Page 2473 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 6 August 1991
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But her contribution to the community did not end there. Mrs I'Anson was also a founding member of the Mental Health Foundation. She worked actively for the Barton Cooperative, a low-cost housing group; she was a member of the Hospice Association; she was secretary and newsletter editor of the Black Mountain branch of the ALP and served many years in the Public Sector Union.
Norma I'Anson was a quiet, determined achiever. She had a way of bringing people together to achieve a common purpose - to help those in the community who needed help to live a fuller life. It is through the efforts of people like Norma I'Anson that the community spirit inherent in our city remains as strong as it is today. Mrs I'Anson's great talent with people, her compassion for helping fellow beings and her work in the Canberra community will be greatly missed not only by those who knew her but by all those who benefit from her efforts, now and in years to come.
Death of Mrs Norma I'Anson
DR KINLOCH (9.51): Mr Speaker, I would like to endorse Mr Moore's comments. Norma was a member of our Quaker meeting for many years. Over a period of 20 years or more I was very aware of her and her strengths. We watched her enormous courage in her closing months, as some others of you here, I remember, also did. Of course, she would have rejoiced in the motion that we heard here tonight.
Balkans
MR COLLAERY (9.52): I rise briefly to remind members of this Assembly that the events that are occurring in the Balkans affect a considerable proportion of the ACT community. I believe that it behoves members of this Assembly to take an active public interest in those events. It is not the exclusive province of the Federal Government. Whilst international relations may well be the province of the Federal Government, the fact is that there is a significant constituency within this community who have a direct interest in the events there.
I am not going to talk about the groups themselves, other than to say that I believe that more members of this Assembly should take an active interest in those affairs and that we should be careful about revisiting political backgrounds that may stem from the war on the children of those people who are now faced with a conflagration that does not relate to whatever perhaps their parents or their grandparents were involved in in the Second World War.
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