Melbourne My dad, when he was alive, would always ask about the rest of the story on these trips — the pieces that didn’t quite fit in but might give some more flavor and insight into the country, so here’s the EJR report on Australian outtakes. * Melbourne is a city of parks. The …
Category: Personal Writings
Aboriginal Committee
Sydney Our last day in Sydney was gorgeous with sun and a breeze. A brief meeting with the chair of the Nature Conservancy was followed by a trek across the central business district to the offices of the teachers union of New South Wales. There in a long conference room we met for several …
Maroon Union
Sydney We woke to rain and an in-coming front, so we were drowned rats when we walked into the house that officed Immigrant Women’s Speak-out Association (IWSA) in the northwest suburbs. Jane Corpuz-Brock, another Filipino woman, interestingly, directed the program focusing on working to move women through the system to citizenship and …