30 Nov 2018

Devitt Kennedy (on behalf of)

Queensland Community Alliance

PO Box 3948 SOUTH BRISBANE QLD 4101


UNAAQ SDG Award Recipient 2018


Dear Devitt (and the rich tapestry of people behind QCA)


Congratulations on your nomination and your subsequent selection as our 2018 Sustainable Development Goal Award Recipient for the 5Ps program this year.


Your specialist area is in the Peace and Justice category relating to

• SDG 17 – Partnerships


We invite you (and your family) to attend and be a crucial part of our 2018 Human Rights 70th anniversary celebration at 10am on 10 December at the State Library of Queensland. After a fun filled program, with educational components, we ask that you and your family join us for lunch.


In receiving your award we would ask that you say a few words (7 minutes) to address the following:

1. Why did you choose your path?

2. What is your proudest moment?

3. What would you recommend or challenge UNAAQ to do for the future to advance SDGs for the People?


You may be aware that 2019 is the international year for the indigenous languages (respecting and restoring culture). Therefore UNAAQ has been practicing by naming every statement, submission and position paper with an indigenous title that reflects the spirit of the document and recognizes the country on which the document was conceived. Additionally, in 2016, we accepted a gift of an aboriginal poem as our anthem for UNAAQ.


I now formally invite you to participate, to ensure that you know that you are proudly nominated by a range of people and valued by our SDG award committee. I hope you and your family can join us in HR70 celebrations, awards ceremony and lunch.


Yours faithfully

Dr Donnell Davis

on behalf of the SDG Awards Panel

Hi Devett & all, All the best for the gathering tomorrow evening. Unfortunately I can’t come as I am in hospital about to have surgery. Congratulations to everyone in what together we are doing, and the change we, by being together are enabling. Congrats. Have a great evening. Lorraine Brosnan

Please contact me re disability access to your meetings.

I’d love to know what QCA are doing in the CABOOLTURE area.

Could someone please give me Ian kaye’s contact details so i can discuss some road statics regarding Rode and Hamilton roads . I discussed this dave and he suggested ian as a source to this info.

I originally sent this email to Devett Kennedy. It’s an enquiry about training offered by QCA. Please forward my enquiry as appropriate.


Hello Devett.


I heard you speak about QCA at the Brisbane Amnesty office in May.

Mark Copland had already mentioned QCA to me some time ago. So I told him about your talk and my interest in doing the training offered.


We came up with this list of people and organisations we thought might be interested. [See attached.]

I remembered that training could involve two days – I may have remembered wrongly. That might be too much of a commitment for many of the people on the list.


Would you be able to email an outline of the training you offer so we could approach the people on the list?


Many thanks

Regards,

Phil Armit

Amnesty international – Toowoomba

Dear Friends…


Thanks for keeping me in the loop.


I am just recovering from an intense episode of Depreesion (during which time I attempted suicide twice – I share this as I am now deeply committed to supporting other folk – especially men – who are thin king about ending their lives.


I am retired Clergy with experience in Parish ministry – School Chaplaincy – Hospital Chaplaincy and Community based Family Education and Couple’s Counselling….established the City of Ipswich Mens Shed…and am life member of that group.


I have been working with men (individully / group) for nearly 50 years and am bothan Elder and Life Member if the Queensland Men’s Wellbeing Assoc.


I am keen to becoming involved both with the Alliace and especially any projects that relate to the focus of the Ipswich group.


Contact phone is 0407038483 or 3812:7585 and email ins deanandgerdaolafsen@gmail.com


Looking forward to hearing from you about meetings..plans etc.


Regards


Dean (Olafsen)

Good afternoon to the QLD Community Alliance,


I write to you on behalf of Spinal Home Help. We are a small nonprofit organisation based in Moorooka, Brisbane – we recieve no government funding and our work centres around peer support, community support and information and referral services for people with spinal injury and their loved ones. All our workers are people with spinal injury and family, who volunteer their time to support others.


At the moment, our organisation is also working with the state government to build a support and accommodation centre for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) and their families in Queensland. It will offer transitional, short term and respite/holiday accommodation for patients and family as well as a host of support, information and referral services, as well as programs and workshops.

We are seeking funding and supporters for this project, so that we can make it a reality and be able to better support people with SCI and their loved ones across the state; the centre will not only benefit the people recuperating from their injury in the PA Hospital, where Queensland’s only spinal injuries unit is, but will especially help rural and regional families who struggle with distance and extra cost.

This project fits in very well with your current mental health care campaign for better mental health support for people with disability and those accessing aged care support, and it would be great to talk about it with you further.


I just wondered if you had time to arrange a meeting with us, so that we can discuss further about our project and the opportunity for Spinal Home Help and the QLD Community Alliance to collaborate and make this much-needed support centre a reality.


If you’d like to know more about our work you can visit our website at www.spinalhomehelp.com.au.


I look forward to hearing from you.

Good afternoon.

I m Youssef Jalabi, Im petroleum engineer.

I m asking if you are providing any courses or training in (HSE) health safety environment or in any subject related to it? for this is very close to my qualification and may I can get a job her in this field.

kind regards

John, The recommendations are now on the website, thanks for your suggestion. Matthew, we have two leadership structures.


Matthew, the Directors of our Board are two union, two faith and two community representatives, and are published in our annual reports which you will find in about us. However, our Leaders Council is our larger deliberative body that decides on strategy and committments, and it is made up of a representative of every partner organisation. These were the people you saw on stage at the beginnning and end of the Founding Assembly.

I attended the Founding Assembly and would like to follow up on one aspect. There were a number of recommendations put forward by the working parties but I cannot see these here. Am I not looking in the right place? Could these be published, if not already, so the general direction of the activities is known. I would like to engage my local MPs and this would be a good place to start. Thank you.

Hi. The Alliance asked politicians to commit to certain promises. I want to ask that the alliance ask providers of aged care who are on the alliance, that they will promise to fight for:

1. Safe nurse:resident ratios as determined by research and endorsed by QNMU (also an Alliance member).

2. Fair and equitable wages for Nurses and AINs commensurate with hospital nurses.

3. Significantly reduce the number of untrained workers in aged care and employ more EENs.

4. Do not allow non-nurses with medication endorsement to give ANY medications to residents.

5. Stamp out bullying of staff, residents and family members.


Thank you.

Who’s on your executive?

Anne Surtees is no longer Director of Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care (unsubscribe). Current Director is Clyde Cosentino; please add to your email list — cmpc@bne.catholic.net.au. 3324 3451.

Good morning,

I hopefully will be attending the event tonight at Coorparoo Secondary College.


I have recently moved into a new area, The Somerset Region, and would like to commence in the future, an alliance. Possibly advertise in local rag and organise a meeting and info session.


Any ideas to start some sort of foundation??


Cheers

Bradley

Hi! I produce a social justice radio show on 4ZZZ/Zed Digital in Brisbane. I’m interested in interviewing someone about the Alliance, what you do and your upcoming events. It can be in person or by phone. Is this something you would be intersted in? Cheers, Kim

Good Afternoon, I’d like to arrange an appointment to meet with Dave Coleman to discuss possible links with our new project Compassionate Gold Coast. If possible, I could meet next Wednesday 15 February in Brisbane. I can be reach by mobile or email most times. I’ll look forward to David’s call. Thank you! Terry

PCH actually quite well connected with both arterial and radial services:


https://www.health.qld.gov.au/tpch/documents/bus_stops.pdf


The parking should prioritize patients and shift-workers who need to drive.


Mark


Previous message:


I wonder if they have explored cleaner and more sustainable travel options other than just cheaper parking – see article below.


Of course there needs to be parking for the sick and disabled but I am sure a lot of able-bodied people are driving who don’t really need to.


After all we would have less respiratory complaints and therefore less demand for hospital care if less people drove!


Protesters rally over rising costs


23 Nov 2016 • Northside Chronicle,


NORTHSIDE residents, tired of inflated hospital parking prices, stepped out in protest at the weekend, calling on Metro Parking Management to meet with them. Queensland Community Alliance organiser Dave Copeman said more than 200 people from the Kenmore/ Chermside Uniting Church, Stafford Anglican Parish, Queensland Nurses Union, Together, Queensland African Community Council and Stafford Catholic Parish met last Thursday to discuss community concerns.


Active Travel – Cleaner Air – Healthy people!


Mark Taylor

Senior Program Officer – Pollution Control and Legislation

I wonder if we have explored cleaner and more sustainable travel options other than just cheaper parking.


Of course there needs to be parking for the sick and disabled but I am sure a lot of able-bodied people are driving who don’t really need to.


After all we would have less respiratory complaints and therefore less demand for hospital care if less people drove!


Protesters rally over rising costs

23 Nov 2016 • Northside Chronicle,


NORTHSIDE residents, tired of inflated hospital parking prices, stepped out in protest at the weekend, calling on Metro Parking Management to meet with them. Queensland Community Alliance organiser Dave Copeman said more than 200 people from the Kenmore/ Chermside Uniting Church, Stafford Anglican Parish, Queensland Nurses Union, Together, Queensland African Community Council and Stafford Catholic Parish met last Thursday to discuss community concerns.

Hi I am concerned about the 5 year late – stop a nuclear power plant leak- at the Fukushima

power plant. Can alliances and government officials help put the right rep (a Japanese Asian) in front of the TEPCO, and find what needs to be done to stop this LEAk!!!!

I’m looking to start something in Logan. Sorry I didn’t specify.

Good Afternoon


I am keen to assist in any activity within the Ipswich region.


Talk Soon

James

Hello, I’m looking to get in contact with groups in my area because I would like to start an environment group. Would I be able to talk to someone? A friend suggested that I speak to Devett Kennedy

Hi,


Joe contacting you from Act on Alcohol, I am a community development officer interested in knowing how our initiative can be involved in supporting this campaign. Please contact me through email if there is a way that we can help.


Our website encase you needed more info about us is: http://actonalcohol.org.au/


Warm regards,

Joe

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