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The Italian Consul in Melbourne, Mauri, meets the mayor of Hobart
WorldANSA1mo ago

The Italian Consul in Melbourne, Mauri, meets the mayor of Hobart

(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 FEB - The Consul General of Italy in Melbourne, Chiara Mauri, met with the mayor of Hobart, Anna Reynolds. They discussed updating the twinning agreement between the city of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, and L'Aquila. The link between the two cities was formalized in 1997, when the then mayor Antonio Centi traveled to Australia with the aim of establishing relations and contacts with the local Abruzzo communities. More recently, in January 2025, the mayor of L'Aquila, Pierluigi Biondi, together with a delegation from the Carispaq Foundation, made an institutional visit to Australia, meeting Mayor Reynolds in Hobart. Read article...

The kindness of strangers: I was exhausted wrangling my two young kids – then a man popped $2 into the coin-op ride
CultureThe Guardian1mo ago

The kindness of strangers: I was exhausted wrangling my two young kids – then a man popped $2 into the coin-op ride

When I was feeling utterly worn out, a stranger came along to give my kids joy Read more in the kindness of strangers series I was completely exhausted. While wrangling two kids aged under three, my husband and I had just moved all the way from the Kimberley to Tasmania. I remember being totally sleep deprived and trying to furnish a new house entirely from op-shops, without a support network around. I was so tired I’d recently driven the car into the fence at home – that’s the level of exh...