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“When I was 15, I tried to commit suicide – I probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for my school chaplain.”

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Frontline News is a quarterly publication of SU Qld with news and stories about school chaplaincy across the state.

Frontline Newsletter Summer 2009/10

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has just delivered a very special Christmas present to the 340,000 students and their parents who school chaplains connect with across 640 schools in Queensland.

As the major employing authority for school chaplains in Queensland, SU Qld welcomes the weekend announcement by the Prime Minister that federal funding for the National School Chaplaincy Program will continue through to the end of 2011.

SU Qld CEO Tim Mander says: “We welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement as it provides a degree of certainty that funding will continue for those school chaplains who faced the prospect of no funding beyond next year.”

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Frontline News is a quarterly publication of SU Qld with news and stories about school chaplaincy across the state.

Frontline Newsletter Spring 2009

The Hon. Phil Reeves, Queensland Minister for Child Safety, today announced Richard Baldry as the winner of the Queensland Father of the Year award for 2009.

Richard Baldry from Bundaberg has 15 adopted or foster children (aged 2 to 32) and eight grandchildren.