Dear Frank,
We express our sincere condolences to you and your family.
We lost her presence but not her principles, values and dedication for
her inspirations shall remain.
A Fellow Worker,
Lauro
Original message:
> Vale Lesley Hall 27 Nov 1954 – 19 Oct 2013
> It is with great sorrow and grief that I write to inform you that my
> sister Lesley Hall passed away this afternoon in the Austin Hospital,
> Heidelberg here in Melbourne following a suspected heart attack very
> late Thursday night 17 October 2013.
> Lesley was a feminist and disability advocate with a life-long
> disability and has been involved with feminist issues since the 1972
> and since that time has worked in various jobs empowering low income,
> indigenous and people with disabilities in housing, accommodation,
> arts, human rights and disability rights.
> Lesley trained and worked as a teacher and has worked in the Australian
> Public Service and a number of Community Organisations including the
> Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS), the Collective of Self
> Help Groups and Melbourne Workers Theatre. In 1981 she help found the
> Disability Resources Centre and the Women with Disabilities Feminist
> Collective, she has worked for a number of disability advocacy
> organisations, including the Disability Resource Centre (DRC),
> Reinforce, Action for Community Living (ACL) and as a Project Officer
> with the Disability Section of the UN ESCAP in Bangkok.
> In 1985 Lesley was employed by the Disability Resources Centre to
> investigate and report to the Australian Human Rights Commission on the
> Rights of Residents in Victorian Institutions. Her report ‘Free from
> this Place’ was presented to the AHRC in May 1985.
> Lesley has attended numerous International Disability Conferences in
> Bahamas, Korea, Fiji, South Africa, India, Vanuatu, Geneva and Bangkok.
> She has been a board member of DRC, ACL and Victorian Women with
> Disabilities Network and previously worked as an Arts & Cultural
> Development Officer at the City of Darebin where she promoted the
> inclusion of people with disabilities in all their artistic
> opportunities. She was a member of the Art of Difference 2009 Steering
> Committee and on the Board of Arts Access. She previously served on the
> Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC)
> disability advisory committee and the Victorian Disability Advisory
> Council (VDAC). She also represented VDAC on the Department of Human
> Services Industry Advisory Group.
> In September 2008 she was employed as the CEO for the Australian
> Federation of Disability Organisations where she brought her
> experience, skills and long commitment to human rights for women,
> people with disabilities and indigenous people to the national and
> international work of AFDO.
> Since joining AFDO Lesley has dramatically increase the policy
> involvement of People with Disabilities in Australian and International
> Disability issues. Her high level of policy development, organisational
> skills and ability to empower her team of staff, volunteers and Board
> members has lifted AFDO’s profile to it’s highest level ever as the
> peak organisation of people with disabilities. On behalf of AFDO she
> has represented and involved people with disabilities in the
> consultation, lobbying and campaign to achieve the National Disability
> Insurance Scheme (NDIS) DisabilityCare with fantastic success.
> Lesley was a truly exceptional woman.
> Regards,
> Frank
> Frank Hall-Bentick
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