During our endeavour in 2014 to persuade the Newman government to reverse its decision to cut the funding for our service, Advanced Breast Cancer Group member Brighid Maxwell’s had her story published on the website Mamamia. Mamamia is a very popular Australia website covering a wide range of topics from pop culture to politics, body image to motherhood, feminism to fashion. The site has a large following so it was great exposure both for Brighid and the Save the Advanced Breast Cancer Group campaign.
Since then the Palaszczuk government has restored funding for our service, as well as 19 other specialised community based organisations.
Read Brighid’s full article here
http://www.mamamia.com.au/advanced-breast-cancer-group/
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