SHINE Autumn 2011

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glbt health & wellbeing

HOME IMPROVEMENT

ACON set to open a ‘one-stop-shop’ for its Sydney-based HIV and GLBT health services...

Taking Pride To Your Work

The groundbreaking Pride in Diversity program is changing Australian workplaces…

Mind The Gap

New report aims to improve services for victims of same sex domestic violence….

LOCAL COUNSEL

ACON launches new mental health services in regional NSW...

courage • empathy • diversity • equality • partnership • community

Courtesy of the VVictorian AIDS Council / Gay Men’s Health Centre

ACON Media and Communications Manager Michael Badorrek Writers Michael Badorrek , John Burfitt Design & Production Danny Adams Publisher Scott Abrahams, SSO Media Printer Rural Press Ltd For all enquiries contact Michael Badorrek on 02 9206 2001 or: mbadorrek@acon.org.au The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the individuals and not of the publisher.

Produced with the assistance of SSO Media

The paper used in this publication is sourced from renewable resources.

SYDNEY (Head Office) 9 Commonwealth St, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box 350, Darlinghurst, 1300 Tel: (02) 9206 2000 Fax: (02) 9206 2069 Freecall: 1800 063 060 Hearing Impaired: (02) 9283 2053 Email: acon@acon.org.au Web: www.acon.org.au POSITIVE LIVING CENTRE 703 Bourke St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Tel: (02) 9699 8756 Fax: (02) 9699 8956 Email: plc@acon.org.au THE LUNCHEON CLUB 77 Kellick St, Waterloo NSW 2017 Tel: (02) 9206 2000 or 0400 446 712 Fax: (02) 9206 2069 Email: lunch@luncheonclub.net.au Sex Workers Outreach Project 69 Abercrombie St, Chippendale NSW 2008 Tel: (02) 9319 4866 Fax: (02) 9310 4262 Freecall: 1800 622 902 Email: infoswop@acon.org.au HUNTER 129 Maitland Rd, Islington NSW 2296 Tel: (02) 4927 6808 Fax: (02) 4927 6485 Email: hunter@acon.org.au NORTHERN RIVERS 27 Uralba St, Lismore NSW 2480 Tel: (02) 6622 1555 Fax: (02) 6622 1520 Email: northernrivers@acon.org.au ILLAWARRA 47 Kenny St, Wollongong NSW 2500 Tel: (02) 4226 1163 Fax: (02) 4226 9838 Email: illawarra@acon.org.au COFFS HARBOUR c/o Galambila Aboriginal Health Service 9 Boambee St, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450 Tel: 6651 6017 Fax: 6622 1520 Email: coffsharbour@acon.org.au PORT MACQUARIE 3/146-150 Gordon St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444 Tel: (02) 6584 0943 Fax: (02) 6583 3810 Email: mnc@acon.org.au

ALL FOuR ONE FOUR! Welcome to the Autumn

2011 edition of Shine, a biannual magazine which profiles the work of ACON, NSW’s and Australia’s largest community-based gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health and HIV/AIDS organisation.

On the back of our 25th anniversary last year, 2011 is shaping up as another landmark year for ACON. In May, our four Sydney-based offices are amalgamating at new premises at 414 Elizabeth St in Surry Hills.

It will be the beginning of a new era for ACON as we deliver all our services from a single location. Go to p10 and 11 for all the details.

But the move to our new home isn’t the only exciting new development here at ACON.

ACON staff member Adrian Eisler packs up the CSN office A range of new projects and programs – some of which are detailed within – are being developed and implemented to help improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

If you want to help out, go to p14 and see how you can

make a difference in the lives of others.

And many thanks to all the people who helped make our recent Mardi Gras activities so effective and fun (check out the pics on p12).

MICHAEL BADORREK EDITOR

Contents 4 LOCAL COUNSEL GLBT people and people affected by HIV in regional NSW now have access to specialised mental health services…

6 Mind The Gap A new report aims to improve services for victims of same sex domestic violence…

8 Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright ACON’s Gay Asian Men’s Project has been making cultural connections for almost 20 years…

10 Home Improvement ACON set to open a ‘one-stop-shop’ for its Sydney-based HIV and GLBT health services...

12 ACON IN THE COMMUNITY 13 SMART Choice You can choose how to help ACON help others…

14 Taking Pride To Your Work The groundbreaking Pride in Diversity program is changing Australian workplaces… shine • autumn • 2011

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EMPATHY

LOCAL COUNSEL

GLBT people and people affected by HIV in regional NSW now have access to specialised mental health services…

It’s with a proud grin that Liam admits

his life has changed “in so many ways” since he discovered he was HIV positive three years ago.

Deciding he wanted to escape the rat race of Sydney, he moved to a small town in the Hunter Valley from where he continues to work remotely online.

While he feels the change of scene has improved his physical health, he confesses that life as a gay man in a small town can sometimes be lonely, and dealing with the reality of his HIV status has resulted in bouts of depression.

“I did try to find a counsellor who understood the issues affecting me, but met with no luck,” he says.

“All I wanted to do was talk to someone who had some working knowledge of all this, without me spending most of the time explaining HIV to them or feeling that they didn’t really know what I was talking about.”

Living in a regional or rural location presents a range of specific issues for GLBT people and people living with HIV. “People in regional areas don’t have the same access to appropriate services as do their city counterparts, however they experience all the same concerns

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including discrimination, abuse, isolation and violence,” says Russ Gluyas, ACON’s Manager of Counselling and Enhanced Primary Care.

To support people in regional areas improve their mental health and wellbeing, ACON recently received a grant from NSW Health to implement a new counselling program in the Hunter, Illawarra and Northern Rivers regions.

The new program is based on the After Hours Counselling Program developed

by ACON’s Sydney team for clients who are unable to attend counselling appointments during working hours.

The program involves sourcing final year counselling students from accredited colleges and universities as well as professionals to act as volunteer counsellors. The counsellors are provided with fortnightly supervision and professional development to assist their work with people living with or affected by HIV. The plan is for clients in regional centres to be offered eight weekly face to face sessions of counselling.

The service is already accessible to clients in the Northern Rivers area at ACON’s Lismore office, and is rapidly

being developed and implemented in ACON’s Newcastle and Wollongong offices.

“Mental health is an important issue across our community. It can be as simple as having someone to talk to about what’s going on in your life, especially for people that have been recently diagnosed with HIV, that makes all the difference,” says Russ.

“For people in regional areas, having this kind of support is essential. Understanding, information and connection to community are what this new regional counselling program will offer.

“For our clients, it can often be a matter of simply being understood and that’s what this new program is all about.”

GET HEALTHY To find out more about our new Regional Counselling Program please contact our regional offices in Lismore (6622 1555), Newcastle (4927 6808) or Wollongong (4226 1163). You can also make a donation (see p14) to help us expand our mental health services so we can help more people in need.

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courage

MIND THE GAP A new report aims to improve services for GLBTI people experiencing domestic violence...

Things were really going well between

When David confided in a colleague that Andrew had threatened to break both his legs, his colleague suggested he contact ACON. 6

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David and Andrew when they first met, so well in fact that they decided to move in and make a home together.

However, over the following months, Andrew’s controlling behaviour became more and more obvious and started impacting on David’s life – he began to influence who David would see and where he could go.

Andrew’s threats and physical violence began soon after and also became progressively worse. When David confided in a colleague that Andrew had threatened to break both his legs, his colleague suggested he contact ACON. After speaking with an ACON counsellor, David decided to end his relationship. ACON staff helped him find safe accommodation and also organised a police escort by a trained officer in GLBT issues to help gather his belongings from his previous home with Andrew.

While most of our GLBT relationships are built on love and respect, unfortunately David’s story is not uncommon. Domestic violence (DV) remains one of our community’s more hidden issues.

Research indicates that rates of domestic violence in GLBT relationships are similar to those in the wider community, however only 30% of GLBT people experiencing DV report it to authorities and/or seek help. For some it’s an issue of not knowing what to do about it or where to turn.

ACON’s Same Sex Domestic Violence Officer Moo Baulch says domestic violence reaches far beyond physical assaults.

“Domestic violence and abuse can take many forms including emotional abuse, threats, control or manipulation.”

She also notes that “in reporting DV to police, people may fear there’s nothing police can do, that they’ll be treated badly or even not believed that there’s

such a thing as domestic violence in GLBTI relationships. We’ve been working to change all that.”

ACON recently released a report exploring the gaps in mainstream domestic violence support services for GLBTI people.

Called One Size Does Not Fit All, the report makes a range of recommendations to fill identified gaps which include service provider training, availability of support information, improved access to appropriate counselling and an awareness of the needs of children of GLBTI people experiencing domestic violence.

Listed as a priority among the recommendations is boosting accommodation options for gay, bisexual and transgender men who have experienced domestic violence.

This includes an urgent need for short, medium and longer term housing for GBT men, such as supported accommodation, refuge services and public housing options. ”There’s a consistent lack of progress in that area and it’s something that needs greater attention,” Moo says.

“By getting this report out to service providers across NSW, we hope the information and recommendations it contains will encourage services to work with us in providing better and more appropriate services for all GLBTI people across the state.”

GET HELP If you’re experiencing DV, get the support you may need by contacting ACON’s Anti-Violence Project on 9202 2116 or avp@acon.org.au. In an emergency, call 000. For more information on domestic violence in GLBTI relationships: http://www.anothercloset.com.au

DIVERSITY

Graphic from ConversAsians flyer

TIGER, TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT

ACON’s Gay Asian Men’s Project has been building cultural connections for almost 20 years...

Min Fuh Teh knows well what it’s like

to be a young Asian man coming out in Sydney.

When he arrived eight years ago from Malaysia to study at university, he was living in a Christian college and was forced to stay in the closet about his homosexuality.

Four years later as he was beginning his career, some colleagues told him about the Fun & Esteem gay youth program at ACON. Within weeks, Min had enrolled in the course, and later did the Start Making Sense workshop.

Ever since, he has been involved with a range of ACON’s community activities.

“Those courses changed my life in every way,” Min says.

“They opened so many doors for me to connect to the community through volunteering and workshops.”

Now as ACON’s Gay Asian Men’s Project Officer, Min is making his own mark in creating a more inclusive community for gay Asian men living in Sydney.

The project marks its 20th anniversary next year, and a dedicated social and

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support group, presently named the Asian Tea Room, has been in operation throughout that time.

A more recent program is ConversAsians, a four-week workshop which explores the issues of coming out, relationships, racial stereotypes and sexual health.

The first ConversAsians workshop for 2011 began in April with another planned for mid year.

In July, the project will also launch a new ACON publication, A-Men, a health and lifestyle magazine for gay Asian men Min says the project is busier than ever because of the new migrants and students arriving from a number of Asian countries, as well as the second generation of Asian-Australian gay men coming out.

The gay Asian community in NSW is also a priority population in terms of HIV prevention, as gay Asian men currently account for about 10 percent of new HIV notifications in NSW. “This project is a way of bridging the community gap for many cultural issues and addressing the issue of sexual health in a culturally sensitive way,” Min says.

“In some Asian communities, it can be hard to address something as taboo as the issue of sex, which is usually kept strictly behind closed doors.

“But not talking about it encourages a sense of disempowerment, and that can lead to all kinds of issues in terms of sexual health as well as discrimination.”

With community involvement, social connections, referrals and health promotion the focus of the project, Min says the ultimate aim is to build a strong, well-informed gay Asian community in Sydney and reduce the rates of new HIV notifications among gay Asian men.

“That’s our vision and that’s why there’s still a need for more visibility and more talk about safe sex and sexual health,” he says.

GET INVOLVED If you’d like to participate in any of our Gay Asian Men’s Project programs or make a donation to help us reach out to more members of our community call Min on (02) 9206 2000 or email asian@acon.org.au

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COMMUNITY

HOME IMPROVEMENT

Locals and visitors to Sydney are set to get a new ‘one-stop-shop’ for all ACON services with the opening in May of a new building in Surry Hills that will house all our Sydney-based staff and facilities…

While most people in the GLBT

community are familiar with ACON as an organisation, it comes a surprise to many to find out that ACON’s Sydneybased services are currently delivered from four separate locations.

ACON’s Sydney headquarters is located in Darlinghurst, the Positive Living Centre (PLC) is situated in Surry Hills, the Sex Workers Outreach Project is based in Chippendale and The Luncheon Club – which ACON co-manages with HIV/AIDS charity the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation – is located in Waterloo.

But all that is set to change.

That’s because all of ACON’s Sydney based staff and facilities will be moving in May to a single location in Surry Hills

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at 414 Elizabeth St, one block up from Central Railway Station and diagonally opposite the Strawberry Hills Hotel.

ACON President Mark Orr says it’s a welcome development.

“Having all ACON’s staff and facilities under the one roof will significantly improve our service delivery by creating a ‘one-stop-shop’ for locals and visitors to Sydney who want to access our HIV and GLBT health services,” Mr Orr says.

“The new location also offers better public transport access for clients and community members and brings us closer to our communities in Sydney’s inner-west while keeping us close to the historical centre of the GLBT community in Darlinghurst and Surry Hills.”

“For our sex worker clients, having

our offices closer to the centre of inner Sydney’s sex work industry will improve their access to SWOP’s health promotion services.”

The new premises, located across multiple floors of an historic wool store building, will include all the essential community services that are currently offered by ACON, the PLC, The Luncheon Club and SWOP. Aside from accommodating all ACON’s Sydney-based staff, there will be a number of community meeting spaces, private counselling spaces, therapy rooms for acupuncture and massage, and a commercial kitchen to prepare meals for members of The Luncheon Club and visitors to the PLC. The building will also feature a

in early May, SWOP will move in during mid May and the PLC and The Luncheon Club will move in towards the end of May. “Unfortunately there will be some disruption to each of these service divisions immediately before and after each of their respective relocations and we apologise in advance for any inconvenience to our clients, community members and stakeholders.”

“To be honest, moving is never easy for all sorts of logistical, financial and emotional reasons.

“However, being able to provide our services from a single, central, accessible, modern and well equipped premises is the beginning an exciting Oof xfordforward new era for ACON and we look S

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range of new facilities, equipment and technologies which will significantly enhance and streamline ACON’s operations.

ACON CEO Nicolas Parkhill says accommodating the diverse needs of so many organisations in one location has “certainly been a demanding exercise, but having us all under the same roof is a much better way for ACON to be operating.

“However, moving so many people to the same place at the same time is a logistical challenge, especially because we want to minimise any disruption to our services.

“So we’re staggering the move over Liverpool the month of May. Street “Staff from ACON’s Commonwealth St office will move into the new building

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OUR NEW SYDNEY HOME

414 ELIZABETH ST, SURRY HILLS Goulburn Street

to welcoming people to our new home.”

For more information about the relocation or to register your feedback, please call ACON reception on (02) 9206 2000, Freecall 1800 063 060 or visit www. acon.org.au/relocationfeedback We also look forward to inviting community members to an Open Day in the near future so they can tour the new premises and meet ACON staff.

To keep updated, please subscribe to our e-news list at www.acon.org.au, become a Facebook fan of ACON or SWOP or follow us on Twitter @ ACONHealth.

MOVING SCHEDULE

All four of ACON’s Sydney based offices will relocate to the new premises over the month of May. Services will be available from the new location as follows: ACON - Early May 2011

ACON has two (2) client parking spaces in the Secure Parking carpark at 55 Holt St. Access to these spaces needs to be prearranged with ACON reception (Freecall 1800 063 060.) Metered parking is available on Elizabeth St and nearby side streets. Nonmetered parking within 100m of the building is available in nearby residential streets.

Eddy Ave Bus Terminal

Eddy Ave CENTRAL

SWOP - Mid May 2011 PLC - Late May 2011 Luncheon Club - Late May

NEW CONTACT INFO ACON SYDNEY POSITIVE LIVING CENTRE THE LUNCHEON CLUB Tel: (02) 9206 2000 Freecall: 1800 063 060 Email: acon@acon.org.au www.acon.org.au

Foveaux Street

STATION

Kippax Street

Secure Parking 55 Holt St

Bourke Street

Buses 309 310 343 372 393 395 AM Peak Mon-Fri (305, 308) PM Peak Mon-Fri (X09, X10) 20

Crown Street

Devonshire Street Elizabeth Street

Chalmers Street

Buses M20 M50 305 308 309 X09 310 X10 343 395 372 393

Holt Street

Cooper Street

SWOP (from mid May) Tel: (02) 9206 2166 Email: infoswop@acon.org.au www.swop.org.au

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Photo: Josephine Ki

Guests celebrate at ACON’s flagship Mardi Gras youth event 21 Down

Actor/singer Geraldine Turner performs at the 2010 World AIDS Day Concert

Participents at Sassy Safari an ACON Mardi Gras event for young same-sex attracted women

Our Safe Sex Sluts spell out their support for ACON at the Mardi Gras Top Party

Debaters at ACON’s Mardi Gras fundraiser The Great Debate 2010

Photo: Robert Knapman

Attendees at the Penrith Same-Sex Domestic Violence Forum In March

Staff member and volunteer Li Zhou selling Red Ribbons at Town Hall Station on World AIDS

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ACON staff member Siri May cleans up for the relocation

Guests at Afternoon Delight, a GLBT movie matinee and tea party co-presented by ACON for Seniors Week in March

The ACON supported First Australians Mardi Gras float with “Condoman”

ACON’s 2011 Mardi Gras Parade entry

SMART CHOICE Caring for our community was the best choice we ever made. Now the choice is yours...

For over 25 years, ACON’s

HELP victims of homophobic violence 85% of GLBT people have experienced staff, volunteers, members and homophobic abuse, harassment and/or supporters have helped care for assault. Your donation of $25 a month the GLBT community and people will help keep our Violence Report Line affected by HIV. operational so we can support victims of And each year the call on our homophobic violence and demonstrate services increases. the need for authorities to better “Last year, close to 140,000 occasions of service were delivered protect our community. to clients and community members HELP provide vital services for throughout NSW,” says ACON CEO people with HIV Many people who are seriously affected Nicolas Parkhill.

by HIV have difficulty looking after “Our wonderful volunteers help themselves in their own homes. Your us meet some of this need. donation of $25 a month will help 3 “However like any large people seriously affected by HIV to live community-based organisation, a independently in their own homes for 1 lot of the work which ACON does year by receiving home-based care and has a financial cost. transport services.

“The funding we get from HELP improve the mental health of government sources goes a long GLBT and HIV+ people way towards meeting this cost, but Up to 50% of GLBT people seek what many people don’t realise treatment for anxiety and depression. is that many of the programs and Your donation of $25 a month will help services which we provide are not 4 people in need of counselling from a funded by the government – they qualified ACON counsellor. are funded through fundraising HELP provide lesbian health services activities and donations.

Lesbians have the highest risk factors “Without the financial support for breast cancer of any subset of of some generous members of our women in the world. Your donation of community, there are many people $25 a month will help us provide health who would not be getting the help promotion services for lesbians, such as they need.” support groups for lesbians affected by Launched last year to mark cancer as well as personal development ACON’s 25 years of community workshops for young same-sex attracted service, the 25for5 program gives women. donors to ACON the opportunity HELP improve aged care for GLBT to decide how their financial and HIV+ people contribution will help make a Older gay men and lesbians who have difference in our community. been out for most of their lives will With a donation from as little as increasingly need access to aged care $25 a month, you can help us care services yet there are limited protections for our community by choosing to from discrimination in many settings. support one of five key areas of Your donation of $25 a month will help our work. us lobby all levels of government for You can choose to give more better aged care services for GLBT or less, depending on your people and people with HIV. circumstances.

HELP OUT Any support you can provide will be gratefully accepted, and all To make a monthly or one-off donation, donations over $2 are tax deductible. visit www.acon.org.au/25for5

All people shown are models and are used for illustrative purposes only.

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DIVERSITY

TAKING PRIDE TO YOUR WORK

The groundbreaking Pride in Diversity program is changing Australian workplaces…

Just over 12 months ago at the launch

of the LGBT workplace equality initiative Pride in Diversity, Program Director Dawn Hough wondered what the reaction would be among staff at the various high-profile corporations which were signing up as members of the program.

She soon had her answer.

Arriving at work one day, Dawn found her email inbox jammed with over 40 emails of thanks and congratulations from the staff at one particular organisation after it had announced to its employees it was adopting Pride in Diversity’s workplace policies.

“It really was a case of people expressing pride in their organisation for taking such a stand,” says Ms Hough.

“I get a lot of people writing and calling saying the same thing – ‘no company has ever done this for us before’ – and what that does for the company in terms of staff loyalty is enormous.”

Pride In Diversity was launched in February 2010 by ACON in partnership with Diversity Council Australia and the London-based advocacy group, Stonewall UK. The program aims to bridge the gap between LGBT employees and management by helping introduce human resource and diversity policies

that specifically support LGBT staff.

“Pride In Diversity is not about getting people to come out in the workplace, it’s about creating a hassle-free and safe work environment, and what that does is get rid of the anxiety and fear of discrimination that some people live with throughout their careers,” says Ms Hough.

Victorian WorkCover Authority research shows that up to 60 per cent of LGBT people experience some form of harassment in the workplace during their careers, four times the rate of the general population.

Since launching, the Pride in Diversity team has conducted almost 30 training sessions and seminars in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, and now counts some of Australia’s biggest corporate names among its membership including Chevron, Accenture, PWC, Suncorp, American Express, IBM, KPMG, Telstra, Goldman Sachs, JBWere and Lend Lease as well as the Department of Defence and the Australian Federal Police.

“Some of the feedback we’ve had has been phenomenal,” Dawn says.

“The lack of awareness of why this is important is quite prolific, but once you talk to HR managers, there is suddenly an understanding.”

Former High Court judge, the Hon. Michael Kirby, has also taken on the role

Hon. Michael Kirby (centre with folder) and PID

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of Pride in Diversity’s new patron.

“Australians in sexual minorities are everywhere and I honour the employers who set a good example by adopting policies of equality and acceptance,” Mr Kirby says.

Mr Kirby, Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham and several high profile CEOs will be guest speakers at the inaugural Pride In Diversity Business Luncheon which will include a presentation of the first ever awards for Australia’s top 10 employers for LGBT people.

“The awards will provide a terrific new platform for organisations to highlight the quality of their diversity practice and for people to network with leaders from the both the public and private sectors,” Ms Hough says.

GET INVOLVED The Pride In Diversity Business Luncheon and Awards will take place on Tue 17 May at the Sydney Hilton’s Glass Restaurant.

To book a seat or a corporate table, visit www.prideindiversity.com.au

Business Luncheon and Awards Pride In Diversity is Australia’s only employer support program for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the workplace.

The Hon. Michael Kirby

Matthew Mitcham

You’re invited to show your support for making workplaces more LGBT-friendly by attending the inaugural Pride In Diversity Business Luncheon which will include a presentation of awards for Australia’s top employers for LGBT people.

The awards will be based on Pride In Diversity’s Australian Workplace Equality Index, a free service provided by Pride In Diversity that evaluates and benchmarks LGBT inclusiveness in Australian workplaces.

The luncheon will provide a valuable new platform for businesses and organisations to highlight the quality of their diversity practice and for guests to network with leaders from the both the public and private sectors.

Guest speakers will include Pride In Diversity’s new patron the Hon. Michael Kirby, Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham, and Executives from some of Australia’s leading organisations discussing the value of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

The luncheon will include a delicious three-course meal and as well as a selection of quality wines and beers.

What: When: Where: Cost: Info/Bookings:

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Pride In Diversity Business Luncheon and Awards Tuesday 17 May, 2011, 12:30pm – 2:30pm Glass Restaurant, Sydney Hilton $145pp (corporate tables are also available). www.prideindiversity.com.au or (02) 9206 2136

MEMORIAL 2011

The annual Candlelight Memorial is moving to May 15 to coincide with the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day. Join us to remember and honour those we have lost to HIV/AIDS. What:

Candlelight Memorial 2011

When:

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day, Sunday 15 May 2011, 3:30 - 4:30pm

Where:

SLIDE, 41 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst

Leave names for reading or make a donation at:

www.candlelight.org.au

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