Summer 2020 When the school holidays begin in December, every child would always look forward to going to their ancestral village in the outer islands, writes Gordan Stanley Smith who was born and raised in Suva. The first week of December is the start of an eight-week holiday that coincides with the Christmas and New […]
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1 December 2019 And then I had children. And I took them shopping. In the process, I discovered that no amount of experience – no amount of classroom teaching, babysitting, or continuous late nights – can ever prepare a person to parent a child, especially when the child is throwing a tantrum in a supermarket.
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1 December 2019 The program for a short time also operated in Sydney and Melbourne. Newly married couples can share their life experiences with couples who’ve been married for at least five to 10 years. The program was started by Maurie and Bernice Boland who had received requests from young newly marrieds who said they
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1 December 2019 News stories in the final weeks centred on the thousands of tourists who were keen to scale the monolith’s mighty heights before the ban took effect. And many did line up in their thousands for one last chance to climb Uluru. Most Australians were reportedly ‘comfortable’ with the decision to prohibit climbing
1 December 2019 What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? About half way. * * * A chicken and a duck were standing on the side of the road. The chicken turned to the duck and said “Don’t! You’ll never hear the end of it.” * * * An elderly
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1 December 2019 Reclaiming family time is a book by Tim and Sue Muldoon, who, as the parents of three children, understand the pressures on families. In their book, they offer some salient advice on what families can do to ease the workload and function better as a family. Tim is a theologian and professor
1 December 2019 Technically, emails are not letters – they have no handwriting, or stamps, or carefully chosen stationery. They lack the weight of a letter, and a hopeful dash to the computer is not the same as a hopeful dash to the letterbox! However, email has a redeeming ‘to and fro-ness’. How often have
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1 June 2019 Mary Clarke had a privileged upbringing in the glamour of Hollywood. She was born on December 1, 1926, in Beverley Hills, California of Irish immigrant parents. Her mother died in the course of her fourth pregnancy. Her father was a successful sales executive, and Mary inherited his compassion and generosity for less
1 June 2019 Its financial cost in Australia, both through direct medical expenses and lost productivity, is estimated to be more than $7 billion per annum[1]. Just like endometrial lining within the uterine cavity, endometriosis cells replicate and grow during the proliferative and secretory phase of the menstrual cycle, then break down and bleed when
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1 June 2019 To be fair it was nothing life-threatening, not that a leaking eyeball as a complication of glaucoma surgery is anyone’s idea of fun. But it meant my mother required specialised treatment that wasn’t available to her in central Queensland, necessitating her being flown to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital ophthalmology unit.
