Monday, 5 January 2009

An Indigenous reflection on 2008

Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834) an doctor from Aberdeen, turned celebrated journalist once said: “The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

As Mother Nature’s late afternoon sunrays dim to welcome in a dusk accentuated on the horizon by a myriad of spectacular colours, Australians in unison start the December countdown to surrender yet another year in the new millennium. And what an eventful year it was!

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