Dear Mutzi by Tess Scholfield-Peters Harry Peters—formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi—was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. Tess Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather’s story with three intertwining threads: a sketched-out history […]
As a proactive approach towards curbing the Prohibited/Prohibited/Illegal Transportation of seeds, acting on specific information, the sleuths of Cyberabad Special Operations Team (SOT), Medchal Team & Shamirpet Police along with the officials of Agricultural Department conducted a joint operation and nabbed 02 persons by name Gaddam Srikanth & Goshika Naveen Kumar at Orange Bowel Resort […]
Yesterday we attended a meeting of faith leaders and government agencies, convened by His Excellency Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, Bishop of the Maronite Eparchy of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. All attendees endorsed the following statement by the Faith Affairs Council. This week the people of our state have suffered deep loss and pain. Many are experiencing […]
An international best-selling crime writer, an award-winning true crime podcaster and the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature headline a huge lineup in Parramatta for the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. This year’s festival includes eight exciting events across five Council venues at Parramatta, Granville, Epping and Wentworth Point from Wednesday 22 May – Sunday 26 May, […]
Residents in the Hawkesbury Nepean are starting to return home as clean-up efforts continue following days of floods. NSW SES volunteers have been undertaking damage assessments in Sackville, Ebenezer, Pittown and Colo after evacuation orders were issued over the weekend. To date, damage assessments have been undertaken by NSW SES crews in the Northern Beaches, […]