This reflection on the political events of the past week in Australia and their application to personal reflection was published today in our local paper. The best commentary I read regarding the changeover of the Australian Prime Ministership was attributed to a regional fire brigade: “A reminder that Australia getting a new prime minister is …

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It is an interesting paradox that one of the world’s most stable parliamentary democracies has changed Prime Ministers for a third time without recourse to a general election. It all feels strange and at once so very normal. Oh well. These words keep echoing in my mind. “Put not your trust in princes, in a …

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From the video description: Bretagne: the last known living search and rescue dog who worked at Ground Zero. As members of Texas Task Force 1, Bretagne and her mom/handler Denise Corliss had an intense first deployment They joined nearly 100 other search and rescue dogs to find and save people trapped in the rubble of …

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