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On Wednesday 04th September, 2014, the Foundation was invited to submit a proposal and present to the NSW State Government into further measures to reduce alcohol and drug violence.
Read our full submission as follows:
Read MoreAmendment of Crimes (Sentencing Procedure). A victim impact statement given by a family victim may, on the application of the prosecutor and if the court considers it appropriate to do so, be considered.
Read MoreThe family of homicide victims would have a say in the killer's sentence under controversial new laws backed by Attorney-General Greg Smith and approved by the NSW cabinet.
Read MoreCCTV Camera installed in Victoria Street, Potts Point – following the deaths of Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie
The Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation, working in conjunction with the City of Sydney, has funded and installed a CCTV camera in Victoria Street to cover the section of road where the two young men both lost their lives.
Read MoreOur composer Phillip Wilcher was deeply shaken by this event and like so many composers turned to his art for solace, but also with a view to giving some comfort to the Kelly family and to the world at large. He chose Gerard Manly Hopkins’s poem, Heaven-Haven, and used it to inspire a string quartet that bears the same name.
Read MoreTo all our dear friends,
We would sincerely like to thank all of our partners who have so generously given so much of their time to support our foundation and cause. Without your help none of what we have achieved in the last 12-months would have been feasible. We are truly blessed to have your support and recognise every single persons input as invaluable.
The board of directors of the foundation will focus our attention on changing attitude in our youth to pre-fuelling, binge-drinking and the current opinion that its "cool to be drunk". Associated within this is alcohol-fuelled violence which led to the tragic death of our beautiful son Thomas in July 2012 that has left our family decimated.
Read MoreAfter witnessing the high price of alcohol-related violence, eminent medical specialists from St Vincent's Hospital have issued an ultimatum to governments to rein in rampant alcohol abuse.
Pointing to street assaults blamed on drunkenness, including attacks that left two men in neighbouring beds in the hospital's intensive care ward before Christmas, the hospital's specialists are pooling their knowledge to combat the violence.
Published in SMH
Read MoreSydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore will tomorrow endorse the 10 new cameras to be installed at a cost of $350,000 over the next six months.
The cameras were recommended by police and Ralph Kelly, the father of 18-year-old Thomas who died after being king hit while walking along Victoria St in Kings Cross on a Saturday night in July last year.
A CCTV camera was installed at the site soon after his death, but Ralph Kelly, police, Liberal Councillor Christine Forster and former lord mayor Lucy Turnbull, have been lobbying for more cameras.
Published in the Daily Telegraph. Read the full article here
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