210:(QuAC) would be interested in working with them. Doyle worked to educate herself about the disease, attending conferences throughout the world and teaching about HIV/AIDS at schools and in communities around Australia. The Sisters of Mercy provided the QuAC with housing in rental units they owned. They also provided QuAC with equipment, and medical personnel. When Bjelke-Petersen refused to pass funds from the Federal Health Department to QuAC, Doyle arranged a secret work-around through which funds went directly from the Federal Health Department to the Mercy Order, who forwarded the money to QuAC.
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where they trained young women to join their order. Doyle applied and was accepted unseen. She attended the training school in Cork, learning the
Australian curriculum and training to be a primary school teacher. In 1947, she traveled to Brisbane to join the Brisbane Sisters of Mercy there. She
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