{"id":3344,"date":"2021-10-27T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T23:13:07","slug":"governor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/2021\/10\/governor-general","title":{"rendered":"Governor-General pays special call to RBWH staff member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_3406\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3406\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3406 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/edwina-powe-b.jpg\" alt=\"Edwina Powe\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/edwina-powe-b-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/edwina-powe-b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/edwina-powe-b.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/600;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwina Powe<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>RBWH physiotherapist and project officer Edwina Powe recently took a call from the Governor General of Australia and his wife in support of her involvement in the Women\u2019s Business Shared Pathway project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His Excellency David Hurley and Her Excellency Linda Hurley reached out after seeing ABC media coverage on the project, aimed at improving the failed-to-attend rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at the RBWH.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was lovely to be invited to chat and to talk on behalf of my other colleagues,\u201d Edwina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be an Aboriginal woman and in a position to advocate on behalf of my community was really powerful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discussed the service for almost twenty minutes including the barriers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women face, equitable healthcare and the future directions of the service moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really cool that what we are doing is coming to the attention of people in such important positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were incredibly sweet and just wanted to recognise the efforts of everyone who had contributed towards the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversation wasn\u2019t all business though with the Excellencies discussing their latest grandchild, pandemic struggles and ended with Mrs Hurley singing a song about sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke about their new eight-week-old granddaughter who they are yet to meet due to Canberra\u2019s lockdown,\u201d Edwina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully they have plans in place to head north to Sydney as soon as they can to catch up on their much-needed cuddles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs Hurley finished the phone call by singing me a song about sunshine which was so beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she finished, she told me I could now take that sunshine with me moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBWH physiotherapist and project officer Edwina Powe recently took a call from the Governor General of Australia and his wife in support of her involvement in the Women\u2019s Business Shared Pathway project.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":3405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}