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recounted for movie<br />
“If he knew or at least thought<br />
that you had done your best, even<br />
if your best was a total catastrophe<br />
that it was in this case, it wasn’t even<br />
a question of forgiving you, he just<br />
accepted it,” Mr Wilson said.<br />
Mr Wilson feared he would have<br />
“difficulty saying anything meaningful”<br />
when he heard of the film’s<br />
re-make.<br />
“But his questions (Dillion) were<br />
so good and he drew an enormous<br />
amount out of us about how much<br />
we loved Ed particularly when<br />
we were talking about bringing<br />
him down from the camp and we<br />
thought he was going to die. He<br />
really brought out of us the tension<br />
and unity of the group and effort we<br />
were putting in to try and save Ed’s<br />
life. I found it quite moving seeing<br />
it again.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> movie also features scenes<br />
of Sir Ed visiting the crash site,<br />
where his wife Louise and daughter<br />
Belinda, were killed in a plane crash<br />
near Kathmandu in 1975. Sir Ed<br />
blamed himself for the disaster.<br />
“He’s woven in these reflections of<br />
ours, 42 years later. We loved him,<br />
we would have gone anywhere with<br />
him and done anything for him,”<br />
Mr Wilson said.<br />
With his wife Ann, Mr Wilson<br />
has lived in Redcliffs for 54 years<br />
and is now retired and spends his<br />
time with his grandchildren, playing<br />
tennis and e-biking.<br />
“It’s a wonderful period of life,”<br />
he said.<br />
HIGHLIGHT: Jim Wilson (driving boats) on the Ganges<br />
River with other expedition members including Sir<br />
Edmund Hillary.<br />
CRITICISM about<br />
unprofessional counselling and<br />
lengthy wait-lists has prompted<br />
Canterbury University to<br />
consider changes to its Health<br />
Centre.<br />
Student magazine Canta says<br />
an overwhelming number of<br />
students have been leaving the<br />
free on-campus counselling<br />
feeling worse-off, after being<br />
told to try harder to get better, or<br />
feeling dismissed before they’re<br />
ready to stop counselling.<br />
After writer Frankie<br />
Desmond had her own “negative<br />
experience” at the counselling<br />
service, she asked other students<br />
to share their thoughts on it,<br />
good or bad.<br />
One person shared a positive<br />
story but 12 others described<br />
feeling judged, dismissed or<br />
uncomfortable during recent<br />
counselling sessions, including<br />
a woman driven to panic attacks<br />
by her treatment.<br />
“One person who requested<br />
a female counsellor . . . was<br />
told she would get a female<br />
counsellor, she walked in and it<br />
was a male counsellor. People<br />
have had very inappropriate<br />
quotes [made] when they went<br />
in to deal with statutory rape.<br />
People were told: ‘You’re not<br />
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Uni health centre<br />
cops criticism<br />
trying hard enough, try harder<br />
to get better,’ that kind of thing,”<br />
she said.<br />
This year students paid a<br />
collective $499,000 for five fulltime<br />
health centre counsellors,<br />
extra staff during exam times,<br />
and a triage counsellor being<br />
trialled this year.<br />
In a written statement, the<br />
university said it had upped<br />
the health centre’s resources<br />
each year since 2017 and<br />
students who declare urgent<br />
needs are seen by nurses or GPs<br />
if there’s no counsellors readily<br />
available.<br />
It also detailed other<br />
changes being made because<br />
of feedback and was urging the<br />
complainants to come forward.<br />
A spokesperson said they<br />
hoped to make the triage<br />
counsellor permanent, to make<br />
sure students on the wait-list<br />
were safe and provide interim<br />
assistance, and that counsellors<br />
were designing a questionnaire<br />
to gather anonymous feedback<br />
from every client.<br />
<strong>The</strong> health centre’s medical<br />
director, Joan Allardyce, said<br />
the criticism was disappointing<br />
and surprising, as it didn’t match<br />
feedback given directly to the<br />
health centre.<br />
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