A Good Shepherd from Mercy to The Long Paddock
Michael Holding
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S1E14 Final Chapter -The School Principal
Ross had been teaching at Drummoyne Primary School for two years when the inevitable, though unspoken, announcement finally arrived: Ms Crisp was retiring. The news itself caused only the slightest…
S1E13 Chapter Thirteen -A lesson and learning - Teaching and taught
Ross had taken to teaching like a duck to a country dam, full of noise, splash, and a sense of destiny disguised as play. The classroom, to him, wasn’t a box for rote and regulation. It was a…
S1E12 Chapter Twelve -But I doubt he’d suit the office
Of all places in the wide, bustling world of classrooms and chalk dust, Ross was to commence his “in-school practical training” at none other than Drummoyne Primary School. The irony was not lost on…
S1E11 Chapter Eleven -In come the pennies’ out go the pounds
All to the tune of ‘Click go the shears’ 1966 was the year Australia woke up and found its pockets lighter and its world tilting slightly off-centre. Decimal currency arrived with a bureaucrat’s…
S1E10 Chapter Ten -He was shearing when I knew him
Finally, Monday morning. The town yawned itself awake, and Ross was already standing at the brass-handled doors of Goldsborough Mort & Co., looking as if he’d been waiting there since…
S1E9 Chapter Nine -A Vision Splendid
Indeed, it was a vision, scary and surreal, as Ross slowly opened his eyes. The room swam into focus, whitewashed walls glaring, faint scent of antiseptic pricking at his senses, and the persistent…
S1E8 Chapter Eight -The Drover McInnes
The first man Ross met who knew sheep the way a gambler knows odds was named Arthur “Blue” McInnes, though his hair hadn’t been blue for thirty years. It was the washed-out silver of an old coin and…
S1E7 Chapter Seven -We don’t know where he are
We don’t know where he areUnlike Clancy, who had apparently “gone to Queensland droving” and vanished into the dust and legend, Ross Cooper was charting his own curious version of a bush ballad. The…
S1E6 Chapter Six - Clancy of The Overflow
1963 Australia hummed along with its peculiar blend of promise and outlandish. Sir Robert Menzies, unflappable, eternal, and utterly convinced of his own indispensability, remained at the helm as…
S1E5 Chapter Five - The Royal Hotel
That night, Ross sat at the kitchen table of his rented cottage with the cigar box open in front of him like a treasure chest from a parable gone wrong. The money was spread out in loose piles, …
S1E4 Chapter Four -Father Ross Cooper
By 1957, the world seemed to have been set on a frantic spin, and Australia was hurtling along with it. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Liberal Party) was leading a stable government that had been in…
S1E3 Chapter Three -Saint Patricks Seminary - Manly, NSW
Ross arrived at St Patrick’s on a Tuesday morning, the sky over Manly pale and uncertain, like an unpolished pew. The seminary loomed before him, sandstone walls rising in sharp, unwavering lines,…
S1E2 Chapter Two -‘Christian Brothers’ Brothers of Our Lady Mother of Mercy,
Brother Lewis found Ross halfway through his porridge the next morning. The porridge was the usual kind, grey, adhesive, more punishment than meal, but Ross had learned to shovel it down before it…
S1E1 Chapter One - House of Mercy
The building looked like it had been built to last longer than God. Thick sandstone walls, blackened by coal smoke and years of small, silent despair, loomed over the street like a fortress…
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