DAVID and Maggie Walsh had a split-second decision to make – sit in a hot car for 15 hours with two boys under two, or huddle on the beach as fires circled around them. The couple, from the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, was among the thousands of holidaymakers who were forced to evacuate Ulladulla, on the south coast of New ... Read More »
EXHAUSTED fire crews battled flames in catastrophic conditions, as unprecedented bushfires claimed lives and livelihoods, and smoke shrouded east coast towns from Sydney to far north Queensland. Read More »
ABORTION will be available on-demand in New South Wales for women up to 22-weeks pregnant and available beyond that up to birth with the approval of two doctors with the passage of the NSW Abortion Law Reform Bill 2019 today. The controversial abortion bill passed in the NSW Upper House 26-14, and was handed to the Lower House where it ... Read More »
AUSTRALIAN state legislatures are falling like dominoes to radical abortion laws, with New South Wales the next state tabling abortion-to-birth legislation. The Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 passed the NSW lower house 59-31 just before 11pm on August 8. It still has to pass the state senate. Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher condemned the introduction of the bill, which would ... Read More »
THE MERGER: Starring Damian Callinan, Kate Mulvany, John Howard, Fayssal Bazzi. Directed by Mark Grentell. Rated M (Coarse language). Running time: 103 minutes By Arnie Hurdoyal THERE seems to be a new excitement going around in the past couple of years when it comes to Australian-made motion pictures being released thanks to a new wave of quality films such as ... Read More »
BLEAK. A single word to describe the black, parched land in western Queensland, where rain hasn’t fallen for six months – longer in many parts – and the stations have sent the last remaining cattle away. “No, she’s pretty crook. It looks like a big dustbowl,” Ilfracombe parishioner and citizen of the year June Machin said. Sunday Mass is celebrated ... Read More »
NATIONAL Volunteer Week 2018 was celebrated with gusto at St Agnes’ Parish, Port Macquarie, where the parish thanked its volunteers with a recognition Mass. The Mass was concelebrated by Fr Paul Gooley and Fr Peter Wood, who went with the national theme – Give a little, change a lot. It was a time to reflect on the importance volunteers have ... Read More »
ST Carthage’s Cathedral, Lismore, has been restored, enhancing it as a spiritual sanctuary. Lismore Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett celebrated the re-opening and rededication at a Mass on February 22, with apostolic nuncio Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana in attendance. Bishop Jarrett said the rejuvenation of the cathedral was the culmination of a five-year plan to give the historic structure a makeover. “The ... Read More »
KRISTIAN Rimene left a notorious life as a drug dealer to become a regular volunteer for one of Brisbane’s drop-in centres for the city’s vulnerable. Mr Rimene, a former security guard from Christchurch, New Zealand, moved to New South Wales in 2000, working for some of the Sydney’s most “influential people” in the clubbing scene. After moving to the Gold ... Read More »
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