Australia s Olympic hero and flagbearer Patty Mills has quietly been donating huge portions of his NBA salary to struggling indigenous communities across the country.
Mills, who is currently leading the Boomers towards a first Olympic basketball medal for Australia, has just signed a two-year US$12million (AU$16.2million) deal with the Brooklyn Nets - linking up with Kevin Durant who he will face in the semi-finals.
The 32-year-old, who has become a vocal activist for a number of causes, has been putting his money where his mouth is.
Mills donated the $1.5million he earned from participating in the NBA s pandemic bubble last year to social justice bodies, including Black Lives Matter Australia, The We Got You campaign and Black Deaths in Custody.
Tantawangalo NSW 2550
Searching for a church in a non-religious context is harder to do than you’d be led to believe. I mean that. Just ask Marie Partridge, who had been looking for a church to convert into a living space for four years, on a range of apps with heavily refined searches.
Enter a modest Tantawangalo kirk, that appeared on Partridge’s phone in 2018. The church, with a green colourbond roof and conventional brickwork finish, was kept in excellent condition by the local congregation. Living within unorthodox structures throughout their upbringings Marie and her husband Simon had already whetted the appetite to remodel a building of interesting proportions. The church at Tantawangalo most certainly satiated it.
Architecture news & editorial desk
Sustainable design addressing climate change, adaptive re-use, post-pandemic public spaces and collaborative projects were some of the highlights of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2021 NSW Architecture Awards announced last week.
The winners were drawn from a total of 299 entries across 13 categories, with the most highly awarded projects sharing common attributes, according to NSW chair of juries, Peter Mould.
“Architects in NSW continue to address the challenges of climate change through sustainable and innovative design,” Mould said.
“Many of the awarded projects are existing buildings that have been adapted for new uses or had existing uses reinvigorated. This sustainably captures all the embodied energy and craft from the past as well as retaining their important contribution to local urban character.