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MPs head to church as the Parliamentary year opens

The bluestone Flinders Street Baptist Church on the corner of Divett Place has been in situ since 1863. It’s a beautiful, Gothic style, building but even when the jacaranda tree outside is not obscuring it in late spring, it fits into its surrounds and can easily be missed.

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Opinion

Reflecting on the feast of the Holy Innocents

The children that Herod killed in attempting to eliminate the Christ-child are considered martyrs. Their lives were taken in witness to Christ. They are not forgotten but remembered each year in our Masses and prayers on December 28, the feast of the Holy Innocents.