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Share Esther Charlesworth, founder of humanitarian organisation Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and a professor at RMIT University’s school of architecture and urban design, is the youngest child in a family of seven. She's got quite a story of her own. But over a 90-minute meal in which she travels from 1980s Melbourne to Harvard Uni, through the troubled Balkans and Africa, then back to a women's refuge in Melbourne's Preston, it becomes apparent that although she's making her own mark on the world, she's doing so in the shadow of her siblings. Charlesworth, and her twin sister, are th...

Barwon-Darling irrigators will be forced to stop pumping until river flows increase FriFriday 8 updated FriFriday 8 JanJanuary 2021 at 7:58am The Barwon-Darling river had been stagnant at Brewarrina until a minor flow earlier this month sent water spilling over the weir. ( Print text only Cancel Irrigators along the Barwon-Darling will not be allowed to pump water from next Tuesday, following 90 days of low river flows which have activated a rule banning farmers from diverting water from the river system. Key points: A new rule is expected to be enforced for the first time on Tuesday, January...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a “well-known” packaging industry expert and town stalwart who sadly died earlier this month. John Gandolfini, 69, died at his home in Colchester on December 11, surrounded by his loving family members with the support of St Barnabas, Macmillan and district nurses. In 2018 he had been diagnosed with cancer of the liver and was given the all clear a year later, but following several complications John had to endure a liver transplant. By July of this year he had been given the awful news that the cancer had returned and there was nothing more the doctors ...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. 2020 has been a tumultuous year for the SAPS. At least 20 rotten cops, many at the apex of the service, have been arrested, charged and dismissed for fraud and corruption amounting to hundreds of millions of rand. Five years ago this colonic irrigation of senior ranks in law enforcement would have been unlikely if not unthinkable unless forced by an order of the court. The arrests come after years of dogged investigation, often under life-threatening and career-limiting conditions by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (...

BELLOWS FALLS — There’s house proud, and then there’s “ house proud.” Rockingham has been giving awards every year to the owners of restored homes and other buildings for close to 30 years, and in 2020 everything from a Victorian painted lady, to a 1950s split level modern home, to one of the oldest houses in the town won recognition. The Rockingham Preservation Commission recently handed out five awards, and gave honorable mentions to four other properties. Walter Wallace, the Rockingham Preservation Commission’s coordinator, said the awards have been given out ...