Drawn to Rock

by Mark Mordue | Aug 2, 2023

Audrey is putting it all together. At age 16 she is still in Year 11 at high school. She was learning the piano for a year, she says. She also tried the recorder and ukulele. “I did choir too. Nothing ever really stuck. I wrote a couple of songs. None of them had...

One Great Gift Deserves Another

by Mark Mordue | Jun 28, 2023

Working in tandem with the Street Side Medics service Addi Road is seeing a new kind of customer and many more people in need. The working poor, the unemployed and the homeless moving ever closer together. Judy has noticed this change in what is going on too. She...

Framing Our Future Together – Lighting the Way for Multicultural Australia

by Mark Mordue | Jun 15, 2023

Warmth and light. Brendan Kirin, a cultural representative from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, stands before a low-burning fire, ready to place leaves on the red coals and begin a smoking ceremony to launch a very special evening for the Addison Road...

Restoration, Community, Unity

by Mark Mordue | May 31, 2023

The need to communicate; the images and texts that fade away as fast they arrive; the contacts and messages that never answer something within us… Modern life can feel isolating and overwhelming, rushing nowhere. Restoring a little strength and unity to how we...

Little Birds

by Mark Mordue | May 6, 2023

Addi Road Food Pantry here in Marrickville is closing for another day. A barefoot schoolboy nearby, standing behind a tree, makes high calling sounds. “Is that a bird? Is that a bird?” a couple of women call out, as if they can’t see him.   Our volunteers are shutting...