{"id":60374,"date":"2014-03-16T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=60374"},"modified":"2020-12-04T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:44:24","slug":"kumbia-turns-purple-for-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/03\/16\/kumbia-turns-purple-for-a-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbia Turns Purple For A Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Compere for the day Alice Greenup with Kumbia Kindy mum Jules Entwistle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Guest speaker Ann Lewis, right, with Desley MacPherson, from Brisbane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 16, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kumbia Memorial Hall became a sea of purple on Friday – “purple for a purpose” – to help mark International Women’s Day.<\/p>\n

Many of the women were wearing purple in some form and all the tables were decorated in a purple theme.<\/p>\n

The day is a major fundraiser for the Kumbia Kindergarten, and as well as lunch, there were stalls for women to explore along both sides of the hall.<\/p>\n

There were three guest speakers this year: Kingaroy businesswoman Abigail Andersson, Kumbia local Pat Hobdell and retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Ann Lewis.<\/p>\n

Abigail spoke about living in the South Burnett, balancing a career with family life and her interest in local government.<\/p>\n

Pat, who received a South Burnett 2013 Australia Day Local Achiever Award, spoke about growing up in Kumbia and the changes she had seen in the area over the years.<\/p>\n

Ann spoke of life in the Queensland Police and also detailed the many changes she has seen along the way.<\/p>\n

“When I started, female police officers wore a lovely short blue dress, and there was no place for handcuffs or a handgun,” she said.<\/p>\n

“However we were issued with a humungous black handbag which had to be carried at all times – it was a weapon of mass destruction.”<\/p>\n

The female police were supposed to carry out all the activities of their male colleagues, all the time wearing a pair of high heel shoes!<\/p>\n

Ann said she joined the force in 1973 as a “shy, very naive country girl”.<\/p>\n

At the time, married women could not become police officers and women were still a novelty in the ranks.<\/p>\n

“In the United States, just one year before I joined in Queensland, there were less than one dozen policewomen in the whole United States,” she said.<\/p>\n

Equal pay was contentious … it was widely believed that policemen needed more money than policewomen, because they had families to support.<\/p>\n

“There was no such thing as sexual harassment, not because it didn’t happen but because it wasn’t recognised,” she said.<\/p>\n

By the time Anne had retired in 2012, she had experienced much – “sometimes too much” – and had risen through the ranks to Assistant Commissioner, the second highest rank achieved by any woman in the Queensland Police.<\/p>\n

But she said career success may not be the most important thing in life; success in families, sports, even hobbies were also important.<\/p>\n

“A true test of a person is how they respond when the going gets tough,” she said.<\/p>\n

These days, Ann is a demonstrator for “Stampin’ Up” scrapbooking and craft\u00a0 items.<\/p>\n

“I still work long hours, cram too much into one day and attempt to meet unreal deadlines, but I am happy and I wouldn’t change a thing,” she said.<\/p>\n

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day was “inspiring change”.<\/p>\n

‘Every day I aim to commit just one act of random kindness,” Ann said.<\/p>\n

“And remember, the only place that ‘success’ comes before ‘work’ is in the dictionary.”<\/p>\n

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Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington with Jackie Irwin, from Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From Kingaroy police station … Kym Scott, Jodie Jones, Samantha Vickers and Bernie Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Lil Haug and Marian Mudra, Kumbia, and Crystal Wagner, Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Kumbia Memorial Hall was packed for the International Women’s Day lunch on Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[UPDATED with correction]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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