 She wanted it nationally declared but started at the state level in hopes that if it was passed on the state level, it would be easier to get it passed at the federal level.Joanna Gash and Shelley Hancock, MPs at the Federal and State level, respectively, helped Ballinger lobby at both levels.In NSW, Hancock and NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner announced that Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day had been officially declared.