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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

One of the most striking cultural shifts of the last few decades is the rise of the "spiritual but not religious" person. You meet them everywhere in Melbourne's inner-north. People who don't want institutions but crave transcendence. People who don't trust dogma but long for meaning. People who won't tick a denominational box but practise ritual, meditation, tarot, mindfulness, or a curated mosaic of spiritual practices. For these neighbours, the hunger is real, even if the