In the last few weeks we've had some very sad stories in our media. Police shootings of mentally ill young men, children dying from drinking unprocessed milk, our government winning the right to treat asylum seekers with unprecedented cruelty.... In the midst of this are two tragic crimes. On November 23 some people out for a Sunday morning cycle heard strange noises coming from a partly covered drain beside Sydney's M7 freeway. They investigated and found a newborn baby boy abandoned in the drain. Doctors judged that the child had been there for 6 days. The lucky boy is now recovering in foster care and his mother has been found and charged with attempted murder. Just a week later , two young children playing on Maroubra Beach in Sydney uncovered the remains of another infant who turned out to be a baby girl. Sadly this child did not survive and the remains were badly decomposed. The search for her mother is still ongoing. These stories produce a complex re
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson