Thursday, 28 November 2024

Knitted Knockers Australia

Martin CAMERON (Morwell) (11:17): I rise today to talk about knockers – Knitted Knockers and the Traralgon Knitted Knockers ladies. Knitted Knockers are free, 100 per cent cotton prostheses knitted by volunteers. What they do is they use a special 100 per cent cotton wool, which is purchased from the Bendigo Woollen Mills, and fill the prostheses with a polyester fibre toy filling, which they purchase from Spotlight, and the protheses are provided to women who have had mastectomies due to breast cancer.

It is a wonderful thing that they do. I got to sit down with founder Cheryl Webster, and it is right across Australia. I have a set of Knitted Knockers on my table in my chamber, and there are a few members that are in the chamber here that have felt them and touched them and seen them. This is just another option for ladies and women that have had to go through this procedure of having their breasts removed. It is a lightweight option which these women can put perfectly inside their bras and move around. It is giving back the freedom to ladies that have gone through this, so well done to the Traralgon Knitted Knockers.