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Many of us both look forward to the Christmas holidays and also find them completely exhausting. We can't wait to take a break, but all the awkward family get-togethers, rushing around, and busy shopping knock us out. What is a "holiday," really? The word "holiday" comes from an Old English word which literally means "holy day." First recorded around 950, it referred exclusively to consecrated religious days and the Sabbath. Even deeper, "holy" traces back to a root meaning "

Last night at Bondi Beach, fifteen people celebrating Hanukkah were murdered in a terrorist attack that has left many more critically injured and all of us reeling in shock. Many of us have Jewish friends, neighbours, or family. To them, we are so deeply sorry. We grieve with you. We cannot fathom the weight you are carrying: the fear, the anger, the exhaustion of being hated without end. An old friend of ours, whom we reached out to, said that she told her son, fresh from hi

Crowd gathered at the Westgarth Cinema for Merri Creek Anglican congregation member Jerome Cole's short film. Walk through the neighbourhoods around Clifton Hill and Fairfield, and you notice something distinctive: an unusually high number of people who make things. Creativity here is not confined to galleries or stages; it takes place in classrooms, studios, small businesses, co-working spaces, community organisations, back sheds, university labs, design offices, and kitchen