Jeanette Shopland's memory board

Marion Shopland My new baby sister. May 1940

Marion Shopland Now I’m one 🎂

LINDA THOMAS

Beverley Jackson Bachelor of Science

LINDA THOMAS A year assignment teaching at Niusawa School, Taveuni, Fiji

Bob Manthei In 1978 Marjie and I met Jeanette for the first time at the U of Massachusetts in Amherst. Instant friendship with this warm, witty, wise and brave Aussie! We shared many meals, talks, laughs, hours with our new friend and so it continued over the years. Jeanette, we miss you. (photo: 1979, Amherst, Massachusetts) Bob and Marjie Manthei, Christchurch, NZ

LINDA THOMAS

Sandy Komen Jeanette came into my life when she met my sister back in 1977. We remained friends ever after. Jeanette influenced my life more than any other person through her kind teaching about diversity, equality, feminism, personal and community rights, social justice, culture, the environment, history and humanity. I will be forever grateful for her friendship

LINDA THOMAS A year in Seattle on exchange as Teacher, Counsellor, Psychologist and Women’s Programs Coordinator at Edmonds Community College.

Jenni Rice This is a photo that accompanied an article in the Swinburne News about Jeanette, as Head of Student Counselling, from around 1989. I found it online last week! This was about the time I met Jeanette, after I started my first academic job in psychology at Swinburne in 1987, and discovered that the Psych Dept had few connections with the Counselling service. Jeanette and I did a little bit to change that!

LINDA THOMAS 50th Birthday at Marion’s house

Sandy Komen Jeanette spent a year in Seattle in 1988, swapping houses and jobs with Ruth. Here she is with Ruth, myself and Simon when Ruth visited around 1996

Heather Gridley This was taken just after Christmas, 1996. I had had a very difficult year but I look so happy here in Jeanette's lovely lounge in Bruce St, as so many others have been. Jeanette was an amazing person, a 40-year friend and a role model as a counselling psychologist and also as a genuine humanitarian. She was student counsellor for many years at Rusden, Swinburne and LaTrobe, but was so distressed by the Tampa shame 20 years ago that she devoted the next years of her life supporting refugees, initially by visiting Maribyrnong Detention Centre. Then after she retired she retrained as a Migration Agent just so she could be properly informed in her volunteer work. She was also my main travel buddy - by my count we visited Aotearoa New Zealand 10 times since 1992. It is hard to contemplate not seeing and talking with her again. I have never known anyone like her.

Lyndell Kohut Jan Hayes, Lindy Kohut and Jeanette Each February for about five years we would travel to Adelaide for the Dulwich Centre annual conference, followed by a few events at the Adelaide festival of Arts. We travelled together, shared a flat and learned so much from both the conference and each other. It was really fun too. Wonderful memories.

Dinesh Katipearachchi On my wedding day with Saree at her Place.

Dinesh Katipearachchi Representing our mother’s role in our wedding.

Dinesh Katipearachchi Witness for registration

Chandima Alahakoon On our wedding registration day.

Emma Sampson My graduation in 2005. I connected with Jeanette due to her advocacy around refugees where she participated in my research thesis. I met the Sri Lankan men through her and went on to develop a treasured friendship with Jeanette. I will miss her dearly 💜

Dinesh Katipearachchi Two hours old Dulshi with her Aussie grandma

Dinesh Katipearachchi Dulshi’s first visit to see her Aussie grandma

Dinesh Katipearachchi My last day in Australia and Ms.Jeanette visited us to say good bye.

Pam Loughnan We are so sad but will always remember Jeanette’s incredible generosity, loving ways and brilliant mind.

Dinesh Katipearachchi Her first visit to Sri Lanka to see her Sri Lankan family.

Lyndell Kohut The well dressed Jeanette Jeanette and I would join Phoebe and her mother Jenny at the Arts Centre for performances of Bell Shakespeare. She always looked lovely, choosing reds, turquoise, navy, black or grey. She had a favourite hairdresser, Paul, whom she enjoyed seeing regularly for decades.

Heather Gridley This was at the Trans-Tasman Women & Psychology Conference, one of the many I attended with Jeanette and other feminist psychology friends. We had to make do with what props we could find for the party - Dame Edna and the Statue or Liberty :) Jeanette had a wonderful sense of fun.

Emma Sampson One of the many birthday celebrations Jeanette shared with our family - Ava turning 3. Jeanette never missed a birthday and always bought the most delicious cakes to share 🎂

Yaqub Qadri Jeanette was my Australian Mother and great teacher She helps me a lot I pray for you Rest In Peace

Renuka Senanayake With the Students and volunteers at the Springvale Monash Legal Service where Jeanette volunteered in the SEMAS refugee program from 2008 to 2014

Melinda Jackson Jeanette, the world is a sadder place without your brave, kind soul. We will miss you. Thank you for the love and care over the years - sometimes that manifested itself in baked goods but more often an ear for my problems and rages about the system. I think so fondly of our journeys in Sri Lanka with Renu and Brian, and these photos capture how full of life you were. Love Mel

Beverley Jackson Cousin Rosalie Myers

Chandima Alahakoon The day she visited us

Hadi Rezwani Jeanette was like a mother to me. I was always calling her a second mother and she was happy I felt that way. I have arrived in Australia as an unaccompanied minor refugee from Afghanistan, when i was 15. I was young and i needed my parent to support me but unfortunately, they were not here with me. I have faced enormous challenges and hardships but by the help of Jeannette I have managed to overcome the difficulties. She taught me so much and i have learned so much from her. I have learned from her to be a good person and support those who are in need and be kind and caring person, especially for vulnerable people. I have learned from her to join non-profit organisation to help disadvantage people. She was always encouraging me to follow my dreams and do whatever i love to do. We were regularly catching up and she was consistently concerning about my family safety in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She helped me to lodge a humanitarian application for my parents and sibling to bring them to safety. Today, I have my parents and my siblings with me are all credited to Jeanette. She was an amazing person with great heart and personality. My heart is wounded to hear that she is not amongst us anymore. Although she not amongst us but her memory will be always with me and i will cherish her memory for ever.

Yoshi De Wilde Dear Jeanette, You were a supervisor, a friend and family. You meant so much to me and my family. We loved our catch ups and walks. We will miss you immensely.

Lyndell Kohut My friendJeanette on her 80th birthday I met Jeanette in 1982 when we came to live in Bruce St. She and Jenny were very welcoming and I learned that Jeanette was a counsellor and a lecturer in Psychology at Rusden College. I consulted her about possible career decisions and her advice was very beneficial. When I graduated from my grad dip course in Educational Counselling she recommended that I undertake the two year course at Williams Road Family Therapy Centre. My career took off from then. She was supervising Jan Hayes, a counsellor at Deacon University at the time. They invited me to join them and we formed a very effective and supportive peer support threesome that continued to meet every two to three weeks for twenty years. Alongside this professional contact with Jeanette, Rudy and I had an ongoing relationship with Jeanette as neighbours and friends. She came for breakfast every Christmas Day, supported us through the difficult teenage years, and gave us all a great deal of love, advice and good humour. She was a wonderful role model in community organisation and ethics. She welcomed eight Sri Lankan asylum seekers into her home and heart and made a life long commitment to helping them. At the time they were living in Australia Rudy and I worried greatly about her emotional and physical health as she was working in paid employment for three days and spending a further three days involved in looking for housing, ESL classes, TAFE courses, meetings with the Dept of Immigration, or directly sorting out difficulties the men were experiencing. We invited her to come to dinner most Friday nights to debrief or chill out. In the years that followed Jan and I continued to meet with her monthly for long supportive lunches. As Jeanette's illness took hold Jeanette would come for dinner or I would drop in every few days for a cup of tea. I loved and respected her as a person and gained enormous benefit vocationally and personally from her knowledge and skills

LINDA THOMAS Jeanette’s 80th in lockdown

Floss Procter Four of us,(from left Floss, Pam, Robin and Jeanette) taught together at Broadford in the 1960s and have remained friends ever since. This picture was taken at a recent celebration.

Amy M

Glenda Sundstrom My lovely cousin Jeanette - one of my two 'big' cousins who l have loved all my life. She was my bridesmaid, always calm, and as the years went on was loved by my husband Bill and our 4 children. RIP Glenda

Brian jeganathan Dearest friend Jeannette I was so lucky to catch up with you three weeks ago. You said you'd love to have a chat and to come over. As usual we meandered into dishes, gingernuts, books and the state and plight of asylum seekers and refugees. You always had a special spot in your heart for the downtrodden. And then you directed your righteous anger towards the men of ill-will. We will miss all this now you're gone. Till we meet again for a hot pot of tea and your home baked cookies. We will miss your warm embrace and open heart! With a sore heart and tears adios Jeanette!

LINDA THOMAS Always stylish! 😄She taught me how to sew, colour coordination, what to wear for the occasion and she demonstrated it always. Trivial I know, but important things to teach your little sister.

Renuka Senanayake I will miss you dearly Jeanette. Really appreciate your guidance and support through all the difficult times in our work with refugees and asylum seekers. I remember lovely lunches, interesting conversations and home baked cakes, puddings and jams that you turned out to make every meeting a special one. I will cherish all the times we had together. Till we meet again

Glenys White “Jeanette” Our very dear cousin for over 70 years. Fond memories of fun times in both our early years and more recently our special “after Christmas cousins get together” in the last six years. Here we are, the seven cousins, with our late grandma in the early 60’s. Much love to Marion, Beverley and Linda and their families. Margaret and Glenys

Beverley Jackson Lindy added flowers from her garden to make a lovely bouquet for the coffin

Bob Manthei Bob Manthei toasting Jeanette, 9/9 21.

Beverley Jackson flowers picked this morning from Jeanette's garden