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Norma Hennessy is an artist-painter, writer, and community leader based in Adelaide. She is the author of A Journey in Antipodean Land (The Filipino Heritage in Australia).
Frustrations on Pnoy’s lifting of log ban
While environmental sustainability is an issue being seriously taken globally, it seems that the Philippines has a different idea and prefers to follow a different route. Only nine months [...]
It was past 2pm Saturday, October 22 when the Philippines’ Sikat II of the World Solar Challenge made its way into the Victoria Square ceremonial finish line. A contingent of Filipino community members in Adelaide and other supporters trooped to welcome the solar paneled Sikat II [...]
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Joel Ramintas is no ordinary fitness practitioner and advocate. He has taken his passion for health and fitness far beyond the sights of the ordinary dog-walker or once-a-week-runner on the streets. Joel has sculpted his physique to become an epitome of combined fitness and aesthetics [...]
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It’s festival time in my home city and I would have missed out on two sensational films were it not for Romy Cayabyab, editor and publisher of The Filipino Australian. Romy contacted me from Sydney and put me in touch with the Film Festival committee for an interview with the director and creator of one of the two Filipino movie entries – noted Indie American film maker John Sayles [...]
Continue reading …It was a competitive race over 3021 kilometers from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Adelaide that drew some of the best mechanical engineering minds from 21 countries to cross this island continent of red earth, giant anthills, ghost gum trees and interesting fauna on solar-powered vehicles.
Among the participating 46 teams that made the crossing [...]
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