Martin Bartlett

How did a nurse and mother of seven morph into the leader of one of Australia’s leading children’s charities? Martin Bartlett recounts the rise of Barbara Wellesley OAM and the organisation she co-founded ‘ Good Beginnings Australia. How did a nurse and mother of seven morph into the leader of one of Australia’s leading children’s charities? Martin Bartlett recounts the rise of Barbara Wellesley OAM and the organisation she co-founded – Good Beginnings Australia. Although it wasn’t until 1997 that Good Beginnings Australia (GBA) opened its doors, the seeds were laid many years earlier. It was in 1986 that a young Chinese mother visited Barbara Wellesley every week for parenting…