Our Freddie off to Canberra

For national forum on Diabetes 1

TOOWOOMBA boy Freddie Turner has been selected to represent the Groom electorate at this year’s Kids in the House held in Parliament House in Canberra.

Kids in the House is run by leading type 1 diabetes charity JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).

Freddie, 11, will join 100 advocates from all over the country in visiting Parliament House and calling for continued funding to try to find a cure for type 1 diabetes.

JDRF is asking for $50m over the next five years to ensure the work of the Clinical Research Network can be maintained and progress toward a cure accelerated.

“Kids in the House is a wonderful opportunity to remind our politicians that people living with type 1 diabetes desperately want a cure, know research holds the key to discovering one, and they won’t stop until that cure is found,” JDRF CEO Mike Wilson said.

Freddie will be reminding Senator Barry O’Sullivan and Dr John McVeigh at their office in the nation’s capital and asking them to promise to remember them when making decisions about research funding. JDRF will use the funding to ensure the great work of Australian researchers can continue, patients can access new treatments through clinical trials and also support taking promising therapies from the lab to be safe and effective.

Photo: Contributed YOUNG LOBBIEST: Emma and Freddie Turner (in JDRF blue) with Senator Barry O’Sullivan’s chief of staff Samantha Muller and Jo Doyle (right).