Tribunal orders TAB to pay unlucky punter More to lose jobs in

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Betting clanger
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Tribunal orders TAB to
pay unlucky punter
Clang And Bang
heads for a win (far
left) which
shocked Alan
Feher, who
believed the horse
had been scratched
when he made his
selections.
Main picture:
RICHARD SERONG
A PUNTER who claimed a
TAB clanger cost him $1200
has won a longshot legal case.
Narre Warren maths
teacher Alan Feher successfully sued Tabcorp after staff
at a suburban outlet wrongly
marked a horse called Clang
And Bang as a late scratching.
The meticulous gambler
argued he’d always intended
to pick that horse among his
weekly quaddie selections,
but dropped it at the last min-
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ute acting on the information
that it had been scratched.
To win a coveted quaddie,
punters must pick winners in
four consecutive races.
A tribunal heard Mr Feher
placed a $120 bet at the
Prince Mark Hotel in Doveton on August 24, about 10
minutes before the first race
in his bet. He went shopping,
and at the end of the day’s
racing returned to the TAB to
discover he’d picked three of
the four required winners.
On closer inspection, he
found the “scratched” horse
had also romped home.
Livid, he retrieved an incorrectly stamped official list
from a bin at the venue and
submitted it to Tabcorp, arguing he was entitled to half of
the $2370 quaddie payout.
It rejected his claim so Mr
Feher, 60, took it to the Vic-
More to lose jobs in
lagging economy
THOUSANDS more Victorians are tipped to lose their jobs
in the coming months as the
economy lags its rivals in the
lead-up to the state election.
A report warns Victoria is
facing a period of sluggish
growth over the next six
months as households remain
reluctant to spend or borrow
due to uncertainty about their
jobs before a gradual pick-up
in late 2014.
The state’s unemployment
is tipped to rise further to 6.5
per cent in coming months as
concerns grow about the future of major employers such
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picked Clang And Bang. But
senior tribunal member Alan
Vassie said he was persuaded
by Mr Feher’s evidence under
oath, and his evidence of a
homegrown punting system.
But he stopped short of
awarding the full claim.
Mr Feher said he was
happy to win. After all costs
involved with the case he was
“still a little bit up — but it’s
the principle that counts”.
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Charles to divide
duties with Queen
STEPHEN McMAHON
ton, Alcoa near Geelong and
ship building in Williamstown.
This follows the announcements of the closure of Ford
and Holden.
“The property market has
been slow to recover and concerns about the State Government have also been a bit of
drag on the economy,” AMP
Capital chief economist Shane
Oliver said.
The most recent jobless
data shows Victoria’s unemployment rate has hit 6.2 per
cent — well above the national
level of 5.8 per cent.
torian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. At the hearing, a
lawyer for Tabcorp admitted
head office had sent wrong
scratchings to agencies that
day, but had corrected the
error within one minute.
The tribunal heard that
“for whatever reason” hotel
staff did not update wall
charts with the revised data.
Tabcorp also argued it was
“virtually impossible” for Mr
Feher to prove he would have
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MADONNA has apologised
for using a racial slur to refer
to her white son on
Instagram.
On Friday night, she
posted a picture of her 13year-old son Rocco boxing
and used a hashtag that
contained a variation of the
n-word.
QUEEN Elizabeth and Prince
Charles are sharing official
duties as the royals move towards a job-sharing plan.
In June, the Prince will
accompany Queen Elizabeth
to France for official duties
commemorating the 70th
anniversary of the D-Day
landings at Normandy — the
most obvious sign yet of official job-sharing.
According to London’s Sunday Times, an announcement is
due this week that the press
offices of Prince Charles and
the Queen will be merged into
one team based at Buckingham Palace.
The move is seen as further
confirmation that the 87-yearold monarch, who attends
about 300 official engagements a year, is looking to
scale back her commitments.
Prince Charles, the 64-yearold heir to the throne, represented the Queen at last year’s
Commonwealth Heads of
Government conference in Sri
Lanka — the first time in 40
years the monarch had not
attended CHOGM.
Her Majesty became queen
at the age of 25, making Prince
Charles the longest-serving
heir-apparent
in
British
history.
AT ODDS WITH
THE RESULT
WHAT ALAN FEHER
SHOULD HAVE WON: $1200
WHAT HE WON: $0
WHAT VCAT AWARDED
HIM: $500
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OF LIFE
PIGEON
droppings may
be disgusting,
but apparently they can also
be an inspiration for pieces
of jewellery.
An English artist is
making broaches that
resemble the shape, size
and colour of pigeon poo.
Frances WadsworthJones, 30, of west London,
has created a new line of
called Heaven Sent. Each
piece in the collection is
made from crushed semiprecious and precious gems
like black diamonds,
sapphires and tourmaline.
The gems are set together
in imitation of splattered
pigeon droppings.
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When he jumped
from 14,000 ft
his parachute and
reserve failed. But,
against all odds,
he landed in a golf
course lake and lived.
Brad Guy is the ...
LUCKIEST
MAN ALIVE
A MELBOURNE man who
survived a 14,000 ft fall after
his parachute failed and
crash landed on a suburban
golf course says it is a miracle
he is alive.
Brad Guy thought he
would die when the main
chute and the reserve tangled
as he plummeted to earth
during a tandem skydive to
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celebrate his 21st birthday.
Hurtling down, as his family
watched below, he sought
comfort from the tandem
master: “I said to him, ‘Are we
going to die?’ And he said, ‘I
don’t know’.
“It didn’t really feel like I
the ground,
ground was
coming to hit me, like the
earth was coming to smack
me,” Mr Guy said, speaking
publicly for the first time.
“Survival wasn’t in my
head at all.
“I was thinking, ‘This
ground’s going to hit me and
when it does, I’ll be gone. I’ve
brought my family here to
watch me die’.”
Horrified Saturday afternoon golfers rushed to pluck
Mr Guy and the tandem master from the water when they
landed on the 12th hole at the
Yering Meadows course.
“The impact was the worst
imaginable pain I could ever
fathom,” he said.
“And then I was like, ‘I’m
on the ground, I’m alive!’ ”
He suffered back and neck
injuries, but was up and walking after just three days in
hospital and his body is still
recovering.
“I was part of a miracle
and not many people can say
that,” he said.
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HARNESSED to a tandem
skydive instructor, Brad Guy
nervously dangled his legs out
the plane’s open door, about
14,000 feet over Melbourne.
Pointing a wrist camera at
him, the instructor asked: “Any
last words?”
“Yeah,” Brad grinned for
the souvenir DVD, “I hope my
parachute opens”.
The free fall brought an expected rush of fear and adrenalin. They passed through 4000
feet and Brad felt the parachute deploy.
Ground crew had warned
of an upward thrust when
the canopy opened, but this
violent?
As the white chute opened,
it tore. The remainder flapped
noisily, and the world started
spinning so wildly Brad lost all
perspective. A tightly laced
shoe flung off.
“We were shaking so much,
it was like we were in a blender,” he says. “We were just spiralling really fast.”
Brad heard the instructor
swearing, and felt urgent tugging and pulling.
“He kept saying, ‘S---, no’.
I was, like, ‘That’s not good’,”
he says.
Sensing the ground coming
toward them, Brad sought
comfort from the instructor, a
veteran of about 2000 tandem
dives: “I said to him, ‘Are we
going to die?’ ” And he said, ‘I
don’t know’.”
Plummeting downward, the
ground closer with each second, Brad reached his own
conclusion.
Around 500 feet, the reserve inflated, tangling grotesquely in the remains of the
first chute.
“It didn’t really feel like I
was falling to the ground, more
like the ground was coming to
hit me, like the earth was coming to smack me,” Brad says.
“Your life does flash before
your eyes but I didn’t look
back on things in my life, I
looked forward.”
The main thought racing
through his mind was he’d
never see his family or boyfriend again.
They were below, watching,
and he fretted at the awful last
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memory he’d left them with.
“Survival wasn’t in my head
at all,” he says. “I was thinking,
‘This ground’s going to hit me
and when it does, I’ll be gone.
I’ve brought my family here to
watch me die’.”
DOWN at the drop zone,
Brad’s mum Julie, dad Brian,
boyfriend Artie, three sisters
and their husbands and kids
watched the pair whirl to earth.
One sister vomited. Another groaned, “Oh no, oh no”,
repeatedly. Julie cried and
looked to Brian for comfort no
one could give.
They stood near the intended landing spot, a grassy
paddock beside a shed at Lilydale airfield.
Site operator STBVIC Pty
Ltd, trading as a franchise of
Skydive The Beach and
Beyond, also has drop zones
over St Kilda beach or Barwon
Heads.
Brad chose the Yarra Valley
because green is his favourite
colour and he pictured a slow
descent over a lush patchwork.
A few days before his jump
on Saturday, August 31 last
year, the company phoned
asking if he’d switch to a late
timeslot. He’d waited more
than a year to use the voucher
he’d got for his 21st birthday,
what was a few more hours?
The close family lunched at
a winery, though Brad’s nerves
meant he ate only a few hot
chips, and skipped the booze.
Paperwork done and kitted
up, the digital editor posed for
pictures and sent a final snapchat selfie to some friends
showing him in parachute
pants and suspenders.
Tandem master Bill grabbed parachute number 29 from
a rack, and they got in the
Cessna.
The plane disappeared from
sight as they climbed to altitude, and Brad’s family waited.
Finally a staffer pointed to a
dot in the sky — Brad and Bill
in normal free fall.
“Then something went
wrong,” mum Julie says.
“We all realised and it was a
big panic.”
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THE DAY I FELL FROM THE SKY
AUGUST 31, 2013
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Operator
told to
lift game
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Survivor Brad Guy at the
Yering Meadows Golf
Club where he landed
after a failed parachute
jump; Brad excited before
the jump (bottom left);
the tattoo as a reminder
of his experience (below
left); and (below right)
with Geoff George, head
pro at the golf club.
Pictures: IAN CURRIE
Tandem master Bill and Brad Guy jump
from plane at about 14,000 feet
Main parachute deployed
about 4000 feet. It fails
Reserve chute released about 500 feet.
Tangles with remainder of main chute
She ran inside the shed,
begging staff: “Please tell me
what’s happened to my son”.
Next to the airfield, casual
golfer Ash Tainton was playing
with his father-in-law Ian and
a couple of young blokes
they’d just met at Yering
Meadows.
Planes had buzzed overhead all day, but that flapping
sound was new. They looked
up to see the out-of-control
pair swirling as if in a cyclone.
“The parachute was open,
but it wasn’t working properly.
They were horizontal, and
they were whirling around, like
water going down a drain,”
Ash recalls.
“You could sense the sheer
terror in everyone as we
watched. I heard the thud. I
called 000 straight away.”
Mid-lesson on the practice
putting green, club pro Geoff
George also watched the tangled mess fall to the edge of a
dam on the 12th hole.
“I didn’t think anyone could
survive that,” he says. “A
human body is not meant to
absorb that.”
IT took a few seconds for Brad
to realise the choking, gasping
noise he could hear was him
trying to breathe.
“The impact was the worst
imaginable pain I could ever
fathom,” he says.
“And then I was like ‘I’m on
the ground, I’m alive!’.”
His brain told him to get up
but he couldn’t move anything
from the neck down.
He wiggled his fingertips
and felt reeds, mud and cold
water. Sopping parachutes
blanketed them.
Still strapped to the chest of
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Bill, he tried to rouse the instructor. “We landed … kind of
crossed,” Brad says. “He was
underneath me. He broke my
fall and took a lot of the impact. I tried to grab Bill’s hand,
‘Are you OK?’. I thought he
was dead.”
Golfer Ash Tainton, still on
the line to 000, arrived with
the others. He relayed first aid
instructions as the two younger men waded shin-deep into
the muddy-brown pond.
One held Bill’s head out of
the water hazard. The other
held Brad’s hand.
Back at the airfield, staff informed Brad’s hysterical family the men had been located,
telling Julie: “They’re alive.”
They piled in car and raced
off. An ambulance carrying
Brad was leaving, and Julie ran
after it, rapping the windows.
“I wanted to see him, I
wanted to talk to him,” she
says. His words — “Mum, I’ll
be OK!” — reassured her.
But as the siren squealed toward The Alfred, worries
whirled in Brad’s mind. Why
couldn’t he feel his legs? Was
he a paraplegic? Would he ever
walk again?
I closed my eyes I could feel
myself falling,” he says.
Scans. Needles. Doctors.
Counselling. A horrible blur
until his hobbled first steps.
“Being able to walk again
after a few days of thinking
that I never would was amazing,” he says.
Discharged after just three
days, Brad retreated to his parents’ Wallan property where
he remained housebound for
about 14 weeks.
Made redundant from his
job with a radio station soon
after the accident, he has
struggled to find full-time
work. In the lowest moments,
he considered suicide.
“My life has been shattered
to pieces, every single aspect of
my life has changed,” he says.
Sleep is no escape, bringing
instead crippling nightmares.
Falling, falling, falling.
“The physical injuries for
me are pretty huge but compared to the mental implications it’s, like, nothing,” he says.
Simple things can trigger
panic. Standing near the edge
of the second floor at the shopping centre. Catching a plane.
Looking up at the clouds.
THE questions continued in
hospital. Doctors and medical
students who examined his
chart exclaimed “Parachuting
accident? What happened?”
“That’s the reaction of every
single person,” Brad says.
“They say, ‘That’s my worst
nightmare.’ Yeah, I lived it.
And I’m still living it.”
Far from experiencing euphoria at cheating death, he
counts the first night in hospital as the worst of his life.
“I couldn’t sleep. Every time
WHEN the fear takes hold,
one image grounds him.
Rolling up his sleeve, Brad
reveals a tattoo of a skydiver
with an inflated chute floating
down his forearm. Some ask
why he’d want a prominent,
permanent reminder.
“I don’t see the accident
when I look at this. I see the silver lining. I was part of a miracle and not many people can
say that. It means a lot to me. I
got this to remind myself I am
lucky, I’m here for a reason and
Brad and Bill land in water hazard on the
12th hole at Yering Meadows Golf Course
Golfers on 11th hole green phone
000 and rush to help
Doctors estimated speed of
impact at about 70-80km/h
Passenger
Brad Guy, 22
First ever skydiving
experience
Injuries: Two broken
vertebrae, torn and
sprained spinal and neck
ligaments, bruising,
grazes
here for a purpose,” he says.
One day he hopes to meet
tandem master Bill again, to
swap stories with the only
other man in the world who
understands what happened.
Bill declined to be interviewed when contacted by the
Sunday Herald Sun, but wished
Brad well with his recovery.
As the first anniversary approaches, Brad wants to use his
scrape with death to spread a
positive, inspirational message.
Enrich the lives of others
where possible, he urges,
through even simple gestures
Tandem master
Bill, 53
Total career jumps at the
time: 4876
Injuries: pelvic fractures,
broken vertebrae,
broken ribs, fractured
femurs, broken heel,
fractured eye socket,
collapsed lung
such as smiling at strangers on
the train, or making a colleague a cup of tea.
“Do what you can to make
someone else happy and make
their life worthwhile,” he says.
“You never know when
something might take you off
the radar of life.”
If his life flashes before his
eyes again, he wants to see the
positive impact he’s left.
“I always thought I was
lucky before but now I know I
am,” he says. “I’m going to
make the most of it.”
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WORKSAFE has directed a
leading Victorian skydive operator to improve packing
and checking of parachutes
amid serious safety concerns.
Investigators probing a
sickening plunge that badly
injured a tandem pair last August allege the operator’s register listed four incidents in a
year linked to packing deficiencies.
“Two of these incidents occurred 13 days apart. All four
incidents required emergency procedures to be enacted
during descent from the aircraft,” an inspector noted.
WorkSafe alleges in tribunal documents the packer
that readied the parachute in
the August 2013 incident
“had also been the packer involved in other incidents”.
The safety watchdog issued a notice directing operator STBVIC Pty Ltd to
improve its systems.
STBVIC Pty Ltd operates
three sites in Victoria — in
the Yarra Valley, St Kilda and
Barwon Heads — as a franchise of the Skydive The
Beach and Beyond group.
But lawyers for the operator and peak skydiving body
the Australian Parachute
Federation have mounted a
tribunal challenge.
The tribunal action comes
as lawyers for skydive accident survivor Brad Guy prepare to sue over the
disastrous tandem dive.
Nowicki Carbone partner
Nunzio Tartaglia said he’d
seek substantial compensation for Mr Guy’s physical
and mental injuries.
“Our client wants to ensure this catastrophic event
does not happen to anyone
else,” he said. “The activity of
skydiving is dangerous and
safety is paramount.”
Tribunal documents include a report by an APF safety officer on the August 2013
incident that said the rig
wasn’t packed correctly,
equipment checks were lacking and emergency procedures were performed in an
incorrect sequence.
The report concluded the
STBVIC Pty Ltd operation
“appears to be well managed
but also seems to have a problem with packing issues”.
The APF’s tribunal submission states STBVIC Pty
Ltd recorded about 12,000
jumps at its three sites between July 1, 2013 and March
14, 2014.
“With 11 malfunctions during this time (mostly partial)
this represents a malfunction
rate of .09 per cent of total
jumps,” the submission says.
“This figure is perfectly
consistent and acceptable
within Australian and global
parachuting standards.”
The APF submits parachute checks are already rigorously regulated, and more
onerous pre-fall checks would
not prevent malfunctions.
A compulsory tribunal mediation session is expected to
be held next month.
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THE father of notorious bikie
brothers Daniel and Ben Pegoraro has won a secret settlement after suing a law firm he
accused of ripping him off.
The intimidation that might
be the favoured approach of
outlaw bikies was not Joe Pegoraro’s way: he took his complaint to the Legal Services
Commissioner, then a tribunal.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard
that at 9am on March 7 last
Brothers’ father wins a legal brief encounter
year, Mr Pegoraro and his wife
delivered $15,000 cash to law
firm Balot Reilly as a retainer
to represent Daniel and Ben at
court that day over allegations
they were part of a gang that
had stolen caravans.
Ben, 23, was represented by
Balot Reilly’s George Balot.
But Daniel, 28, contacted his
preferred brief, Zarah GardeWilson, who represented him.
Joe Pegoraro later unsuccessfully sought a $7500 refund, arguing Balot Reilly had
done only half the expected
work. He later approached the
Legal Services Commissioner,
and then applied to VCAT for
a review.
Sam Tatarka, for Balot Reilly, told VCAT there’d been
some “ping pong” over who’d
represent Daniel, but the fam-
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switched lawyers their money
had “already been spent”.
However counsel for the
Pegoraros, Fraser Cameron,
disputed that they had been
told “if you change, you have
done your dough”.
Mr Cameron said the family
considered the $7500 fee for
Daniel excessive, and felt he’d
got “zero dollars’ worth”.
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After an adjournment for
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The charges against Daniel,
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year. Ben was ultimately jailed
and remains behind bars for
his role in the caravan thefts.
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PSOs CALLED AS FOOTY JUMPER DISPUTE BOILS OVER
SHIRT FRONT
A TUSSLE over a signed
2008
Hawthorn
AFL
premiership jumper could
bounce into the Supreme
Court following a tribunal
clash of Grand Final intensity.
Reservoir couple Nick and
Melanie Podrebarac faced off
against a leading sports memorabilia retailer to contest
possession of the rare jersey.
The atmosphere in the
VCAT hearing was so tense,
protective services officers
entered the tribunal room in
the closing minutes to keep
the parties separate.
Collectibles
salesman
Barry Kirkwood was so unhappy with the umpire’s decision he immediately flagged a
Supreme Court appeal.
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal member William Holloway noted
AFL and Hawthorn officials
would likely be impressed
football aroused such passion.
The hearing centred on a
jumper bought at ASM Sports
Memorabilia at Westfield
Doncaster.
Mrs Podrebarac — “not a
football person” — told the
tribunal she went to the shop
to collect a jumper her husband had negotiated to buy
via eBay for $750 cash.
The tribunal heard she
also bought some 2008 player
cards, and chose an image of
Lance “Buddy” Franklin —
one of few players she recognised — for an authentication
certificate Mr Kirkwood
printed on the spot.
But the jumper she’d collected was significantly different from the one her husband
had arranged to buy, the tri-
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bunal heard. Mr Kirkwood
denied he’d ever agreed to sell
the couple a 2008 Hawthorn
Premiers jumper, or that he’d
invited them via eBay to collect it from his retail shop.
He said his eBay business
was entirely separate.
An exasperated Mrs Podrebarac at one point stood to
leave while Mr Kirkwood
gave evidence, saying loudly:
“I’ve just about heard
enough.” Mr Podrebarac also
shoved a Bible towards Mr
Kirkwood, and reminded the
retailer he was on oath.
Handing down his decision, Mr Holloway described
Mrs Podrebarac as “little
more than a wood duck”.
“She went in there to collect an item. The one she
went to buy, she didn’t come
out with,” he said.
“I don’t believe they got
what they bargained for.”
He ordered Mr Kirkwood
to pay the couple $800 — at
which point the salesman
pulled out a 2008 signed jersey and offered it to them.
They declined.
The hearing took another
twist when the couple handed
back the “wrong” jersey purchased in July 2013.
Examining it, Mr Kirkwood said: “How do I know
it’s the same jumper? Where’s
Shane Crawford? This is not
the jumper I sold them.”
But VCAT member Mr
Holloway said he accepted it
was the correct jumper and
told Mr Kirkwood he must
still pay them $800.
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Strong line-up for
charity concert
ELEPHANTS
ON RAMPAGE
THREE elephants escaped
from their handlers at a
circus in the US and damaged
several vehicles in the
parking lot before they were
recaptured.
TV station KMOV reports
that the female elephants
escaped from the children’s
ride section of the Moolah
Shrine Circus in Missouri.
The circus issued a
statement saying the
handlers were able to control
the animals and that “they
are now resting comfortably
in their compound”.
Police say the animals also
damaged a loading door.
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FOR the first time in the
history of the Good Friday
Appeal, a charity concert will
raise funds for the Royal
Children’s Hospital.
The charity spectacular is a
new ticketed event which will
be
headlined
by
Kate
Ceberano, Mark Seymour,
Taylor
Henderson
and
Samantha Jane.
Also appearing will be
Daryl
Braithwaite,
The
Collective, Joe Camilleri and
Boom Crash Opera.
The Good Friday concert —
on April 18 — will be part of
Channel Seven’s telecast of the
appeal.
It will be conducted at the
Melbourne Convention and
Exhibition Centre for the first
time.
The appeal began in 1931
when
sportsmen
and
journalists from The Herald
and Weekly Times organised a
sports carnival with all
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proceeds donated to the RCH.
The proceeds from next
month’s concert tickets, which
will be $25 each, will be
donated to the hospital.
Since the Good Friday
Appeal began, it has raised
more than $258 million for the
hospital.
Last year, more than
$16 million was raised.
Families will also be able to
attend the annual Kids Day
Out on Good Friday.
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