Ms JODIE HARRISON (Charlestown—Minister for Women, Minister for Seniors, and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault) (18:24): Earlier this month Adamstown Heights woman Ashleigh Webb swam across the English Channel, which fewer people have accomplished than have climbed Mount Everest. Ashleigh undertook the challenge for an inspiring reason—the Kallan Lodge Library.

Its aim is to supply local mental health facilities with books and albums to bring some joy during treatment and recovery. The library is named after Kallan Lodge, who died by suicide at Duntroon in 2011. Ashleigh and Kallan were very close friends. Ashleigh recounts that he loved listening to music and wondering what it was that made songs mean so much.

Ashleigh has always been a voracious reader and has taken a lot of support from fiction during her own mental health journey, hence the albums and books which are distributed by Kallan Lodge Library. I congratulate Ashleigh on her massive swim and her work with the Kallan Lodge library.

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