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THE SCARLET LETTER

The Council for the Single Mother and Child (CSMC) started in St. Kilda, fifty years ago. As the first self-help group in Victoria, it...

IT’S NOT CRICKET – BUT IT’S CLOSE

It’s a while since I played cricket. No, I’m not saying how long, but I was the number two batter as well as the...

TRUMPED UP

He’s the gift that keeps on giving. What wonderful thing will he come up with next? Guns for teachers. I had a teacher who...

THE GIFT OF GIVING  

Tis the season to be jolly, as you have a nervous breakdown pondering if you have bought everyone on your list a present, and...

ROLLING BOTH WAYS

The United States Roller Derby came to town in the sixties. It was something like a wrestling match on wheels. The spectacle was stage-managed...

GOODBYE GATWICK

  We gathered in the street. There was acceptance of difference all around, small children danced spontaneously, an indigenous smoking ceremony gave us hope...

SPIT and POLISH

It was a pleasant afternoon. We imbibed the odd glass of something and reminisced over past adventures, like falling in a canal in Venice,...

UP TO SPEED

“Often away and believed uneducable.” I stared at the words. This was Phil’s last school report, hand written on a sheet of paper. There was...
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