Aunt would have been ‘delighted’

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18 July 2004

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Aunt would have been ‘delighted’

‘DEEPLY PROUD’: Prof Gay Baldwin

By Damir Govorcin

Gay Baldwin says her aunt Prof Norma Parker Brown would have been delighted that a care facility for the disabled had been named after her instead of a prison.

Norma had the dubious honour of having a Parramatta women’s prison named after her.

“It makes a nice change,” Gay joked before she unveiled a plaque to commemorate the renaming of the Centacare Lakemba Respite Centre as the Norma Parker Respite Centre.

Norma Parker, the founder of professional Catholic social welfare in Australia, died in Melbourne at Easter. She was 97.

“My aunt would have been embarrassed by all this attention,” says Gay, a Melbourne University professor, “but deeply proud.”

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