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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 12 Hansard (12 November) . . Page.. 3478 ..

MR SMYTH (continuing):

attention needs to be paid to the activities of two women. One is Melva Walter, who is the breast care nurse for the ACT. Last month she made something like 43 visits to individual women to help them through what must be a very hard time.

We have women like Melva who are doing a job to assist, but on the night and throughout the month a young lady by the name of Leona put herself forward and said, "I'm a young woman. I'm thirtyish and I have breast cancer,"which was a constant reminder to all that it is not an older ladies disease; it certainly affects young women. The young ladies of the Girls Grammar School are to be congratulated on adopting the Breast Cancer Awareness Network as their charity for year 12 and, as part of that function, raising money throughout the year. Those girls are certainly to be congratulated on the work they did. The Breast Cancer Support Group, through the Bosom Buddies dinner, nominated project lymphadeno for raising money to purchase a laser scanning machine to go into service in the ACT, and they are to be congratulated on the things that they did there.

I think that it is just something that we all need to be aware of, something that we should not forget. These charities have an enormous amount of support from the community. I present the following paper:

Breast Cancer Day 2002-List of sponsors.

I seek leave to have the list incorporated in Hansard, Mr Speaker. It is too numerous to read, but I think it has a place in the Hansard. There are probably something like 50 firms there which gave so generously.

Leave granted.

The list read as follows:

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