Category Archives: Campaign News
“We’re Still Here!” Campaign 2013
Please add your polio story to this site, read or comment on someone else’s story, and share our stories on Facebook and Twitter. We don’t even require 6 degrees of separation – we all have a link to polio survivors somewhere in our extended family tree. If we are not a polio survivor ourselves, we are the sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, friends and colleagues, doctors and patients, teachers and customers, of someone who has had polio and who now needs our support. …
Continue reading →Polio Australia Introduces Three New Committee Members
New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria have all had a changing of the guard on the Polio Australia Management Committee, effective from the 2012 Annual General Meeting and subsequently. Click … Continue reading →
Polio Australia’s “We’re Still Here!” Messages Delivered to the PM
Polio survivors Ravy Leang-Slattery (polio year 1983) and her husband Wayne Slattery (polio year 1955) were very keen to join Polio Australia’s “We’re Still Here!” Campaigners in Canberra on 31 October … Continue reading →
“Polio’s colourful campaigners” – Mornington Peninsula News
An article titled “Polio’s colourful campaigners” in Mornington Peninsula News
Continue reading →Polio Sufferers Going Undiagnosed
A parliamentary committee has been told that more than 150,000 people may be at risk of suffering the late effects of polio even though the country has been declared free of … Continue reading →