Mardi Gras. Depending on where you might come from, those two words of French origin have different meanings. If you’re a devout Catholic Parisian, for example, it would mean “fat Tuesday”, that is, the day one […]
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We’ve made the big decision to hold our monthly meetings in person in various locations across Greater Sydney, as opposed to online, from now on. The last time we did this was in 2019. — One […]
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For those of you not following us on Facebook, you might be surprised to learn that SACLC was a Local Donation Partner in 2022 and 2023 with Return and Earn, the NSW bottle and can recycling, […]
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In 2014, an Autistic-led and Autistic-run social group for the adult Autistic community in Sydney was established. The online platform Meetup was chosen to co-ordinate offline encounters and social activities for this sizable yet disperse community; […]
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Following on from the success of last year’s Hackathon, we decided to stage a writing competition, whose theme was the Autistic experience. For our first ever edition of the Autistic Writing Competition, we decided to solicit […]
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At this month’s meeting, we were privileged to have not one, but TWO very special guests! Our first guest was Matheus, a proud member of the Lions Clube Bauru Autismo, an Autism Lions Club that is […]
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The Autism Lions Movement in Australia continues to spread like wildfire with the addition of the fourth club in the Movement, the Northlakes Central Coast Lions Club! In keeping with the tradition that started in 2019 […]
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The Autism Lions Movement in Australia continues unabated with the addition of the third club in the Movement, the North Queensland ASD Lions Club! As with Melbourne Autism’s charter night, it was only proper that we […]
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This month, we decided to embark upon our most ambitious undertaking to date: running – to our knowledge – the world’s first hackathon to be run by a Lions Club![1] Being an autistic-themed Lions Club, it […]
Read moreWe had a clinical psychologist come to our Club meeting this month — Dr. Bettina Christl, of Heart and Mind Psychology! Bettina’s talk was of particular interest to our audience, since she has autistic patients amongst […]
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