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Thankyou for your interest. Welcome to my blog.

This blog is created to provide to my friends and colleagues an online resource of my activities, interests and whereabouts. I am not a Facebook convert, so this is my chosen medium.

 In June 2009 I retired from business, or more correctly paid employment. I had successfully operated a consultancy The Way Ahead Group for some years, specialising in small business marketing with an emphasis on neighbourhood shopping centres across the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Retired I may be, but my involvement with projects and committees continues and grows.

Currently I am a volunteer in these organisations:-

Deputy Chair, Melbourne East Regional Development Australia Committee.(MERDAC)

Honorary Justice of the Peace

Secretary, Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.

Secretary, Australian Red Cross Blackburn Unit

Deputy Chair Australian Red Cross Region 3

Secretary, Mitcham Residents Association Inc

Chair, Order of Australia Eastern Suburbs Regional Group  Awards Sub Committee

Previous Appointments

National President Australian Local Government Women's Association Inc (ALGWA) 2004-2009

ALGWA Project Manager- the Review of the National Framework for Women in Local Government (2006-2007)

ALGWA Project Manager, The Implementation of the National Framework for Women in Local Government - The Way Forward (2008-2009) 50:50 Vision Gender Equity in Local Government

Chair, ALGWA National Steering Comitteee

ALGWA Delegate to Office for Women Secretariarts, National Rural Women's Alliance  Vice Chair, Australian Women's Coalition Alliance.

Councillor City of Whitehorse 1997- 2003

Chair, Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library Corporation Board

Chair, Visual Arts Advisory Committee City of Whitehorse

Co Chair, Heritage Study Committee City of Whitehorse

Member, Whitehorse Business Group Board

Deputy Chair Valley of the Arts Marketing Board

Member Easten Freeway Community Advisory Board -2001-2003

Member Ministerial Advisory Council for Road Based Public Transport. 2002

Nunawading Primary School Council member

President Whitehorse Arts Association Inc

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Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll for Women 2007-In recognition for leadership and support for women's participation in Local Government and for her lasting contribution to Women in Victoria.

Appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) June 2009.-For services to the community and the Australian Local Government Women's Association Inc.

Life Member Australian Local Government Women's Association Inc (Victorian Branch) appointed March 2010

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Reference

Extraordinary Women Ordinary Lives

Who's Who of Australian Women

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