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    The Republican Movement is Back

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: January 28, 2022|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on The Republican Movement is Back|

    I'm reposting this Conversation article by Denis Altman, to mark my backing of the new model being set up by the ARM. The republic debate is back (again) but we [...]

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  • Climate Change: Things Australians Are Doing About It

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: December 5, 2021|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on Climate Change: Things Australians Are Doing About It|

    Reference: ABC Online: Future Australia While the Federal government has come to the party at the COP 26 (Glasgow) on net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, our 2030 targets still [...]

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  • Pandemic States of Australia:

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: October 25, 2021|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on Pandemic States of Australia:|

    A Hermit State Forever More? The normally united states of Australia, have entered a chequered phase of mistrust and anger. Victoria hates New South Wales for not locking down sooner [...]

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    What We’re Reading Down Under

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: October 13, 2021|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on What We’re Reading Down Under|

    That is, reading on the beach I live at Coogee, close to the beach in a unit with my husband of 47 years. Coogee Beach is located on Sydney's famous [...]

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    Memories of a Country Education

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: September 23, 2021|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|2 Comments on Memories of a Country Education|

    by Ian Harry Wells (Wellsy) Armidale is a city of learning, being home to the first NSW Teachers' College established outside of Sydney. The Armidale Teachers' College is a heritage-listed (now [...]

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    Things Come in Threes by Ian Wells

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: September 22, 2021|Categories: Guest Post, Writing Australia|9 Comments on Things Come in Threes by Ian Wells|

    What would you do, if you lost your long-term partner? How would you cope with the grief? My Armidale Teachers' College classmate, Ian, writes about just this. Feel free to [...]

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  • The Pandemic Down Under

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: August 17, 2021|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on The Pandemic Down Under|

    Coronavirus (COVID-19) SARS-CoV-2, The Australian Government is managing the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia as a health emergency. A glossary of terms in daily use in the media in Australia in [...]

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    Voices From the Past

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: November 5, 2019|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on Voices From the Past|

    Words in a book... Esther learnt of my existence and found me through words in a family history tome. My older brother had written and published A Little Bit of [...]

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    Boat People to Australia: a revisit

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: March 22, 2019|Categories: Writing Australia|7 Comments on Boat People to Australia: a revisit|

    In 2015, I titled this post "A Crafty, Callous and Curmudgeonly Crew", which was a boating metaphor for the members of cabinet at the time. I found their lack of [...]

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    Spring Happenings in Sydney

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: September 24, 2018|Categories: Writing Australia|0 Comments on Spring Happenings in Sydney|

    Whenever I walk through Sydney Hyde Park, past the Archibald Fountain,  along Art Gallery Road, and up to the steps of the Art Gallery of NSW, I remember our six-year-old [...]

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