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Page 1: news Daughter’s token gift for mum’s war effort JESSICA BROWN A TIMELY discovery of a family keepsake has re-minded Susan Liebert-Wade of her beloved mother. The Salamander Bay

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ACADEMIC: Tayanah O’Donnell has started preliminary work.

Climate change studyBy DANIEL MILLS

A SYDNEY academic will soonbegin surveying more than 3000Port Stephens residences as part ofan extensive project on climatechange.

University of Western Sydneystudent Tayanah O’Donnell isundertaking a thesis that willexamine how property values areaffected by sea level rises and howpeople adapt to changing climate.

Mrs O’Donnell visited Port Stephenslast weekend to begin preliminarywork on the project.

‘‘This is a pilot study which willlead into the more substantive workstarting toward the end of May,’’ shesaid.

The thesis, as part of heruniversity PhD, will survey homesclose to the Tomaree Penisulashoreline and take in interviewswith property developers, real estateagents and councillors.

Daughter’s token giftfor mum’s war effort

TREASURED: Susan Liebert-Wade with the medal made from a jam tin.

By JESSICA BROWN

A TIMELY discovery of afamily keepsake has re-minded Susan Liebert-Wadeof her beloved mother.

The Salamander Bay resid-ent, who is a mother herself,has found an old gift she gaveto her own mother in 1944.The find was a Mothers’ Daymedal fashioned out of a jamtin and a hair ribbon.

‘‘It is an unassuming littlething but she was thrilled,’’Ms Liebert-Wade said.

The idea behind the medalcame from an advertisementwhich appeared in the Wo-men’s Weekly magazine whichsaid ‘No medals for mothers’.It referred to the work womenwere doing while their hus-bands were overseas duringWorld War II.

‘‘My mother Pinkie Liebert

had twins in 1943 and had totake care of her five girls so Ithought she deserved amedal,’’ she said.

‘‘I asked my father who hadfought during World War I ifwe could get a medal for mymother and he said yes.’’

Ms Liebert-Wade found themedal last week while lookingthrough some old family pos-sessions in a timely reminderto Mothers’ Day this Sunday.

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