<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Happy Birthday Jim! Thank you for your testimony, sharing of your legacy and care. <div>Elsa and Addi Batica<br><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone<div>Batica & Associates</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 5, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Joyce Sloan via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">ο»Ώ<div dir="auto">Happy Birthday Jim!! πππ Thank you so much for sharing, Isobel. That awesome speech is both affirming and hopeful. What a gift you both are! Hugs!!ππ½πππ½πππ½π―</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 3:59 AM Isobel and Jim via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear colleagues, <br>
Coming to you from Leichhardt, an inner west suburb of Sydney.<br>
My technical skills are poor. <br>
However, we send over to you our colleagues and dear friends, these few photos of a great occasion in our family. <br>
Photo one : Rebecca, Pete, me and grandson Thomas Bishop. <br>
Photo two: Jim his sister Sheila, our daughter Cathy, and a great niece, Nicky. <br>
Photo three: similar to two, including Pete. <br>
In Jimβs speech he focussed on the positive changes he has witnessed during his lifetime. <br>
1. The role of women- as a Science student at University in the very early 50βs, there were no women studying Physics, how that has changed- with women now in every field of science. <br>
2. Multiculturalism. Australia is a country thoroughly multicultural, and what a gift other cultures coming here have been - especially after WW2, and the Vietnam and Afghanistan Wars. We are no longer βwhite β thankfully. Ditto embodied in every sphere of civil society. <br>
3. The affirmation of gender diversity- the Marriage Equality Act has radically changed and enabled gender diversity to be embraced. World Pride will be held in Sydney in Feb β23.<br>
4. Our First Nations are now preparing for a Voice to Parliament. A long way still for their justice through health, housing, education and justice in the courts . However a sense of βno turning back β is accepted in our community. Our First Nations share their culture and have made us wake up to their gifts and we have started to listen ( at last, though much further for us to travelβ¦.) <br>
Those are Jimβs thoughts. <br>
Another issue where positive change has occurred is in the acknowledgement for the need to remove the stigma surrounding mental health. <br>
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Greetings and peace with love, <br>
Isobel for the family <br>
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Isobel Bishop<br>
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