RELATIVELY SPEAKING
There is a lovely upside to the COVID-19 restrictions on overseas travel. For me, and I m sure for many families, travel in Australia has meant a wonderful increase in family visits. Apart from our usual Christmas gathering of my sons and their families from interstate, since July 2020 my home in Coffs Harbour has welcomed a niece and her husband en route to Byron Bay for a babymoon, a niece, her husband and two children quarantining outside Sydney before continuing to the Sunshine Coast, my Queensland nephew and his partner celebrating an early Christmas here with his Sydney mum and his sister and her family, my brother popping up from Sydney for a long weekend and, most recently, my sister and brother-in-law staying over en route to a Byron birthday.
Timing of the rollout is not entirely in our hands
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THE VACCINE
Timing of the rollout is not entirely in our hands
When any organisation sets up a process to achieve an objective (such as vaccine procurement and delivery) many issues help or hinder success.
The first and most critical is some steps are totally under the process teamâs control and others arenât at all. The manufacture and timelines for delivery to our country we have no control over. We have influence, i.e. ordering, quantities asked for and delivery timelines, but we have no control over these being met. When the vaccine arrives here, we have much more control in the logistics of delivery and application because we have the compliant sta
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Power and predatory sexual behaviour
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CONSENT
Power and predatory sexual behaviour
My elitist, boys secondary school education encouraged competitiveness and dominance. As an impressionable young man, my “rite of passage” transgressions caught up with me and so I learnt the error of my ways. The males of our species are naturally predatory which has led to social exploitation, with the upwardly mobile using and abusing those who have less power.
Mid-Valley Media
Mid-Valley Media asked readers to share their memories about the flood of 96. Here are some of their stories:
I remember having to go to school as it had not been canceled at the time.
We drove off the hill and I watched Billy (her husband, also a teacher) and the kids head down Mountain Home Drive and all I saw was water everywhere.
He said after they arrived at town (Sweet Home) he couldn t believe he had driven through that. Said how stupid that was.
I turned onto Santiam Terrace and it too was covered. All the ponds on the hill had overflowed their banks. Got to Highway 20 and had to drive through water multiple times to Lebanon.