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Year In Review – Family

By Geoff | Published 2 January, 2009 1:34 pm

It’s certainly been a mixed year for our (Bec and my) families this year.  In November (though I chose not to mention it at the time), my paternal grandmother passed away. Dad gave an amazing effort at the funeral, giving a moving eulogy that was remarkably honest and very gutsy. She had been unwell for [...]

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Year In Review – Solomons

By Geoff | Published 31 December, 2008 1:52 pm

It was certainly a significant moment in the year; heading across to the Solomon Islands with a team for the dedication of the Solomon Islands Pijin Bible. Gerry (my father-in-law) had been one of the key translators on the Pijin Bible project for about 10 years, and so it was a very special moment to [...]

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Year In Review – Positionless

By Geoff | Published 31 December, 2008 1:13 pm

While you’d be really pushed to hear it from his own mouth, my dad was a pretty decent footballer in his younger days. He played for Victoria in the old “Teal Cup” under 19’s competition, but eventually reached a point where he had to make some hard decisions about how much effort to put into [...]

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Year In Review – Marriage

By Geoff | Published 31 December, 2008 11:37 am

It would be foolish for me to try and write about the year I’ve had without talking about the experience of being married. Given that it all started on January 5th – it’s obviously been the biggest thing about this year. And it’s certainly taken some getting used to, in ways I didn’t necessarily expect. [...]

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Year in Review – The Apology

By Geoff | Published 31 December, 2008 10:42 am

“After this moment, Australia can be imagined as a different place. A place where Aboriginal citizens no longer live in third world conditions. A place where our kids are safe. A place where community rights, of choice, consultation, participation and responsibility matter more than administrative procedures and public sector management guidelines.”
“After the Apology” – Patrick [...]

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