“Polio Awareness Month: Helping survivors age with dignity” – Medical Media
An article titled “Polio Awareness Month: Helping survivors age with dignity” by Medical Media.
Continue reading →“New help on offer for polio patients” – Hervey Bay Independent
An article titled “New help on offer for polio patients” by the Hervey Bay Independent.
Continue reading →Polio Survivor – Ann from South Australia
Ann is a polio survivor living in Adelaide, South Australia. There was no epidemic in South Australia when I contracted Polio early in 1944 but it was one of those infectious … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Christine from Queensland
Christine is a polio survivor living in Hervey Bay, Queensland. I contracted polio when I was around 9 years of age. I was treated in the Sylvia Moffet Ward at Brisbane … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Barbara from Victoria
Barbara is a polio survivor living in Ocean Grove, Victoria. I contracted Polio in 1955 when I was 12 years old living in Mannum, South Australia. Now, at 74 years of … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Jane from Victoria
Jane is a polio survivor living in Coburg, Victoria. Sometime between 1954/55, Jane contracted polio at just 11 months old whilst living in Melbourne, Victoria. As a result of the virus, … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – John from Victoria
John is a polio survivor living in Burwood, Victoria. My polio story started when I was 18 months old and living in The Netherlands. In the summer of July 1943, I … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Joy from NSW
Joy is a polio survivor living in Cooranbong, New South Wales. I am probably one of the more fortunate polio survivors. As a small child, I was diagnosed with a mild … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Neena from NSW
Neena is a polio survivor living in Sydney, New South Wales. It was a meek October morning in 1967, only a month away from my third birthday, I had worn my … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Sally from Victoria
Sally is a polio survivor living in Kyenton, Victoria. Sally doesn’t have much memory of her early life; not specifically remembering contracting polio. Sally grew up in Wagga Wagga during the … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Sue from Victoria
Sue is a polio survivor living in Geelong, Victoria. Sue was born in 1960 in the Mallee Region of country Victoria. At the age of 18 months old, her mother remembers … Continue reading →
Polio Survivor – Terry from South Australia
Terry is a polio survivor living in Adelaide, South Australia. It was 1946 and the war was finally over. The family had moved from London to Essex and I attended the … Continue reading →
ABC National ‘Shooting the Past’ – The Sunshine Cure
An interview on Radio National’s ‘Shooting the past’ about a photograph of a line of small boys lying in hospital beds, staring balefully at the camera, to uncover the forgotten scourge of polio.
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Florence Jean Barber – “Australia’s Longest Living Polio Survivor”
The story of Florence Jean Barber – “Australia’s Longest Living Polio Survivor”.
Continue reading →Sue Mackenzie talks at Rotary Club of Burleigh Heads
Board Member, Sue Mackenzie (pictured below with husband, Graeme, and friend), continues to raise awareness and funds in Brisbane, through Rotary Meetings and Conference presentations.
Continue reading →International Day of People With Disability Event
Tom Dutton conducted an Auction, raising over $900 for a painting donated by Paul Constable-Calcott, titled “Post Polio Gathering”, a dreamtime theme of people coming together to celebrate. Paul is both … Continue reading →
“Post-polio syndrome a challenge for health practitioners” – Freedom2Live
An article titled “Post-polio syndrome a challenge for health practitioners” from Freedom2Live
Continue reading →“Polio nurse Tessa Jupp of Subiaco awarded Medal of the Order of Australia” – Western Suburbs Weekly
Polio nurse Tessa Jupp of Subiaco awarded Medal of the Order of Australia Written by Lisa Thomas Mrs Jupp was a founding member of the Post Polio Network of Western Australia, … Continue reading →