Sue Smith

Wednesday, 25 October 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Sue looks towards the viewer wearing a black dress and blue cardigan. She stands in front of this year's colourful 3CR Radiothon poster and smiles

This week's guest, Sue Smith, has been a trailblazer and a great friend to many in the disability self-advocacy space in Victoria and beyond for many years and has just recently retired. Sue leaves a great legacy. In 2008, Sue and friend began the Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU) at Ross House in the Melbourne CBD, an amazing resource supporting countless disability self-advocacy groups with guidance and support to make groups harmonious and flourish. In the 1990s, before Pink Ribbon, Sue was a Warrior Woman, joining other women in a mixed media project exploring women's experiences with breast cancer and funded by the Australian Council for the Arts. Sue began her activist work at the Janefield Colony, a home for children with intellectual disabilities, where she came in and shook things up. She received death threats. She is a pretty amazing woman and leaves such a strong legacy in Victoria and Australia and all we can do is say Thank-You and we wish Sue many happy times enjoying her retirement. Thank you for all you have done, Sue.

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Radical Australia presenter Joe Toscano with producer Kelly Whitworth.
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