Ita Buttrose, the organiser of this week’s national summit on the family, and the Australian Institute of Family Studies have been presented with a special award by the United Nations in recognition of their work in improving the social and emotional status of Australian families. The awards were presented in Canberra on Thursday night. Miss Buttrose was also made a patron of the International Year of the Family, which is to be held in 1994. The head of the institute, Dr Don Elgar, accepted the award on the institute’s behalf.
Miss Buttrose said the future of the family and Australia’s children was not a matter for governments to solve on their own.< pc Point to newsfeature on families plse