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Facing deportation, Leticia Cables, a nanny from the Philippines, took sanctuary in a Roman Catholic church in Edmonton for three months in 1999. She was eventually deported, but was subsequently allowed to return to Canada. (Paul Daly)
I am an old-school photojournalist. I miss the simplicity of film black and white, colour and transparencies, or slides, if you will.
Before photographs, there were etchings and paintings, both with so much texture. I learned photography from the photojournalists at the Sunday Tribune, the newspaper in Dublin where I started my career.
As a junior photographer, I was taken to the National Gallery of Ireland to study composition of paintings and we discussed how that image would have been taken as a photograph. I especially enjoyed the Norman Rockwell exhibitions and books; his compositions were amazing.
Independent schools defy COVID-19 downturn to record fastest growth
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The independent school sector grew twice as fast as the public or Catholic sectors during 2020, scotching predictions parents would withdraw children because of the financial pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Nationally, the independent sector - which is the countryâs smallest - grew by 2.6 per cent last year, ahead of government schoolsâ 1.3 per cent growth and Catholic schoolsâ 1.2 per cent, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show.
Between 2016 and 2020, the independent sectorâs market share grew by 9.5 per cent, ahead of public schools (5.9) and Catholic schools (1.5).