After Bondi Beach, Christmas can show human nature at its best |
It will be in our children’s eyes. Bright with expectation and sure something magical is about to occur, their smiles are always wider at Christmas.
There would hardly be a child not caught up in the joy of Christmas morning. Their hope makes them beacons of joy able to lift our hearts in this season of hope, even at a time when there seems little reason for such optimism.
Christmas is different in Sydney this year.
A Bondi Beach Christmas in 2023. Will it ever be the same again?Credit: Flavio Brancaleone
The mass shooting at Bondi Beach that targeted the Jewish community is an obscene crime that has diminished us all. It also brought home a foreign war that shattered beliefs that Australia was a sanctuary from the madness of other conflicts, and left many feeling, for the........