Former MPâs terminal cancer battle revealed He has dedicated his life to standing up for his community. Now as MP Duncan Pegg battles terminal cancer it is the community rallying around him.
Lifestyle by Frances Whiting
Premium Content They re praying for Duncan Pegg. They re lighting candles at Our Lady of Fatima, they re burning incense sticks at the Chung Tian Temple, they re bowing their heads at the Gurdwara Sahib, and they re kneeling on prayer mats at the Kuraby Mosque. All across the Brisbane electorate of Stretton - from Runcorn and Calamvale to Sunnybank Hills and Eight Mile Plains - Catholics and Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus are gathering in their churches, temples and homes to pray for Pegg, 40, the local Labor member who recently announced his resignation for health reasons.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission
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SIR – If it wasn’t apparent already, the stance of Brussels in the latest rounds of negotiations for a trade deal makes it absolutely clear that the EU has no intention of according Britain the respect and consideration that almost any other independent nation on earth would be granted as a matter of course.
Instead, we were treated with disdain.
If it can do that to the nation which by its actions in 1940 made the EU possible in the first place, then one trusts that other nations will take note and be suitably circumspect in their dealings with this sclerotic polity – which looks unlikely to survive for much longer in any case.