2016 OLYMPIC HEROES LONG BEFORE THE RIO GAMES BEGAN
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AS THOUGH SCRIPTING HIS OWN LAST WORDS
One more idealist is now in Heaven. Just a matter of days ago, one of our world’s great men – Michael Elliott – raised his glass for the last time, and then shut
A VOTE VIOLATING VOWS
Just the thought of such a desire is staggering. A nation, part of the world’s greatest union of nations representing one of our generation’s greatest achievements in i
HONOURING THEIR OLYMPIC DREAM
A mosquito. A tiny, seemingly inconsequential flying creature, commonplace across the globe. Simply a prick of a pain in most parts, barring those where Malaria is a very re
WHY WE CRIED THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
Why the tears? Why the worldwide wave of shock, and the enduring mourning? Why the news cycle take-over? Why such unedited expressions and unfiltered images of sadness from
HOPE COMES ALIVE IN A HANDSHAKE
Numbing. The feeling was simply numbing. And it was becoming all too familiar. First a high. A high that would carve a line in the history books of the 21st Century. An
A LAST WHISPER BEFORE A LIONESS RESTS
This past week Africa lost one of its magnificent lionesses. A force of nature, a woman of great strength, courage, grace and class, this young and vibrant lioness spent her
MIRROR MIRROR ON US ALL
It’s hard to believe he could have ever imagined such a response. And yet literally overnight, on the eve of Australia’s national day, the video link of Stan Grant̵
THERE IS ONLY ONE
2015. A year of immense joy, and intense ache, is counting down its last days, and hours…. In its last 60 days alone, global events have shown how inseparably intercon
A WHISPER OF A PRAYER OF THANKS
In just a matter of hours, it will be December. And the countdown to the end of the year will be on. In actual fact, in some parts of the world it already is, the location o