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The Foundation A Year in Review 2013

The Foundation A Year in Review 2013

To 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.

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Sydney under watch; 10 new CCTV cameras for the CBD

Sydney under watch; 10 new CCTV cameras for the CBD

Sydney 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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