Lest we forget
On April 25 each year we remember the ANZACS, the brave men and women who fought for Australia and New Zealand.
Summer 2020
The need to take Climate Change seriously
Climate change as a world issue has gained traction in recent years. In Australia, we’ve seen first-hand what has been occurring with drought, bushfires and floods causing havoc.
Viewpoint
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 …
Solomon’s patience needed
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. …
Recognition for The Majellan
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 …
My Christmas blessing
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 …
Light therapy’s new potential
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 …
Holiday blues
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 …
Field of darkness comes to light
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 …
Creating happy memories
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 …