CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIA NEED OUR HELP

THE GOOD EGG BOOKJUNE 2020

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What’s Inside Message fromthe Founder

2020 has been a year like no other and has seen Australia, from the east coast to the west coast and everything in between, endure tough times.We witnessed our country brothers and sisters in drought, resulting in devastating consequences.

Summer brought bushfires, taking lives of those protecting their country and left many without a place to call home. It opened our eyes to the isolation these communities face and how we all can come together, supporting one another to slowly rebuild.

Just as we were beginning to heal from the heartbreak of summer, we were plunged into unchartered territory with COVID-19, robbing us of loved ones and impacting us in a way we have never experienced in our lifetime. And again, we are coming together to support our frontline workers and one another so we can get through this and rebuild again.

That’s what we do at Humpty, we come together.

We come together for little lives in hospitals, families and medical professionals that do all they can for the best possible outcomes. And whilst we won’t be coming together for this year’s Balmoral Burn, nothing can stop us from doing what we set out to do.

One of our goals these past years has been to help kids in the bush, making sure they are given the best care possible. As I always say, it shouldn’t matter where you live, but sadly it does.

The first quarter of this year saw Humpty donate 76 pieces of medical equipment to 51 hospitals – to places like Milton Ulladulla Hospital, Katherine Hospital, Bentley Hospital, Longreach Hospital, Burnside War Memorial Hospital and Central Gippsland Health Service.

LABOUR OF LOVEA huge thank you to our writers for donating their time and expertise to Humpty to help produce this edition of The Good Egg.

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Recently we partnered with the Country Women’s Association to further extend our reach into regional areas to gain a greater understanding of the needs of families in the bush – to make a difference where it is needed most.

Let’s come together for kids in the bush. We can do this, and we can service the hospitals with the equipment they need across Australia. Our commitment to these kids and frontline workers is to remain as flexible as possible to ensure requested equipment is approved by our Medical Sub-Committee and delivered to hospitals as quickly as possible - giving medical professionals the equipment they need, where and when they need it.

Paul Francis OAMFOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

Message From The Chairman 3

About Humpty 4

Message From The Patron 5

From Tragedy To Triumph 6

Possum And Nugget - A Story Of Determination 8

Message From The Medical Sub-Committee Chairman 10

How Humpty’s Wish List Works 11

Chairman’s Wishes 12

Humpty’s Wish List 13

Humpty Helps the Remote Top End 19

Lorna Blackwood Rest In Peace 21

Latrobe Ventilator 22

Eternally Humpty 23

Thank You James Halliday AM 24

Humpty’s Ultimate Cellar 26

The Legacy of Michelle Beets Lives On 28

IGA Helps Humpty in a Big Way 30

HUMPTY DUMPTY FOUNDATION BOARD Paul Francis OAMJohn BevanKerry ChikarovskiJudy CottonJacqui ClarkeJane Flemming OAMProf Martin KluckowJames SpenceleyNigel Watts

TEAM HUMPTYPaul Francis OAMAngela GarnissLiz MacDougallIsabel NelmesClaire ReaneyDiane RoweStella Sung

EDITORIAL TEAM

Founder and Executive Chairman, Editor in Chief: Paul Francis OAM

Patron and Writer: Ray Martin AM

Editor: Liz MacDougall

Writer: Jacqui Clarke

Writer: Adele Feletto

Writer: Dr Martin Kluckow

Writer: Sandra Lee

Writer: Steve Liebmann

Writer: Janine Perrett

Writer: Dr Louise Woodward

It is with deep sadness we learned of the recent passing of one of Humpty’s supporters, Wilma Rosewall. With abundant class, infectious goodwill and profound generosity, Wilma, together with her husband, tennis great, Ken Rosewall AM are a treasured part of the Humpty family. We will forever be grateful for their support and friendship. Wilma will live on in our hearts and we are all so much richer for the moments and memories we now have.

On behalf of the Humpty family, we send our condolences to Ken and the Rosewall family.

The Balmoral Burn has always been on - rain, hail or shine, but sadly a global pandemic has stopped us. Paul Francis OAM with daughter Anna, 2013.

Paul Francis OAM

Wilma sadly passed in April, 2020.

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Message from the Patron

About Humpty

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Early in this enforced COVID-19 lockdown a friend suggested it was like ‘somebody’ – God, Mother Nature… just ‘somebody’ who knows best – had said to us “Go to your room and think about how you’ve all been acting lately.”It’s been scary but quite a remarkable time-out for all of us.

Suddenly, a family with teenagers - strangely out walking together - says “Good Morning” as they pass (they never used to do that). Waiting for coffee at the corner cafe everyone’s polite, there’s eye contact and people smile at each other. Drivers seemed to have grown manners, almost patience.

Outside my house today I noticed a father in his 30’s pushing a scooter up the hill - with his three kids also on scooters – then rolling back down again, laughing like drains. I wondered when was the last time this dad had taken the time to play that game with his children. If ever?

Our beautiful grandson, Arlo – whom I’ve spoken about before – turns three in late June and has been in isolation with us, while his mother also works from our house. It’s been a joy, on both counts. Arlo’s at that adorable age when a toddler’s imagination runs riot and anything is possible. Unfiltered. And very logical. The other day - now able to spend endless hours together - I bought him a mini-donut

with hundreds and thousands colourfully scattered across the icing. He fiddled with it while munching, pushing his finger through the hole again and again. When he had finished I asked if he had loved the donut.

“Yes, maybe I did,” he replied. (At this stage every sentence has a “maybe”, which really

means “I don’t know the answer to that question”) “Did you eat the hole in the donut?” I asked quizzically. “No, I didn’t,” he insisted, after thinking about it. “Well, where did it go?” “ Maybe it’s on the floor”, he suggested looking around

the back of my car. “No, I can’t see it.” “ Well, maybe it’s outside,” he pondered, looking through

the window. “Are you sure you didn’t eat the hole in the donut?” “ No, I DIDN’T!” Arlo repeated, still a bit puzzled as to

where it maybe disappeared.

They’re exquisite memories.

He’s also at that totally innocent age when toddlers discover the fun of ‘hiding’ - even though ‘hiding’ means me pulling a blanket over him on the lounge and asking aloud where he is? Until he pokes his head up and reveals with sheer delight “I’m HERE!” Repetition can stretch this game to at least an hour, day after day, because - under COVID-19 - time is no longer a freight train, moving too fast.

Despite the fears and anxiety and understandable grief, our collective obedience with “social distancing” has given us occasions to reflect on the importance of family and loved ones. Maybe it’s given us a chance to re-assess life’s real priorities.

Maybe we’ll all make some changes – for the better.

But, when we get to ‘the other side’ of this COVID-19 horror story - which has properly focused on the elderly, the frail and the sick – hospitals and Humpty will still be about saving the lives of babies, toddlers and children across Australia.

That dire emergency doesn’t change. The crisis remains.

Indeed, we all know, Government budgets are going to be tighter than ever, just to pay the unprecedented public debt.

So, we’re going to need your help and generosity again – more than ever.

Maybe!

Ray Martin AMPATRON

Ray Martin AMIn 2020, the Humpty Dumpty Foundation will celebrate more than 30 years of fundraising – helping save the lives of sick and injured children in hospital.

The children’s charity has a simple mission – to raise money to purchase vital and often life-saving medical equipment.

Creating tangible outcomes, Humpty’s Wish List has enabled thousands of pieces of medical equipment to be delivered directly to the hospitals selected by generous donors.

This unique Wish List model provides donors with the opportunity to identify locations across Australia where they may have a footprint to support the local hospital, the community and their staff. Having the opportunity to view the donated equipment, meet with medical professionals and on occasion the families and children that have benefited makes this process unique and truly special.

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICE CENTRES ACROSS AUSTRALIA.

To date, Humpty has provided medical

equipment to Paediatric Wards, Neonatal Units,

Maternity and Emergency Departments for...

TOGETHER WE CAN save THE LIVES OF SICK KIDS

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From Tragedy to Triumphby Steve Liebmann

Incredible moment when Bub from Breaking Barriers crossed the finish line in 2019.

It is every parent’s nightmare. One-minute life is “cruising” normally and the next your world is turned upside down when your young, helpless child becomes terribly ill and is rushed to hospital in a critical condition.And, what do you do when that happens twice to two of your children? Well, when child number one has fully recovered you set-up a fundraising event to say “thank you” to the people who saved his life and to donate life-saving equipment that will save other young lives.

That is precisely what Phil Kearns AM, former Wallaby captain and two-time World Cup winner did. The Australian Rugby Hall-of-Famer established the annual fundraising event, the Balmoral Burn. Phil can remember the first Burn as if it was yesterday’, although he would rather forget how it came about twenty years ago this year.

The Kearns family’s first emergency came when son, Finn was rushed to Royal North Shore Hospital with suspected meningococcal. That was the Balmoral Burn’s genesis. Now, two decades and thirty-plus million dollars later the man who played rugby union for his country sixty-seven times can look back on the Burn’s history with considerable satisfaction.

As Finn was recovering, Phil approached Paul Francis OAM, the man who established the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. His plan was to raise some ten thousand dollars in a one-off event, a 420-metre run up Sydney’s steepest street, Awaba Street, Balmoral on the city’s lower North Shore. Macquarie Bank came on board with a large donation as well as sponsorship and that first race attracted a handful of competitors.

Save the date - Sunday 30 May 2021

Who would have thought that Phil’s way of saying thank you all those years ago in 2001 would become an annual, fundraising event that would be celebrating its 20-year milestone in 2020?

However, due to the risk that COVID-19 poses to the Australian public, that celebration wasn’t to be and with a heavy heart, Phil Kearns AM and the Humpty Dumpty Foundation Board needed to cancel this year’s event.

Instead Phil and the Humpty team will mark this milestone event in 2021 – and are promising donors and supporters alike that the Balmoral Burn on Sunday 30 May 2021 will be one to remember.

Please join us on the hill next year to commemorate the landmark event Phil created all those years ago and to help Humpty do what it does best, helping kids in hospitals across Australia.

Australian National Ruby Union Captain 1992 - 1995. From humble beginnings, Phil and Finn at the bottom of Awaba Street.

Now, fast forward a few years. Finn had fully recovered and as if one family emergency was not enough, emergency number two came along. In October 2005 Phil accidentally drove over his 19-month-old daughter, Andie while coming into the steep driveway of his Mosman home. When ambulance and police arrived, they found Andie had sustained life-threatening injuries to her stomach and abdomen. She was rushed to Royal North Shore Hospital and then airlifted to the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick on the other side of Sydney Harbour.

During Andie’s treatment Phil could see that the doctors at Royal North Shore were using equipment that had been donated as a result of the Balmoral Burn – some of it used to save his daughter’s life.

These days the Balmoral Burn generates national media attention every year and what was to be a one-off event continues to attract many generous corporate sponsors, thousands of young and not-so-young, able and disabled competitors – all to make a significant impact on the lives of critically sick and injured children in more than four hundred hospitals and health centres across Australia.

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Possum and Nugget — A Story of Determinationby Dr Louise Woodward

Constance and Audrey turn 1 and celebrate with their sister Claudia.

Possum and Nugget were the names Chris and Sarah gave their identical twins in a moment of crisis. The news that they were having twins came as a shock, especially identical twins, but they were excited about the lovely chaos that twins would bring. Their daughter, Claudia was looking forward to the birth of her siblings, but she did not know what “double trouble” meant just yet!

When Sarah and Chris welcomed their identical twin girls into the world they were known only as Twin 1 and Twin 2. They had assumed they had many more weeks to choose names.

Sarah went into labour at just 26 weeks (14 weeks early). To the untrained eye, she presented as a calm expectant mother, but I have seen the look she had before. That look of fear and dread, buried deep away from worried family, only visible to those who have seen it before. It’s a look seen in the eyes of many parents going through the hell of extremely pre-term birth.

We set up the delivery suite in preparation for not one, but two extremely premature babies. After birth, the twins were very sick and needed immediate stabilisation.

Chris and Sarah only got a brief cuddle before they were whisked away to the Royal Darwin Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

They were very unstable in those first 48 hours. Chris and Sarah would not leave their bedsides, watching with determined horror as the medical team worked on their precious baby girls. They were too sick for their parents to hold. All they could do was watch and hope that their daughters’ vital signs flashing on the monitors conveyed good news and not bad.

Twin 1 started to turn the corner after about day three. She came off the ventilator and was able to breathe with minimal assistance. She was stable. The medical team’s attention was more focused on her sister.

The twins had twin-twin transfusion syndrome, a life-threatening complication of identical twins who share a placenta. One twin, the donor, becomes anaemic due to a lack of blood flow, and the other twin, the recipient, can go into heart failure due to too much blood flow. Babies with the condition are often born early and have a high mortality rate, particularly for the recipient twin.

Twin 2 was the recipient twin. She was very unstable after birth with bleeding from her lungs, and then into her brain. The team worked hard to stop her bleeding, but it was not enough. Most babies with severe brain haemorrhaging do not survive, and the ones that do survive, are often severely disabled.

months, she has had minimal problems with her lungs and is developing normally.

Audrey (AKA Nugget) is determined not to be left behind. She is crawling and starting to talk. She has poor vision but is able to see well enough to steal toys from her sisters! Her parents feel that her vision is improving every day. She has defied the odds and has almost normal development, despite the severity of her brain haemorrhage.

I learn so much from my patients and their families. Chris and Sarah have taught me to never give up hope, because miracles can happen, we just need to give them a chance.

The Humpty Dumpty Foundation donated the majority of the sophisticated equipment used by the staff at the Royal Darwin Hospital NICU to save Constance and Audrey’s lives. Without the generosity of the donors to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, we would not be able to make these miracles happen.

Dad Chris with his precious daughters.

Possum in Humpty’s Baby Leo TN500 IncuWarmer.Ray Martin AM, Sarah and Chris Kempton and Paul Francis OAM with Audrey and Constance at The Great Humpty Ball, Darwin 2019.

As the hours passed when Twin 2 did not show signs of improvement, one of the medical team kindly suggested it may be time to name her. They called Twin 2 Audrey and her parents refused to give up, with Chris eventually telling us that ‘She was a tough little Nugget’.

With Twin 1 stable, Sarah and Chris quickly decided she was to be referred to as Possum until they could find ‘a proper name’. The following day Possum was formally named Constance. Chris and Sarah were determined to take both twins home, no matter what the future held.

Nugget had a stormy course through the NICU with multiple neurosurgical procedures in Darwin and then a medical transport to Brisbane for further neurosurgery. The family were briefly separated across two states as Possum was too unwell to leave the NICU in Darwin when Nugget had to go to Brisbane. The family were reunited in Brisbane a week later when Possum was transported to Brisbane to be with her sister.

I remember how strong Chris and Sarah’s relationship was over those difficult days, which stretched into weeks, and then months. The kind of stress they were under was unimaginable, but they held fast, and supported not only each other, but also the medical team caring for their babies.

Sarah and Chris were eventually able to take both girls home four months after that harrowing day in November 2018.

They are now 14 months old. They have had some challenges along the way but are going from strength to strength. Constance (AKA Possum) is happy, healthy, and very cheeky. She is almost walking and is causing her older sister grief. Despite being on home oxygen for a few

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As Professor of Neonatology at Royal North Shore Hospital and the Chairman of Humpty’s Medical Sub-Committee who oversees and approves Wish List equipment submissions, Martin provides an insight into frontline life during COVID-19 times. COVID-19 has changed the focus of hospitals with the lockdown seeing in-patient, accident and emergency numbers plummet as children are kept at home, perhaps too long, as we see more serious presentations of illnesses like severe bacterial infections and asthma arise.

We risk complications in children as we try to protect them, sometimes resulting in parents too scared to bring their sick children to hospital. Our hospitals are safer than ever and babies and children presenting with health issues should be seen by a medical professional in the usual way.

In newborn and paediatric departments, we are very much open and coping with the common problems and complications of premature babies, sick older babies and children.

As the focus and funding of our medical systems moves towards the peaking adult complications of COVID-19, we

need Humpty’s continuing support to allow the hospitals looking after our kids to deliver the best care possible by having the right equipment in the right place, at the right time.

Humpty’s Wish List is our way of linking donors with the needs of our front-line health care workers. Currently it includes ventilators to provide breathing support for those waiting for transfer to a children’s hospital, testing and treatment machines to stop complications of severe jaundice, oxygen level measuring machines dedicated for children, specialised equipment to help with putting a tube into the lung (CMAC Video laryngoscopes) and cooling machines to protect the brain after a significant injury around birth.

There are also high flow oxygen systems and humidifiers to help with breathing support and monitors, infusion pumps and special paediatric storage trolleys for smaller hospitals to allow them to set up dedicated areas for children, particularly in emergency departments.

Humpty has worked hard to make sure all babies born in NSW, and across Australia have access to recommended equipment for stabilisation after birth – including resuscitation cots like the Giraffe, Panda and Humpty’s Breath of Life package.

There are many unfulfilled wishes still on our Wish List and we are relying on Humpty’s supporters to provide a safe pair of hands reaching out to help us through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please don’t forget us – our work goes on and now more than ever we need Humpty’s help. If you have any questions or would like make a donation please call Humpty on (02) 9419 2410 or email: humpty@humpty.com.au

Supporting 419 hospitals and health care centres across Australia, the Humpty Dumpty Foundation receives hundreds of submissions requesting support to ensure the right equipment

is in the right place to deal with any newborn or paediatric medical emergency.

With your support Humpty can continue its critical work of providing medical equipment to save the lives of sick and injured children, both in regional and metropolitan hospitals across Australia.

All donations and medical equipment pledges are 100% tax deductible, and make a significant and immediate difference to the health and wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of children across Australia.

The equipment flow is explained below.

12345 A donor plaque is affixed to the equipment

recognising the generous support of the ‘Good Egg’. Donor tours can be arranged on request.

Humpty orders all donated equipment for delivery directly to the hospitals.

Approved items are added to Humpty’s Wish List and published online and at events in the hope a ‘Good Egg’ will be able to help.

Submissions are rigorously assessed by Humpty’s Medical Sub-Committee, with representatives from NSW Health, senior medical specialists and a former NSW government official.

A hospital or health service centre identifies a high-priority medical need where equipment can dramatically change or save the lives of sick and injured children. They reach out to Humpty for a helping hand.

If you would like to grant some of the very special wishes that follow, please contact Humpty on (02) 9419 2410.

How Humpty’s Wish List Works

Message from the Medical Sub-Committee Chairmanby Dr Martin Kluckow

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Some of the most remote health centres in Australia urgently need this equipment.

Health Centres and Health Clinics provide primary health care services in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. The equipment below is URGENTLY needed for these centres:

Chairman’s Wishes

RAD 67 PULSE CO-OXIMETER:$4,430 EACH 25 NEEDED

High numbers of indigenous children in remotely located areas within the Northern Territory have anaemia and if left untreated it can affect a child’s growth and development.

The ability to check haemoglobin levels of children aged 6 months to 14 years in remote and regional Australia is extremely important. The RAD 67 is a handheld device that is non-invasive and easily transportable, it registers low levels of haemoglobin easily and quickly which allows for prompt treatment.

It also allows more frequent monitoring than the previous blood sampling method which was more invasive.

These are some of the most remote health centres in the Northern Territory and urgently need this equipment.

• Ali Curung Primary Health Centre (1)

• Alpurrurulan (Lake Nash) Health Centre (1)

• Amunturrngu Community Health Centre (1)

• Aputula Community Health Centre (1)

• Atitjere Community Health Centre (1)

• Canteen Creek Health Centre (1)

• Elliott Community Health Centre (1)

• Engawala Community Health Centre (1)

• Epenarra Health Centre (1)

• Ikuntji Health Centre (1)

• Imanpa Community Health Centre (1)

• Kaltukatjara Community Health Centre (1)

• Laramba Health Centre (1)

• Ntaria Health Centre (1)

• Nyirripi Health Centre (1)

• Papunya Community Health Centre (1)

• Pmara Jutunta Community Health Centre (1)

• Ti Tree Community Health Centre (2)

• Titjikala Community Health Centre (1)

• Willowra Health Centre (1)

• Yuelamu Health Centre (1)

• Yuendumu Community Health Centre (2)

• Yulara Health Centre (1)

All donations are 100% tax deductible

This is a multifunctional monitor and it has the ability to continuously monitor the sickest of children. The modules in the monitor, can be changed according to what information is required by clinical staff. Usually children who require this advanced monitoring are those with respiratory conditions such as bronchiolitis, pneumonia, asthma, cardiac problems, and seizure disorders or complex post-operative patients.

This Giraffe Carestation Incubator provides a leading edge neonatal environment that promotes peaceful healing for the smallest of babies born at a premature age whom ideally would have still been in the womb. The incubator supports and fosters a bond with their families, by a simple flick of a switch this incubator can change into an open care system in which the baby continues to be provided with the warmth it requires.

In open mode staff have improved access to these tiny babies which provides rapid and successful treatment, it can then be closed down afterwards to enable the baby to rest.

A number of features including a bed scale, phototherapy light and a ‘lazy-susan’ type of mattress, which can be moved around to facilitate positioning for procedures without handling the infant too much. It also takes very little time to transfer the baby if needed and enables life saving care for the smallest of babies.

This portable and user-friendly machine continuously monitors the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the bloodstream of dangerously ill children suffering severe breathing problems. The monitor eliminates the need for frequent invasive blood testing and provides continuous charting of CO2 levels, therefore providing immediate monitoring of changes in the CO2 levels in these fragile children.

The Grace Centre for Newborn Care treats the sickest of babies in the state. The highly skilled team led by Professor Nadia Badawi AM care for babies who are often transferred from remote and rural locations.

This equipment provides state-of-the-art ventilation for sick or premature babies who are too weak or ill to breathe by themselves. These babies can have immature lungs and underdeveloped breathing mechanisms which require extremely gentle ventilation which the advanced features of this machine can provide. It features a variety of sophisticated modes, providing excellent conventional ventilation and high frequency oscillation ventilation (HFOV) to meet the wide variety of live saving care for babies.

Humpty’s Wish ListNSW

NEPEAN HOSPITALCHILDREN’S WARD

CARESCAPE B450 MONITOR: $12,090 2 NEEDED

WOLLONGONG HOSPITAL PAEDIATRICS/SPECIAL CARE

GIRAFFE CARESTATION INCUBATOR: $31,100

LIVERPOOL HOSPITALNEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE

SENTEC DIGITAL MONITORING SYSTEM: $25,070

THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD GRACE CENTRE FOR NEWBORN CARE

ADVANCED BABYLOG NEONATAL VENTILATOR: $76,380**

FOLLOWING IS A SNAPSHOT OF EQUIPMENT URGENTLY NEEDED IN HOSPITALS IN DIFFERENT STATES AND TERRITORIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA. PLEASE REFER TO PAGES 17 - 18 TO VIEW THE DETAILED LIST OF ADDITIONAL

EQUIPMENT NEEDED. IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO HELP SUPPORT BY DONATING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, PLEASE CONTACT US ON (02) 9419 2410 OR EMAIL: HUMPTY@HUMPTY.COM.AU

** Equipment that has been on the Wish List for more than a year and are urgently required.

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Jaundice, detected as a yellowing of the skin and eyes, occurs in 50% of full-term babies and 80% of pre-term babies in their first week of life. Without prompt treatment jaundice can cause cerebral palsy, deafness and/or brain damage. This machine uses phototherapy (exposure to fluorescent light bulbs or other light sources) to effectively treat the jaundice while at the same time enabling the parents to hold or feed their child without disturbing the therapeutic treatment in progress.

Immediate access to an Infant Resuscitaire is vital for a high level of response to neonatal emergencies including respiratory support for sick and premature babies at birth. The unit enables care to be given to a baby in a thermally stable environment and it allows staff to have rapid and convenient access to the patient.

It consists of a bed (usually an open-care bed with an overhead heater), a ventilator, a basic monitor, and access ports for suction and oxygen. The Infant Resuscitaire can be easily moved to where it is needed in a life-threatening situation.

Humpty’s Wish ListVIC

LATROBE REGIONAL HOSPITAL MATERNITY UNIT

BILISOFT LED PHOTOTHERAPY SYSTEM: $9,680

GIPPSLAND SOUTHERN HEALTH SERVICEMATERNITY WARD

INFANT RESUSCITAIRE: $39,070

This kit is an essential piece of resuscitation equipment. If, during a resuscitation of a baby or child, vascular access cannot be established, this drill kit is used to place a needle into one of the patient’s large bones. Taking about 10 seconds, it is then attached to a line through which life-saving medication and fluids can then be administered. An access point for fluid and medication is vital to the resuscitation process and has life-saving consequences.

Imagine working in a busy emergency department, or a quiet one that rarely sees a paediatric emergency.

As so often the case, an unconscious infant will present following an accident or medical episode and instantly you need to gather all the appropriate emergency equipment for a child of a particular weight and height. This colour coded cart is organised so that each drawer contains all of the resuscitation equipment needed for babies and infants/children in each specific height/weight range. Use of this cart allows faster, easier and more accurate selection of equipment in cases of paediatric arrest.

CENTRAL GIPPSLAND HEALTH SERVICECRITICAL CARE UNIT

EZ-IO DRILL AND EDUCATOR KIT: $1,895

HEATHCOTE HEALTH ACUTE AND URGENT CARE DEPARTMENT

BROSELOW PREMIER PAEDIATRIC COLOUR CODE CART: $4,320

QLD

This essential equipment used by clinical staff, ensures an accurate mix of air and oxygen levels can be delivered to a sick baby or child via a mask or ventilator.

The blender is fed oxygen and air through two different gas lines, and the blender mixes the gas to the desired concentration. This accuracy is vital when resuscitating a child, as prolonged periods of lack of oxygen leads to brain damage and/or loss of life.

CAIRNS HOSPITALSPECIAL CARE NURSERY

BIRD LOW FLOW MICROBLENDER $3,990 EACH 5 NEEDED

CAIRNS HOSPITALSPECIAL CARE NURSERY

ADVANCED BABYLOG NEONATAL VENTILATOR $76,380

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Babies with breathing issues such as chronic bronchitis do not always require ventilators. Many can be well supported by the delivery of oxygen, or air. However, oxygen is either piped into the bed on the ward, or arrives in cylinders. Both these methods of delivery mean that the gas is very dry and very cold. Warmth and moisture need to be added via a humidifier, before being used to treat the baby. The MR850 humidifier keeps the gas flow moist which prevents secretions drying out in the baby’s respiratory system.

The use of heated humidified air during respiratory support in very pre-term babies just after birth reduces the postnatal decrease in temperature.

It includes a Neopuff Infant Resuscitator, Low Flow Bird Blender and an MR850 Humidifier on a mobile stand. It is used when a baby presents in respiratory distress with increased workload of breathing and potentially an oxygen requirement. ‘Humpty’s Breath of Life’ will deliver humidified oxygen/air during respiratory support for a sick baby as well as maintain a safe type of ventilation until they can be transferred. This specially developed Humpty package is life-saving.

KATHERINE HOSPITALMATERNITY UNIT

MR850 HUMIDIFIER: $4,590 EACH 2 NEEDED

GOVE DISTRICT HOSPITALMATERNITY UNIT

HUMPTY’S BREATH OF LIFE: $8,500

In Far North Queensland the sickest of babies are treated in Cairns Hospital, Special Care Nursery. There is a reliance on clinical staff to provide the very best treatment for the region with the very best equipment is critical. This equipment provides state-of-the-art ventilation for sick or premature babies who are too weak or ill to breathe by themselves. These babies can have immature lungs and underdeveloped breathing mechanisms and require extremely gentle ventilation which the advanced features of this machine can provide. It features a variety of sophisticated modes, providing excellent conventional ventilation and High Frequency Oscillation Ventilation (HFOV) to meet the wide variety of live-saving care for babies.

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The Astodia Diaphanoscope is invaluable in assisting medical staff to find veins in young patients. It illuminates small blood vessels and other structures filled with air or liquid. This equipment assists in reducing pain as it allows for the quick and accurate placement of a cannula (a tube that can be inserted into the body), to administer vital medicines to babies and children. Importantly there is then no pain on the little patient as the Astodia means the cannula can be placed with fewer attempts. It is particularly useful with darker skin, or when the veins are not visible due to dehydration.

This simulator is a fantastic tool for clinical staff training. It provides an incredibly realistic platform for real-life scenarios for clinical staff to develop and maintain their skills. It provides simulated, but real-life, feedback on patient vital signs, mimics sounds (such as crying and breathing), and allows an immersive experience for both trainees and staff which is significant for any form of training or specific skills based learning. The ability to provide real-life experiences for hospital staff in a training environment, using this tool, will ultimately translate to enhanced care in the true, clinical setting.

NARACOORTE HEALTH SERVICE, SANEONATAL AND MATERNITY UNIT

ASTODIA DIAPHANOSCOPE: $2,900

BROOME HOSPITAL, WANEONATAL AND MATERNITY UNIT

ALSI MEDICAL SIMULATOR: $12,060

Humpty’s Wish ListSA + WA

The cost of the medical equipment as published by the Humpty Dumpty Foundation is an accurate estimate of the list price at the time of publication. It also includes an allowance for handling costs, delivery, handover costs and a plaque to acknowledge the donor. The actual cost of equipment may be different at the time of purchase. Any shortfall in the cost of the equipment will be paid by Humpty, any surplus will be treated as a donation to Humpty’s general account and will be used to financially support the Foundation.

Belyuen Community Health Centre, Emergency, NT (1), Royal Darwin Hospital, NT (3), Tumbarumba Multi Purpose Service, Nursing, NSW (1), Werribee Mercy Hospital, Emergency Department, VIC (2), Yarrawonga District Health Service, Maternity, VIC (1)

Royal Darwin Hospital, Top End Health Service, NT (4)

Casey Hospital, Special Care Nursery, VIC (2)

Coffs Harbour Hospital, Paediatric/Adolescent Unit, NSW (1)

Central Gippsland Health Service, Critical Care Unit, VIC (1) Northeast Health Wangaratta,

Maternity Unit, VIC (1)

Central Gippsland Health Service, Learning Services, VIC (1)

Coffs Harbour Hospital, Maternity, NSW (1), Colac Area Health, Maternity, VIC (1)**, East Grampians Health Service, Acute Services – Inpatient Unit, VIC (1), Fairfield Hospital, Children’s Ward, NSW (1), Wollongong Hospital, Paediatrics/ Special Care, NSW (2)

Canterbury Hospital, Maternity, NSW (2), Gippsland Southern Health Service, Maternity, VIC (1), Gove District Hospital, NT (1), Katherine Hospital, NT (1), Naracoorte Health Service, Neonates and Maternity, SA (1), Peninsula Health, Women’s Services Midwifery Homecare, VIC (2), Robinvale District Health Services, Clinical Services and Urgent Care Centre, VIC (1), Royal Darwin Hospital, NT (2)

RAD 5 PULSE OXIMETER: $1,760 EACH

EZ-IO DRILL: $670

NEOBLUE COMPACT LED PHOTOTHERAPY SYSTEM: $4,010

BROSELOW PREMIER PAEDIATRIC COLOUR CODE CART: $4,320

RAD 7 PULSE OXIMETER: $4,440 EACH

JAUNDICE DETECTOR: $4,900 EACH

NEOPUFF RESUSCITATION DEVICE: $2,190 EACH

ASTODIA DIAPHANOSCOPE: $2,900 EACH

SYRINGE DRIVER: $2,900

Detailed list of Additional WishesMedical equipment under $5,000

** Equipment that has been on the Wish List for more than a year and are urgently required.

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A Plea from the Front LineAlbury Wodonga Hospital’s Special Care Nursery needs your help now. Jaundice occurs in 50% of full-term babies and 80% of pre-term babies in their first week of life and the Special Care Nursery urgently needs a Bilisoft LED Phototherapy System ($9,680) to treat jaundice in their special deliveries.

If you are in a position to help, please see Wish List item on page 18.

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone everywhere and even though we are self-isolating and social distancing, babies continue to be born into this world facing a pandemic. During this time, we are desperate to send our babies and families home as quickly as possible to social distance and limit their exposure to COVID-19. With this much needed equipment, phototherapy could be quickly managed in the hospital, significantly decreasing hospital stay or managed within the home, reducing hospital readmission’s during this unsettling time – especially when the healthcare system is already so overwhelmed.” EMMA SARGENT, NURSE MANAGER, SPECIAL CARE NURSERY.

Under $10,000 Under $20,000

Over $20,000

Nepean Hospital, Postnatal Ward, NSW (1)

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), NSW (1)

Bass Coast Health, Maternity, VIC (1)

South East Regional Hospital, Paediatrics, NSW (2)

Katherine Hospital, Top End Health Service, NT (1)

St George Hospital, Special Care Nursery, NSW (2)

Albury Wodonga Health, Special Care Nursery Wodonga Campus, VIC (1), Colac Area Health, Maternity, VIC (1), Gove District Hospital, NT (1), Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Special Care Nursery, NSW (2), Katherine Hospital, NT (1), Nepean Hospital, Postnatal Ward, NSW (2)**, Royal Darwin Hospital, NT (1), Westmead Hospital, Maternity Ward, NSW (2)

GIRAFFE BLUE SPOT PT LITE PHOTOTHERAPY SYSTEM: $5,880

TRILOGY 202 PORTABLE VENTILATOR: $14,220

INFINITY M540 STANDALONE MONITOR AND ROLL STAND: $18,660

CONNEX VITAL SIGNS MONITOR WITH STAND: $6,200 EACH

BILILUX PHOTOTHERAPY LIGHT: $6,660

HUMPTY’S BREATH OF LIFE: $8,500 EACH

BILISOFT LED PHOTOTHERAPY SYSTEM: $9,680 EACH

Westmead Hospital, Neonatology, NSW (1)**

Royal Darwin Hospital, Women, Children and Youth, NT (1)

Wagga Wagga Hospital, Emergency Department, NSW (1)**

SENTEC DIGITAL MONITORING SYSTEM: $25,070

VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPE: $25,550

INTELLIVUE MX450 MONITOR WITH X3 MODULE AND ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE: $25,970

Fairfield Hospital, Maternity, NSW (1), Moruya Hospital, Maternity, NSW (1), Royal North Shore Hospital, Paediatrics, NSW (1), Swan Hill District Health, Maternity, VIC (1)

PANDA NEONATAL RESUSCITAIRE UNIT: $32,500 EACHYOU CAN

HELP saveA CHILD’S LIFE

Humpty Helps the Remote Top Endby Adele Feletto

Primary and community health care centres as well as child health nurses in the Top End of the Northern Territory are now benefiting from $200,000 worth of RAD-67 Pulse Co-Oximeters.With haemoglobin spot check monitoring capabilities, these pieces have been funded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency in partnership with the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

22 remote primary and community health care centres received 37 of the RAD-67’s and a further 12 were delivered to child health care nurses who predominately work in homes and community spaces across the Top End.

The non-invasive, portable and handheld device allows for increased coverage and compliance with the Northern Territory’s childhood anaemia reduction program. A low red blood count can be easily and quickly identified and therefore treated earlier.

“Remote-living children of the Northern Territory experience a disproportionately high burden of anaemia. To improve and sustain lower rates of childhood anaemia in the Northern Territory, access to practical and accurate haemoglobin testing is essential.

The donation of RAD-67s means that our remote health teams are significantly better equipped to reduce the rates and impact of childhood anaemia,” said NT Health’s Child Health Program Support Officer, Felicity Marwick.

The RAD-67 Pulse Co-Oximeters have been delivered to 22 remote locations across the Northern Territory including Adelaide River, Alyangula, Angurugu, Batchelor, Belyuen, Borroloola, Gunbalanya, Jabiru, Julanimawu, Malmaldharra, Maningrida, Milikapati, Minjilang, Nauiyu, Numbulwar, Palumpa, Pine Creek, Pirlangimpi, Robinson River, Umbakumba, Wadeye and Warruwi, with several of these areas receiving two of these devices.

“As remote nurses, the quality of the care we provide is our first priority. Responsive and effective management of our clients’ health relies on us gathering an accurate and timely understanding of their needs. The advantages of point of care testing in rural and remote environments are significant. Equipment like the RAD-67 enables health teams to overcome the service access barriers that affect many Territorians. We anticipate a widespread reduction in anaemia rates with use of the RAD-67,” said Felicity Marwick.

To date and including these RAD-67 Pulse Co-Oximeters, more than 320 pieces of medical equipment has been delivered to 61 hospitals and health centres across the Northern Territory in the last four years – valued at over $2.5 million – all thanks to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation along with support from the Federal Government, the Northern Territory Government as well as local and interstate donors.

With an ongoing and unwavering commitment to metropolitan, regional and remote communities across the Northern Territory, Paul Francis OAM and Ray Martin AM will continue to partner with both the Federal Government and Northern Territory Department of Health to ensure hospitals and health centres receive the much-needed medical equipment they require to give the kids in the Territory the best chance at life. All donations are 100% tax deductible18

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Grace Centre for Newborn Care, NSW (1)**

BABYTHERM INFANT WARMER: $23,320

All donations are 100% tax deductible20 21Eternally Humpty, Eternally Grateful

Paul, who makes it a habit to know everybody even loosely connected with Humpty, was as shocked - and as grateful - as the rest of us when Mrs Blackwood’s barrister and friend, Bruce Levet OAM, brought the good news.

So, how did Mrs Blackwood know about Humpty?

Well, it turns out that Lorna had read a copy of The Good Egg Book – much like this one – which was dropped in her Eastern Suburbs letterbox about ten years ago. Mr Levet told me that Lorna, who had a soft spot for children, actually liked the name “Humpty Dumpty” and that had sparked her interest.

So, as she always did before making decisions, Mrs Blackwood researched the bona fides of the Foundation, to make sure that Humpty actually does what it promises. She obviously liked what she found, because she decided to leave most of her life savings to help Humpty’s good work.

By way of further background, Mr Levet explained to me that Lorna had joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service at the end of World War Two and had been deployed with the Occupation Forces in Hiroshima in 1946. Seeing the impact the American nuclear bomb had made on that Japanese city - and especially the suffering of children – had left an indelible impression on Mrs Blackwood, all these years later.

After the war, Lorna came to Australia to join her family, worked as a Flight Attendant with the old domestic airline TAA, married a surgeon and had two children of her own.

Socially active all her life, well-read and an enthusiastic gardener, Lorna looked after herself and was still driving her car until about the last six months of her long, fruitful life. She was also working as a travel consultant for a few close friends, a job she had successfully enjoyed for many years.

There is no question that through the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, children across Australia will now benefit enormously from Lorna’s unprecedented legacy. Indeed, many babies’ lives will be saved because of her extraordinary kindness. No doubt about it.

Who knows, maybe Mrs Blackwood has set an example to other generous Australians who might like to think of Humpty, too?

Either way, we salute Lorna Kathleen Blackwood. RIP.

Thank you, Lorna, so much.

Bruce Levet OAM accepting the 2020 Good Egg Award on behalf of Lorna Blackwood at Humpty’s Good Egg Lunch in March.

Remember the name Lorna Kathleen Blackwood. She’s an amazingly generous lady - whom you’ve probably never heard of.

Until now.

Born on December 24, 1923 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Lorna Blackwood was an early Christmas present for her parents.

Maybe that’s why Lorna was such a wonderful gift giver herself.

Especially where sick children were concerned.

She died a few years ago - at the grand old age of 93.

In her will Mrs Blackwood left an exceptionally generous donation to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

Generous beyond belief, Mrs Blackwood’s gift is the biggest single bequest – or donation – in Humpty’s thirty-year history.

What’s really strange is that Paul Francis - the unstoppable, hands-on Chairman of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation - had never even met Lorna Blackwood. That’s a first.

Lorna Blackwood Rest In Peaceby Ray Martin AM

All donations are 100% tax deductible22

Latrobe Ventilatorby Adele Feletto

Special Care Nursery staff Darvi Kelly and Claire Mills.

To ensure Lorna’s legacy will be carried on for many years to come, the Humpty Dumpty Foundation will donate a significant piece of equipment to every state and territory across the country.Lorna’s generosity and foresight has enabled the Humpty Dumpty Foundation to recently donate a very much needed Babylog VN500 Ventilator to Latrobe Regional Hospital in Victoria.

The piece valued at close to $60,000 for the Special Care Nursery is enhanced essential medical equipment which provides state-of-the-art ventilation therapy for the sickest of babies, who may have been born prematurely or following surgery need help to breathe.

This ventilator has the capacity to assist the most fragile babies by providing ultrafast high frequency oscillation as well as standard conventional ventilation, to aid in recovery. It is a vital piece of life-saving equipment.

Latrobe Regional Hospital’s General Manager Inpatient Services, Heidi Knott said, “We are so grateful to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. As the Gippsland regional referral hospital for complex obstetric cases, LRH cares for a high number of babies who require additional medical support. A newborn baby who is unwell is one of the hardest things any family can go through. On top of all that stress, to be told you need to pack everything up and travel to Melbourne can be very traumatic. An additional ventilator at LRH means families are more likely to be able to stay in their home region with their newborn and the support of family and friends.”

The Humpty Dumpty Foundation acknowledges this incredibly sizeable bequest and will ensure all equipment donated on behalf of Lorna Blackwood will be appropriately assessed by Humpty’s Medical Sub-Committee approval process. Each piece of equipment donated will be plaqued to recognise Lorna’s generous legacy to babies and children of Australia.

A bequest is a gift from your estate of any amount and in various forms that will help to sustain and strengthen the Humpty Dumpty Foundation’s ability

to make a difference to sick and injured children around Australia.

Eternally Humpty, Eternally GratefulBY JACQUI CLARKE

3.Communicate your bequest wishesWe appreciate that your family and loved ones come first. It is strongly recommended that you talk to your family and loved ones about your will. Communication will ensure your final wishes are carried out.

2.Decide a giftThere are various forms of charitable bequests that you can make including:

• The residuary of your estate after specific gifts have been made;

• A percentage of the residue of your estate or a percentage of your entire estate;

• A particular asset including real estate, shares, bonds or other articles of value;

• A specific sum of cash amount.

1.Making and updating your willThe most effective way to include a charitable bequest or add a legal amendment to your existing will is to consult with your solicitor and structure your will appropriately.

If giving in the way Lorna has interests you, then please read on…. Humpty offers alternative gifting options for you to consider by way of Testamentary Giving through your will.

Testamentary GivingYou can consider bequeathing cash and/or property pursuant to your last Will and Testament.

Below are the steps to include a charitable bequest to Humpty, should you have any questions or to discuss further with the Humpty team, please don’t hesitate to call the office on (02) 9419 2410.

24 Thank you to the many Australian Wineries for their ongoing support

Thank You James Halliday AM

Humpty’s Ultimate CellarOnline Auction - 300 bottles

by Sandra Lee

Paul Francis OAM with James Halliday AM.

Way back in 2007, Humpty’s Founder Paul Francis OAM picked up a copy of the James Halliday Annual Wine Companion, a book that many in the international wine world consider a veritable and essential Bible.

Paul, who was “very interested” in wines, had become a nascent oenophile and decided to do a little home-schooling, something we are all very familiar with in these social-distanced days of the novel coronavirus.

As he poured over the pages (pun intended!) of the Companion, which has been published every year since 1986 to international critical acclaim, Paul had a light bulb moment. What if he could get James, himself a winemaker and one of the world’s most respected wine critics and judges, to join forces with the Humpty Dumpty Foundation for an exclusive event.

“Previously, Joe Hockey (then a Federal Parliamentarian), Phil Kearns AM, who started the annual Balmoral Burn, and I had come up with the idea for an ultimate wine and dinner fundraiser and, after reading James’s Companion, it struck me that his expertise would really raise the game,” Paul recalls.

So Paul did what he does best; he picked up the phone and hoped for the best.

“I did my pitch about Humpty’s unique attributes as a charity that helps sick and dying Australian kids by buying valuable and often life-saving medical equipment for various children’s wards and hospitals. Then I waited. And waited.”

According to Paul, thus ensued what felt like five minutes of pure radio silence, before James spoke.

“Do you know how many of these requests I get every week from charities?” he asked.

Paul waited some more. Then, to his eternal relief and gratitude, James uttered the memorable line, “Well, here’s what I’ll do for you”.

And so was born the ultimate wine dinner in an opulent penthouse apartment overlooking the Sydney Opera House in the middle of winter in 2007. James sourced 19 exclusive wines - some of which were brought to Australia for the first time - for a baker’s dozen of guests who dined on an eight-course meal prepared by renowned Australian chef Peter Doyle. It wasn’t only about the wines, though: the guests subsequently raised more than $400,000 to buy two Retcam Shuttles, medical equipment that has proved crucial in preventing and treating blindness in babies.

presented at Humpty’s signature events (see the current Ultimate Cellar Auction list on the following pages).

Tragically, many wineries have recently endured several challenging months during which they were afflicted by the various ravages of Mother Nature and a global pandemic. As James points out, wine makers were “slammed by drought, by appalling weather at the critical time of year - November - when the vines flower, needing calm sunny weather and instead getting wild, wet and windy days cutting the crop by 50 to 75 percent, bushfires that destroyed vineyards and wineries, and smoke taint that meant some regions around the country - picked no grapes. Then came the biggest hit of all: COVID-19.”

That’s why this year, Humpty is raising a glass to the dozens of Australian wine growers and wineries who have been so generous to the charity by presenting one of the finest collections of Australian wines for Humpty’s Ultimate Cellar Auction, which is being held online for the first time ever, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Each of the wines included in the package has been rated 94 points or above as featured in the latest James Halliday Annual Wine Companion, and has been stored at no cost to Humpty in the cellars of Wine Ark in Artarmon NSW, which guarantees the quality of the wines for auction.

“The Australian wine industry has been so generous to Humpty and given all it has endured in recent months, we want to highlight just how wonderful it is, and thank all the great men and women involved. Hopefully, the charity’s ‘Good Eggs’ will get behind the auction, and then go out to buy local and support our favourite Australian wineries. After all they have done for us, it’s the very least we can do for them,” Paul says. “They’ve helped us. Let’s help them.”

“It was James who really made the first event possible,” recalls Paul. “Without his knowledge, global expertise and connections it would have been impossible to gather such an amazing collection of the world’s best and most exclusive wines.”

Paul is right. James began his wine career in 1970 while working as a barrister at the Clayton Utz law firm when he established Brokenwood Winery in the Hunter Valley. Fifteen years later, he founded the Coldstream Hills Winery in the Yarra Valley. As recognition of his invaluable contribution to the industry, James was made a Member of the Order Of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2010, in part, for his “service to the wine industry as a winemaker, show judge, author and promoter of Australian wine internationally”.

“Humpty was blessed in 2007 when James generously came on board, and he has remained one of our greatest supporters ever since, guiding our wine selections at our two annual signature events - the Balmoral Burn and the Great Humpty Ball - while donating wine from his own cellar for auction packages, as well as hosting memorable events at his property in Victoria.”

“I know James will hate me saying this for the record, but his contributions have had a remarkable and immeasurable impact on the charity’s success. There is absolutely no-one else like him, who commands the world stage of wine, combined with the most generous heart and spirit.”

During the ensuing 13 years after that memorable first date, James has been the lynchpin between Humpty and the Australian wine industry. In fact, since then local winemakers have contributed more than $3.3 million to the charity by donating wines to the foundation’s Wine Dinners and Ultimate Cellar Auction packages which are

With appreciation to James Halliday AM, all of the Australian Wineries, and our auction partner Langton’s

www.langtons.com.au/lp/humptys-ultimate-cellarOpens 14th June and closes on the 28th June

Humpty’s Ultimate CellarSparkling96 2012 Brown Brothers Patricia Sparkling Pinot Noir

Chardonnay, King Valley1

95 2015 Blue Pyrenees Estate Midnight Cuvee Sparkling, Pyrenees

2

95 NV Centennial Vineyards Brut Traditionelle Sparkling Pinot Noir Chardonnay, Southern Highlands

1

94 2013 Peter Lehmann The Black Queen Sparkling Shiraz, Barossa Valley

1

94 NV Brown Brothers Blanc de Noir Limited Release Sparkling Pinot Noir, Tumbarumba

1

94 NV Brown Brothers Sparkling Pinot Noir Chardonnay Pinot Meunier, King Valley

1

Chardonnay98 2016 Flowstone Queen Of The Earth Chardonnay,

Margaret River1

97 2017 Cape Mentelle Chardonnay, Margaret River 196 2017 Pike and Joyce Sirocco Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills 195 2018 Lake's Folly Chardonnay, Hunter 195 2018 Dalwhinnie Moonambel Chardonnay, Pyrenees 195 2017 Brown Brothers Patricia Chardonnay, Various

Regions - AU1

95 2017 Greenstone Estate Series Chardonnay, Yarra Valley 195 2017 Moorooduc Estate Robinson Vineyard Chardonnay,

Mornington Peninsula1

95 2017 Mandala Compass Chardonnay, Yarra Valley 295 2017 Montrose Chardonnay, Mudgee 295 2017 Robert Oatley Finisterre Chardonnay, Margaret River 195 2017 Santolin Gladysdale Chardonnay, Yarra Valley 195 2017 Shadowfax Chardonnay, Macedon Ranges 195 2016 Ngeringa Summit Vineyard Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills 294 2017 Passel Estate Chardonnay, Margaret River 194 2017 Yarra Yering Chardonnay, Yarra Valley 194 2017 Pierro Chardonnay, Margaret River 194 2017 SC Pannell Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills 194 2017 Heirloom Vineyards Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills 294 2017 Woody Nook Single Vineyard Chardonnay,

Margaret River1

Riesling97 2018 Fallen Giants Riesling, Grampians 197 2018 Abbey Creek Riesling, Great Southern 495 2018 Poonawatta Estate The Eden Riesling, Eden Valley 4

95 2018 Stage Door Wine Co. The Green Room Riesling, Eden Valley

2

95 2018 Taylors St Andrews Riesling, Clare Valley 195 2018 Jeanneret Seven Hill Single Vineyard Riesling,

Clare Valley2

95 2018 Z Wine Saul Riesling, Eden Valley 195 2018 Langmeil Wattle Brae Riesling, Eden Valley 195 2018 Pikes Traditionale Riesling, Clare Valley 195 2018 Henschke Julius Riesling, Eden Valley 295 2018 Dandelion Vineyards Enchanted Garden of the Eden

Valley Riesling, Eden Valley1

95 2014 Peter Lehmann Wigan Riesling, Eden Valley 194 2018 XO Wine Co Games Night Riesling, Adelaide Hills 294 2017 Grigori Family Reserve Riesling, Clare Valley 4

Sauvignon Blanc & Blends96 2017 Lillypilly Estate Wines Noble Blend Sweet White,

Riverina2

95 2016 Lillypilly Estate Wines Noble Harvest Sweet White, Riverina

4

95 2016 Cape Mentelle Wallcliffe Sauvignon Blanc Semillon, Margaret River

1

94 2018 Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc Semillon, Margaret River

1

94 2017 Willow Bridge Estate Bookends Sauvignon Blanc Semillon, Geographe

4

94 2017 Flowstone Sauvignon Blanc, Margaret River 1

Semillon95 2018 Audrey Wilkinson Winemakers Selection Semillon,

Hunter1

95 2017 De Bortoli Deen De Bortoli Vat 5 Botrytis Semillon, Riverina

2

94 2018 Krinklewood Biodynamic Vineyard Semillon, Hunter 294 2018 Robert Oatley Finisterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc,

Margaret River1

94 2017 Leogate Estate Creek Bed Reserve Semillon, Hunter 194 NV De Bortoli Black Noble Barrel Aged 10 Years Botrytis

Semillon, Riverina1

Other Whites97 NV Millbrook Estate Limited Release Pedro Ximinez,

Perth Hills1

96 2018 De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Pinot Blanc, Yarra Valley

1

96 2018 Hahndorf Hill Winery Gru Gruner Veltliner,

Adelaide Hills

2

96 2017 Flowstone Gewurztraminer, Margaret River 195 2018 Clonakilla Viognier, Canberra District 195 2018 Millbrook Estate Viognier, Perth Hills 194 2018 Centennial Vineyards Reserve Gruner Veltliner,

Southern Highlands2

94 2018 Jericho Wines Fiano, Adelaide Hills 294 2017 Faber Vineyard Petit Verdot, Swan District 2

Rosé95 2018 The Hedonist Sangiovese Rose, McLaren Vale 194 2018 Shingleback Haycutters Salmon Rose,

Various Regions - SA1

Pinot Noir96 2018 Shaw and Smith Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills 196 2017 Moorooduc Estate Robinson Vineyard Pinot Noir,

Mornington Peninsula1

96 2017 Moorooduc Estate The Moorooduc McIntyre Pinot Noir, Mornington Peninsula

1

96 2016 Provenance Pinot Noir, Geelong 196 2016 Mount Terrible Jamieson Pinot Noir, Alpine Valleys 495 2018 Dr Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir, Various Regions - TAS 395 2018 Thick As Thieves Driftwood Pinot Noir Gamay,

Various Regions - VIC1

95 2017 Mandala Matriarch Pinot Noir, Yarra Valley 295 2017 Paringa Estate Robinson Vineyard Pinot Noir,

Mornington Peninsula1

95 2017 Riposte by Tim Knappstein The Sabre Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills

1

95 2017 Shadowfax Little Hampton Pinot Noir, Macedon Ranges 195 2016 Austins and Co Custom Collection - Ruby May Pinot

Noir, Geelong1

95 2016 Provenance Pinot Noir, Ballarat 194 2018 Norfolk Rise Pinot Noir, Robe 194 2017 Moss Wood Pinot Noir, Margaret River 494 2017 Narkoojee Reserve Pinot Noir, Gippsland 294 2016 Gala Estate Estate Pinot Noir, East Coast TAS 494 2016 Provenance Pinot Noir, Macedon Ranges 1

Cabernet Sauvignon98 2016 Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 197 2015 Flowstone Queen Of The Earth Cabernet Sauvignon,

Margaret River1

96 2016 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 296 2016 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon,

Coonawarra1

96 2016 Taltarni Old Vine Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Pyrenees 196 2014 Majella GPL68 Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 195 2017 Fallen Giants Cabernet Sauvignon, Grampians 195 2017 Capel Vale The Scholar Cabernet Sauvignon,

Margaret River1

95 2017 Serafino Cabernet Sauvignon, McLaren Vale 295 2017 Taltarni Cabernet Sauvignon, Pyrenees 1 27

95 2017 Brokenwood Wildwood Road Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River

1

95 2017 Shingleback Davey Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, McLaren Vale

1

95 2017 Witches Falls Wild Ferment Sangiovese Cabernet, Granite Belt

2

95 2016 Blue Pyrenees Estate The Richardson Cabernet Sauvignon, Pyrenees

1

95 2016 d'Arenberg The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon, McLaren Vale

1

95 2016 Zema Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 194 2016 Fox Creek Three Blocks Cabernet Sauvignon,

McLaren Vale1

94 2016 Ridgemill estate Black Dog Cabernet Sauvignon, Granite Belt

1

94 2016 Shaw Family Vinters Lazy T Cabernet Sauvignon, McLaren Vale

2

94 2016 Shaw Family Vinters RMS Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon, McLaren Vale

2

94 2016 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 194 2012 Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Cabernet

Sauvignon, Pyrenees1

Cabernet Family96 2017 Bleasdale Frank Potts Cabernet Blend, Langhorne

Creek1

96 2016 Woodlands Margaret Cabernet Merlot Malbec, Margaret River

2

95 2017 Woodlands Clementine Cabernet Blend, Margaret River 495 2017 Hemera Estate Limited Release Cabernet Franc,

Barossa Valley2

95 2016 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot, Coonawarra 195 2014 Majella The Malleea Cabernet Shiraz Blend, Coonawarra 295 2011 Alkoomi The Malleea Cabernet Blend, Great Southern 194 2017 Soul Growers El Mejor Cabernet Blend, Barossa Valley 194 2017 Hay Shed Hill Cabernet Merlot, Margaret River 294 2015 Moorilla Estate Muse St. Matthias Vineyard Cabernet

Sauvignon Cabernet Franc, Southern TAS4

Shiraz & Blends98 2017 Bekkers Wine Syrah Grenache, McLaren Vale 198 2016 Boireann Shiraz Viognier, Granite Belt 197 2017 Hentley Farm The Beauty Shiraz, Barossa Valley 297 2017 Schwarz Nitschke Block Shiraz, Barossa Valley 497 2017 Bekkers Wine Syrah, McLaren Vale 197 2015 Henschke The Wheelwright Shiraz, Eden Valley 197 2015 SC Pannell Koomilya JC Block Shiraz, McLaren Vale 196 2017 Keith Tulloch McKelvey Vineyard Shiraz, Hunter 496 2017 Fallen Giants Block 3 Shiraz, Grampians 196 2016 Schwarz The Schiller Shiraz, Barossa Valley 296 2016 Langmeil Pure Eden Shiraz, Eden Valley 196 2016 Langmeil The Freedom 1843 Shiraz, Barossa Valley 196 2016 Dandelion Vineyards Red Queen of the Eden Valley

Shiraz, Eden Valley1

96 2016 Kalleske Biodynamic Barrel Project - Flower Barrel Shiraz, Barossa Valley

1

96 2016 Kalleske Biodynamic Barrel Project - Root Barrel Shiraz, Barossa Valley

1

96 2016 Kalleske Johann Georg Shiraz, Barossa Valley 196 2016 Kerrigan and Berry Frankland River Shiraz, Great

Southern4

96 2016 De Bortoli Section A8 Syrah, Yarra Valley 196 2015 Moorilla Estate Muse St. Matthias Vineyard Syrah,

Southern TAS4

96 2013 Dalwhinnie The Pinnacle Shiraz, Pyrenees 195 2017 Groom Shiraz, Barossa Valley 295 2017 Chateau Tanunda The Chateau Shiraz, Barossa Valley 195 2017 Taylor Ferguson Premium Selection Premium Selection,

Heathcote2

95 2017 Moorooduc Estate McIntyre Vineyard Shiraz, Mornington Peninsula

1

95 2017 Bourke and Travers Shiraz, Clare Valley 495 2017 Leogate The Basin Reserve Shiraz, Hunter 195 2017 Leogate Western Slopes Reserve Shiraz, Hunter 195 2017 Weathercraft Shiraz, Beechworth 495 2017 Jackson Brooke Syrah, Henty 295 2017 Taltarni Reserve Shiraz Cabernet, Pyrenees 195 2017 St Hallett Blockhead Shiraz Grenache, Barossa Valley 195 2017 Flowstone Moonmilk Shiraz Grenache, Margaret River 195 2017 Boireann Shiraz Viognier, Granite Belt 295 2016 Eisenstone Ebenezer Barossa Valley 295 2016 Blue Pyrenees Estate Section One Shiraz, Pyrenees 195 2016 Blue Pyrenees Estate The Richardson Shiraz, Pyrenees 195 2016 Millon Estate The Royal Shiraz, Barossa Valley 295 2016 Kalleske Eduard Shiraz, Barossa Valley 195 2016 Passel Estate Lot 71 Reserve Shiraz, Margaret River 195 2015 Eisenstone Seppeltsfield Shiraz, Barossa Valley 495 2013 Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Shiraz,

Pyrenees1

95 2011 Alkoomi Jarrah Shiraz, Great Southern 195 2010 Geoff Merrill Henley Shiraz, McLaren Vale 194 2018 The Other Wine Co. Shiraz Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills 494 2017 Gibson Barossavale The Dirtman Shiraz, Barossa Valley 194 2017 Whimwood Estate Shiraz, Blackwood Valley 494 2016 McPherson Anniversary Release Shiraz,

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94 2016 Shaw Vineyards Estate Shiraz, Canberra District 294 2015 Brown Brothers Patricia Shiraz, Various Regions - VIC 1

Other Reds97 2017 Z Wine Roman Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre,

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97 2017 SC Pannell Smart Clarendon Grenache, McLaren Vale 196 2017 Heirloom Vineyards Alcala Grenache, McLaren Vale 196 2017 Serafino Reserve Grenache, McLaren Vale 196 2017 Z Wine Rustica Grenache, Barossa Valley 196 2017 Bekkers Wine Grenache, McLaren Vale 296 2017 SC Pannell Old McDonald Grenache, McLaren Vale 196 2017 Serafino Grenache Shiraz Mataro, McLaren Vale 196 2017 Bleasdale Generations Malbec, Langhorne Creek 195 2018 Jericho Wines Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre,

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95 2018 Hither and Yon Old Jarvie Vineyard Tempranillo, McLaren Vale

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95 2018 The Hedonist Tempranillo, McLaren Vale 195 2017 Haselgrove Vine Sean Grenache, McLaren Vale 195 2017 Hemera Estate Old Vine Grenache, Barossa Valley 295 2017 Purple Hands Wines Old Vine Grenache, Barossa Valley 295 2017 Robert Oatley G-17 Grenache, McLaren Vale 295 2017 Hemera Estate Grenache Shiraz Mataro, Barossa Valley 295 2017 Witches Falls Wild Ferment Garnacha, Granite Belt 295 2017 Boireann Tannat, Granite Belt 295 2017 Santolin Il Capo-Cosa Nostra Nero d’Avola Sangiovese,

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95 2016 Irvine Il Capo-Cosa Nostra Zinfandel, Eden Valley 295 2014 Irvine Grand Merlot Merlot, Eden Valley 194 2017 Groom Bush Block Zinfandel, Barossa Valley 294 2017 Majella Merlot, Coonawarra 294 2016 Shaw Family Vinters Rusty Plough Grenache,

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Fortified99 NV Morris Old Premium Rare Liqueur Muscat, Rutherglen 199 NV Morris Old Premium Rare Liqueur Topaque, Rutherglen 195 NV Serafino Tawny, McLaren Vale 195 NV De Bortoli Old Boys 21 Years Average Age Tawny 195 NV Hollydene Estate Liqueur Muscat, Rutherglen 2

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The Legacy of Michelle Beets Lives Onby Sandra Lee

Left to Right: Professor Karen Zwi, Ms Nadine Griffiths, The Hon. Brad Hazzard MP, Ms Lesley Jeffries, Dr Carmel Smart PhD.

When Professor Karen Zwi won the eighth annual Michelle Beets Award at The Great Humpty Ball last year, she knew it would have a powerful impact on the work she does for some of the most vulnerable children in the community.“The most meaningful aspect of winning the award was external recognition that very vulnerable children need extra help and support, and are just as worthy of our investment,” she tells The Good Egg Book.

“Unfortunately, our society can pay more attention to the voices of the articulate and powerful, and direct resources their way. This award acknowledges that special considerations need to be directed to making sure that every single child, even if they do not have a powerful voice, deserves to achieve their full potential.”

Professor Zwi has been a doctor for the past four decades and her roles include Conjoint Professor, University New South Wales and Community Paediatrician, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick as well as being the Clinical Director of Priority Populations which means Professor Zwi is leading “priority populations” across NSW’s two major kids’ hospitals, one at Randwick and the other at Westmead.

Her work - like the geographical regions she covers - is vast and includes Aboriginal and refugee children, adolescent health, mental health, child protection, and helping those children in her team’s care transition to adult services when they are old enough.

“At times the children bring very sad and troubling stories to my team. I know our work is not yet done because we can see how that child could have had a better life - this motivates us every day,” she says.

“I also find great inspiration in that children and their families may have endured great adversity and challenge, yet they still manage to be creative, to laugh and play.”

Professor Zwi won the 2019 Michelle Beets Award in the Gold Metropolitan category, alongside Paediatric Clinical Nurse Consultant Lesley Jeffries, who won the Gold Award in the Regional category.

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The recipients of the silver prizes in both categories were, respectively, Nadine Griffiths, a Clinical Nurse Consultant (neonatal) at the Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and Dr Carmel Smart, who is a Specialist Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian at John Hunter Children’s Hospital and the lead researcher at the Hunter Medical Research Institute, both of which are located in Newcastle.

All four winners have cared for thousands of children from all parts of New South Wales for several decades.

The Michelle Beets Award was established by the Humpty Dumpty Foundation in 2012 to honour the professional legacy and memory of Michelle Beets, a nurse at Royal North Shore Hospital, who was murdered outside her home in 2010. Michelle was a great friend of Humpty and had been a nurse at RNSH for 25 years before her death. The last decade of her career was spent as the Nurse Unit Manager of the Emergency Department. Her killer was jailed for life and passed away earlier this year.

The award showcases the outstanding achievements by individuals in every area of children’s health care, and recipients are nominated by their peers, which highlights the esteem in which they are held by their fellow professionals.

“The award represents what Michelle was all about - it reflects her high level of professionalism, her devotion to nursing and her extraordinary level of care to get the best results for patients.

The Humpty Dumpty Foundation through its close relationship with Royal North Shore Hospital was delighted to be able to honour Michelle and keep her memory alive within the NSW Health system when we inaugurated this prestigious award in 2012.

Nine years later, it continues to recognise the actions and achievements of people who go above and beyond what could be reasonably expected, in improving the health outcomes for children in every single way, every single day,” says Humpty’s Founder, Paul Francis OAM.

The NSW Government has funded the Michelle Beets Award since its inception, and again generously committed to supporting the 2019 award, which was open to any health professionals across the state.

The Hon. Brad Hazard MP, presented the awards at the 30th anniversary of Humpty’s annual ball at the Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney last November. Professor Zwi

and Ms Jeffries each received $20,000 which they have allocated toward a piece of medical equipment to further their ability to deliver quality health care for the children in their respective fields. Meanwhile, the Silver Recipients, Ms Griffiths and Dr Smart, each received $10,000 for the same purpose.

For Professor Zwi, her life’s work with vulnerable children and their families was always a fait accompli.

“I grew up knowing I wanted to be a doctor as I really wanted to make the world a better place for people. I never had any doubts about that choice, and 30-40 years on, I still believe it is an amazing privilege to look after people who need help,” she says.

And why focus on kids health?

“They bring out the best in all of us in the way they are honest, playful and fun to be around.”

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IGA Helps Humpty in a Big Wayby Janine Perrett

Left - Terry Karkazis, Chair of the ACT/NSW IGA State Board.Top - Humpty’s Angela Garniss and Paul Francis OAM with Grant Ramage, Executive General Manager, Merchandise at Metcash.Bottom - Dr Cindy Hastings, Acting Director Emergency, Brad Payten, IGA, Ray Morgan, ED Nurse Manager and Brad Halls, IGA on a donor tour at Nepean Hospital.

“It’s a perfect fit”.That’s how Terry Karkazis sums up IGA’s involvement with the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

‘It’s a really good fit for our network geographically and socially as part of our ethos to give back to our community” explains Terry who is Chair of the ACT/NSW IGA State Board.

And it’s not like IGA doesn’t have plenty of other charities it supports.

The IGA Community Chest Trust Fund has donated some $86 million to 7000 causes over the years.

But Humpty is special for a number of reasons.

Like the reason Terry discovered Humpty in the first place. It was a very personal discovery.

Having a young daughter with leukemia meant he spent many years in and out of hospitals.

“I noticed the machines in the hospitals and saw the signs on them. Some of the machines had been there quite a few years and some were quite new. You could tell by the age of the stickers on them.”

And the stickers – some of them quite old – read Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

Like so many other Humpty supporters before him, Terry’s first hand experience led him to find out more about the charity.

“I thought this was a tangible difference - the way this organisation was doing it”, he explained.

“We did further research and found that Humpty donated what the hospital actually needs. It felt really relevant and a real effort was done to support our community. Also, they are spread across the state and territory and this aligns with our network”.

The IGA brand is well known across Australia from the big cities to regional centres. It stands for Independent Grocery Alliance which is owned by Metcash but individual IGA stores are owned independently.

IGA has some 1400 stores nationwide and about 350 in ACT/NSW where Terry is based.

The group has a strong corporate responsibility ethic as reflected in the IGA Community Chest Trust fund which has donated the $86 million to so many important causes.

Terry explains that the funds are dispersed two ways. Individual stores decide where and how much they donate to their local communities.

“Each store has absolute control over how and where the funds are spent and how much they give” he said. “Then there is the collective fund which we manage and have absolute control of which goes to local associations, charities and where we think it is needed most”.

Terry sits on the board of the collective fund and he encouraged them to take a look at the great work of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation after his personal experience with his daughter’s illness. The board then decided to begin donating to Humpty in 2016.

“The way Humpty distributes is very aligned with the way we do it in the individual stores and collectively” he said.

Indeed because IGA has such a broad reach, many of the smaller stores in regional communities are heavily involved in not just picking the charity but being there when the donation is made.

What’s more the owners and staff get first hand experience of the joy of supporting Humpty.

“The feedback has been tremendous. They really felt it was a worthwhile cause and was needed”, he said. “Three different store owners contacted me to say how personally fulfilling it was and how extremely proud they were to be associated with such an

organisation. “It is terrific for the individuals to see a picture of the actual equipment they have donated”.

It has only been a few years since Terry first connected IGA and Humpty but in that time the relationship has just grown stronger.

To date, IGA has contributed a whopping $714,000 to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, purchasing 48 pieces of equipment for 33 hospitals across ACT/NSW and the very substantial and welcome cheques keep coming.

“There are about 350 stores in ACT/NSW and each is giving to multiple places from their trust fund”, he said. “Collectively we try and partner with just one or two depending how much funds there are and sometimes a third”.

His philosophy with the collective fund is that it is great to be able to give more to those few charities where it can make a significant difference.

“The Humpty Dumpty Foundation has become our core charity to donate to” he said.

Please donate at fundraise.humpty.com.au/appeal

Humpty’s Hospital Appeal You can make a difference, every little bit counts.Humpty needs your support to ensure we can continue to provide Australian hospitals with the equipment they urgently need. It shouldn’t matter where you live, but sadly it does.

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Phone: (02) 9419 2410

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