Summer 2020

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 but there were

1 December 2019 And the people responded with gusto. A total of 17,457 submissions were received with 12,758 sent in by individuals. As to be expected, many of the submissions are as contradictory, one to another, as praying for rain to break the drought and praying for fine weather for the school fete on Saturday.

1 December 2019 The Southern Cross (Adelaide) won Best Newspaper while The Good Oil, an e-letter published by the Good Samaritan Sisters, won the Bishop Kennedy Award for Overall Excellence. The annual awards recognise excellence in Catholic magazines, newspapers and digital publications across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The conference and awards ceremony were held

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