Another project in the pipeline is to work alongside a neighbourhood house partnering with them as a speaker myself. The topic of the evening will be ‘mens health’.
The project invloves collaboration with the good people at The Avenue Neighboourhood House in Blackburn Sth namely Colleen, Judy and Sandy. Their goal focuses on promoting mens health awareness with an emphasis […]
It is that time again when our club wants to run a well being education event. The purpose is to stimulate our families to ‘think bigger’ than just sport. We aim to get people thinking of balancing sport & life. The message this year, to follow on from the success of the Michael Carr Greg appearance in 2008, is to […]
After 2 years of very stimulating organisational development and counselling work Dan will leave the Melbourne General Practice Network in Carlton, Victoria. The end of Dans contractual commitments has opened up an exciting next chapter for Dan who plans to open up a new practice location closer to home. Dans prefered locations for this move are to the inner […]
Michael Carr Greg an adolescent psychologist came out to the Vermont Junior Football Club (VJFC) in Sept 08 and spoke to over 150 mum’s, dads and young people on the topic of life balance and performance for kids. Our Well-Being group at VJFC comprising Steve Cooper, Leanne Fiske, Jackie Strachan , Kaye Hotker, Michael Rennie and myself put our […]
Walking the Kokoda Trek
A team of GP Division staff walked the Kokoda Track in PNG from the 6th July 2008 comprising Debra Goldfinch (CEO MGPN), James Lamerton (CEO West Gippsland GP Division), Marguerite Hall (GP MGPN) and Sue Deed (GP West Gippsland) and Dan Riddle (Psychologist MGPN).
Purpose of the trip:
Complete a broad needs assessment of the primary […]
On return from the Kokoda Track Dr Marguerite Hall penned the following description of her experiences……..
Deeply asleep, covered in a mosquito net tripod, the day begins with a tug on the leg. It’s pitch black outside - 4:30am - and we need to start walking at 6:30. Slightly disorientated, half asleep and grumpy without my […]
Do you appreciate the conditions our Kokoda Veterans fought in during WWII? To gain a perspective take a look at the photos of the Kokoda Track during WWII.
During World War II Australian troops fought courageously to ward off the possible occupation by Japanese forces. Much of this defence occured in the shores and islands to the north of Australia. One cannot understand the full extent of the Kokoda Campaign without an awareness of the ‘whole’ campaign. See anzacday.org.au for details.
A story has broken about the potential threats of track blockage during early July.
Read the news item from the ABC .
