our Committee of Management at Housing Resource and Support Service, a totally consumer based committee, has requested a copy each, and we know that this book will be an invaluable resource for our organisation for many years to come. It is readable and applicable which is what current Committees require. It covers the holistic issues of management as well the individual dynamic within committees... Both are vital elements in successful management...
WE look forward to any future publications and developments your organisation is involved in..
Yours in solidarity,
Angela O'Brien and Marija Groen
HR&SS Committee of Management, Victoria
Thanks Carolyn for all the information and the good work, WWDA is definitely
an inspirational organisation.
Sally Wortley
Brain Injury Association of NSW Inc
3 Feb 2000
Dear Carolyn
I have been reading WWDA's Newsletter on the net and really enjoying it
- both for its diverse and informative content and for how wonderfully
well it is put together. The whole website is extraordinarily detailed
and comprehensive and a fantastic resource for myself and my staff working
as service providers.
Ruth Keszia Whiteside
Northbridge, WA
10 Feb 2000
As a professional researcher and sociologist, I spend considerable time
simply looking for and reading the words of 'experts'. I have just spent
two hours on your site and have only begun to touch the tip of the infomration
provided. I am currently preparing a set of Issues Papers for South Sydney
City Council, including one addressing issues for women, issues for people
with disabilities, families and children, just to mention a few. The work
I was able to access through your site will be invaluable. It is an extraordinary
effort and I wanted to simply send on my appreciation and congratulations.
Emily Schindeler
14.4.00
Congratulations - we have been thoroughly impressed by your work and
resources!!
Jac Lynch
National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges Inc
New Zealand
26.10.99
For ausfem-polnet readers,
The WWDA website is really worth visiting - if you're not sure how to incorporate
disability issues into your work - the web site is full of submissions
and other information that are a great guide. Well done WWDA.
Helen Leonard
Women's Electoral Lobby
23.10.99
Hi Carolyn
Thank you for the wealth of information provided on your website about
women with disabilities. I am sure that my Masters students will gain much
from the information.
Janene Suttie PhD
Griffith University, Queensland
7 Sept 99
Hi Carolyn
I have just been exploring the WWDA website as part of a project to develop
a website for women in non-traditional and emerging occupations, funded
by the Australian National Training Authority. The information available
directly from the WWDA website, and through its links will be invaluable
to the study. We wish you the best to continue the good work.
Annie Rushton
Univeristy of Tasmania
23 August 1999
Dear Carolyn,
It was great to hear of the National Violence Prevention Award given to
WWDA. The struggle for women with disabilities to have their issues and
needs recognised continues! That weekend we spent in Melbourne at WWDA's
National Violence Workshop was probably one of the most rewarding times
of my life - both personally and professionally. I have such strong memories
of the purpose and unity that brought us together over those couple of
days. It was a fantastic achievement for all those that participated.
Cathy Davis
Queensland
27.10.99
Dear Carolyn
Congratulations to Women with Disabilities Australia on receiving the National
Violence Prevention Award at an exciting ceremony last week in Parliament
House. This is a great achievement for your organisation and demonstrates
that your work has been particularly beneficial to women with disabilities.
It was very pleasing to note that your award was in open competition -
not the disability section or some other side-show. Well done!
Bill Jolley
Blind Citizens Australia
27.10.99
Congratulations on your last newsletter and WWDA Annual report. The
newsletter has so much info in it, it's easy to read, informative, up to
date. The report is a great example of what an Annual Report should look
and read like! Well done. I spent an afternoon reading and ringing contact
numbers found within. Thanks! Cheers and thanks for the inspiring work
that comes from WWDA.
Jill Fowler
Adelaide
24.1.2000
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