by Edwina Baily | Jul 4, 2022 | Community
Meet Councillor Gerald Power This NAIDOC Week, we’re celebrating the Indigenous people from our past, present and future whoby their actions, show us what it means to “Get up! Stand up! Show up!” To help us get ready, Bev Rankin from Fusion Central West NSW spent some...
by Edwina Baily | May 30, 2022 | Community
Those of us who’ve lived in the dustbowls of droughted Australia know well the gift of gentle rain, the fresh smell of raindrops hitting the parched earth and the soft gentle greening that follows. This is not the harsh scouring of flash flooding, that rips its way...
by Edwina Baily | Mar 31, 2022 | Community, Youth
Even the most superficial survey of communities around Australia and the world would help us identify some communities where young people and their extended families are thriving, and others where it would be hard for even the most resilient person or family to...
by Edwina Baily | Mar 15, 2022 | Community
How can you be a good neighbour this year? After two years of broken connection and isolation, the time is here to pop our bubbles and get into our neighbourhoods again. Neighbour Day on Sunday 27 March is your chance to get out and meet your neighbours and be the...
by Edwina Baily | Feb 1, 2022 | Community
As you start a new year, what are the values you want to live by in 2022? Do you long to be hospitable? Generous? Encouraging? To live a sustainable lifestyle? To include other people? To watch what you say and who you say it to? To listen more deeply to the voices of...
by Edwina Baily | Dec 3, 2021 | Community, Youth
The support and friendship of people across Australia has been a gift to vulnerable young people this year, bringing hope to some of the hardest places. Thanks to those who’ve chosen to invest themselves, their time, finances, skills and resources, young people have...