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Date: 28 Oct 89 23:13:00 GMT
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QUILT TOUR GROUNDED

(Reproduced with permission from MELBOURNE STAR OBSERVER #107, Friday 20  
October 1989. All rights resevered. (C) Oz Media Pty Ltd Melbourne Australia.

The national tour of the (Australian) AIDS memorial quilt has been severely  
curtailed by the pilots dispute.

After a moving launch at the Fitzroy Town Hall on October 7, it appears that  
the quilt will go directly to Sydney. Unfolding ceremonies in Adelaide and  
Perth have been cancelled.

A full scale national tour will be attempted again next year.

The Australian quilt is now so large that it took up all of the floor space of  
the Fitzroy Town Hall, and organisers are hoping that a full time worker may  
soon be afforded.

It still has a little way to go before reaching the size of the US quilt. A  
display in Washington on October 6-8 will be the last ever made of the entire  
quilt as it is now too big to display in one location.

Rob

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