Tag: Santa Claus
The history of the shopping centre Santa, and how he became a staple of the festive season
Image: Las Cruces Sun-News, Norm Dettlaff
Much to the delight of children (and maybe some adults), Santa arriving in shopping centres all around Australia signals...
The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations
Image: Ruslan Kalnitsky/Shutterstock
It is time to spread some good tidings and joy as we celebrate Christmas.
The main ways we understand and mark the occasion...
Santa was a lady once — is it time to bring her back?
Nancy Bird Walton preparing to fly a female Santa
into north-west New South Wales in 1935. ©Royal Far West
Can Christmas be about gender? Apparently...
WEEKENDS & HOBBIES & ROAST DINNERS
I was asked a few questions recently by a new friend that really had me thinking. Scrambling for answers actually, and aware of the...
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...
A WALK IN THE RAIN
He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...