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Red Nose Australia history
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The inaugural meeting of the Sudden Infant Death Association for ACT and Southern NSW is held in Canberra on 17 November 1978 by a group of parents whose babies had died from SIDS, later becoming as the Sudden Infant Death Association for the ACT and Southern Districts Incorporated
Clara Foster becomes the driving force for the association following the death of her son in 1979
First National Red Nose Day held in 1988 – asking Australian to “get silly for a serious cause”
The first Red Nose Day in Australia was held in 1988 after Kaarene Fitzgerald established it as a fundraising activity and convinced state-based SIDS bodies to join in too.
SIDSwa Annual Red Nose Day Ball rated in top 10 social events in 2002
Treasured Babies’ Program established in 2002
The Kaarene Fitzgerald Lecture and Research Fellowship established in 2005 through the Monash Institute for Medical Research
Red Nose Goes Green clothing collection program established in Victoria in 2008
Walk to Remember annual event launched in 2009
SIDS & Kids Victoria and SIDS & Kids NSW merge in August 2012 to become SIDS & Kids NSW/Victoria, with Peter Kaye as the inaugural Chairperson
Following a review of current evidence, a sixth recommendation ‘Breastfeed baby’ is added to the Safe Sleeping public health campaign in 2012
SIDS and Kids WA merges with SIDS and Kids Limited in November 2014
SIDS & Kids QLD merges with SIDS and Kids Limited on 25 October 2015
In 2016, SIDS & Kids changed its name to Red Nose Australia, with five formerly state-based organisations coming together to form the national Red Nose organisation, with a joint mission and purpose: to reduce nine deaths a day to zero and support grieving families.
In March 2017, the Queensland Government announces funding for a safe sleeping program in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that will provide 600 Pepi-Pods.
Mr Theron Vassiliou is appointed CEO of Red Nose in May 2017
Red Nose Clothing and Collection is launched in South Australia in June 2017
Red Nose celebrates its 40th anniversary in July 2017
In July 2017, Red Nose announces the awarding of the $50,000 Kaarene Fitzgerald Post Doctoral Fellowship to Dr Fiona Bright to support her research study Bridging the gap between human postmortem tissue analysis and animal models in SIDS research
Red Nose Day’s 30th anniversary is celebrated in 2018
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