On Saturday 31 October 2009, at Government House, Perth, the Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC, a...

On Saturday 31 October 2009, at Government House, Perth, the Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC, as Patron, attended the 2009 Australian Women of the Year Association lunch.

In the afternoon, the Governor-General, as Patron, received the Chairman of Rotary Oceana Medical Air for Children Limited, Mr Ian Wright; the President of Abilympics, Ms Nadine Mather Brown; and a participant of Abilympics, Dr Phillip Deschamp. Earlier, at Sydney International Airport, the Governor-General was represented at the departure from Australia of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, His Excellency Mr Georgi Parvanov, by Colonel Michael Miller RFD ADC, an Honorary Aide-de-camp.