Covering all our activities, advocacy, achievements, research and communications from 2019 and 2020.
Newsletters
This document sets out our vision, mission and strategic priority areas going forward for the next three years.
In this issue:
- Looking for a new Convenor
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How to Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Sadness
+ jokes and more
In this issue:
- Polio and Polio – a tale of two doctors
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Fighting anti-vaccination rumours in Pakistan
+ jokes, updates and more
This long awaited edition is packed full of news and information on PPV’s response to the coronavirus, including
- Congratulations to Liz Telford OAM 🎉
- Survey results from PPV members during Covid19.
- PPV’s response to treatment for Covid19 for people who have had polio
- Coronavirus and polio medical advisory
- Biographies of two committee members
- Reviews of ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Defiant Lives’
+ much more
GPSG returns with a brief edition after some health problems last month.
- Fleeing Polio On Wings Like The Eagle review
- South Sudan declared poliovirus free!
- Polio and COVID-19
In this issue:
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COVID-19 spreads in ways reminiscent of poliomyelitis
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Polio Doctor Jean Macnamara’s Work Reminds Us That Viruses Can Be Vanquished
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Polio Australia and Rotary: Working Together
+ much more
In this issue:
- A letter to my legs, and to Anti-Vaxxers!
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Joining a choir to combat anxiety and find a meditative state of pure joy
+ much more
In this issue:
- Polio Australia launches clinical advisory group
- Valerie Taylor – the autobiography of a polio survivor
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Older Australians and those with heart conditions urged to avoid bush fire smoke
+ much more
In this issue:
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Accessibility around Geelong
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Focus On Your Breath
+ much more
In this issue:
- Measles return to the USA
- Ageing with Care, Quality and Safety?
- Vale Polly Farmer, Footballer with Polio
- “Women to The Front” book review
- The Inequality of the Disability System for those with Polio
- WHO’s race to prevent polio epidemic in the Pacific
- Regulatory Impact Statement for a minimum access standard in housing
- Review of “The Stolen Marriage.”
+ much more
In this issue:
- Polio Returns to the Philippines
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Spoken Word Piece – Me and My Polio
+ much more
In this issue:
- Vale Polly Farmer, football legend and person with polio
- Interview with Anil Garg of Rotary International’s on their work to eradicate polio.
+ jokes and much more
This issue features a selection of news about ‘off-road’ disability access, upcoming meetings and the convenors report.
In this issue:
- The Wheelchair President
- Pakistan’s Push To Eradicate Polio
- Peace of Mind Foundation
+ much more
In this issue:
- Tributes to Dr Margaret Cooper OAM
- Committee member’s stories
- PPV’s Accessible Housing Submission
- Olympian Wilma Glodean Rudolph
+ much more
In this issue:
- Celebrating the Life of Maybel Elizabeth Powell
- Next Generation Initiative – reaching out to migrant polio survivors
- Travellers Aid
- A History of Acute Polio
+ much more
In this issue:
- Staying warm this winter
- Drinking Cocoa and battling fatigue
+ jokes, updates and more
In the World Immunisation Week Edition
- Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
- Frida Kahlo – The Face on the Cushion
+ much more
In this issue:
- Meet the doctor who runs India’s last polio ward 1
- Polio & Fatigue: More than just tired
+ upcoming meetings and news from GPSG
In this issue:
- Polio – An Historical Perspective
- About Our March Guests – The Ocean Grove Parkinson’s Support Group
- The Menace of Polio
+ much more
A shortened edition of Geelong Polio Support Group’s newsletter, and a call out for a new editor.
In this issue:
- Michael Lynch Arts executive and New South Wales polio survivor
- Superheroine Minda Dentler
- Phillip Roth’s Nemesis reviewed
- Congratulations to Shirley Glance OAM!
+ much more
In this issue:
- A new history of physiotherapy including polio
- Triggers of Restless Leg Syndrome
- The importance of colour in our lives
- Hawthorn Arts Centre for Polio Day 2018.
+ much more
In this issue:
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What the lates Alan Marshall AM and Lord Snowden have in common
- A timeline history of Polio Australia
+ much more
In this issue:
- Deakin University survey to establish what barriers people with spinal cord injury and post-polio face in day to day activities
- The epidemic of polio the summer of 1943 shut local schools in Henderson County, North Carolina
- THE EYES HAVE IT! What the heck is “lag opthalmos”?
- We must celebrate the end of polio – but the end of polio funding puts other programs at risk
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Of Frozen Fingers and Polio Feet
In this issue:
- Polio Australia’s First Information Session
- A spoonful of sugar can help memory – research
- Outcome of total knee arthroplasty in patients with poliomyelitis: a systematic review.
- Separating children from families – again
+ much more
In this issue:
- What A Load of Garbage – disposing of our waste
- History of the Geelong Private Hospital
- Geelong Polio Support Group meetings agenda for 2018
Fatigue is one of the most frustrating and least understood outcomes of late effects of polio, by us and family members who don’t get why we can no longer manage walking round a supermarket; deal with large and noisy crowds; think rationally or remember what was said yesterday. So have sorted through our library on the subject to cover causes, manifestations, and solutions. Articles and short pieces include
- Fatigue – what is it, how did I get it? and how to manage it
- Cognitive fatigue in Polio Survivors
- Chocolate may prevent memory decline!
- Brain fatigue, white spots and fear of Alzheimers
+ much more!
In this issue:
- Budget to focus on funding more at-home aged care
- Submissions to the Australian Electoral Commission for the new seat of Macnamara
- Medicinal cannabis prescription process
+ much more
In this issue:
- Renaming a Federal electorate after Dame Annie Jean Macnamara, DBE.
- Assisted Technology Suppliers Australasia Independent Living Expo
In this issue:
- Post Polio featured on Abc news
- PPV’s 2017 AGM
- PPV’s 2018 Committee
- Good News! re funding + new worker for polio in Victoria
- Representing PPV at Polio Australia
- University of New South Wales report on polio like virus
- Continuity of Service guarantee for older disability recipients after April 1st 2018,
and polio survivors aged 65 and over - Natasha Layton about aids and equipment
- Polio Services Victoria update
- Arts section – about polio people and the arts.
In this issue:
- New Year greetings.
- Pictures from end of year celebration
- Upcoming February meeting will be a social one where we have time to catch up with each other and put some plans in place for the coming year.
In this issue:
- Breast Cancer Network DVD
- PPVs Collaborations
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Wayne and Ravy Getting Busy in Cambodia
+ much more
In this issue:
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Review of “The Broken Boy” By Patrick Cockburn
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Update on our meetings with Polio Services
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Standing together against transport cuts
+ much more
In this issue:
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PPV attend en masse at the Australasian Pacific Post Polio Conference
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Polio services – meeting with St Vincent’s hospital
+ more
In this issue:
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Quality patient care: the polio survivor’s perspective
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Visit to Shepparton
+ much more
2015 has been a great year.
- Looking back at our achievements
- Renewing and reaffirming our goals
- Welcoming the new committee
In this issue:
- ‘The Golden Age’ – review of a novel by Joan London, set in a Western Australian polio rehabilitation home for children in the 1950’s.
- NDIS press release by Daniel Andrews
- Report on PPV’s education campaign on respiratory issues
- Advocating in the dining room at Parliament house
- PPV’s letter in ‘The Age’.
In this issue:
- Advocating for equal funding for all people with a life-long disability
- A response to our concerns from Minister Foley
- Report on Polio Australia’s retreat in Torquay, May 2015
- Polio: Life Stage Matters Conference notice
- PWD (People with a disability) media release re the 2015 budget
+ much more
In this issue:
- Accessibility and inclusion in Victoria’s national parks
- Bushfire planning leaves behind people with disabilities
+ much more
- “Walk With Me” Fundraiser report
- Vale Beth Brodribb
- Super Stops – Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible Tram Stops
- PPV’s Advocacy Survey
+ much more
- Pilot Program on Fatigue and Strategies
- Taxi Industry Reform Should Improve Services for People with Disability
- “We’re Still Here” Campaign in Canberra
- Disability Care goes Live
- Polio Australia’s Canberra Campaign
+ much more
In this issue:
- Hospital Protocols for Managing Patients with Post Polio
- Congratulations on the NDIS Bill Endorsed through the Australian Parliament
- Advocacy Working Group Report
- Touched by Polio Art Exhibition and Auction
+ much more
In this issue:
- London Paralympics: two perspectives
- PPV Members join Polio Australia for the “We’re Still Here” Campaign in Canberra
- Tips for booking a Wheelchair Accessible Taxi (WAT) on Christmas Day
- President’s Report to the PPV Annual General Meeting
+ much more
In this issue:
- Polio Australia Mass Canberra Gathering
- Victorian Taxi Industry Inquiry
- The NDIS and polio – how will we fare?
- Did you know…?
Essential Medical Equipment Payment - Vale Joan Gillespie (1937 -2012)
+ much more