This makes my blood boil. In my local paper this week was a page full of complaints from participants at our local dawn service last Saturday. I read similar reports on a number of regional papers I follow on line. What is going on in this country????? Surely we’re better than this? So there weren’t […]
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The Lucky Country becoming the Land of Whingers, as complaints roll in about ANZAC Day services
Posted on 01 May 2015.
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Monika I am so sorry: Sorry I didn’t stand up for you, and sorry for your pain
Posted on 27 March 2015.
You don’t know me, Monika, but I feel like I’ve always known you. Or at least I’ve known that picture of you that the media had painted: the “tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo”. But now I realize, listening to this TED speech, that I never knew you at all. Now I realize how much my […]
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A gentle message on life, leadership and one wonderful woman
Posted on 09 September 2014.
Yesterday as I was driving across town from one appointment to another, busy as a bee, the Inner Circle came across the airwaves of my car radio. For a few short minutes I was transfixed by the quietly spoken message of Rev. Graham Long, Pastor and CEO of The Wayside Chapel in Sydney’s Kings Cross. […]
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From one to a community of 92,000 – this is what happens when women come together
Posted on 28 February 2014.
Last night in Sydney as the skies oozed with drizzle and commuters rushed home before the clouds burst open, a small gang of troublemakers came together to reflect. It’s been five years since the audacious launch of 1millionwomen by founder…
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Community leadership and the role we all play in creating change for good
Posted on 04 July 2013.
Marie was an ordinary, unassuming woman, in her sixties I would guess. She was well dressed, clean and neat, and wore a hat on this cold winter’s day. Standing outside a city office tower, she was so normal she could have been anyone&…
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A tear for our ANZACs and a tear for Kate
Posted on 25 April 2013.
Kate Malonyay lived – and died – about 200 metres from my home in Sydney. I didn’t know Kate, but I’ve walked past her home hundreds – if not thousands – of times. As the news broke first that her bruised…
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