January 2025

Associate Professor Greg de Moore is a psychiatrist, who is the Associate Director of clinical services at Mental Health Western Sydney. Last year he entertained us with an excellent presentation on Tom Wills, Australia’s first sports star.

This time Greg’s interesting presentation was on the life and achievements of John Cade, the Australian who discovered the first effective treatment for the mental illness bipolar disorder. Lithium therapy has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder. 

February 2025

We were very lucky to have Chris D’Arcy from Search Dogs Sydney join us in February. Chris and his partner Adele brought along their delightful tracker dog Koa.

Search Dogs Sydney are a specialist search and recovery team with trained canines and state-of-the-art drone technology to locate missing people. Chris shared some of his experiences when looking for missing hikers in the bush, Alzheimer patients who have wandered away, lost children or people trapped by natural or man-made disasters.

A big thank you to all club members for the tremendous support in signing the Search Dogs Sydney petition and for your generous donations. Chris and Adele were very appreciative,