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Meritorious Service Award
 In
appreciation of her twelve years of service to the Italian Community
of the Sale Diocese, Mr Damiano Tripoli nominated Sr Elizabeth Roberts
for a Meritorious Service Award. This Award for Excellence in Multicultural
Affairs, granted by the Government of Victoria, was presented during
a function at Government House on 26 November 2007.
Sister Liz was born in Brisbane and after completing her teacher training
ministered in our schools in Queensland, but since undertaking cross
cultural immersion and training for pastoral ministry in the Philippines
in 1973 she has moved far from home ministering to the Aboriginal people
of Australia, in the Diocese of Molfetta, Terlizzi, Ruvo and Giovenazzo
in Southern Italy under Bishop Don Tonino Bello and as Chaplain to this
community of Italian people in Victoria.
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