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GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce has launched ConnectPink, a new social media site for women, declaring the initiative a means by which rural and regional communities throughout Australia will be further strengthened. Within hours of its launch on Friday morning connectpink.com.au had more than 1200 members registered online and numbers were growing. The Fairfax Regional Media initiative targets the four million women who live outside metropolitan cities, linking them with friends, shopping and business opportunities. Ms Bryce said ConnectPink brought together significant elements of modern Australia. "Our thirst for the latest news from home and around the world, the vitality of rural and regional communities, those historic networks that country women always share and always have, our heightened awareness of health issues and our deep concern about the prevalence of breast cancer," she said. "I'm sure ConnectPink will make it easier for isolated women to stay in touch regularly with friends and to enjoy the immediacy of contact that's intrinsic to mutual support. "I'm enormously pleased ConnectPink has established an important link with the McGrath Foundation, raising funds to provide more specialists breast care nurses in as many regional locations as possible." Glenn McGrath, founder of the McGrath Foundation with his late wife Jane, said growing up in the bush he could never have known he would be so closely associated with the colour pink. But Mr McGrath said there were strong synergies in the ConnectPink and McGrath Foundation partnership. "Like you, we're really focused on rural and regional Australia.”

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