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October 1946

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AUSTRALIAN BRANCH NOTES No. 1 (By One of the Original Members)

The Australian branch of Alcoholics Anonymous came into being in October, 1944. Its founders (all non-alcoholics) were the Reverend Father T. V. Dunlea (parish priest of Sutherland, N.S.W.), Dr. S. J. Minogue (superintendent of the Rydalmere Mental Hospital, Sydney, N.S.W.), and Mr. A. V. McKinnon (a mental nurse in a Sydney mental hospital).

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