AUSTRALIA
lewisblayse.net

Professor Julia Gillard
c/o The Guardian, Australian edition (http://www.theguardian.com/au)
c/o The University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics

Dear Professor Gillard,

RE: INVITATION TO BE THANKED FOR ROYAL COMMISSION AT LEWIS BLAYSE / LEWIN BLAZEVICH PUBLIC MEMORIAL EVENT, 1 MARCH, 2014

I have already sent via Katharine Viner of The Guardian an informal invitation for you to be the keynote speaker at a public memorial event for my father, Lewis Blayse (formerly Lewin Blazevich). I wanted, however, to send a formal invitation to you to be the keynote speaker at the event.

My father was a lifelong social justice and child protection activist and recent blogger on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and associated matters at www.lewisblayse.net. In addition to his child protection work, he was active throughout his life in areas as diverse as working to mandate seatbelts…