Sydney s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has strict COVID-19 rules â here s what you need to know
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For the first time in 43 years, there will be no crowds on Oxford Street for Sydney s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Instead 36,000 people will flock to the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) tonight for the biggest arts and culture event anywhere in the world right now. Not even the HIV pandemic has kept us down and we will not back down from any other challenge, Mardi Gras CEO Albert Kruger said.
Jazz writer caught the light of music and oceans in words
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JOHN CLARE: 1940-2020
Journalist John Clare mostly listened to music with his eyes closed. If it reared up towards the exceptional his expression was rapturous and when it finished his eyes sprang open, and he grinned or even laughed ecstatically. This intensity of pleasure was the same when he was snorkelling, staring at a painting or cycling: he immersed himself to the exclusion of all else.
That he had grown up with the ocean as a regular companion seemed to infiltrate his writing, which, at its best, was iridescent. Meaning was not just conveyed but sparkled off the words in gripping evocations of a melody or the airborne sensation of riding his beloved racing bike at speed. His sentences could seem to dance, so deftly were they crafted, and the words illuminated each other in such unexpected ways as could make some
The Sydney Morning Herald were out capturing compelling images every day.
And some have already become iconic, like the shot of two firefighters racing for safety as the Green Wattle Creek fire exploded from the bush in a cloud of sparks.
Firefighters run for safety as the Green Wattle Creek fire explodes into a sudden ember storm in Orangeville.
Credit:Nick Moir
Then there is the memorable photo of a Sydney Boys High student and his grandmother touching their hands on opposite sides of a window during COVID isolation. And the pic of a young Indigenous man wearing an I Can t Breathe T-shirt taking a moment for quiet reflection during a Black Lives Matter march.
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Maths teachers shared pre-exam jitters with their students ahead of this year s HSC. Three new syllabuses were tested for the first time and, with limited sample materials, departments felt they were running blind. People were so nervous about how things would go, said Baulkham Hills High School principal Jeannie Bathgate.
Her maths staff scrutinised every corner of each course syllabus, which included new statistics and financial maths topics for advanced and extension 1 maths, and harder mechanics and proof topics in extension 2 . They were super careful to cover absolutely everything, Ms Bathgate said.
Baulkham Hills High School s Caleb Hsiung achieved a 99.95 ATAR with his high maths marks. The school shot up to place equal second in HSC maths rankings this year.