SYDNEY: On 13th October the students, parents and staff at Galstaun College were joined by representatives of community organisations to hear a presentation from the Right Honourable Professor Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury.

Baroness Cox has been a long-time advocate for the oppressed Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, where she has visited over 70 times since in the early 1990s.

She spoke warmly and knowledgably of what was happening in villages and cities in Nagorno Karabakh, or Artsakh, under constant threat of Azerbaijan's determination to undertake "ethnic cleansing" in the largely Armenian region.

Baroness Cox became involved in delivering aid to the suffering Armenians, and her legacy includes her founding of a clinic and Rehabilitation Centre.

The audience at Galstaun College was shown pictures of the Rehabilitation Centre at Stepanakert and its director Vardan Tadevosyan.

The centre is now part of Baroness Cox's' ongoing work through HART, the Humanitarian Aid and Relief Trust, which she has set up to help the people of Artsakh and other people who are being oppressed, largely as a result of their Christianity, in Burma, Timor l'Este, Sudan, Indonesia and Nigeria.

Following the presentation, many students from the College asked to be placed on the mailing list for HART and expressed their enthusiasm for assisting in the important work of this organization.

Members of the community and representatives of community organisations then joined Baroness Cox and the Hon. Paul Fletcher MP and Mr Jonathan O'Dea MP at a formal luncheon hosted by Galstaun College.