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Jim Stynes Inspirational leaderApril 23, 1966-

March 20, 2012

●●●●● Brownlow winner Jim Stynes captured hearts of Victorians

Apall of sadness descended overMelbourne yesterday (Tues.)morning with the news of the

passing of Demons football identityJim Stynes at the age of 45.

Stynes was much more than afootballer. An extraordinary charac-ter, he captured the hearts and mindsof Victorians as he went about hiscommunity service work with youth,and his phenomenal display of cour-age in the face of cancer.

James ‘Jim’ Stynes OAM wasborn in Dublin, Ireland, on April 23,1966.

He was an inspirational AustralianRules player and leader, but went onafter his sporting career to become aphilanthropist as co-founder of TheReach Foundation.

Stynes became a well-knownyouth worker, a qualified teacher, andfrom 2008, the Chairman of theMelbourne Football Club.

He came to fame throughfootball’s ‘Irish Experiment’ both asa pioneer and its greatest success.

With no prior knowledge of thegame, at the age of 18 the Gaelicfootballer moved to Melbourne toplay Australian Rules football.

He went on to become one of Aus-tralian Rules football's most cel-ebrated players and a member of theAustralian Football Hall of Fame.

During his 12-year AFL career,from 1987 to 1998, he became thefirst player recruited from outsideAustralia to win the prestigiousBrownlow Medal.

He became holder of the recordfor the most consecutive VFL/AFLgames (244) and was well-knownduring his playing days as highly cou-rageous and continuing to play despiteinjury.

His representative honours includeVictorian and All-Australian selec-tion as well as playing for Australiaagainst Ireland in InternationalRules.

Stynes's entire AFL career wasplayed with the Melbourne FootballClub as a ruckman.

He became an official legend ofthe club, being a member of its Teamof the Century.

He hachieved number of clubrecords, including the record for themost successive best and fairestawards (three) and is equal holder ofthe record (with Allan La Fontaine)for the most best and fairest awards(four) in the club's history.

In the 1987 Preliminary FinalMelbourne were leading Hawthornwith a minute to go when the Dublinermade the mistake of running across amark, which resulted in a free for theopposition. His error resulted in a 15-metre penalty which Gary Buckenaragoaled after the final siren for a two-point win.

The next year, Melbourne madethe Grand Final. Despite being beatenby 96 points, Stynes was voted beston ground for the Demons.

Stynes’s best year came in 1991where he won the Brownlow Medal.In a great year, he was highly favouredto win the event. In doing so he be-came the first (and so far only) over-seas-born player to win the award.

Stynes had a record breaking runof consecutive games, however it al-most ended with a severe rib injury in1993 resulting from a collision withteammate David Neitz in a matchagainst North Melbourne.

He was rushed to Epworth Hospi-tal with a compound rib fracture. De-spite being ruled out by medical of-ficers for six weeks, he convinced hiscoach Neil Balme to pass him in theclub fitness test and wore a chest guardin order to play the following Fridaynight.

In 1994, he suffered a medial liga-ment tear, but continued to play throughit. His streak of consecutive gamesfinally ended at 244 (an AustralianFootball League record) when hebroke his hand early in the 1998 sea-son.

Stynes eventually played 264games with Melbourne before his re-tirement in 1998, placing him secondon Melbourne's all-time games tally.

The honours he achieved duringhis career included both main AFL"best and fairest" awards, theBrownlow Medal and AFL PlayersAssociation MVP Award (now knownas the Leigh Matthews Trophy) in1991, four club best and fairest awardswith Melbourne and All-Australianhonours in 1991 and 1993.

Following retirement in 1998,Stynes assumed the role of an anti-racism officer within the AFL, a causeclose to his heart due to his declaredastonishment at the level of racialabuse he (and players of non-whiteAustralian background) had experi-enced throughout his career.

In 2008 Stynes began expressingan interest in becoming MelbourneFootball Club chairman.

In Stynes’s press conference, hebecame emotional and openlyshowed his love for the struggling club.His early-stated main goal at thisstage was to increase the Melbournemembership number.

In February this year, Stynesstepped down from the Presidency ofMelbourne, citing a desire to devotehis energies towards his family andwell-being. He is succeeded by hisVice-President, Don McLardy.

On July 2, 2009, Stynes held a me-dia conference to inform the publicthat he had developed cancer.

A lump in his back was shown tobe cancerous and tests revealed thatit had spread to other parts of his body,including his brain.

He numerous operations and hiscourageous public appearances werefeatured in the media.

Stynes was married to Samanthaand they have a daughter Matisse) anda son Tiernan.

Samantha Stynes has been muchadmired for her own courage andpoise during the illness of her husband.

Melbourne will miss Jim Stynes.

●●●●● Melbourne football identity Jim Stynes died yesterday morning at the age of 45

Jim Stynes's legacy has continuedwell beyond his much celebrated foot-ball career.

He maintained a high media pro-file through his work with youth andcharity work.

He has been named three timesVictorian of the Year (2001, 2003 &2011) and has been honoured by theQueen with the Medal of the Orderof Australia in (2007) and Melburnianof the Year (2010), continuing his workdespite being diagnosed with cancer.

As a child Stynes first playedGaelic football with his local club,Ballyboden St Endas.

He later played the sport of rugbyunion in De la Salle College,Churchtown.

He was only really interested inplaying gaelic football, with Dublin'sBallyboden club as a boy along withhis brother and former captain ofDublin senior football team, BrianStynes, where they were both consid-ered to be among the club's best.

In 1984, Stynes was on Dublin'swinning side in the All-Ireland MinorFootball Championship.

Stynes's first contact with Austra-lian Rules came in 1984 when he an-swered an ad in a local paper fromthe Melbourne Football Club seek-

ing talented Gaelic footballers as pos-sible recruits as part of what was laterdescribed as ‘The Irish experiment’.

Stynes suitably impressedMelbourne officials and he wasbrought to Australia to undergo a crashcourse in Australian Rules.

He arrived in Australia on Novem-ber 7, 1984, before making his debutfor the Melbourne Under 19s team in1985.

Ray ‘Slug’ Jordon, a coach whowas experienced with talented jun-iors, worked intensively with him.

He was sent to Victorian FootballAssociation's Prahran Football Clubto compete at senior level.

Stynes was a slow developer at first.His skills were raw, particularly hiskicking of the oval ball, but he showedoutstanding endurance and the heightand leap of a potential ruckman.

In 1987 he played in a nightpremiership side. The Melbournecoaching panel's perseverance withhim paid off when Stynes made hissenior debut for Melbourne in 1987at Waverley Park against the GeelongFootball Club.

He was dropped after a poor per-formance, however he returned to thesenior side later in the season againstthe Brisbane Bears.

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Guidelines could save prem babies■ Leading obstetric and neonatalspecialists are calling on hospitals toimplement guidelines that have poten-tial to save the lives of, or minimizecerebral palsy risks in, up to 147 Aus-tralian premature babies each year.

The guidelines recommend the ad-ministration of magnesium sulphateto pregnant women immediately priorto a very premature birth (22–30weeks), to help prevent cerebral palsy.

Professor Caroline Crowther, Di-rector, University of Adelaide, Aus-tralian Research Centre for Healthof Women and Babies said this is thebiggest breakthrough in world cere-bral palsy prevention research in thepast 50 years, but the therapy remainsunderused.

The guidelines were the focus ofdiscussion at the Perinatal Society ofAustralia QAND New Zealand(PSANZ) Conference yesterday(Tues.).

Macquarie Group FoundationChair of Cerebral Palsy, CerebralPalsy Alliance, Professor NadiaBadawi, said although magnesiumsulphate therapy was being effec-tively used in South Australia,.

“Every year in Australia, morethan 1500 women give birth to verypremature babies, between 22 and 30weeks’ gestation. 15 per cent of thesebabies are at risk of dying in the firstweeks of life or later having cerebralpalsy.

“The good news is that by givingmothers magnesium sulphate imme-diately prior to a very premature birththe chances of the baby surviving, andnot having cerebral palsy are in-creased which could equate to ap-proximately 147 Australian babiesbeing saved, or not having cerebralpalsy, each year,” said ProfessorBadawi.

Australian specialists call for implementation ofguidelines for cerebral palsy prevention

●●●●● Use of magnesium sulphate could help some babies not having cerebral palsy

Aussie hero?■ Australia celebrates its sport-ing heroes and movie stars withgusto, but we are often not so quickto rally around our scientists ormanufacturing heroes.

Many Aussies have heard aboutbygone manufacturing successessuch as the Hills Hoist or Victalawn mower, but generally corpo-rate heroes tend to be thin on theground in the public's eye.

Throughout 2012, low-profiledesign and manufacturing com-pany D&D Technologies Pty Ltdis celebrating over 20 years of na-tional and export excellence.

It was just over 20 years agothat this 100 per cent Australian-owned family company inventedthe now ubiquitous Magna LatchChild Safety Gate Latch, a mag-netically triggered swimming pooland childcare centre gate latch thatrevolutionised the reliability andsafety of gate hardware.

Simply, the Magna Latch hassaved countless toddlers' livessince its inception in the early1990s.

D&D also invented Tru Closepolymer safety gate hinges and ahost of other innovative gate prod-ucts, but that's another story.

D&D Technologies began lifeas a fencing and glass railing com-pany in the 1980s.

The partners of the company atthat time were installing expensive,custom-made glass fencing andbalcony railing systems long be-fore glass fences were all the rage.

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Biddy Mason, philanthropic slave

Four women, all named Mary

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■ Chances are you know nothing ofa remarkable 19th century African-American woman named Biddy Ma-son.

But crammed away in the con-crete canyons of Downtown LosAngles is a tiny park that pays hom-age to Biddy… a slave forced to walkover 3000kms in the wagon-traintracks of her master from Mississippito Utah Territory, and who extraordi-narily went on to become the wealthi-est black woman in her time in LA. Aslave who won her freedom in bizarrecircumstances from a sympatheticwhite judge, and after becoming thefirst black woman to own land in LosAngeles, gave away everything sheearned to help black poor and needy.

Biddy Mason was born to a slavein Mississippi in 1818, named Bridgetwith no surname, and as a young childwas given as a wedding present towealthy plantation owner RobertSmith and his bride.

She learned midwifery and the useof herbal medicines from fellowslaves of Smith, and after Smith con-verted to the Mormon faith in the1840s she set off in a wagon-train withhis family and fourteen slaves fromMississippi to Great Lake City, Utah.

Biddy had to walk the whole3200kms, driving Smith’s herd ofcattle by day, cooking the family’smeals when they pitched camp forthe night, washing their clothes andtending the sick amongst family and

■ Professor Robert Lusby is a vas-cular surgeon with a love ofwinemaking on the side, and withwinemaker son James comes up withsome great – and rewarding – sur-prises from the family’s small TintillaEstate in the Hunter Valley. One suchis their just-released 2010 Tintilla FourMarys Pinot Noir, so-named after thefour Marys in Bob Lusby’s life: hismother, an aunt, his sister and his wifeare all named Mary Lusby. Bob andJames’ 2010 Pinot Noir was madefrom fruit off 180 year old vines – thevariety having been introduced intothe Hunter Valley way back in the1830s, when cuttings were importedfrom the famous Clos du Vougeot vine-yards that were founded in Burgundyin France in 1088. Tintilla’s vines arequite low-yielding, and thus this winehas nicely concentrated berry fruitflavours. Pay $30 and linger with itover a long and relaxing meal featur-ing duck or game as the main course.

Pictured■ From vines whose history can betraced back to 1088.

■ Success story of three immigrantGerman brothers in New Zealand.

●●●●● Biddy Mason House of the Open Hand

slaves. And still young she bore threedaughters, with the father widely be-lieved to be her master, Robert Smith– whom the Mormon Church’s leader,Brigham Young constantly counselled,unsuccessfully, to free Biddy and hisother slaves.

In 1851 Smith decided to moveagain, to Southern California wherethe Church was establishing a branchin San Bernardino… but it proved hisundoing as far as Biddy and her fel-low slaves were concerned: just a yearearlier, California had abolished sla-very and any slave brought into theState had to be set free.

Smith refused to comply, declar-ing Biddy, her daughters and others“his property,” and instead decided tomove yet again, to Texas where sla-very was still legal.

However before he could do soBiddy, through an educated friend,filed a court application seeking herfreedom – but extraordinarily wasblocked from pleading her case be-fore Judge Benjamin Hayes, becausethen-laws prevented blacks from tes-tifying in court.

To everyone’s surprise, JudgeHayes noted that the law said nothingof them speaking to him in his cham-bers, and after inviting Biddy thereand hearing her plea, he returned tothe courtroom and declared she andher fellow Smith slaves “free foreverand without fear.”

Biddy then adopted a surname forthe first time – Mason after a Mor-mon anti-slavery crusader.

A doctor friend of Judge Hayes inLos Angeles impressed with Biddy’snursing and midwifery skills gave herwork, and after living frugally andsaving virtually everything sheearned, bought a house on SpringStreet, Los Angeles in 1866 – the firstblack woman landowner in LA.

She bought other land, sold oneblock just a few years after buying itfor six times what she had paid, in-vested this money in a warehouse, andwith the rental income from this helpedbuild the First African Methodist Epis-copal Church – LA’s first blackchurch.

She had already thrown open thedoors of her home, dubbed “TheHouse of the Open Hand” to home-less black women, welcoming themwith her favourite quote:

“If you hold your hand closed, nogood can come in.”

She provided food to hungry fami-lies, visited black prisoners in jails,and built an orphanage and elemen-tary school for black children.

When she died in 1891 aged 73,“Grandma Mason” as she was knownleft an amazing US$300,000 in cashand property (equivalent to US$7.3million today) with the instructionsthat it was to go towards the continua-tion of her work for the poor and theneedy.

If you are visiting LA, take the tripDowntown to 333 Spring Street whereBiddy Mason Park has been estab-lished on what was the site of her origi-nal home, later became a parking lot,and was finally given over for a smalland leafy park dedicated to Biddy andher work.

Plaques and murals on the wallstell the story of her life, and thousandsgather there every November 16 tocelebrate Biddy Mason Day.

- David Ellis

One For Lunch■ It’s just over 30 years sinceTheo, Alex and Marcel Giesen ar-rived in New Zealand from Ger-many, starry-eyed at the prospectof becoming successfulwinemakers and joining the smallvanguard of pioneers plantingSauvignon Blanc vines in theMarlborough region of the SouthIsland.

Since then their’s has been oneof the great immigrant success sto-ries, with their Giesen EstateSauvignon Blanc now sellingacross the globe, and here in Aus-tralia becoming one of our top-sell-ing New Zealand SauvignonBlancs.

The latest release, the 2011,was made from no fewer than 32parcels of fruit and displays typicalSauvignon Blanc citrus and tropi-cal fruit flavours and notable acid-ity.

Pay $19.99 and enjoy withGreek or Caesar salads, Thaidishes or Sushi.


Victoria Pictorial FootballHistoric Photo Collection

●●●●● Victorian football team. 1918.●●●●● Victorian Football League parade. Swanston St. 1964.

●●●●● Melbourne football team, 1895.

●●●●● Wesley football team. 1902. ●●●●● Williamstown Football Club. 1904.

●●●●● Umpire inspects Victorian football players’ boots. 1938. ●●●●● Crowds at the South Melbourne v Carlton match, Lakeside. 1952.

●●●●● Crowd in the stand at Moorabbin. 1965.

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