Earlier this year I was invited to join a youth mentoring program about to commence in the area where I Iive – on the NSW south coast.* I was interested but unable to take on the role owing to travel plans over the following months. I thought though, I’d like to follow the program with …
Back in March I posted about a local youth mentoring project that I was following. The project is now past the half way mark and I have recently written about it – sort of a progress report. The South Coast Register published the story on May 13, as “Magic mentoring influences youths”. I’m planning a more …
A local community services organisation, Bay and Basin Community Resources, is running a youth mentoring program over a few months. The focus of the program is on leadership development. I’m sitting in on many of the sessions and while the focus is on youth I’m finding the impact on the adult mentors quite fascinating. It’s …
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree (PART ONE – first published July 22, 2014) Up and down the coast and along our waterways there is a clash between public land management and the private desire for a water view. The private desire, which some foreshore property owners see …
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Over a couple of trips to Bourke in north-west NSW late in 2013 I got interested in the town and its socio-economic circumstances. I hadn’t been there for 12 years and the place felt significantly different – despite a Sydney Morning Herald report from earlier in 2013 declaring it more dangerous than any country in …