Annual Report 2011/12 - The Queensland AIDS Council

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healthy
communities
lesbian gay bisexual trans
REPORT
ANNUAL
QUEENSLAND ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC
Contents
President’s Report
1
LGBT Health
2
Training & Development
5
Sexual Health
6
2 Spirits
9
Community Building
12
Advocacy & Public Policy
13
Governance14
Fundraising & Marketing
15
Financial Report
17
Staff
23
Sponsors & Donors
24
Our Vision
A Queensland where all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people achieve the best possible health and
well-being and participate fully in the life of communities, free from stigma and discrimination.
Our Mission
To enable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to increase control over and improve their health,
as a resource for social, economic and personal development and an important dimension of quality of life.
Our Values
Healthy Communities values the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Healthy Communities values the pursuit of excellence in professionalism, quality and ethics.
In every day operation,Healthy Communities will:
l Respect everyone’s uniqueness, views and experience;
l Uphold and protect human rights, including endorsement of the Yogyakarta Principles;
l Respect the knowledge, practice and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their
relationship to the land and sea;
l Work to stop violence and oppression in all its forms;
l Lead by example in providing a work environment that respects and embraces diversity;
l Deliver services and provide resources & support of the highest professional standards;
l Be accountable to the community, clients, members and funding bodies in ensuring best practice fiscal
responsibility;
l Work in partnership with local, state and national organisations to create knowledge, understanding and
respect for LGBT Queenslanders.
Acronyms
AFAO Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ARVAnti-Retroviral
A&TSI Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
ATODS Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
BBV Blood Borne Viruses
BDVAS Brisbane Domestic Violence & Advocacy Service
CALD Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
CDC Centres for Disease Control & Prevention
CIS Creating Inclusive Services
DoHA Department of Health & Ageing
DSG Diverse Sex & Gender
GLWA Gay & Lesbian Welfare Association
GP General Practitioner
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HPO Health Promotion Officer
LGBTI Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex
LHAG Lesbian Health Action Group
MGOV Many Genders, One Voice
MSM Men who have Sex with Men
OATSIH Office for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health
PEP Post Exposure Prophylaxis
PLHIV Person/people Living with HIV
QGCPS Queensland Gay Community Periodic Survey
QPP Queensland Positive People
SEQ South East Queensland
SOPV Sex on Premises Venue
STI Sexually Transmissible Infections
USC University of the Sunshine Coast
UQ University of Queensland
President’s Report
Mark Morein, President
Healthy Communities
To put it mildly, this has been an
extremely difficult year for everyone
at Healthy Communities. It seems like
I should be writing 2 separate reports
for you. The first would cover the period
up to the 20 May announcement that
the Minister for Health was defunding
the association. That report would have
been optimistic, focusing on our progress
in working with Gay Men and MSM
throughout Queensland, the successes
we have seen on the political level and
the improving working relationship with
Queensland Health. It is true that we have
continued to see rises in HIV notifications
but with new approaches and technology
(for example rapid testing and ‘Test &
Treat’) there was reason to believe we
were about to turn that corner.
Unfortunately, that all changed with a
story in the Sunday Mail, and this report is
far less optimistic than I would have liked.
It is fair to say that no one saw this coming
and that many people are still in shock,
confused and angry about it. It is a given
that there are all sorts of unanswered
questions about this decision, the way in
which it was announced, and its long term
ramifications. I do not think they will ever
be answered.
While the decision to defund Healthy
Communities was manifestly wrong it is, I
think, time to put that in the past, to move
forward and look to what we will become.
At the time this report is being written we
are organising community consultations
in Cairns, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast
to begin the important conversations with
members of the LGBT communities about
what we will do and how we will do it with
the profoundly reduced budget that we
will work with for the foreseeable future. I
know that many of you will have taken the
time to contribute, either by attending in
person or online, and I thank you for your
support.
By the time you read this, and by our next
Annual General Meeting, we will have
some concrete ideas to bring to you.
What I can assure you is that we have
no intention to close up, or to stop the
important community development and
advocacy work that have earned us the
Minister’s displeasure.
While the exact details of what Healthy
Communities will look like in the future
are unclear, one thing is certain – we
are not going away! While funding from
Queensland Health has ceased, we will
continue working with Gay Men and
MSM to stop the spread of HIV. Our
commitment to this remains strong, and
you may have seen the latest version of
the Rip & Roll campaign at bus stops in
Brisbane, on line and in various magazines
and newsletters. The 2 Spirits project,
funded by the federal government
continues, as does our Client Support
Services and Seniors Visiting Service. Our
volunteer run Action Groups will continue
to offer support within our communities,
such as Sex and Gender Diverse people,
Lesbians, Seniors and LGBT people from
CALD backgrounds.
We are forced to curtail our operations.
Our Resource Centre on the Sunshine
Coast will be closed (hopefully
temporarily), while in both Cairns and
Brisbane we have downsized our staff.
Both of these offices will have one Health
Promotion Officer who will be responsible
for both HIV work as well as broader LGBT
health work. Our organisational support
team has been reduced and remaining
staff will be working on reduced hours.
This affects our capacity to provide the
kind of high quality services that we and
our communities expect from us. We will
be even more reliant on volunteers than
we already are and attracting donations
will become a high priority. In the past we
have been able to support many smaller,
Mark Morein
less well funded organisations working
in our communities, through the Healthy
Communities Fund and also by providing
space for them in our Resource Centres.
Unfortunately this has to change, and we
can no longer provide cash grants or free
support. This does not mean we will not
continue working with all members of the
communities, just that the nature of that
work will have to change.
They say that when the chips are down
is when you find out who your friends
really are. It has been amazing to watch
our staff respond to this challenge by
continuing to provide excellent services
to our communities, and many have
indicated that they intend to continue
their work on a voluntary basis. Other
organisations working in the Queensland
LGBT rights arena have been extremely
supportive, in particular Equal Love,
who organized the Festival of Fightback,
and immediately saw the link between
defunding Healthy Communities and
the attack on other rights. Members of
Healthy Communities and the broader
community have been extremely
generous in supporting our Fighting
Fund and also our ongoing work.
As always I would like to thank our
volunteers, members and our amazing
staff whose commitment to their work
remained so strong during an incredibly
trying time. It is a pleasure to work with
you and on your behalf.
Healthy Communities 2011-12 Annual Report
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LGBT HEALTH
InsideOUT Client Support Service
Mental illness is the largest health issue facing LGBT people. In 2011,
Healthy Communities was funded for a two year project to provide mental
health support to LGBT people, especially those affected by the natural
disasters. The project employs a single worker who provides one-to-one
counselling support, discussion groups, social marketing campaigns and
training & advice to mainstream mental health services.
InsideOUT
Need to talk?
Since October 2011, the service has seen 41 clients for a total of 286 hours,
with 24 clients continuing to receive support at end of June. 31% of clients
came from outside Brisbane, with a cross-section of ages, sexualities and
gender identities. The service has also held 25 discussion groups over 108
hours with 82 unique participants. The groups were ‘Living & Loving the
Lesbian Way’, ‘Living & Loving the Gay Way’, ‘Bi the Way’, ‘Talking Outside the
Box’ (sex & gender diverse), ‘Talking Inside Out’ (people living in suburban
areas), ‘Inside Coming Out’.
Feedback from clients has been very positive, with comments including:
“You have made a difference in me and I am able to come out and
be the real me”
“Thank you for helping me to recognize that with time and
patience, I will fit into my community.”
“It’s great to be able to share and hear everyone’s stories - it helps
validate our own experiences and lessons. Everything shared is
incredibly valuable”
InsideOUT
“Awesome night last night at the discussion! Had heaps of fun and
was great to have a laugh about it all too.”
Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs (ATOD) Project
LGBT people use more alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and on occasions
at riskier levels than the broader community. In the past year Healthy
Communities launched a website www.boozebit.me which provided
information on safer drinking & partying and encouraged people to test
their own levels of drinking and share this with friends through social
media. The website was promoted via striking stickers in toilets of LGBT
venues of a man and a woman affected by alcohol.
Booze Bit Me Campaign
A new campaign to encourage LGBT people to quit smoking was
developed and is due for launch in late 2012 (if funding can be found). It
reflects on the changes we have seen in the LGBT community over the past
decades and the changes in attitudes to smoking. The campaign builds
on the partnership with Quitline, whose staff have been trained in LGBT
awareness. LGBT Quitline promotional resources were distributed at Pride
events across Queensland throughout the year.
Cabaret Q journeyed to Townsville this year. Working with local performers,
Cabaret Q puts on a free cabaret show for the LGBT community, with the
acts exploring aspects of alcohol, tobacco and others drugs use and mental
health in the LGBT community. 15 performers were involved in Townsville,
with over 80 community members attending.
Other activities included starting the development of a resource for
partners, families and friends of LGBT people affected by alcohol or other
drugs, calling for entries in an LGBT ATOD commercial competition and
providing advice and input on LGBT ATOD issues to mainstream ATOD
services and Queensland Health.
All funding for this project has now been withdrawn by Queensland Health.
Smoking Awareness Campaign
Cairns Pride 2011
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Ageing Action Group
LGBT seniors are often invisible on the gay scene and in aged care services.
Healthy Communities facilitates an LGBT Ageing Action Group that raises the
profile of LGBT seniors and develops services. The Action Group involves older
LGBT people, LGBT groups and mainstream aged care organisations. Healthy
Communities continues to support Care Connect in delivering aged care
packages for LGBTI people in south east Queensland.
Healthy Communities received funding for a half-time worker for 1 year to pilot
an LGBT Seniors Community Visiting Service. Volunteers have been trained and
will be matched with socially isolated LGBT seniors to provide social connection
in their homes, residential care facilities or on outings. This project is the first in
Australia focused on LGBT people.
LGBT Seniors Community
Visiting Service
Social support was also provided to LGBT seniors at our annual Seniors Week
Luncheon held at the Sportsman’s Hotel and our annual LGBT Seniors Christmas
BBQ, hosted by the Board of Healthy Communities at our Helen St office.
Promotional items and gift bags were supplied by various aged care services.
Lesbian Health Action Group
The past year has seen LHAG working on promoting awareness about domestic
violence and mental health in the community. The 3 main topics self-reported
by women completing the annual LAHG survey were: domestic violence, mental
health and coming out. Oztag continued to assist women with keeping physically
and mental well and Yoga was started to promote relaxation and improved
mental health. A collaboration with the training and development program
and Brisbane Domestic Violence and Advocacy Service (BDVAS) saw the profits
from the 2011 performance of Vagina Monologues train staff from several
domestic violence services and produce a safety card which will be launched
at Pride 2012. This collaboration further continued with Healthy Communities
and BDVAS designing and launching a domestic violence resource called “Queer
Without Fear” in May.
Queer Without Fear
resource launch
International Lesbian Day Expo in October became an LHAG project this year
and our major fundraiser, a wonderful collaboration between CityLickers (the
previous event organiser) and The Wickham Hotel saw 530 people attend a day
filled with 15 stalls, entertainment, workshops and a BBQ. Trivia, speed dating,
speed pool, the kids space and discussion groups were all well attended. The
Expo also saw the launch of the monthly Living and Loving the Lesbian Way
discussion groups run by Sally Morris, the Client Services Coordinator, with topics
pulled from the LHAG survey. Contact and promotion of LHAG with community
continues monthly with regular outreach to Scarlet Lesbian Club, promoting
Designated Drivers and Drink Spiking Awareness to the women who attend.
Multicultural Action Group
Global Beatz
Wickham Hotel
Queensland is a multicultural community, including within the LGBT community,
but sometimes LGBT people from a multicultural background experience
discrimination because of their ethnicity and services are not inclusive of their
needs. Healthy Communities facilities an LGBT Multicultural Action group to
raise the profile of the needs of LGBT people from a multicultural background,
develop services and help ensure Healthy Communities is culturally inclusive and
competent.
On the eve of the Brisbane Multicultural Festival in 2011, Healthy Communities
and the Wickham Hotel held ‘Global Beatz’ a night of multicultural music and
performances, to celebrate cultural diversity in the LGBT community. The night
was also a fundraiser for the Action Group and raised $1,500. This was then
followed by a stall at the Brisbane Multicultural Festival, in conjunction with other
HIV organisations. To celebrate Harmony Day in 2012, Healthy Communities held
a Harmony Day BBQ at The Wickham Hotel, with free food and entertainment,
promoting cultural diversity in the LGBT community.
Brisbane Multicultural
Festival 2011
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We also received a small grant from the Queensland Government to develop an
information resource to support LGBT people from a multicultural background who are
newly arrived in Queensland. A part-time project worker has been recruited to consult
with LGBT people and develop the resource, which will be launched at Brisbane Pride Fair
Day in September 2012.
Many Genders, One Voice
Brisbane Pride 2011
Many Genders, One Voice (MGOV) has been working over the last year to provide
an opportunity and space for different Trans* groups to come together and work
collaboratively whilst still being respectful of the incredible diversity of identity,
expression, strengths, values, experience and knowledge of the Trans*, Diverse Sex and
Gender Community in Queensland.
Many Genders vision is: A Queensland where Trans*, Sex and Gender Diverse people are
valued as equals and have social, mental, emotional, physical and financial health and
well-being outcomes that equal or exceed the general population.
Many Genders’ current focus areas are:
1. Basic access to health care
2. Employment
3. Housing
many genders
one voice
Many Genders
One Voice logo
4. Legal Rights & Discrimination
5. Database of Trans* friendly services (both for health related and potential
employment opportunities)
Many Genders has hosted a fundraiser screening of ‘Albert Nobbs’ and helped with
recruiting volunteers for Healthy Communities larger events and outreach, such as Gold
Coast Gay Day, Big Gay Day and Balls Out Bingo. Many Genders members also were
involved in the launch of a transmasculine magazine ‘Dude’ in Brisbane and helped
distribute the magazine state-wide. Money raised from Many Genders has gone towards
the funding a half time Health Promotion Officer position in the Brisbane and Cairns
office working on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender health. Many Genders has also
been supporting the Queensland Transgender, Sistergirl and Gender Diverse Conference
in Cairns.
National LGBTI Health Alliance
Healthy Communities continues to be an active member of the National LGBTI Health
Alliance, contributing to LGBTI policy and programs at a national level. In the past year
the Alliance has:
Balls Out Bingo
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l
Commenced Australia’s first LGBTI mental health and suicide prevention project
(MindOUT!);
l
Conducted, jointly with ACON, a national LGBTI ageing roundtable;
l
Gained agreement by the Australian Government to develop a national LGBTI Ageing
and Aged Care Strategy;
l
Conducted Australia’s first national diverse sex and gender (DSG) health roundtable;
l
Made submissions to government on a range of health policy matters such as aged
care, mental health recovery, palliative care, anti-discrimination, and tobacco control;
and
l
Obtained funding support from the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) for
capacity development, including the Alliance’s secretariat.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
The 2011/12 year has been interesting
to say the least. Requests for training
came in thick and fast but only half of the
organisations making enquiries eventually
followed through with the sessions. This
saw over 200 people attend various
existing versions of the Creating Inclusive
Services (CIS) and LGBT Awareness training
sessions. One of the most exciting requests
was from several universities interested in
us delivering their Ally Network training;
this was designed and delivered in
collaboration with Equity Officers from
USC, UQ and Griffith.
Several versions of CIS , Which Way
My Mob – 2 Spirits(A&TSI), Diversity
within Diversity (CALD) and Queerying
Inclusivity – more than just a rainbow
flag (domestic violence) were piloted
throughout the year as well, with 22
people attending the A&TSI version, 67
attending the CALD version and 25 the
domestic violence version. All of these
sessions were designed in collaboration
and consultation with other programs and
services. 2 Spirits were fully involved in the
design and delivery of the A&TSI training,
Brisbane Domestic Violence and Advocacy
Service (BDVAS) and ACON consulted on
the domestic violence training and Skilling
Queensland had input into the cultural
content of the CALD version of CIS. This
now brings the suite of training sessions
to nine and meant that over 300 people
attended some form of training by Healthy
Communities.
An additional version of CIS planned
was on working with LGBT people with a
disability. Initial consultations were held
with both LGBT community members who
had a disability and service providers in
the sector. These were attended by 27
people who were all very excited about
the possibility of awareness within the
disability sector. Unfortunately with the
defunding this project was not able to be
completed.
General Practitioner education was very
successful this year. After the change to
Medicare Locals new contacts had to be
made and this resulted in only 2 sessions
being delivered but the response from
GP’s to the new informal dinner style
approach was more than we could have
expected. We found this new approach to
delivering education allowed participants
to be more relaxed and open in the
discussions.
To complement all of the training sessions
we deliver there are several factsheets.
These were all updated in late 2011 with
consultation with community members
and service providers in each sector.
The most interesting collaboration of the
year, on a resource, was the LGBT specific
family and domestic violence resource
“Queer Without Fear” which was a
combined effort with Brisbane Domestic
Violence and Advocacy Service (BDVAS)
now a part of Micah Projects Inc and
Healthy Communities. This had flowed
from the joint domestic violence pilot
training and presentation at the National
LGBTI domestic violence conference and
finally a grant from the Department of
Communities for the resource.
Involvement at conferences was a
wonderful way to inform people on
the work at Healthy Communities and
often elicited interest in the training
that we offer. Several requests followed
after presentations at both the National
LGBTI domestic violence conference in
Sydney and the Altering States mental
health conference in Brisbane. Hopefully
involvement in the planning committee
of the Sex and Gender Diverse,
Transgender and Sistergirl conference
in Cairns and Health in Difference 8
conference in Melbourne in the future
will see this trend continue.
Several other projects that were started
this year are still only in the early stages,
this includes exploring options for the
training to become accredited, getting
LGBT awareness into curriculum in higher
education and designing online training.
Wonderful contacts have been made
and hopefully these projects may be
able to move forward some time in the
future with collaborations or funding and
grants.
Queer Without Fear
resource launch
DIVERSITY
WITHIN
DIVERSITY
Multicultural LGBT
Awareness Training
Have
Your Say!
The funding for this project was
withdrawn by Queensland Health, but we
will continue to deliver LGBT awareness
training on a for-fee basis.
LGBT Disability
Training Workshop
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sexual health program
Rip & Roll, Sunshine
Coast Pride 2011
Brisbane Pride 2011
At the start of 2011/12 the 2006 increase
in funding from Queensland Health to
Healthy Communities that allowed a
reinvigorated response to HIV prevention
was assured till June 2014. But on 20th
May the new government pulled the
plug on the funding that allowed us to
engage a full team of urban and regional
health promotion positions for south
east Queensland, central Queensland
and northern Queensland. It saw the
destruction of the engine-room work
of the State-wide co-ordinators who
have been focusing on campaigns
and resources, individual and group
discussion, online and social media
community development as well as the
clinical partnerships now required to
implement the ‘prevention revolution’.
Despite the shock of this ill-advised
defunding of the gay community
response to HIV, from July 2011 through
to June 2012 the Sexual Health Program
implemented a multifaceted, integrated
and culturally relevant range of activities
to reduce the spread of HIV, STIs and
Hepatitis C.
Information and resource
provision
Across Queensland the Men4Men
program (the new identifier of our
gay men’s HIV prevention team) has
been responsive to the needs of local
communities. This is through our
outreach to beats and sex on premises
venues (SOPVs), LGBT clubs, pubs and
events as well as online platforms
like GrindR where men meet men for
sex. Health Promotion Officers’ (HPO)
GrindR profiles are active (on average 2
contacts per day) enabling sexual health
conversations between regional outreach
staff and guys at the point these men are
looking for sex.
Valley Pool
Packing Party
Cairns Pride 2011
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HPO’s also started making short You
Tube clips to promote events such as
International Condom Day 2012. For
example a two minute clip “Shit Gay/
Queers Say About Sex” was filmed at
community events to describe what gay
men say to get out of using a condom.
This highlights how problematic these
comments can be and has received over
1330 views.
In the online community space, our
regional Facebook pages have increasing
‘likes’ and ‘friends.’ Healthy Communities
Sunshine Coast now has 733 friends;
Healthy Communities Central Coast had
96 people and an average of 27 people
per week talking about relevant sexual
and other health content.
In addition Health Promotion Officers
interacted around health and social
support with other Facebook groups
frequented by members of our target
population but not directly connected
with Healthy Communities.
In Brisbane regular outreach sessions
were conducted at the Wickham,
Sportsman and Beat social venues
averaging four minutes discussion with
about thirty men during each session.
These men were offered condoms for sex
they were arranging that night. Resource
displays were maintained or newly
installed in SOPV including Klub Kruise,
The Den, Bodyline, and Wet in Brisbane,
as well as Head Office and the Laneway
in Cairns.
Outreach was also conducted at events
where gay men were likely to be. This
included Pride Fair Days in Gold Coast,
Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton
and Cairns, Leather Pride, Northern
Exposure, MASC, Babylon and White Wolf
dance parties. The Aqualicious Pool Party
and Big Gay Day around the Wickham
also saw large crowds. At these events
specially branded safe sex packs were
given out and the current campaigns
were promoted.
In regional Queensland outreach teams
distributed information resources and
condoms at events and venues including
the: Out parties in Cairns, Club Evolve
parties and Sovereign Hotel in Townsville,
Escape on the Gold Coast, Taboo and
Outwest in Ipswich and at different
Sunshine Coast and Central Queensland
gatherings
Condom distribution to gay men and
men who have sex with men across
Queensland was worth $20,000. Over
11,000 sexual health resources were
distributed through gay social and sexual
meeting spaces, as well as when the men
visited sexual health clinics, gay friendly
medical centres, counselling services,
youth services, HIV services & groups,
gay accommodation, adult shops, cafes,
universities and libraries.
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Campaigns and media
Men4Men’s HIV prevention and sexual
health education in traditional and social
media was significant. Campaigning in
the variety of media formats contained
advertisements as well as sexual health
articles with a focus on the core issues
of this program - condom reinforcement
and risk reduction strategies; the lived
experience of HIV; and HIV and STI
testing.
Rip & Roll (two and three) focusing on
the importance of condoms and lube
appeared at the start of this year and its
further development occurred towards
the close of 2011-2012. Following the
publicity boost from the unwarranted
controversy of two men hugging, Junior
our advertising and communications
company, created four short YouTube
clips using the history of the campaign
to promote the importance of condom
reinforcement.
Six new poster executions were created
for LGBT settings and outdoor advertising
again. These outdoor advertising
opportunities are the shared, mainstream
spaces were gay men spend much of
their time. The Rip & Roll campaign was,
and will be, seen this year at bus stops
and billboards across Queensland.
Advertisements for men travelling to
Mardi Gras this year dealt with sexual
and other safety in travel. Four half page
ads were created for Queensland Pride
and QNews focusing on sex, sun & safety,
drugs and medications. The graphic is in a
similar theme to the Mardi Gras artwork.
Pos Lit was a partnership activity we
undertook with Queensland Positive
People (QPP). Engaging a number of
PLHIV to write their experience of being
diagnosed with and living with HIV. Our
intention was to use the power of ‘story’
to converse with gay men about HIV now.
Nine stories were printed in QNews and
Queensland Pride as one of our ‘Arousal’
inserts. The process also began this year
for a compilation book with the “Pos Lit”
participants’ stories creating a resource
for newly diagnosed guys.
resource has the benefit of being an
acceptable and continuous reminder
of the value of knowing your HIV and
STI status. The campaign consisted of
eight advertisements and posters. Nine
full page adverts appeared in the gay
media as well as Healthy Communities
newsletters in many regions.
The Healthy Communities 2012
Gay Men’s safe sex calendar was a
retrospective of the plethora of safe sex
campaigns developed in the 28 years
since it was founded as the Queensland
AIDS Council. The principles that have
guided all the social marketing work
done by this organisation over its
history remain true today. This 20112012 period has been guided by: being
gay affirming, sex positive and speaking
with relevance for HIV positive and HIV
negative gay men.
Drama Down Under
Pos–Lit
Conversation and support in
groups
It is important that men have the
chance to discuss issues impacting on
sex, so that those issues make sense
in their lives. Bringing guys together
in different ways, which suit them, has
been much of what we have attempted
to do via, workshops, retreats and meal
discussions known as ‘Food for Thought.’
Workshops were held in Brisbane
covering Cruising Men, Exploring Men’s
Relationships, Art of Sex, Men in the
Middle and the LGBT youth workshop,
Young & Out. North Queensland held
two retreats one being for Cairns locals
and the other for men in the Townsville
environs on Magnetic Island.
The ‘Food for Thought’ flexible format
where guys meet with each other over
a meal to talk about sexual matters
significant to them grew in popularity
further this year. Ten ‘Food for Thoughts’
happened this year with an average of
ten men at each one.
Fear Less Live More is the AFAO
campaign that confronts HIV stigma
and discrimination. The campaign was
implemented as ten full page adverts in
gay press as well as being used during
community events such as Aqualicious
pool party.
Sunshine Coast Men’s Coffee Gathering
held a discussion on how celluloid
sex mimics life. The CQ Men’s BBQ
ran their own discussion as a Food
for Thought while Toowoomba
had a Food for Thought about HIV
testing in preparation for the Orasure
testing project. They noted that HIV
prevention and related information was
incorporated in a way acceptable and
relevant to those involved.
The third tranche of the Drama Down
Under campaign again had a focus on
encouraging sexual health testing. Like
our own Rip & Roll campaign this AFAO
Logan Food for Thought was built by
Men4Men staff. Good insights were
given into some of the issues such as
isolation and discrimination faced by
POSITIVE LIFE
STORIES
Pos Lit
Food for
Thought
Scarborough
Food for Thought
CQ
Men’s BBQ
Central Queensland
Men’s BBQ 2012
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guys in the region. The Townsville Food
for Thought was held by the north Qld
HPO. The topic of finding sex partners in
regional Queensland was discussed. Both
these discussions provided an excellent
vehicle for contextualising HIV prevention
in men’s lives.
Healthy Communities Volunteers
Big Gay Day 2012
Other topics during Food for Thought
included: sexual practices, meeting
other guys in the region, police at beats
and social isolation even when close to
Brisbane. Planning was underway during
this year for a Trans man Food for Thought
as well as a Food for Thought- Asian
Style to meet the needs of specific subpopulations.
Men4Men also piloted targeted work with
sexually adventurous men (SAMs). These
men often have a high level of knowledge
about HIV and sex, but also a higher
level of HIV transmission. A peer from
the community was recruited to conduct
interviews and focus groups with men on
what type of HIV prevention activity would
work best with them. We established a
SAMs group on Facebook were lots of
discussion and peer education took place.
The pilot was externally evaluated.
Rip & Roll 2012
Improving Gay Men’s experience
in clinical settings
The Clinical Liaison project is about our
relationship with sexual health clinicians
and doctors and nurses in general practice
so that gay men can experience more
culturally appropriate and effective health
education and promotion programs in
clinical settings.
One Night in Asia
Man Camp Survival Kit 2012
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The Clinical Liaison Coordinator worked
with the UQ HIV Education Unit (HIV and
sexual health clinical training for nurses
and doctors) and Healthy Communities
staff to revamp the HIV training program.
This included a re-write of the HIV
prevention presentation and a new
session on the sex that gay men have.
This ‘Sex-What’s happening’ course was
delivered as well as other presentations to
clinicians on Gay men’s HIV prevention. For
example, these included a Medicare Local
GP dinner in Gatton (covering the Ipswich
and Gatton area) that was attended by ten
nurses. This presentation had an increased
focus on early HIV treatment and the
implications of the ‘prevention revolution’
Update sessions were held with twelve
sexual health and HIV staff at Biala. After
lengthy discussion and collaboration
on the Sunshine Coast, Clinic 87 sexual
health screening outreach clinic began at
Healthy Communities Resource Centre in
Maroochydore.
While this year’s Annual Clinicians Meeting
was cancelled by the Communicable
Diseases Branch, the University of
Queensland Clinician Update Course
served a similar purpose given recent
research breakthroughs such as HPTN052
regarding treatment & prevention.
Healthy Communities reviewed the
treatment algorithm adjustments
presented at this Update and participated
on panels in two sessions of the Nurses
Update the same weekend. This update
was a chance to discuss the United States
Centres for Disease Control & Prevention
(CDC) recommendations regarding
starting ARV treatment early, including
the secondary impact on community
viral load. The Clinical Liaison Coordinator
engaged with clinician doubts about
the ‘early treatment’ evidence base and
the potential undue influence of drug
companies on expert opinion.
A GP and nurses webpage began its
development this year to assist our
working relationship with clinicians
around HIV, sexual health and the LGBT
experience. As we enter into this next
stage of the ongoing HIV epidemic, where
the evidence is now clear about the true
benefit of ARV treatments in both wellness
and reducing HIV transmission, it has
become plain that the centrality of our gay
men’s experience will be needed to sustain
any scientific and clinical benefits.
Knowing more about what
goes on
The findings of the 2011 Queensland Gay
Community Periodic Survey (QGCPS) into
men’s HIV prevention and sex behaviour
were released this financial year. This
year also began the recruitment for the
2012 version starting in the Gold Coast
at the Gay Day Festival. The 2011 results
indicated that the amount of unprotected
sex in casual and regular relationships
is either stable or falling, so this is a
promising sign that HIV transmission
amongst Queensland men may be
reducing.
2 spirits
Launch of Strategic Statement
2 Spirits Review
Recognising the need for reorientation
of the Project to allow for growth, the 2
Spirits Strategic Statement 2012-2015
was launched in June 2012. The Strategic
Statement focuses on retaining the
cultural ways of working with Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people –
recognising the “whole of community
approach” and builds on the current
services provided by the Project.
The 2 Spirits Review was completed and
launched in late 2011 and provides 23
Recommendations for the Project to focus
on target groups with limited resources.
The Recommendations – covering
Strategic Focus, Health Promotion
and Community Development and
Strengthening and Promoting Capacity
- focus on reorienting the way we work,
developing strategic partnerships with
other organisations and monitoring
resources allocated to statewide HIV, BBV
and other STI education.
The Strategic Statement emphasises the
need to retain and build the current HIV
and other BBV education and prevention
work that 2 Spirits already provides.
Collaboration with other organisations
is seen as a key way of providing more
appropriate services for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander People Living With
HIV (PLHIV). The Project, as recommended
by the 2 Spirits Review 2011, will monitor
1:1 work and community development
initiatives relating to HIV and other BBV
work.
Importantly the Project will look to
expand into new target populations. This
expansion is conditional on the 2 Spirits
Program securing long term and sustained
funding to support this expansion. If
funding is secured, areas of work will
include:
l
Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs
(ATODS) – investigating the impact of
homophobia and discrimination in the
high uptake of alcohol, tobacco, and
other drugs within our target groups.
l
Mental Health – addressing the growing
mental health issues of our target
groups – in particular addressing the
risks of suicidal ideation, self harm and
depression within Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander populations.
l
Ageing – Recognising the importance of
Elders within Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander culture, and the health impacts
of ageing within our target groups.
l Youth
Health – Recognition that
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
young people 15-30 are a key target
group in themselves, as young people
are more likely to engage in risk taking
behaviour, experience barriers to
accessing health services and have
higher rates of STI’s than non Indigenous
peers.
l
Expansion of target groups – to include
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
gay men, lesbians, sistergirls and
brotherboys.
Many of the Review Recommendations
are already well on the way to being
implemented, whilst some Review
Recommendations are more long term and
will take many years to implement. As the
Review was launched, an Implementation
Plan was released, detailing how (or
whether) the Project would implement
each of the 23 Recommendations.
Condoman/Lubelicious
It has been an exciting year for the
Condoman campaign, with the
introduction of a range of new characters
and resources supporting the growth of
Condoman within Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander sexual health.
Condoman
Building on the previous success of
Condoman, a new character – Lubelicious
was developed. Lubelicious will be seen as
a supplemental character to Condoman
and will be used to promote sexual health
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
women, and may in future be used to
promote a range of women’s health
initiatives.
In addition to the new character
Lubelicious – a range of other characters
representing STI’s have been developed.
The characters of Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea,
Hepatitis B, Herpes, HPV and Syphilis have
been developed with the launch of Comic
Book 2 to occur in late 2012. The character
of Stigmalien has been developed to
address the stigma attached to many
sexually transmitted infections.
Lubelicious
New resources to be developed include a
range of suits representing the characters
– similar to the popular Condoman
suits used at community events across
Queensland. A range of other resources
will be developed through mid to late
2012 to build recognition of Lubelicious
and the other new characters.
Goanna Survey - Cairns
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Elders Forums/Community Visits
Throughout the year, the Project built on
previous successes of Elders Forums and
Community Visits by conducting events in
Roma and Palm Island.
Palm Island Sistergirls
Brown Sugar 2012
In May 2012, the 2 Spirits Project conducted
a Sistergirl Forum on Palm Island, attracting
approximately 50 sistergirls from the island.
Workshops were held focussing on safety,
sexual health, mental health, services
available on the island as well as self
esteem building. Whilst visiting Palm Island,
the Project worked with local sistergirls
to develop a sistergirl resource – to be
launched in Cairns for Pride 2012.
The Project conducted two outreach
visits from the Brisbane office – initially
in November 2011 to Roma, Dalby and
Toowoomba, to introduce the 2 Spirits
Project to the region. The outcome of this
visit was a recommendation for the Project
to return with an Elders Forum. An Elders
Forum was conducted in the second visit
(22-25 May 2012) where the Project met
and sought guidance from Elders within
the region. In addition to the Elders Forum,
an Inclusive Services session was held
with local service providers around LGBT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues.
Brown Sugar
Cum Kai Kai
& Yarn You Mob
Cum Kai Kai
Brown Sugar was held again this year at St
Pauls Tavern, Brisbane – with the theme this
year being “Hollywood”. Approximately 200
people attended this year’s event, which
was organised through the gar ban djee
lum network.
Brown Sugar is a unique event for the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBT
community, attracting people from across
Queensland, and interstate. The event was
supported by 2 Spirits staff who used the
event to promote sexual health awareness
and education to a range of community
members. This year, the 2 Spirits Project
in conjunction with the Urban Institute,
launched the “Whole of Community” survey
at Brown Sugar - enabling the staff to
obtain sexual health data directly from
participants in a confidential and culturally
appropriate environment.
Youth Engagement
This year saw the Project focus its attention
on youth health, and saw a range of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth
initiatives launched through the 2 Spirits
Project.
World AIDS Day 2011
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2 Spirits collaborated regularly with
Open Doors to provide sexual health
education and sessions to young people
throughout the year. Highlights included
and open discussion on STI’s, a cultural and
community safety workshop, a range of
discussions on “Sex Prep and Negotiation”,
and workshops on staying safe (physically,
culturally and emotionally) within the “gay
scene”.
2 Spirits worked closely with the Aboriginal
Centre for Performing Arts (ACPA),
implementing a series of workshops
covering sexuality, relationships and
negotiation, culture, where to seek support,
and making a transition from remote to
urban community.
Cum Kai Kai was launched throughout the
year, which involved a range of informal
and unstructured conversations with
groups over a meal. Not only were young
people heavily involved in the discussions,
but the preparation of, and gathering of
the group over a meal provided an informal
environment for a range of challenging and
deeply personal conversations.
In Cairns, 2 Spirits collaborated with YETI
Youth Services to provide young people
with a safe, supportive and culturally
appropriate environment to discuss
sexuality, coming out, and the importance
of culture for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander LGBT people.
World AIDS Day
The 2 Spirits Project conducted
a community event in Yarrabah.
Approximately 100 people including 60
from Yarrabah High School attended, with
the focus of the day being HIV awareness
and information on testing.
Stalls were held in shopping centres across
Cairns, promoting awareness of HIV within
the community through the theme “HIV is
Still Here”. This theme was supported by
the “Cairns Cares” article in the Cairns local
paper. The Candlelight Vigil was attended
by approximately 200 people and was an
opportunity to remember those lost to HIV/
AIDS and to reinforce HIV awareness in the
community. An enormous inflatable red
ribbon was installed on the Esplanade to
promote the event.
In Brisbane, AIDS Awareness Week was
launched in King George Square with the
“HIV is Still Here” theme. In addition to stalls,
radio interviews were conducted with 2
Spirits staff promoting the importance
of the HIV awareness message reaching
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander urban,
regional and remote communities.
Anwernekenhe 5
Social Research
The 2 Spirits Project was well represented
at the National Anwernekenhe 5 gathering
in Cairns, 2011. 2 Spirits staff gave a
presentation to the conference delegates,
updating the work we do, the strategies
we use to provide culturally appropriate
education, and outlined strategies for
future growth of the project.
The Project recognises the lack of social
research around the health needs of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gay
men and sistergirls. In response to this
lack of social research, the Project has
collaborated with the Urban Institute to
develop a “Whole of Community” survey.
In addition, 2 Spirits staff were involved
in satellite events to Anwernekenhe –
through involvement in the sistergirls, gay
men, youth and non-indigenous satellites.
The survey asks a range of in depth
questions about sexuality, safe sex and
negotiation, drug and alcohol use, access
to services, knowledge on HIV and PEP,
and mental health.
The Project worked in conjunction with
Queensland Positive People to organise an
after conference event titled “Positive Vibes
in a Brown Sugar Planet” which was an
opportunity for all delegates to celebrate
the achievements of the conference.
The survey was developed for and
launched at Brown Sugar 2012, and will be
implemented at Brisbane and Cairns Pride,
and the Sistergirl and Gender Diverse
Conference in Cairns. The survey, initially
developed in print form, will be available
online as well, to capture people who
cannot get to community events.
Deadly Sex
The survey is planned to close in
December and data will be collated in
early 2013. Outcomes will be reported at
the next Deadly Sex Congress in Cairns,
2013.
Deadly Sex is a vital annual event for the
2 Spirits Project, as it is an opportunity
for the Project to share project ideas with
other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health Workers from across the state, as
well as network with service providers
from remote and rural settings.
Deadly Sex 2012 held on the Gold Coast
was supported by 2 Spirits staff who sat
on the Deadly Sex Organising Committee,
and provided advice on making the event
as inclusive as possible for LGBT people. 2
Spirits staff provided three presentations
at the event:
l
Condoman implementation and launch
of new STI characters and Lubelicious
l
Developing a culturally appropriate way
of working with Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander LGBT people
l The
importance of collaboration in Far
North Queensland.
The 2 Spirits Project was nominated for
and won the Collaboration for Change
Award at the Deadly Sex Awards Night
following Deadly Sex. This was a fantastic
achievement for the project – not only
did it recognise the achievements of the
Project, but it was more important given
the awards are peer driven and peer
directed. Winning the Collaboration For
Change Award opened up media coverage
in LGBT media for months after the event,
and enabled the Project to highlight LGBT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues
to non Indigenous LGBT communities.
Gold Coast Gay Day 2012
Condoman
Brisbane Pride 2011
Impact of Funding Changes at
Healthy Communities
The 2 Spirits Program is funded Federally
through the Office for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).
Therefore the removal of Queensland
Health funding has not had a direct
impact to the funding available to the
Project. Currently the Project is part
way through a three year contract and
will renegotiate this when it expires on
June 30, 2014.
The Project therefore is in a unique
position. Into its 15th year, the Project now
sits front and centre as the largest Project
of Healthy Communities, and employs
the most staff of any Project within the
organisation. This can only benefit the
organisation and our target group in
terms of building the cultural inclusion
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people within the organisation.
Mabo Day - Cairns
Sunshine Coast Pride
Fair Day 2011
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COMMUNITY BUILDING
Promoting health is not only achieved
by delivering services to individuals and
groups, but by also helping to build strong,
connected and resilient communities.
This is particularly important as LGBT
communities continue to be marginalised
in Queensland.
funded a total of $6,500, including
Rainbow Families, gar’ban’djee’lum and
the Trans Conference in Cairns.
Unfortunately due to dwindling money
in the fund, and the withdrawal of all
Queensland Health funding from Healthy
Communities, we are not able to continue
with the Fund.
Resource Centres
Maroochydore office
official opening 2011
Healthy Communities operates 3 resources
centres, in Brisbane, Maroochydore and
Cairns, which as well as housing our staff
and volunteers, are also available for other
LGBT and HIV groups to use. Purchase
of the centres was made possible by
donations and bequests – no government
money was provided.
The Cairns Resource Centre continues to
go from strength to strength. 22 groups
and services used the Centre in the past
year (e.g. Positive Action Cairns, Body
Electric, Cairns LGBTI Alliance). Thanks to
a grant from the Reef Casino Gambling
Fund, we were able to paint the roof of the
centre with heat resistant paint and install
insulation.
gar’ban’djee’lum
net work
Healthy Communities Fund.
Gar’ban’djee’lum
Network
Our new centre in Maroochydore was
officially opened in late 2011 with a
traditional smoking ceremony. The
centre was used by 5 groups and services
(e.g. Shout Youth Group, Trans Support
Group). Unfortunately due to funding
cuts by Queensland Health we now have
to close the centre and lease it out on a
commercial basis. Hopefully we will be
able to re-establish it as an LGBT resource
centre in the future.
The Brisbane centre in Teneriffe is also the
permanent home of GLWA, PFLAG and
the Brisbane Pride Festival. The centre
was also used by 14 groups and services
(e.g. Boot Co. Gay & Lesbian Pride Choir,
Gay & Lesbian AA Group). Due to a grant
from the Community Gambling Fund,
we have been able to install solar panels,
complementing the other greening
initiatives implemented in the previous
year.
Healthy Communities Fund
Healthy Communities Fund.
Cairns Trans Conference
Established in January 2008, the Healthy
Communities Fund has distributed
$142,000 to 65 groups and projects across
the state that help promote health and
wellbeing or build LGBT community. All
money in the fund is from community
fundraising and donations.
January 2012 saw 14 applications received
for just under $43,000. 5 projects were
LGBTI Services Directory &
Mapping Report
Healthy Communities was commissioned
by the Department of Communities, via
an initiative of the LGBTI Roundtable,
to conduct a mapping exercise of LGBTI
groups and services in Queensland and
produce an online directory. The directory
is available from www.lgbti.info and
provides details on a range of support,
health, social, sporting and religious LGBTI
groups in Queensland. The mapping
report, which assessed the current makeup, capacity and needs of LGBTI groups
and services has been provided to the
Department of Communities.
LGBTIQ History Action Group
GLWA approached us for assistance
with a range of archival materials they’d
uncovered while re-organising their office.
We took them off GLWA’s hands and did all
the necessary processing for them to be
added to the State Library’s LGBT Archive.
Special thanks to Kim Moody for her work
on this project. We also worked with the
UQ Queer Collective to develop a historical
timeline recording many of the key events
from the establishment of Campus Camp
in 1973 through its various successor
bodies to the Collective that exists today.
We also collaborated with the people at
Feral Arts to learn the workings of the
new Place Stories online community
history site and establish a presence there.
We’ve established ourselves as a project
within the Brisbane Histories Community,
http://ps3beta.com/project/8102 and
established Queersland History http://
ps3beta.com/community/QH.
In the early months of 2012 we had an
influx of new members, including Dr Yorick
Smaal from Griffith University. Yorick was
also organising this year’s Homosexual
Histories Conference which was held in
Brisbane in June this year. A couple of our
members presented at the conference.
We changed our name by adding two
more letters to it i.e. LGBTIQ History Action
Group.
ADVOCACY & PUBLIC POLICY
The attitudes of the community in
which we live, the laws of the land
and the policies of governments and
mainstream organisations can all have
an impact, positive or negative, on the
health of LGBT people. It is important
that any health organisation looks for
common concerns among its clients and
community, and advocates for changes
that will alleviate these concerns.
2012 State Election
‘Equality in Health’ was the theme
of Healthy Communities’ advocacy
campaign for this year’s state election.
Healthy Communities produced a
summary of key health and wellbeing
statistics for LGBT people showing the
large disparity in health risk factors and
outcomes for LGBT people (compared to
non-LGBT people). We also produced a
summary of key commitments that we
were seeking from the major parties to
address these health issues. Actions were
under the headings of:
l
Law Reform
l
Government Representation
l
Programs & Services for LGBT
Queenslanders
l
Healthy Communities Infrastructure
A similar summary of key statistics and
required actions was produced around
HIV/AIDS, in conjunction with other HIV
non-government organisations.
Healthy Communities sent this
information to candidates and
representatives of the main political
parties, had meetings with Ministers,
advisers, Shadow Ministers and
candidates. We also promoted these
themes through social and traditional
media. Healthy Communities also sent
a survey to the main parties asking for
positions on these health issues, with
responses received from the LNP and
Labor.
misunderstanding of approaches to public
health and misrepresentation of our
organisation.
We received a tremendous about of
support from thousands of people from
the LGBT and wider community, along
with organisations from around the
country and world. This culminated in
Queensland largest ever rally in support
of LGBT rights and Healthy Communities,
organised by Equal Love Brisbane.
Unfortunately none of this changed the
Minister’s mind and all Queensland Health
funding will be withdrawn by 18th August
2012.
Law Reform
Marriage and civil partnerships continued
to be hot topics throughout the year.
Like the majority of Queenslanders,
Healthy Communities supports the right
of all people to choose to enter into a
marriage or civil partnership, regardless
of the sex of the people involved. Healthy
Communities made submissions to federal
inquiries on marriage equality and spoke
before the Queensland committee looking
at civil partnerships. Equal recognition of
our relationships has a positive impact on
the health and wellbeing of LGBT people,
as recognised by many mainstream health
and medical organisations.
HIV Ministerial Advisory Group
Healthy Communities continued to serve
on the Ministerial Advisory Committee
on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Sexual Health,
providing advice on HIV prevention and
the needs of gay and other men who have
with men and the wider LGBT community.
The committee’s term came to an end
under the previous government.
on LGBTI inclusion, a guide to engaging
and delivering services to LGBTI people
and the online services directory and
mapping project. The new Minister for
Communities, Child Safety and Disability
Services has continued the Roundtable
and attended its most recent meeting.
People from Healthy Communities
continue to serve on the Roundtable.
Membership of Professional
Bodies
Healthy Communities maintains
membership of a number of state and
national bodies, providing assistance to
us in our work and allowing us to feed in
LGBT related issues:
l
National LGBTI Health Alliance
Australian Federation of AIDS
Organisations
l
l
Queensland Council of Social Services
l
Futures Forum
l
Community Health Services Network
l
Australian Health Promotion Association
l
Public Health Association of Australia
l
www.ourcommunity.com.au
l Volunteering
l
Queensland
Pathways Australia
Queensland Network of Alcohol and
other Drugs Agencies
l
l
Fundraising Institute Australia
l
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health.
Healthy Communities called on the new
Health Minister to re-establish a Ministerial
Advisory Committee as was glad when
he announced his intention to do so.
Several people from Healthy Communities
nominated to be on the new MAC, but
none were selected.
Funding Withdrawal
Without any warning or negotiation, the
new Health Minister announced through
the Sunday Mail on 20th May 2012 that he
was withdrawing all Queensland Health
funding from Healthy Communities.
Healthy Communities strongly contested
the reasons given by the Minister for
his decision, believing them to be
based on misinformation about HIV,
LGBTI Roundtable
The Department of Communities hosts
an LGBTI Roundtable to provide advice to
the Department and Minister of a range
of LGBTI issues. Several people from
Healthy Communities have served on the
Roundtable. Important pieces of work
have included a commitment statement
Healthy Communities
advocacy campaign 2012
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GOVERNANCE
Healthy Communities is a community organisation governed by a Board
of Directors, elected by our membership at the Annual General Meeting.
The Board as at 30 June 2012 and their attendance record in 2011/12:
World AIDS Day
Cairns 2011
Name
Position
EligibleMeetings
MeetingsAttended
Mark Morein
President
8
7
Dion Tatow
Secretary
5
3
Ross Wilson
Treasurer
8
8
Joanne Leamy
Vice President &
Northern Regional Member 8
7
Paul Ferguson
Central Regional Member
8
4
Derek Cronin
Southern Region Member
7
7
Dale Symons
Brisbane Region Member
8
8
Dr Robert Laidlaw
General Board Member
6
4
Matthew Blackmore General Board Member
2
2
Ashleigh Broom
Staff Representative
4
3
Other Board members in 2011/12 were:
Peter Newlands
Heath Hetherington
Jason Russo
Brisbears Northern
Exposure 2011
Membership of Healthy Communities is open to all Queensland residents
who support the objects of the organisation. Membership entitles people
to vote at the AGM, stand for election, receive Statewide News and be
invited to Healthy Communities events. You can apply for or renew your
membership at www.healthycommunities.org.au/member
Membership
11/12
10/1109/10
Northern
18
2021
Central
14
1114
Brisbane
69
7062
Southern
12
1823
Total
113
119120
Corporate
4
44
Honorary Life
10 (+ 4 deceased)
9
8
Board Induction
Brisbane Pride 2011
Following each Annual General Meeting a Board face-to-face meeting is
held, including an induction session for new and existing Board members.
The induction includes an overview of legal and financial responsibilities
of Board members, the role of Board members in Healthy Communities
and an overview of the organisation. All Board members receive a Board
member’s folder which includes key documents, policies & procedures,
operational plans & budgets and Board minutes policies and other
documents.
Strategic Plan
World AIDS Day
Sunshine Coast 2011
Healthy Communities developed a new Strategic Plan to guide the
organisation from 2012 to 2015. The plan was developed after extensive
consultations with our communities, including a number of community
forums across the state and an online survey. The plan sets our vision,
mission, communities and values. It also lists actions in four goals:
l Quality & effective services
l Expanded services
l Leading voice in LGBT issues
l Effective governance
The full plan can be viewed at www.healthycommunities.org.au/plans
Fundraising & Marketing
Volunteers
Events
This year’s President’s Gold Award for
Volunteering went to Kim Rowlands
for her work over several years on
Gold Coast Gay Day and other events.
The Silver Award went to Cameron
Riddell for working on several
LGBT events in Cairns. Volunteer
appreciation certificates were sent to
93 volunteers from across the state.
Balls OUT Bingo!
Volunteers are involved in many
areas of Healthy Communities, from
packing parties, to outreach to action
groups and the Board. Without the
support of volunteers right across the
state, we would not be able to do all
that we do. Further information on
becoming a volunteer can be found
at www.qahc.org.au/volunteer
Bingo is growing in popularity and we are
grateful for the support of all the punters,
volunteers and our sponsors The Sportsman
Hotel, Manhunt and Scarlet.
Statewide News
Statewide News is our monthly
e-newsletter about all that is
happening at Healthy Communities
and highlights of other news
and activities in the wider LGBT
community. Statewide News is
sent to 4,346 contacts. To read
or subscribe to Statewide News
visit www.healthcommunities.
org.au/newsletters. Due to the
withdrawal of Queensland Health
funding, Statewide News will now be
produced bi-monthly.
Insurance
Healthy Communities holds Public
& Products Liability Insurance of
$20million, along with Association
Liability, Voluntary Workers and
Business Insurance and Workcover.
The inaugural Balls OUT Bingo! was held on
Friday the 7th of October 2011 at The Sportsman
Hotel, Spring Hill. This weekly fundraiser has
proven to be a hit with punters who enjoy
coming along for a fun night out and their
chance to win cash and other prizes. In the 35
weeks that bingo was held in the last financial
year, a total of $3262.10 profit was made.
Balls OUT Bingo
Sportsman Hotel
Pussy Palooza’s Boudoir Bazaar –
A Queer Cabaret
Pussy Palooza’s Boudoir Bazaar – A Queer
Cabaret was held on Saturday 10 December
in South Brisbane with over 200 people in
attendance. This fundraiser benefitted Healthy
Communities and Tumaini Homes for Hope (for
HIV orphans in Africa) and in total more than
$5000 profit was raised that was shared equally
between the two charities.
Albert Nobbs Fundraising Preview
A fundraising preview screening of the Glenn
Close film Albert Nobbs was held on Monday 12
December at Palace Centro, Fortitude Valley. 134
tickets were sold to this film which showcased
gender and sexuality themes and the event
raised $786 for Many Genders, One Voice.
Pussy Palooza’s
Boudoir Bazaar
Schlagerfest – A Eurovision Experience
Held on Sunday 27 May in conjunction with
the Eurovision Song Contest, this fun event had
over 100 in attendance and raised over $500 for
Healthy Communities.
Happy Gays
Our appreciation goes to The Wickham
Hotel who hosted the event Happy Gays on
Sunday 10 June and raised $1815 for Healthy
Communities.
Albert Nobbs
Fundraising Preview
Avenue Q
The Brisbane Arts Theatre held two fundraising
performances of their production of the adult
puppet musical Avenue Q to benefit Healthy
Communities. Between entry and donations
collected, over $1000 was raised through the
performances.
There have also been a number of other
fundraisers held throughout the year including
the Manhunt BBQ, Pink Piano Party, TBar Hanky
Code night and many more. We appreciate all of
the effort that everyone in the community has
put in to put on these events and the volunteers
that have helped out.
Millie Bannister
Schlagerfest Hostess
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Appeals and donations
Bequests
The 2011 Christmas Appeal raised
$1412.15 for the Healthy Communities
Fund from 20 donors.
Healthy Communities is fortunate to own
LGBT community resource centres in
Cairns, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast
and we have come to this position largely
through the generosity of those who have
remembered us in their Wills.
The Fighting Fund Appeal in response to
Healthy Communities being defunded
ended up with a total of $4590.66 received
from 53 donors.
Healthy Communities
at Equal Love
Healthy Communities
Fridge Magnet (detail)
The 2012 Tax Appeal brought in $975
from 11 donors. Of this three nominated
their donation go towards our HIV
program (total of $200), two directed their
donations to the Cairns Resource Centre
(total of $225) and the rest were general
donations to be used at the Board’s
discretion (a total of $550).
During the combined Fighting Fund and
2012 Tax Appeal period (from 20 May
2012 until 30 June 2012) we also received
a number of other donations. The total
received during the period was $11,985.66,
some of this coming from donation
collections at events such as the huge
rally to save Healthy Communities and
Civil Unions organised by Equal Love. A
$2000 donation was also received from a
generous donor to cover staff wages.
This year we also sold our Queer Fridge
Magnets along with rainbow flags and
rainbow wristbands for fundraising profit.
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After using up almost all of our old QAHC
stock, we also updated our stationery and
the signage on our resource centres has
been changed to reflect the new logo.
$4552.19 Reef Hotel Casino
Community Benefit Fund grant for eco
improvements to the Cairns ‘Base Camp’
Resource Centre (reflective roof paint
and ceiling insulation)
$5789.09 from the Gambling
Community Benefit Fund for solar power
panel installation for the Helen Street
Resource Centre
2011-2012 Entertainment Books were sold
as a fundraising effort. In total 115 books
were sold with a total profit of $1403.
2012-2013 books have also been sold
during this financial year (but we’ll report
on that in the next annual report).
Following on from the rebranding exercise
from ‘QAHC’ to ‘Healthy Communities’
we placed awareness raising ads in the
gay media over the last year which were
well received. The exercise has helped us
identity as an LGBT health and wellbeing
organisation and dispel some of the
misconceptions about who we are and
what we do.
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Gold Coast Gay Day 2011
Merchandise
Marketing
Grants
Sunshine Coast
Pride 2011
In this financial year we received
$292,694.84 from the estate of David Miller
Willis and are very grateful that he valued
our work and included this generous gift
to Healthy Communities in his Will.
$14,000 for the Gay, Ethnic &
Proud Project from Multicultural Affairs
Queensland
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a grant from the Sunshine
Coast Regional Council’s ‘Community
Partnership Program’. Won $5000 a
year for two years for a Community
Development Officer.
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Grant awarded from the JO & JR Wicking
Trust/ANZ Trustees of $43,985 for the
LGBT Seniors’ Buddy Support Project
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Department of Communities awarded
Healthy Communities $4000 for the LGBT
Seniors Expo to be held in August 2012.
Some promotional pens, fridge magnets
and keyrings with the new logo were
created to reinforce our new branding and
promote our website.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Qld Association for Healthy Communities Inc
Detailed Profit and Loss Statement
For the year ended 30 June 2012
Balance Sheet as at 30 June 2012
Note
20122011
$$
Income
Current Assets
20122011
$$
Note
17
Notes to the Financial Statements
Note 1: Summary of Significant
Accounting Policies
by external independent valuers, less
subsequent depreciation for buildings.
This financial report is a special purpose
financial report prepared in order to
satisfy the financial report prepration
requirements of the Corporations Act
2001. The directors have determined that
the company is not a reporting entity.
Increases in the carrying amount arising
on revaluation of land and buildings are
credited to the revaluation surplus in
equity. Decreases that offset previous
increases of the same asset are charged
against fair value reserves directly in equity;
all other decreases are charged to the
statement of comprehensive income.
LA
Qld Association for Healthy Communities
Inc is a company limited by shares,
incorporated and domiciled in Australia.
ST
Reporting Basis and Conventions
The directors have prepared the
financial statements on the basis that
the company is a non-reporting entity
because there are no users dependant
on special purpose financial statements.
The financial statements are therefore
special purpose financial statements that
have been prepared in order to meet the
requirements of the Corporations Act
2001.
The financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with the
mandatory Australian Accounting
Standards applicable to entities reporting
under the Corporations Act 2001 and
the significant accounting policies
disclosed below, which the directors have
determined are appropriate to meet the
needs of members. Such accounting
policies are consistent with the previous
period unless stated otherwise.
The financial statements have been
prepared on an accruals basis and
are based on historical costs unless
otherwise stated in the notes. The
material accounting policies that have
been adopted in the preparation of the
statements are as follows:
Accounting Policies
(a) Property, Plant and Equipment
(PPE)
Each class of property, plant and
equipment are carried at cost or fair
value as indicated less, where applicable,
any accumulated depreciation and
impairment losses.
Property
Freehold land and buildings are shown
at their fair value (being the amount
for which an asset could be exchanged
between knowledgeable willing parties
in an arm’s length transaction), based on
periodic, but at least triennial, valuations
Any accumulated depreciation at the date
of revaluation is eliminated against the
gross carrying amount of the asset and
the net amount is restated to the revalued
amount of the asset.
YE
A
Plant and Equipment
Plant and equipment are measured on the
cost basis.
The carrying amount of plant and
equipment is reviewed annually by
directors to ensure it is not in excess of
the recoverable amount from these assets.
The recoverable amount is assessed on
the basis of the expected net cash flows
that will be received from the asset’s
employment and subsequent disposal.
The expected net cash flows have been
discounted to their present values in
determining recoverable amounts.
RS
Depreciation
The depreciable amount of all fixed assets,
excluding freehold land, is depreciated on
a straight-line basis over the asset’s useful
life to the company commencing from the
time the asset is held ready for use.
Finance leases are capitalised by recording
an asset and a liability at the lower of the
amounts equal to the fair value of the
leased property or the present value of the
minimum lease payments, including any
guaranteed residual values. Lease payments
are allocated between the reduction of the
lease liability and the lease interest expense
for the period.
Leased assets are depreciated on a straightline basis over the shorter of their estimated
useful lives or the lease term.
Lease payments for operating leases, where
substantially all the risks and benefits
remain with the lessor, are charged as
expenses on a straight-line basis over the
lease term.
(c) Financial Instruments
Initial recognition and measurement
Financial assets and financial liabilities
are recognised when the entity becomes
a party to the contractual provisions of
the instrument. For financial assets, this is
equivalent to the date that the company
commits itself to either purchase or sell the
asset (i.e. trade date accounting is adopted).
Financial instruments are initially measured
at fair value plus transaction costs, except
where the instrument is classified ‘at fair
value through profit or loss’ in which case
transaction costs are expensed to profit or
loss immediately.
IN
The assets’ residual values and useful lives
are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate,
at the end of each reporting period.
An asset’s carrying amount is written down
immediately to its recoverable amount if
the asset’s carrying amount is greater than
its estimated recoverable amount.
Gains and losses on disposals are
determined by comparing proceeds
with the carrying amount. These gains or
losses are included in the statement of
comprehensive income. When revalued
assets are sold, amounts included in the
revaluation surplus relating to that asset
are transferred to retained earnings.
(b) Leases
Leases of fixed assets, where substantially
all the risks and benefits incidental to the
ownership of the asset, but not the legal
ownership, are transferred to the company,
are classified as finance leases.
FO
Classification and subsequent
measurement
Financial instruments are subsequently
measured at either fair value, amortised
cost using the effective interest rate
method or cost. Fair value represents
the amount for which an asset could be
exchanged or a liability settled, between
knowledgeable, willing parties. Where
available, quoted prices in an active market
are used to determine fair value. In other
circumstances, valuation techniques are
adopted.
Amortised cost is calculated as: (i) the
amount at which the financial asset or
financial liability is measured at initial
recognition; (ii) less principal repayments;
(iii) plus or minus the cumulative
amortisation of the difference, if any,
between the amount initially recognised
and the maturity amount calculated using
the effective interest method; and (iv) less
any reduction for impairment.
The effective interest method is used to
allocate interest income or interest expense
over the relevant period and is equivalent
to the rate that exactly discounts
estimated future cash payments or
receipts (including fees, transaction
costs and other premiums or discounts)
through the expected life (or when
this cannot be reliably predicted,
the contractual term) of the financial
instrument to the net carrying amount
of the financial asset or financial liability.
Revisions to expected future net cash
flows will necessitate an adjustment to
the carrying value with a consequential
recognition of an income or expense in
profit or loss.
LA
ST
(i) Financial Assets at fair value through
profit or loss
Financial assets are classified at ‘fair value
through profit or loss’ when they are
either held for trading for the purpose
of short-term profit taking, derivatives
not held for hedging purposes, or when
they are designated as such to avoid
an accounting mismatch or to enable
performance evaluation where a group
of financial assets is managed by key
management personnel on a fair value
basis in accordance with a documented
risk management or investment strategy.
Such assets are subsequently measured
at fair value with changes in carrying
value being included in profit or loss.
(ii) Loans and other receivables
Loans and receivables are nonderivative financial assets with fixed or
determinable payments that are not
quoted in an active market and are
subsequently measured at amortised
cost.
(iii) Held-to-maturity investments
Held-to-maturity investments are nonderivative financial assets that have fixed
maturities and fixed or determinable
payments, and it is the entity’s intention
to hold these investments to maturity.
They are subsequently measured at
amortised cost.
(iv) Available-for-sale financial assets
Available-for-sale financial assets are
non-derivative financial assets that are
either not capable of being classified
into other categories of financial
assets due to their nature, or they are
designated as such by management.
They comprise investments in the equity
of other entities where there is neither a
fixed maturity nor fixed or determinable
payments.
(v) Financial liabilities
Non-derivative financial liabilities
(excluding financial guarantees) are
subsequently measured at amortised
cost.
(vi) Fair value
Fair value is determined based on current
bid prices for all quoted investments.
Valuation techniques are applied to
determine the fair value for all unlisted
securities, including recent arm’s
length transactions, reference to similar
instruments and option pricing models.
(d) Impairment of Assets
Impairment testing is performed annually
for goodwill and intangible assets with
indefinite lives.
YE
A
(e) Provisions
Provisions are recognised when the
company has a legal or constructive
obligation, as a result of past events, for
which it is probable that an outflow of
economic benefit will result and that
the outflow can be measured reliably.
Provisions are measured using the best
estimate of the amounts required to
settle the obligation at the end of the
reporting period.
RS
(f) Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include
cash on hand, deposits held at call with
banks, other short-term highly liquid
investments with original maturities of
three months or less, and bank overdrafts.
Bank overdrafts are shown within shortterm borrowings in current liabilities on
the statement of financial position.
significant risks and rewards of ownership
of the goods and the cessation of all
involvement in those goods.
Interest revenue is recognised using the
effective interest rate method, which, for
floating rate financial assets is the rate
inherent in the instrument. Dividend
revenue is recognised when the right to
receive a dividend has been established.
Revenue recognition relating to the
provision of services is determined with
reference to the stage of completion
of the transaction at the end of the
reporting period and where the outcome
of the contract can be estimated reliably.
Stage of completion is determined with
reference to the services performed to
date as a percentage of total anticipated
services to be performed. Where the
outcome cannot be estimated reliably,
revenue is recognised only to the extent
that related expenditure is recoverable.
All revenue is stated net of the amount of
goods and services tax (GST).
(h) Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Revenues, expenses and assets are
recognised net of the amount of GST,
except where the amount of GST incurred
is not recoverable from the Australian
Taxation Office. In these circumstances,
the GST is recognised as part of the cost
of acquisition of the asset or as part of
an item of the expense. Receivables and
payables in the statement of financial
position are shown inclusive of GST.
IN
FO
Cash flows are presented in the statement
of cash flows on a gross basis, except
for the GST component of investing and
financing activities, which are disclosed
as operating cash flows.
(g) Revenue and Other Income
(i) Trade and Other Payables
Revenue is measured at the fair value of
the consideration received or receivable
after taking onto account any trade
discounts and volume rebates allowed.
Any consideration deferred is treated as
the provision of finance and is discounted
at a rate of interest that is generally
accepted in the market for similar
arrangements. The difference between
the amount initially recognised and the
amount ultimately received is interest
revenue.
Trade and other payables represent the
liability outstanding at the end of the
reporting period for goods and services
received by the company during the
reporting period, which remain unpaid.
The balance is recognised as a current
liability with the amounts normally paid
within 30 days of recognition of the
liability.
Revenue from the sale of goods is
recognised at the point of delivery
as this corresponds to the transfer of
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20122011
Directors’ Declaration
The directors have determined that the company is not a reporting entity and that this special purpose financial report should be
prepared in accordance with the accounting policies prescribed in Note 1 to the financial statements.
The directors of the company declare that:
LA
1. the financial statements and notes are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001:
(a) comply with Accounting Standards described in Note 1 to the financial statements and the Corporations Regulations; and
ST
(b) give a true and fair view of the company’s financial position as at 30 June 2011 and of its performance for the year ended on that date
in accordance with the accounting policies described in Note 1 to the financial statements.
2. in the directors’ opinion, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they
become due and payable.
YE
A
This declaration is made in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors.
Ross Wilson
Treasurer
Mark Morein
President
Dated: 20 September 2012 ?????????
RS
IN
FO
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Independent Auditor Report
Auditor’s Opinion
We have audited the accompanying financial report, being a
special purpose financial report, of Qld Association for Healthy
Communities Inc (the company), which comprises the Directors’
Declaration, the Statement of Comprehensive Income, the
Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Cash Flows,
Statement of Changes In Equity, notes comprising a summary of
significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes for
the year ended 30 June 2011.
In our opinion the financial report of Qld Association for Healthy
Communities Inc is in accordance with the Corporations Act
2001, including:
LA
(a) giving a true and fair view of the company’s financial position
as at 30 June 2011 and of its performance for the year ended
on that date; and
Directors’ Responsibility for the Financial Report
The directors of the company are responsible for the
preparation of the financial report and have determined that the
basis of preparation described in Note 1 to the financial report
is appropriate to meet the requirements of the Corporations Act
2001 and is appropriate to meet the needs of the members. The
directors’ responsibility also includes such internal control as the
directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of a
financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether
due to fraud or error.
ST
Auditor’s Responsibility
Basis of Accounting
Without modifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 1 to
the financial report, which describes the basis of accounting.
The financial report has been prepared for the purpose of
fulfilling the directors’ financial reporting responsibilities under
the Corporations Act 2001. As a result, the financial report may
not be suitable for another purpose.
YE
A
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial
report based on our audit. We have conducted our audit
in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Those
Standards require that we comply with relevant ethical
requirements relating to audit engagements and plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the
financial report is free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit
evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial
report. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s
judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material
misstatement of the financial report, whether due to fraud or
error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers
internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation of the
financial report that gives a true and fair view, in order to design
audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances,
but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also
includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies
used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by
the directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of
the financial report.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is
sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit
opinion.
Independence
In conducting our audit, we have complied with the
independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001. We
confirm that the independence declaration required by the
Corporations Act 2001, which has been provided to the directors
of Qld Association for Healthy Communities Inc on 30 June
2011, would be in the same terms if provided to the directors as
at the date of this auditor’s report.
(b) complying with Australian Accounting Standards to the
extent described in Note 1 and the Corporations Regulations
2001.
Signed on 20 September, 2011:
RS
Anthony Micalizzi, Principal
MCA Chartered Accountants
Unit 2 273 Abbotsford Rd Bowen Hills Qld 4006
IN
Auditor’s Independence Declaration
FO
UNDER SECTION 307C OF THE CORPORATIONS ACT 2001
I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, during
the year ended 30 June 2011 there have been :
(i) no contraventions of the auditor independence
requirements as set out in the Corporations Act 2001 in
relation to the Audit; and
(ii) no contraventions of any applicable code of professional
conduct in relation to the audit
MCA Chartered Accountants
Anthony Micalizzi, Principal
Unit 2 273 Abbotsford Rd Bowen Hills Qld 4006
Staff
As at 30 June 2012
Executive Director
Paul R Martin
2 Spirits Program
Nikki Hill
Arone Meeks
Brett Mooney
Phil Sariago
Michael Scott
Bad Romance performers.
Wickham Hotel
Sexual Health Program
Jayne Amble
Craig Atkinson
Katie Bishop
Ashleigh Broom
Phil Browne
Lyndal Cairns
Chris Clementson
Nick Connor
Rosz Craig
Kel Davies
Johann De Joodt
Amanda Dean
Ged Farmer
Bernard Gardiner
Deeje Handcock
Craig Lewis
Brett Mooney
Graham Norton
Kevin Scott
Tim Spratling
Brett Stevens
David Wells
Bad Romance
Wickham Hotel
LGBT Health Program
Shane Garvey
Ann Matson
Ricki Menzies
Sally Morris
Sophiaan Subhan
Organisational Support
Kevin Baston
Alan Earle
Marcus Foth
Tim Klazema
Des Nolan
Molly Quick
Jason Russo
Jan Thwaites
World AIDS Day 2011
Former Staff
Kurt Maroske
Kel Harris
Patrons
The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Dr David Bradford AM
Tanya (Toye) Wilde
Carol Lloyd
NAIDOC Cairns
Lake STreet Mall
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Acknowledgement
Healthy Communities would like to thank all of the volunteers, donors, supporters and sponsors for their assistance in making our
fundraising efforts so successful. In particular we would like to recognise the wonderful contributions from:
Sponsors
Donors
City Lickers/Scarlet
The Wickham Hotel
The Sportsman Hotel
TBar
Manhunt
Escape Bar and Club
Turtle Cove Beach Resort
Queensland Pride
Star Observer
Patrick du Preez Photography
Q News
Brisbane Gay and Lesbian Business Network
Pink Sofa
Brisbane Pride Festival
Brisbane Arts Theatre
Chevron Island Tan
Gay Matchmaker
Lesbian Matchmaker
K1 Lighting
Paramedic Services Queensland
Q Space
Slurp
CAPTA Group
Horizons at Peregian
Liveworm Design Studio (QCA)
AIDS Trust Australia
B Allen
I Anderson
O Barany
M Belcher
D Bibby
M Bishop
D Bradford
P&V Bremner
Brisbane Pride Festival Association
A Brotherton
M Brundell
C Chant
K Conway
C Cook
G Corah
S Crichton
S Davies
G Dempsey
M Diamond
S Donohue
J Ebert
Estee Lauder/MAC AIDS Fund
B Fernhill
N Flower
D Fraser
Freedom 2B
B Funk
K Furnivall
E Gallagher
D Gardiner
L Gautherat
Gentlman’s Club
P Gibens
D Gimpel
GLBT AA Group
C Gorton
Gold Coast Gay Day
S Grimmett
T Hakala
D Hardy
C Hedges
J Hirst
A Hough
Innisfail Carrying Company
T Ivory
J Kassel
R Kent
S Kentlyn
P Kratzmann
J Lake
A Law
J Leamy
C Lee
Liberty Impulse
A Lovney
J Lualhati
G Lucas
D Madeley
J Mann
G Margets
M McGowan
I McDonald
J McLucas
D Mildren
D Mort
R Neilson
Newstead GLBT
T Nipe
K Nizic
G Norton
S Nowak
J Orr
N Pacey
W Parke
G Parmesan
C Payca
P Pirovich
C Pummell
Rainbow Alliance
S Reid
Ritchies
D Roberts
A Robins
S Robinson
Roma Taxation Services
B Rutkin
K Sanders
R Sawkins
T Sheckleston
K Seilo
L Selvey
Z Shafiq
G Sheridan
S Staunton
M Streten
The Church of United Spiritualism of Australia
A Thompson
M Ungurean
D Waller
R Webster
A Wells
K White
G Wiles
I Willing
L Zambon
V Zhai
Valley Pool Packing Party
Bad Romance Quiz
Wickham Hotel
World AIDS Day
Cairns 2011
Condoman
Big Gay Day 2012
healthy
communities
lesbian gay bisexual trans
Healthy Communities Offices & Resource Centres
Queensland Association for Healthy Communities Inc.
ABN 58 039 823 994
info@qahc.org.au
www.healthycommunities.org.au
Statewide Administration: 1800 177 434
Men’s Sexual Health Line: 1800 155 141
Brisbane & Southern Qld
30 Helen St, Teneriffe Qld 4005
PO Box 1372, Eagle Farm BC Qld 4009
Phone: 07 3017 1777
Fax: 07 3852 5200
Email: info@qahc.org.au
Cairns & North Qld
290 Draper St, Cairns Qld 4870
PO Box 12112, Cairns BC Qld 4870
Phone: 07 4041 5451
Fax: 07 4041 6092
Email: cns@qahc.org.au

Annual Report 2011/12 - The Queensland AIDS Council

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