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MAKING FIRST AID A PART OF EVERYBODY’S LIFE. St John Ambulance Australia Inc. PO Box 292, Deakin West ACT 2600 www.stjohn.org.au

2018 St John Ambulance Australia National Member Convention INNOVATION CREATIVE CHANGE FOR OUR SHARED FUTURE. Hotel Realm, Barton, ACT • Thursday 3 May – Sunday 6 May

A QUICK LOOK AT THE TIMETABLE... Here's a general overview of the Convention. Full details of all days (including seminar topics and speakers) will be on the Convention website soon! The registration website will be open for bookings and payment on Friday 2 March.

THURSDAY 3 MAY 2.00–4.00 pm

Visit to the Priory Heritage Collection, Australian Office Your hosts: the Priory Librarian, Professor John Pearn, and the Historical Adviser, Dr Ian Howie-Willis (no cost)

4.45–6.30 pm

Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial Attend the Australian War Memorial for the Last Post Ceremony and a tour of the AWM forecourt (the AWM is closed), with the Priory LIbrarian, Professor John Pearn, and the Historical Adviser, Dr Ian Howie-Willis (no cost)

6.30 pm

Informal dinner, Poppy's Cafe, Australian War Memorial Cost: $50/person (3 course, seated dinner including drinks)

FRIDAY 4 MAY 9.00–4.00 pm

20th Annual General Meeting & Seminar of the Historical Society Cost: $50/person (includes morning & afternoon teas, & lunch)

SATURDAY 5 MAY 7.15 am

Welcome breakfast Cost: $30/person (seated breakfast)

9.00 am

St John Member Convention seminars Cost: $50/person (includes morning & afternoon teas, & lunch)

7.00 pm

Gala dinner Dress: Black tie, Mess dress, or your colour theme is 'Red Black White' Cost: $50/person (includes 3 course, seated dinner, drinks and entertainment)

SUNDAY 6 MAY 10.00–11.30 pm

Church Service (followed by Chapter), St Paul's Cathedral, Manuka

1.15 pm

Farewell lunch, St Paul's Cathedral, Manuka Cost: $20/per person

ACCOMMODATION HOTEL REALM $209 per person excluding breakfast 18 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600 (02) 6163 1888 [email protected]

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2018 NATIONAL CADET FIRST AID CHAMPIONSHIPS Held on Saturday 6 January 2018 at the St John Noarlunga Centre in South Australia, youth members from across the nation put their nerves aside and bravely competed in the 2018 National Cadet First Aid Championships. All participants performed exceptionally well and were a credit to the organisation.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL COMPETITORS! Results board Champion Cadet Leader

Champion Individual

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John Russell, South Australia

Mackenzie Hanson, New South Wales

2nd Farida Syed, New South Wales

2nd Chloe Brannigan, South Australia

3rd Zoe King, Victoria

3rd Lachlan Hindrum, Tasmania

Champion Team 1st

VICTORIA Taylor Murray, Brooke Robinson and Holly Pugliese

2nd NEW SOUTH WALES Daniel Wilson, Benjamin Chapman and Alexa Carey 3rd SOUTH AUSTRALIA Sarah Pappas, Ben Plane and Lilian Gara Champion State/Territory 1st

NEW SOUTH WALES Ashleigh Hanson (Manager), Farida Syed (Cadet Leader), Daniel Wilson, Benjamin Chapman, Alexa Carey (Team) and Mackenzie Hanson (Individual)

2nd VICTORIA Christine Morrison (Manager), Zoe King (Cadet Leader), Taylor Murray, Brooke Robinson and Holly Pugliese (Team) and Madison Willis (Individual) 3rd SOUTH AUSTRALIA Jason Degenhardt (Manager), John Russell (Cadet Leader), Sarah Pappas, Ben Plane and Lilian Gara (Team) and Chloe Brannigan (Individual)

TASMANIAN LACHLAN HINDRUM— A NATIONAL CHAMPION Read the full story in The Examiner. Tess Brunton, 16 January 2018

Less than 18 months ago, Lachlan Hindrum, 16, didn’t know what a first aid competition was. Lachlan, from Launceston took 3rd place in the individual category competitions at the St John Ambulance Australia National Cadet Competitions last month. Lachlan joined the Cadets to help him prepare for a career as a paramedic, and he says that he would recommend St John Cadets for anybody planning a career in a health profession. Lachlan was supported by his Tasmanian team mates: Luke Harris (Team Leader), Vanessa Henry (Cadet State Officer), Aden Roberts and Wade Wilson.

EHS GAZETTE THE GRAND PRIOR AWARD Congratulations to the following St John Ambulance Australia members on achieving your Grand Prior Award. New South Wales Emily Dando, Mount Sugarloaf Cadet Division Georgia Dando, , Mount Sugarloaf Cadet Division Queensland Dana Beare, Caboolture Division Holly Euler, Nundah Division Joanne Halls, Ipswich Division South Australia Emily Hawke, West Torrens Cadet Division Jemima Hedger, West Torrens Cadet Division Victoria Raphael Yip, Manningham Division You have all shown real commitment to building your community through your volunteer work, and to excellence in delivering St John services. This award recognises your dedication and our appreciation. Thank you.

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Spotlite gazettes Grand Prior Awards only. Special Service Certificates, Divisional Registrations and Divisional Jubilees, Officer appointments and relinquishments are published by State/ Territory jurisdictions, as is the production of certificates for Warrants of Appointment.

THE 1923 MEMORIAL PLAQUE AT THE ST JOHN JERUSALEM EYE HOSPITAL SHEIK JARRAH, EAST JERUSALEM

Ian Howie-Willis, Historical Adviser to the Office of the Priory of St John Ambulance Australia, I recently wrote to Isla Richards, , the London-based

fundraiser for the St John Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group, seeking information for the paper I will be presenting to the 20th annual seminar of the St John Ambulance Historical Society of Australia on 4 May. My paper is on Sir Edmund Lechmere (1826–1894), who purchased the St John’s Gate property for the Order in 1874, and almost single-handedly established the Order’s Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem in 1882. I was aware that soon after Sir Edmund’s death (either late 1894 or early 1895), to commemorate his achievement the Order installed a marble memorial tablet in the courtyard of the first hospital, on the Bethlehem Road just outside the Old City of Jerusalem. Since then the Hospital has changed locations twice — in 1948 and in 1960, when the present Hospital in Sheik Jarrah was established. I emailed Isla to see if she could tell me whether or not the 1894–1895 Lechmere memorial tablet had survived; and, if so, if she could send me a photograph. Because of Isla’s absence on maternity leave, my email was answered by Marie-Claire Boyle of the Eye Hospital Group’s Charterhouse Mews office in London. Marie-Claire obligingly referred my request to the Hospital Group’s two CEOs, Ahmad Ma’ali and Peter Khoury in Jerusalem. Within a couple of days, I received not just one but two photos of marble memorial tablets bearing Lechmere’s name, both at the Hospital’s Sheik Jarrah campus in East Jerusalem. Neither of these tablets is the original 1894–1895 Lechmere memorial. Apparently that was destroyed when Turkish troops partially demolished the original Hospital in the weeks before British troops captured Jerusalem in November 1917. The Turks had tried

to blow up the Hospital building, which had been closed temporarily for the duration of World War I. The Hospital was then extensively reconstructed and eventually reopened in February 1919. To replace the lost Lechmere tablet, the Order installed a new memorial at the Hospital in 1923, the one pictured below, left. This was not, however, a memorial for Lechmere alone but recorded the names of other early supporters of the Hospital as well. Now rather battered and weather-beaten, having survived two more wars (the 1948 and 1967 Arab–Israeli conflicts) and two relocations, the 1923 memorial is situated at the front of the present (1960) Hospital in Sheik Jarrah. Lechmere’s name is also recorded on another stone tablet at the present Hospital. This is the Honour Roll of past Hospitallers of the Order. With the confirmation of Dr David Verity as the current Hospitaller, 18 individuals have held the position in the 136 years since the Hospital was established in 1882. Lechmere was the second, and his name is in the panel second from the left in the top row of the photo at the right above. The Honour Roll is currently located in the cloisters of the Hospital. And so the hunt for a photograph of the Lechmere memorial has served to strengthen the ties between the Eye Hospital Group and our Australian Historical Society. In sharing this story with Spotlite, I acknowledge with gratitude the prompt and productive assistance he received from Marie-Claire Boyle, Ahmad Ma’ali and Peter Khoury.

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NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS PDF publication resources The following titles are now in user-friendly, searchable PDF format. If your state or territory are running relevant courses, please order a copy from Gab Lhuede, [email protected] These publications are free of charge. Each publication is prefaced with 'For the learner: Terms of use', and each trainer should be given 'Trainer: Terms of use'.

• Emergency first aid • Providing pain management • Low voltage rescue • Bites and stings

• Basic life support • First aid for eye injuries • Burns and scalds

Cadet and Junior first aid workbooks for 2018 First aid workbooks for Cadet and Junior programs in 2018 are now available in print or as a free downloadable PDF. The Assessor guide is available as a downloadable PDF.

• Cadet first aid 2018 workbook (print) $5.50/unit • Junior first aid 2018 workbook (print) $2.50/unit

The print edition is available from [email protected] The workbooks and Assessor guides are available for download from:

Junior Activity books The following Junior Activity books are now out-of-print. They are available as free downloadable PDFs. Order your free PDF from [email protected]

• Caring for animals • Casualty simulation • Health care • Knowledge of the Order

RUNNING A CARING FOR KIDS FIRST AID COURSE DL flyer artwork (100 x 210 m) has been produced for the Caring for kids first aid course. This flyer will also be included in the Tiny Tots first aid kit. For press-ready artwork, contact Gab Lhuede, [email protected]

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2017 PRINT edition A5, 24 pages, colour $1.20/single item. [email protected]

UNIFORM SALE HALF PRICE! FIRST IN!

The warehouse is holding quantities of current St John uniform pieces, as listed below. To see images of the relevant uniform items (and to confirm sizes, pp 17–19) check out the Total Image Group catalogue 2014 on Member Connect (USERNAME onestjohn, PASSWORD member). Send your order to [email protected] No returns will be accepted; no refunds given.

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UNIFORM SALE — cont. To see pictures of the uniform items, check out the Total Image Group catalogue 2014 on Member Connect (USERNAME onestjohn PASSWORD member). Send your order to [email protected]. No returns will be accepted; no refunds given.

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A compilation of 140 women who have helped shape the history and create the future of St John Ambulance Australia.

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8MARCH#PRESSFORPROGRESS For over 130 years, Australian women have been integral to the growth and strength of St John Ambulance. To recognise the achievements of the women who have contributed to St John, and for those who continue to do so, celebrate them during International Women's Day on 8 March, in your office or division. St John encourages and promotes diversity and inclusion, and is actively working on establishing a gender balance on the various committees, programs and groups within the organisation.

CONGRATULATIONS, ISLA RICHARDS Many Spotlite readers will remember meeting Isla Richards, the London-based fundraiser for the St John Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group, who attended the St John Ambulance Australia Members’ Convention in Brisbane in 2015. Isla still works for the St John Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group at its London office in Charterhouse Mews, Clerkenwell (around the corner from St John’s Gate). However, Isa is currently on maternity leave, and has recently given birth to a beautiful little golden-haired daughter, Ivy. Isla expects to return to work soon, during March. On behalf of all readers of Spotlite, we congratulate Isla and her partner, Arran, on the birth of Ivy. And we say 'Welcome, dear wee Ivy, into the big wide world of St John!'

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Leadership is not a noun. It is a verb. — John C. Maxwell. www.johnmaxwell.com

WE WANT YOUR INPUT INTO HOW ST JOHN CAN SUPPORT YOU TO GROW AND DEVELOP AS A YOUNG LEADER. Do you have some burning ideas on this? If so, please share your ideas by completing our Leadership & Growth Survey today! To give us your thoughts head to http://bit.ly/2EygVTy.

The aim of Boundless is to create a sense of belonging for young members of St John Ambulance Australia aged 18–26 by expanding their networks, and inspiring them in finding a purpose in their volunteering roles.

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Boundless will see members growing their skill set through a variety of professional development, and knowledge sharing activities, while having their input heard on key issues within the organisation through consultation.

SOVEREIGN'S AWARD The Sovereign’s Award is the premier youth award in St John Ambulance, for members aged 16–25 years. This is an international award and is the only award to bear the personal signature of the Sovereign Head of the Order. The Sovereign’s Award will be awarded to those members in recognition of outstanding work in three key areas: personal development benefit to St John Ambulance Australia benefit to the community.

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The Award ranks immediately senior to the Grand Prior’s Award. For further details, see http://ayan.org.au/projects/sovereigns-award/

SOUTHERN CROSS AWARD The Southern Cross Award has been designed for you to set your own goals, work within your time-frames and for you to make your own decision in relation to identifying opportunities to help you achieve your goals. For further details, see http://ayan.org.au/projects/southern-cross-award/

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LEADERSHIP UPDATE Provides information and tips for leaders and managers in St John Peter LeCornu KStJ

Respond calmly when someone challenges your data We’d like to think of data as neutral: analysis just lays out the facts. But sometimes your analysis (and the story it tells) can upset a colleague or client. If you’re attacked for bringing hard truths to light, try to take the perspective of the person you’ve angered. Are they responding so forcefully because they really care about the outcome? However poorly delivered, is any of their criticism valid? Collect more data that addresses their concerns specifically—otherwise, you’ll just talk past each other. And try to view your challenger as an ally rather than as an opponent. Find a way to collaborate, because once you have their buy-in, they’ll be invested in the joint investigation. Then you can channel the energy that prompted their passionate response.

During your next presentation, use your hands to project confidence When you’re in front of an audience, you want to project confidence. But when you’re nervous, your hands often flit about and fidget. Use one of these positions to keep your hands still.

• HOLD THE BALL. Gesture as if you are holding a basketball between your hands. This movement, a Steve Jobs favourite, displays confidence and control, as if you have the facts at your fingertips.

• PALMS UP. Turning your hands up indicates openness and honesty, and it shows that you’re willing to connect with the people you’re speaking to, whether it’s one person or a crowd of thousands.

• PYRAMID. Keep your hands still by clasping them together in a relaxed pyramid. Beware of overusing this position or pairing it with domineering or arrogant facial expressions. The idea is to show that you’re relaxed, not smug.

Make achieving your long-term goals more fun in the short term Achieving a long-term objective, such as getting in shape, paying off debt, or switching careers, takes persistence. Recent research has found something that can help: incorporating immediate benefits into your pursuit of longer-term goals. Make the short-term activities fun. If you want to work-out more, select a fitness class that you enjoy. If you want to eat healthier, build a diet around healthy foods that you actually like to eat. Making activities more enjoyable may help you make progress in your goals. And take time to reflect on the enjoyment: if you’re eating a food you enjoy, focus more on the positive taste than the health benefit.

Motivate your team by connecting their work to what matters All managers need to motivate their employees, but many struggle to get it right. Bosses looking to deliver an effective pep talk should explain why the work they are asking people to do is important. How do the employees’ tasks connect to the organisation’s purpose? Point out ways your team is making a real difference for customers, the community, or each other. Or yconnect your employees’ responsibilities to their personal aspirations. A fast-food restaurant manager could tell teenage workers, 'One of our company goals is to provide good, stable jobs so that you have money to help your families and save for college'. Research shows that connecting work to meaning is the toughest part of a pep talk to deliver, but getting it right is essential to motivating your team.

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT 1 & 2 TRAINING — VIA WEBINARS Peter Le Cornu has been volunteering time for the past few years to teach the very popular, and free, online training program, Leadership and Management (parts 1 & 2). The program is normally run over a weekend but can be run with 10 x 2 hour webinars (the latter delivery suits our members who find it difficult to attend weekend classes). Completing both courses gives members the Certificate IV in Leadership and Management. Talk to your training manager if you're interested in participating in the next round of training.

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