Editor’s Notes

It was a sad August with the passing of 2 of Australia’s music icons in Judith Durham (79) and Olivia Newton-John.(73) Both entertainers had incredibly unique and powerful voices, their music was iconic and memorable and they both called Australia home. Judith became the lead singer of the Australian folk music group the Seekers in 1963 and the group became the first Australian pop music group to achieve major sales success in the UK and US with over 50 million records worldwide. In 2000, Judith broke her hip and was unable to sing "The Carnival Is Over" at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney with the Seekers. However, she sang it from a wheelchair at the 2000 Paralympics shortly thereafter. Judith was born with asthma and at age 4 she caught measles, which left her with a life-long chronic lung disease, bronchiectasis, from which she died from that disease. Olivia was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number-one hits and many other Top Ten hits as well as 2 number 1 albums with global sales of 100 million records. In 1978, Olivia starred in the musical film Grease, which became the highest-grossing musical film ever at the time and whose soundtrack remains one of the world's best-selling albums of all time. It features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want" and "Summer Nights". Olivia battled breast cancer three times, was an advocate for breast cancer research, as well as an activist for environmental and animal rights causes. On 8 August 2022, Newton-John died from cancer at her home in the Santa Ynez Valley of California.

In This Issue

2 Editor’s Notes 3 The Carnival is over 4 Organised Crime in the NDIS 5 NDIA Practice Alerts 6 Our Community 7 WhatsUp in Disability 8 Child Safety Invalidation 9 NGO Training Infographic 10 Toowoomba Group 11 Rockhampton Group 12 WHS First Aid 13 Staff Updates 14 What’s happening in September

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