Shoulder to Shoulder Flood Fundraiser Organising Committee

It's just one more week until the Shoulder to Shoulder Flood Fundraiser event, to be held on Saturday 5th March at the Queensland Police Academy, Oxley.  The event will start at 4pm and finish at 7pm and will feature television and radio personality Bree Amer as the MC, Jessica Watson, Young Australian of the Year as our special guest, and a charity auction conducted by the ever entertaining Cr Graham Quirk, Deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane.  We are also expecting Minister Annastascia Palaszcuk, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Transport, John-Paul Langbroek, Opposition Leader and AMBCQ member, Rob Messenger MLA, also an AMBCQ member and MP for Burnett, Mayor Paul Pisasale, the Ipswich City Mayor, Senators Claire Moore and Mark Furner, Brisbane City Council Councilers Julian Simmonds, Angela Owen-Taylor, Matthew Bourke, Milton Dick, Helen Abrahams and Nicole Johnstone, and Federal Member for Brisbane, Teresa Gambaro. 

Tickets are $50 per person and kids are free. The event will feature entertainment from the South Pacific Island Dance Group, the Brisbane Babas Band, indigenous performer Getano Bann, and singers Marie Jackson and Bing Hu.  A vast array of people have contributed to the event from different community groups, business groups, businesses through to many individuals. 

A number of AMBCQ members have been helping out at the organising committee besides Kiong and myself.  We would like to thank Sue and Bryan Davies, Tamara Foong and Clem Grehan who have all stepped forward to help the organising committee with many of the essential preparations for the event. Anthony Lin is also on the organising committee, but although he is an AMBCQ member, he is representing the Taiwanese Friendship Association of Queensland in this role.  Thanks also must go to Debra Jarvis who has offered a Feng Shui consultation as an auction prize, and also to Kumaran Sentheyval and Paamini Senthil Kumaran who have made a donation to the event.

The event was featured in the Satellite, the local paper which covers the Centenary and wider Ipswich area.  I haven't seen the article myself, but Dr Nava kindly forwarded the photo below.