THANKING AUSTRALIA’S WONDERFUL BLOOD DONORS
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GIVE BLOOD. GIVE LIFE.
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
BLOOD SERVICE
THEY’LL GROW
UP TOGETHER.
YOU’LL GET A
BISCUIT ALL TO
YOURSELF.
Born 15 weeks early, together Rhys and Tay needed 10 blood
transfusions to survive. Please book in your next donation to
get a biscuit and save three lives like theirs.
Visit donateblood.com.au or call 13 14 95 today.
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WHEN THANK YOU
IS NOT ENOUGH
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GETTING TO KNOW YOU
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FACES OF DONATION
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RED25
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WE’VE TURNED 20!
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BLOOD DONORS
SAVE SUPER HEROES
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PROTECTING LIVES:
THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT
DR BLAKE AND THE
BLOODY CROSS
QUEENSLAND
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
BLOOD SERVICE
WHEN
THANK YOU
IS NOT ENOU
How do you look 200 people
in the face and say ‘thank you,
you saved my life?’
Those words — essentially a dying man’s
wish — were honoured in the commitment
that followed: 250 emails and 1,000 phone
calls made between three hospitals
in two countries.
The Cairns dad had experienced a rough
year in 2014, so decided to take his wife
and three kids on a family holiday to Tokyo
for a white Christmas.
CareFlight, a critical care aeromedical retrieval
service, transported Brett to Queensland,
achieving many firsts of its own due to the
need to haul Brett back to Australia attached
to a large amount of life-support equipment.
Brett had started to feel unwell on the trip
to Tokyo. He dismissed it as nothing major.
“I didn’t notice myself feeling sick at all,”
he said. “I was a bit tired, obviously, trying
to get three kids on a plane. But being a
typical bloke it would take a lot more than
that to take me out.”
Unbeknown to Brett, the 42-year-old had
contracted a rare strain of influenza — and
it began to take its toll on him just a couple
of days into the Tokyo holiday.
“A couple of days into it I was starting to get
short of breath, I couldn’t make it up the
stairs,” he said.
“I didn’t know what was about to hit me,
but it happened pretty quick.”
Brett’s lungs had started to fill with blood.
Not knowing what was happening, he made
the critical decision to visit a doctor. It was
at this consultation that Brett’s life would
change forever.
“I sat up and looked at the doctor, had a huge
cough and fell dead,” he said.
“When I coughed, five massive clots had
travelled into my heart and shut it down.”
Brett Goodban died. He was then
resuscitated and placed on life support.
He had cheated death once, but knew it
would continue to circle him. This was just
the beginning of a lengthy battle to stave
away the reaper.
Brett was taken immediately to the Prince
Charles Hospital. He had made it this far,
but the challenge facing doctors was to
stop Brett’s blood from clotting. It was
during this treatment that Brett began
to bleed internally, haemorrhaging blood
in a life-threatening manner.
“I needed, from what I was told, over 247
bags of blood,” Brett said.
Through the combination of CareFlight’s
retrieval of Brett, the clinical support offered
at Tokyo University and Prince Charles
hospitals, and the work of volunteer blood
donors, Brett is now on the road to recovery
and is able to spend time with his three young
boys and wife.
“It’s really strange to be in a position in your
life where ‘thank you’ is not enough,” he said.
“How do you look 200 people in the face and
say ‘thank you, you saved my life?’”
It’s a question Brett recently discovered the
answer to, as the face of our 2016 National
Blood Donor Week, seen by thousands, not
just hundreds, of volunteer blood donors.
A video telling Brett’s story was shown at
recognition ceremonies around Australia, and
is also available online at donateblood.com.au
“Before I died, I remember saying to my wife: ‘I
don’t care how it happens, I don’t care whether
I’m dead or alive — I want to go home.’”
Brett Goodban and his family: Brett needed over 240 blood transfusions to save his
life and has told his story to help thank donors during National Blood Donor Week.
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help of more than 240 units
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Donors like you are the lifeblood of our organisation. We collect over 27,000 donations every week to meet the constant
demand for life-saving products, and our only source is volunteer donors. To make sure our donors keep coming back,
researchers at the Blood Service investigate ways to improve the donation experience and keep our donors happy and healthy.
Australia is one of the few blood services
in the world to have established a Donor
Research program and our team, led by
Dr Tanya Davison, includes researchers with
diverse backgrounds in psychology, public
health, biostatistics and economics. Recent
research by this team has shown that directly
addressing a first-time donor’s anxiety in the
period leading up to their first appointment
can increase the chance they will follow
through with their donation.
Beating the
butterflies
Feeling great
when you donate
When a first-time donor makes an appointment
to give blood, their initial good intentions can
give way to “butterflies” as their donation
approaches—and sometimes they don’t follow
through with their donation as a result. A new
strategy devised by our Donor Research team
is designed to help donors manage their
anxiety through this critical period of their
donation career.
Most of our donors feel fine during and
after their donation. But a few (10 per cent
of first-time donors, less than 2 per cent
of donors overall) experience symptoms of
dizziness, blurry vision, feel hot and sweaty
and even faint, either during or after their
donation. In short, these symptoms are caused
by a drop in blood pressure and a few simple
techniques, such as drinking two cups of water
immediately before donating or tensing the
large muscle groups in the body, may help
prevent symptoms.
The novel approach is based on research
led by Dr Barbara Masser (Honorary Principal
Research Fellow at the Blood Service and
Associate Professor at the University of
Queensland). Barbara explains:
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“There is a voice at the back of new donors’
heads saying ‘You don’t have to do this. You
could just not do it, that’s OK’. So we’re trying
to intervene in that period and say ‘We know.
We recognise that you are thinking all these
things. It’s not that unusual, and here are some
things you can to do to manage those doubts.”
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We have now developed a range of materials
to assist new donors. Using an internationally
respected research design, we tested the
materials on over 3,600 new donors. The
outcomes of this study told us that a brochure
emailed to a new donor, in combination with
a phone call, produced the best result, so this
will be the basis of our new business practice.
THAT
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OK
Our Donor Research team is enlisting the
help of donors and staff at the Liverpool and
Parramatta donor centres to test how we can
most effectively teach our donors how to feel
great every time they donate.
“We want to help our donors take control
over the way they feel during a donation—
the happier they are, the happier we are,”
says Amanda Thijsen who is leading this
research project.
We value all our donors, and hope to retain
these valuable relationships over time. Our
Donor Research team is constantly working
to ensure that each of our donors stays happy
and healthy throughout their donation career.
If you have questions about research at the
Blood Service, please visit donateblood.com.
au/research
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FACES OF
DONATION
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
BLOOD SERVICE
ll you need is blood: Adelaide couple Rosemary and John Garrett celebrate 50 years of
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marriage this year. That’s not all they share. John has made in excess of 400 blood and
plasma donations. And Rosemary has received blood as part of her cancer treatment.
John has so far saved more than 1200 lives: “To me, donating blood is like a community
service; people need blood”.
400 donations and last out the door: Walter
Runciman recently made his 400th donation at
the Bourke Street Blood Donor Centre. Walter was
also the final person to donate at the centre before
it moved to the new Melbourne CBD Blood Donor
Centre in May. Congratulations Walter!
First-time donor: Kelly Wilson (second from
right), with her parents Marnie and Robert
and sister Bianca, overcame her fear of
needles to make her first donation at Perth
Blood Donor Centre. The Kalgoorlie family
were in Perth for a long weekend and
dropped in to donate and provide support.
ANAEMIA
AWARENESS
FUELS BLOOD
DRIVE
Very few people understand the
constant need for blood more than
thalassaemia and sickle cell anaemia
sufferers and their families.
People with these conditions — which affect
the production of red blood cells and can
cause life-threatening anaemia — often need
regular blood transfusions just to stay healthy.
That’s why the Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell
Society of Australia (TaSCSA) is teaming up
with Red25 to launch a four-month blood
drive encouraging its members, their families
and friends to donate blood and support their
loved ones.
The blood drive was launched on 19 June
2016, World Sickle Cell Day, and culminates
with the society’s 40th anniversary in
November. TaSCSA is a not-for-profit,
community-based organisation that supports
Australians affected by genetic blood
conditions such as thalassaemia, sickle cell
anaemia and other haemoglobin disorders.
Agnes Nsofwa is secretary of the society.
Her daughter, Mapalo, suffers from sickle cell
anaemia and needs regular transfusions.
“At TaSCSA our patients range from babies
to children, like my daughter, right up to
adults in their fifties, and blood transfusions
are the number one treatment option for
managing their conditions,” Agnes said.
“We are hoping that through this platform
we will be able to give the public more
understanding and also encourage them
to take the first step in knowing their own
medical history.”
Dru Mills, National Partnership Manager at
the Blood Service, added: “This will mark an
important partnership between the TaSCSA
and the Blood Service as 28 per cent of all
blood donations go towards people suffering
from blood diseases”.
“It is the hope that we can raise awareness
of these blood conditions as well as make
sure to always have a strong, steady supply
of blood for people like Mapalo.”
Agnes started a blood drive to help people like her daughter Mapalo,
who has sickle cell anaemia and needs regular transfusions.
IT’S IN
THEIR BLOOD:
EMERGENCY
WORKERS
Emergency services workers across
the country recently started a life-saving
blood drive just in time to help combat
a traditional drop-off in donor numbers
over winter.
At the South Australian launch leaders from
the state’s emergency services converged
at the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s (RFDS)
Adelaide Airport hangar to kick off the 2016
Emergency Services Challenge.
The challenge runs from 1 June to 31 August
and sees emergency services groups from
across the country vying for the highest
blood count.
The challenge was launched nationally on the
first day of winter — a great time of need for
the Blood Service as donation cancellations
peak with donors hit hard by the flu and colds.
“We are hoping that through the Emergency
Services Challenge and the example of these
amazing men and women, who save lives on
a regular basis through their profession, that
more Australians will be encouraged to donate
blood,” Blood Service Donor Services
Manager SA/NT, Lawry Sancilio said.
Car accident survivor Jack Annear said he
wouldn’t be alive today without the 17 litres
of blood he received from 48 generous
strangers and the life-saving work of the
RFDS, police, SES and paramedics who
saved his life at the triple-fatality accident.
“I would never have made it to the Royal
Adelaide Hospital without the generosity
of blood donors and the swift response
of emergency services workers, who just
seem to keep on giving,” said Jack.
Survivor: Jack Annear, whose life was saved
by emergency workers and blood donors, was
there to celebrate the launch of the Emergency
Services Challenge.
MORE THAN
ONE WAY TO
SAVE LIVES
When saving lives is part of your
day-to-day work, joining a life-saving
challenge of a different kind is another
way to support your seriously
ill patients.
Forty-six members of the Sunshine Coast
Private Hospital did just this when the
Sunshine Coast Mobile Donor Centre
visited last month.
They joined health services workers across
the country to donate blood as part of the
Blood Service’s inaugural Red25 Health
Services Blood Challenge.
This competitive crew was keen to ensure the
blood supply never runs dry! With many of the
team witnessing the need for blood daily, they
know the impact it can have on patients’ lives.
WA RESOURCES
SECTOR DIGS
DEEP
BHP Billiton, Chevron, INPEX and
Woodside are pooling their resources in
a challenge to see how many lives they
can save by donating blood in 2016.
These four companies are already a part of
the Blood Service’s Red25 program, a unique
movement in which groups and organisations
around Australia unite to save lives through
blood donations. Last year their employees
donated 1,204 times benefitting the lives
of 3,612 patients in Western Australia.
aving lives at Sunshine Coast Private Hospital:
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Assistant Director of Nursing, Kathy Carfantan;
Quality Manager, Kerry Willcocks and Theatre
Orderly, Tim Deens.
Quality Manager Kerry Willcocks said:
“We understand the importance of this
priceless resource for our patients in their
journey to recovery. Helping to fulfil the
demand for blood is our way of assisting
the community and our patients.”
First-timers to the Red25 program,
hospital staff embraced the opportunity
to join the blood drive and strengthen the
connection between donors and patients.
They experienced first-hand the satisfaction
of knowing their blood donation will help
save the lives of three patients—and perhaps
someone they’ll meet!
This year the four companies have decided
on some friendly competition to up the ante
and see if they can save even more lives.
“The Resources Challenge is a wonderful
opportunity for the resources sector to help
the Australian Red Cross Blood Service save
the lives of Western Australian patients,” said
BHP Billiton spokesperson Rebecca Fraurud.
“Our employees are up for the challenge
and enjoy taking part in this worthwhile
cause each year.”
Blood Service spokesperson, Yvonne
Stickland, said “The resources sector already
makes such an outstanding contribution in
Western Australia, and now they will play a
vital role in ensuring we have enough blood
for our patients here”.
esources sector drive to donate blood: Steve Perrett, Woodside; Kristy Lee Morris, INPEX;
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Demi Okely, BHP Billiton and Candy Lethridge, Chevron.
COUNCILS
SUPPORT THEIR
COMMUNITIES
WITH NEW
BLOOD DRIVE
Award winners: Cameron Montgomery
(second from left) and his colleagues
at Ballarat City Council participated
in this year’s inaugural Councils
Blood Challenge.
For the first time councils across
Australia have competed to see
which council can save the most
lives by donating blood.
Ballarat City Council were one of the topranking Victorian councils for donations in the
inaugural challenge. Safety Manager and
Red25 Coordinator, Cameron Montgomery,
says the council has worked hard to create a
collective goal of saving lives together.
“Ballarat City Council has some of the
most amazing employees who are willing
to actively participate in programs such as
the Councils Blood Challenge. It has also
created camaraderie amongst the employees
by encouraging them to donate together
in pairs and teams,” Cameron said.
Cameron recently marked his own milestone
of 100 donations. He and his wife were first
inspired to give blood when their daughter
was befriended by another youngster while
in hospital for an operation.
“The boy’s mother advised that he was in
hospital as he needed blood transfusions
and that was it, both my wife and I started
donating after that.”
“It is one of the easiest things you can do
to help someone else and it doesn’t take long
at all. Besides it might be you or someone
special to you that might need blood one day.
Oh, and of course, they have the best biscuit!”
To join Red25 or learn more,
call 1300 886 524 or visit
donateblood.com.au/red25
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WINTER 2016
Repairing Scarlett’s broken heart: South Australian grandad Bob Glovitch made
his 517th life-saving blood donation on 14 June 2016, World Blood Donor Day,
under the watchful eye of his biggest new-found fan — eight-month-old Scarlett
Wallis. Scarlett recently received multiple red cell transfusions, plasma and
platelets during and after four-hour open-heart surgery.
Shark-attack survivor: Sean Pollard, who needed seven units of blood after he was attacked by a shark
while surfing in Western Australia, thanked donors during National Blood Donor Week. His brother Angus
(pictured with Sean) and mum Kylie donated blood during their visit to Bunbury Blood Donor Centre.
Melbourne Cup winner and blood donor star: when regular donor
Bruce Dalton visited to donate plasma, he brought Australia’s most
prestigious horse-racing trophy with him! Bruce is part-owner of
Prince of Penzance, winner of the 2015 Melbourne Cup. Staff at the
Bundaberg Blood Donor Centre cheered him on as he raced towards
the finish line of donation number 130.
NATIONAL
20!
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
BLOOD SERVICE
WE’VE
TURNED
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wenty years ago the Australian Red
Cross Blood Service as a national
body was formed. Up until then we
were eight separate state and territory
Red Cross blood banks.
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It was way back in 1929 when the Red Cross
in Victoria established Australia’s first major
blood transfusion service, with Dr Lucy Bryce
as honorary director, calling for volunteers to
freely give blood to help others. For decades
after, separate state-based Red Cross blood
banks managed the collection and supply of
blood across the country.
Former secretary general of Australian Red
Cross, Jim Carlton AO (who sadly died late
last year), led the modernisation of the
organisation and its separate blood services
to create the Australian Red Cross Blood
Service on 24 January 1996.
Ours is a fascinating history. During World
War II the state blood services provided
serum (plasma without clotting proteins) for
troops in the Middle East and Europe, and
fresh whole blood for troops in the Pacific.
Australia’s first mobile blood bank made its
maiden journey in Western Australia in 1942.
In the early years we used direct transfusion
and then from the late 1930s glass bottles
were used to store blood, but in the 1960s
we started using plastic bags when collecting
blood. This revolutionised the way we did
things and how blood and blood products
were used, as it facilitated separating blood
into red blood cells, platelets and plasma.
In 1985 Australia became the first country
to screen the entire blood supply for human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and in 1990
the second country in the world to screen all
blood for the hepatitis C virus.
We have come a long way in 20 years.
Dr Robert Hetzel headed the new national
organisation and had the huge task of
bringing together eight separate state and
territory services with significantly different
management structures and systems. For the
first time blood could be transferred between
states to where it was needed most.
We’ve come a long way — from glass collection
bottles to plastic bags to frozen blood — and now
we’ve marked 20 years as a national organisation:
(clockwise from bottom) founder of the first
Australian blood service Dr Lucy Bryce (right, in
1943); WWII blood transfusion, New Guinea, 1945;
a mobile donor centre; glass v. plastic bags in the
1960s. Below, Dr Robert Hetzel and John Hasker,
CEO and chairman of the new national organisation.
A mammoth achievement was the National
Blood Management System, a $35 million
computer system to track all blood donations
nationally. In 2000 Australia was among the
leading countries to introduce additional high
sensitivity nucleic acid testing for HIV and
hepatitis C.
When Australian governments formed the
National Blood Authority in 2003, it meant
the Blood Service no longer needed to
negotiate individually with states and
territories for funding. Jennifer Williams took
on the role of Chief Executive in 2006 and
further drove national consolidation by
streamlining donor management and
production systems.
Earlier in 2016—the year of our 20th
anniversary—Jennifer Williams handed
over to our new Chief Executive, Shelly Park,
and we now begin a new era for the Blood
Service. Our national organisation is an
impressive operation and we are on the
path to becoming one of the top 25 per
cent of manufacturers in the international
blood sector.
It’s heart-warming and rewarding when you
think about all those Australians whose lives
have been vastly improved, and often saved,
thanks to the outstanding work done by the
Blood Service and our loyal donors.
As we pause to celebrate 20 years as a
national organisation and over 80 years of
making blood available for those in need, it’s
also time to acknowledge your precious gift.
From the beginning volunteer donors have
made a difference to people’s lives and we
cannot continue our vital work without you.
Happy anniversary everyone.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
BLOOD SERVICE
Our super heroes: (l-r) Adelaide children Angus
Bond and Gabrielle Waddington suffer a rare
disorder requiring a lifetime of blood transfusions.
They want to thank Australian blood donors
for saving their lives.
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y the time Adelaide schoolchildren
Gabrielle Waddington and Angus
Bond reach their 21st birthdays
they will have received more than
500 life-saving blood transfusions.
The pair share an extraordinary relationship:
they are among approximately 800 people
known worldwide to be suffering the rare
bone marrow failure disorder Diamond
Blackfan Anaemia (DBA).
“Without blood donors Gabrielle wouldn’t
be here,” says her father Jamahl.
“Donations are keeping her alive in the hope
that we can find a cure so that she won’t
have to rely on blood transfusions for the
rest of her life.”
Blood Service national transfusion specialist
Dr Ben Saxon says this life-threatening
disorder without a cure affects Gabrielle
and Angus’ ability to make red blood cells.
“Ninety per cent of DBA patients will require
regular or semi-regular transfusions to stay
alive and healthy,” he says.
Dr Saxon is aware of six DBA patients in
South Australia over the past 20 years and
estimates no more than 60 Australia wide.
Every month, almost since birth, 13-year-old
Gabrielle and eight-year-old Angus spend
anywhere from four to six hours transfusing
blood at the Adelaide Women’s and
Children’s Hospital.
Angus had a short break from transfusions
after his body was able to produce red
blood cells, but he was forced to return
to the monthly procedures after his levels
dropped and he became unwell again.
A complication of regular blood transfusions
is a dangerous build-up of iron in the liver,
heart and pancreas. Both children take
medication to control iron levels and to
avoid organ failure requiring organ donation,
a high-risk procedure for DBA sufferers.
Part of their ongoing treatment also includes
monthly blood tests in addition to transfusions,
an MRI test each year to scan for iron
build-up, quarterly sight and hearing tests
and an annual heart ECG.
“It’s just second nature to her now,” says
Jamahl of his daughter’s time-consuming
and sometimes painful medical routine
for survival.
Gabrielle and her twin sister Jasmine
were born premature in 2002 and were
diagnosed with DBA at three months.
Sadly, Jasmine passed away at five months
due to associated complications.
Gabrielle is now in Year 7 at an Adelaide
school. Her father says to look at her she
appears a normal teenager. But, he says,
her journey thus far has been thwart
with many visits to the intensive care unit,
including heart surgery, constant blood
testing, regular organ testing and scans,
nightly injections and 153 blood transfusions
in her short lifetime.
Regular transfusions are not a process
Gabrielle nor her family enjoy but they
understand it gives her life and are pinning
their hopes on a cure being found.
In April Jamahl trekked 245 kilometres along
the New South Wales coast from Coffs
Harbour to Byron Bay, raising vital research
funds for the Captain Courageous Foundation
to help his daughter and children like her.
The not-for-profit group was founded by
Angus’ mum Jessica Bond­— after Angus
was diagnosed with DBA — to fund cuttingedge research into treatments and cures for
children suffering the disease. The foundation
has established Australia’s first national
collaborative research program across five
states into bone marrow failure disorder.
Jessica says due to the rarity of these
disorders, global research dollars are
very limited.
“However, whilst these diseases are rare,
unlocking the cause could not only lead
to a cure for these courageous children,
but potentially a breakthrough for more
common blood diseases such as leukaemia.”
Until then, children like Gabrielle and
Angus will have to rely on the generous
spirit of complete strangers — the 500,000
active Australian blood-donor heroes
who keep donating — a sacred lifeline
for these children.
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WINTER 2016
BLOOD
DONORS
SAVE
SUPER
HEROES
PROTECTING LIVES:
THERE’S AN
APP FOR THAT
NATIONAL
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
BLOOD SERVICE
DR BLAKE
AND THE
BLOODY CROSS
When George Adams, producer of the ABC
drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries,
incorporated a bloody version of the emblem
into their advertising, it was intended as
a nod towards the title character’s history
as an army medic. It wasn’t until they were
contacted by Red Cross that they learned
of the emblem’s wider significance.
“Everyone recognised it was an honest
mistake and certainly wasn’t in the spirit of
the show,” says George. “We were genuinely
horrified we had in any way put the Red Cross
in such a situation where the emblem could
be denigrated or belittled.”
“People and businesses can be very surprised
when they find out — many assume the red
It’s one of the world’s most recognised
symbols, but many people don’t know the
red cross emblem’s protective significance
during war. Now with a new Australian Red
Cross app everyone can help to protect
the emblem that protects lives.
Did you know that during conflict, personnel
and facilities bearing the red cross, red
crystal and red crescent emblems are
protected under the Geneva Conventions?
Their meanings are simple: don’t shoot —
we are not part of the fight and we are here
to give assistance.
cross is a trademark or a logo,” says
Yvette Zegenhagen National Manager of IHL,
Movement Relations and Advocacy at the
Australian Red Cross.
The red cross is a universal emblem
of protection in armed conflict, under
international and domestic law. The new
Emblem app will help increase awareness
of the emblem’s significance.
“We’re hoping to get the message out there
that these emblems should only be used
for one purpose, and that everyone knows
and respects that purpose. If we want them
to be respected in times of conflict, they must
be widely understood and protected in times
of peace,” Yvette said.
To download the app go to the App Store
or find out more at redcross.org.au/
the-emblem-app
Yet over a hundred Red Cross and Red
Crescent people in conflict zones have been
injured or killed in recent years. Some were
attacked by fighters who misunderstood, or
were unaware of, the emblems’ significance.
This is why Australian Red Cross works to
prevent unauthorised use of the emblems.
And now, for the first time, you can help
us by using your smartphone.
‘The Emblem’ is a new app that enables
people to let us know about emblem
misuse by taking a photo and sending
it to us via the app.
RECIPE
INGREDIENTS
1.5kg butternut pumpkin
Olive oil
1 large onion
3 cloves garlic
1 stick of celery, chopped
1 potato, chopped
1 litre vegetable
ROAST PUMPKIN SOUP
or chicken stock
2 tablespoons chives, chopped
METHOD
1 Preheat the oven to 170°C. Peel pumpkin,
remove seeds and cut roughly into wedges.
Place on baking tray and drizzle with olive oil.
Bake for about an hour, until soft.
2 Meanwhile, heat some olive oil in a large
saucepan over medium heat and add onion,
garlic, carrot, celery and potato and cook for
approximately 10 minutes until soft.
4 When pumpkin is ready, add to saucepan.
5 Blend the soup until smooth. Add more stock
if you prefer a thinner consistency. Season with
salt and pepper.
6 You can serve with a little sour cream spooned
on top of the soup and sprinkled with fresh
snipped chives.
3 Add stock to saucepan and simmer
with vegetables for about 10 minutes
until reduced slightly.
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1. Comes undone
5. Doing word
7. Feral
8. Envy
9. Public disturbance
12. Movie inspectors
15. Inflated ball
19. Tenderly
21. Rigidity
22. Plaintive howl
23. Fades
24. Obliterates
1. Remove cover from
2. Snake, puff ...
3. Like
4. Scant
5. Pansies
6. Purchasers
10. Duck or chicken
11. Too
12. Cheat
13. Memorandum
14. Leave out
15. Polished
16. Peru beasts
17. Displease
18. Recurrent periods
19. Fights for air
20. Fresher
© Lovatts Puzzles
SUDOKU
METHOD
SOLUTIONS
Fill the grid so that every
column, every row and
every 3x3 box contains
the numbers 1 to 9.
Thanks to Lovatts
Crosswords & Puzzles
for supplying these
puzzles.
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LIFE
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