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1 December 2019 On Christmas Eve in 1965 my first child was born. Seventeen hours prior and showing early signs of labour, I was admitted to St Margaret’s Hospital, Darlinghurst in Sydney. After my admission, labour had progressed very slowly: the baby seemed to have settled down and nothing much was happening. The nurses were […]

1 December 2019 An avid gardener, she took great pride in her rosarium, but being unable to inhale their perfumed scent, got her down. “You take something like your sense of smell for granted,” Mrs Jarrett, 72, said. “You don’t realise how precious something is until it’s gone.” Parkinson’s disease is a combination of movement

1 December 2019 Their experience is called a “blue” Christmas, something described by the Urban Dictionary as such: “It means to have a sad Christmas perhaps because you are away from family or alone, or even filled with thoughts of a happier time that brings tears to your eye. Blue is a symbolic color for

1 December 2019 In August I was one of those people, visiting at dawn as part of a coach tour from Adelaide to Darwin. Uluru was always going to be the centrepiece of my journey; everything else was accessorising, at least in my pre-trip mind. However, critical to this experience, for me, was not the

1 December 2019 There’s the question of how to prepare him so he’s ready for school mentally, socially, cognitively, and emotionally, but there’s the bigger question of how do I want him (and I) to remember his final days at home before school starts. Regardless of whether preparing my son for “big school” happens on

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

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.

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

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