LGBTQIA+A Long Road to Equality

The wisdom that was passed down to Juliette Obrien from her parents Gail and Chris helped her move forward after Chris's death from a brain tumour, then write a book about her mother Gail and how she helped open and run a cancer hospital opened in Chris's honour – the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse. Juliette is an old wise head on young ladies shoulders.

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Ken Marslew is not a "victim" – he has always had options. When Ken's son Michael was gunned down during a robbery at Pizza Hut in 1994, he used that tragedy to try and make the world a better place – He started an antiviolence movement called "Enough is Enough", he has been criticised for trying to help criminals rehabilitate (including offering his sons killer a job), but he's just a real human being trying to offer people a chance to realise that we all have options, so we shouldn't be too quick to call ourselves "victims."

People with disability have more to offer the world than the world realises.

Andrew J Kelly is a modern leader – he is the CEO of the Antarctic Science Foundation, was the head of fundraising for the Children's Medical Research Institute at Westmead Hospital, and started his career with 8 years in the banking industry while also competing in road cycling. He puts his impressive career success though down to the people around him–excellent role models like his old cycling coach who taught him the most important lesson he would come to learn -"Keep turning up" - if wisdom were a strawberry – Andrew J Kelly would be eating a lot of smoothies.                                                                                            

You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl – Sarah Jones grew up as a ridiculously passionate sports fan in the Victorian country town of Echuca – she has gone on to live every sports fan's dream as a commentator, host and presenter on Fox Sports Australia where her gigs have included the AFL Grand Final, the Melbourne Cup, the Australian Open, The Ashes and The Presidents Cup. Despite being something of a media celebrity, Sarah is just a "country girl, done good" at heart.

When opportunity came knocking for Ahmed Kelly, he rolled out the red carpet, put it in the comfy chair and got it a glass of champagne! Ahmed could easily have wallowed in self pity after being born with severe limb deficiencies to his arms and legs and lived in an orphanage in Baghdad until the age of seven, but Ahmed was adopted and brought to Australia by Moira Kelly, became a Paralympic athlete and won a silver medal in the swimming at the Paralympic games in Tokyo in 2021. Ahmed shows that sometimes good things DO happen to good people.