this person has had her face plastered all over the place when none of this actually happened.

Readers are welcome to update any article that apears on OzSoapbox via the comments system but let’s not rewrite history.

Cambourne is the registered owner of http://kidfit.com.au and the ACN used for the website returns ‘Australian Private Company’.

Additionally she’s also credited with developing Kidfit and the Kidfit courses on their website. Cambourne also registered ‘Kidfit Seminars’ as a business back in 2006 but cancelled it shortly thereafter.

Not sure what details you looked at but clearly Cambourne owns or co-owns the business.

As for defamation, it’s not defamation if it happened and that’s between the author of the comment and Cambourne.

you should also be aware that this case never went ahead and that no case was ever launched. you should all check your facts. this was a case that never enter the system. you all attacked someone with no facts and this person has had her face plastered all over the place when none of this actually happened

I am a volunteer member of St John Ambulance Australia (VIC) in the S/E region. Please allow me to state these facts:

- St John is a VOLUNTEER organisation/first aid service in all states except for WA & NT. They attend local events such as carnivals sports days, alf matches, the australian open etc

- The volunteers within St John are not paid in any way. Matter of fact it is in the cards now that they may even start charging its CADETS & JUNIORS for volunteering.

- In the past they have used retired MAS & RAV vehicles like GMC’s, ford F350′s, station wagons etc (even my own division has 2 retired GMC vehicles from the MAS & RAV) but in the past few years have begun to buy their own brand new vehicles. The se include Mercedes Benz Sprinter Ambulances & Mercedes Benz Vito First Aid vans.

- St John divisions are comprised of Juniors, Cadets, Senior Cadets, Adults/Privates and officers. Most divisions still have the old vehicles and usaually have 1 or two vehicles.

- It is hioped that within the next few years most vehicles will have been replaced with the sprinters and vitos.

- St John does charge for its services at community events etc but this charge is minimal, worth it and goes to first aid supplies, training, first aid courses, HQ and to fuel for our ambulances.

- All members have a senior first aid certificate and meet regularly – once a week for further training. NB: St John is more advanced and better than any other first aid organization because they have some of the most advanced equipment.

- I have seen the new vehicles and they are very similar to the normal ambulance’s vehicles but have the st john ‘colours’ (green and white with the red logo). I urge everyone to have a peak at these new vehicles located on forster road, mt waverley, vic – ST JOHN MELBOURNE HQ.

Also to add, St John vehicles are equipped with a SAED (semi-automated eternal defibrillator), vehicle oxygen/O2 supplies as well as an O2 bag, ferno stretcher, first aid supplies, fold-up wheelchair, BP cuffs/blood pressure cuffs, vehicle and portable radios and much much more.

I am disgusted by what she has done suing volunteers given that her business ethics are so out of whack. I hope this case falls over and she learns a lesson.

St John Volunteers undertake an annual skills program and gives volunteers more than two weeks worth of traning. They also have access to further training to continually ugrade their skills.

It has also recently come to light that St John in fact did not treat this young woman and were never at this event.

John: “First of all, St John’s Ambulance is not a charity but a profit organisation run by the Knight of Saint John.”
Firstly, there is no “Knight of Saint John” running St. John Ambulance anywhere in the world. SJA is (officially) run by the Grand Prior, who, at the moment, is HRH Prince Richard (Duke of Gloucester). In Australia, the day-to-day running of SJA in each state/territory is headed by a Commissioner, who does not take orders from anybody within the Order.

“All material used by Volunteers are bought using fund raised dollars from St Johns. Ambulances for instance are sold to volunteer groups from St John’s. The ambulances are usually decommissioned vehicles originally purchased on donations to St Johns.”
All St. John ambulances, at least in Victoria as far as I know, are all ex-vehicles from Ambulance Victoria, and re-commissioned as St. John vehicles. St. John does not make a profit, as it is a non-profit organisation, and relies on donations.

If you’re going to make such accusations, please consider what you do for the community. Perhaps you should volunteer with St. John, so that you can ‘fix’ the ‘problems’ that you have identified, or send a letter of complaint.

Please get your facts straight before making such accusations.

I think you’ll find the ambulance division of St. Johns in Australia is in fact run as a charity organisation and is seperate from the Venerable Order of St. John.

St John Ambulance Australia (SJAA) is a self-funding charitable organisation dedicated to helping people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger.

I think here in Victoria they are mostly used at events whilst the hospital ambulances cover emergency call outs. It seems strange that in WA, 000 would link up to St. Johns rather then a hospital service given as you said St. Johns volunteers are only given two weeks training?