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Friends seek aid for little Jade By Megan Haggan
SHE’S an outgoing little girl who loves the colour pink, Dora the Explorer and playing outdoors – but little Jade Murrell, of Macarthur, has already been through much more than the average two-year-old. In May, she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer on her liver, and flown to Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney, where she’s now being treated. “Jade’s had four rounds of chemotherapy, and now she’s down for an operation,” says her dad, Peter Murrell. “After that, there’ll be another two or three rounds of chemotherapy. “She’s a very, very resilient little girl through all this – she has her up days and her down days, as anyone would, but she’s doing really well and the prognosis at this stage is very good.” After waking up short of breath from a nap at child care, Jade was treated at Canberra Hospital for suspected pneumonia before being sent to Westmead, where a tumour the size of two cricket balls was found on her liver. She’s currently staying at Ronald McDonald House, where Peter says she has made a lot of friends among the other children.
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“I’m here half a week with her, and then Jade’s mum is with her the other half,” says Peter. “She has a lot of interaction with the other kids and she’s picking up new words every day.” Royals Rugby Club in Canberra has teamed up with Jade’s friends and family to hold a charity trivia night to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House at Westmead Children’s Hospital. The House needs funds to continue to support the hundreds of families who stay there each year while their sick children undergo treatment. “Jade’s a very outgoing little girl, and she’s made a lot of friends among the people around us who thought it would be a good idea to do something to help,” says Peter. The “Aid for Jade” trivia night, on Friday, August 14 at the Southern Cross Club in Phillip, will also feature a silent auction where guests can win a range of prizes including sporting memorabilia. The Royals Rugby home game at Phillip Oval on Saturday, August 8, will also see the Royals players don yellow socks in Jade’s honour – proceeds from ticket sales will also go towards “Aid for Jade”.
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Two-year-old liver cancer patient Jade Murrell with father Peter… friends and family are raising funds for Ronald McDonald House.
By Jorian Gardner “I THINK that Mr Hargreaves just needs to move on,” said Greens MLA Amanda Bresnan dismissing the Labor minister’s bagging of her in last week’s “CityNews” for not living in her electorate. “Mr Hargreaves has said before that I don’t know much about politics, but what I have learnt is to not pay too much attention to his tirades,” Bresnan shot back in an interview with “CityNews”. Hargreaves had said that not living in her own electorate, she would be tossed out by the people of Brindabella at the next election and the seat would “rightfully” return to Labor. “I live 1.7 kilometres from the electorate,” said Bresnan. “I have always lived on the south side, I’ve been very open about where I live before and during the election and when people asked me, I told them, so there’s nothing new about it. “I must be doing something right if Mr Hargreaves is singling me out for particular attention. Maybe he’s a bit worried because I got elected before he did.” Treasury is ‘wrong’ – Page 8
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