Australia Day 2026 – Dentist at Large
This Australia we managed to explore parts of Sydney that are not always open and experience and see modes of transport that are not always there. This year the theme for me was service. Government house was opened to the general public. This is the New South Wales Governor’s residence. Recently the 37th governor Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO (1 Mar, 2001 to 1 October, 2014) passed away recently after many years of service. She was a well-regarded.
Dame Marie Roslyn Bashir (1930 – 20 January 2026) was an Australian psychiatrist and administrator. She also the 17th chancellor of the Sydney University from 2007 to 2012. In 1995, in a partnership with the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, she established the Aboriginal Mental Health Unit, which provides regular clinics and counselling at both the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and mainstream centres. From 1996, Bashir also took up the consultative role of senior psychiatrist to the Aboriginal Medical Service.
In the hall of all the governor’s portraits, her portrait has a black ribbon on it, as a sigh of respect.
There was also an diplay of all the Australian Honours and Awards highlighting those who serve others particulary protecting our country. We have a country that have freedoms that people yearn for. These freedoms were hard fought for and many sacrificed their lives for it. Lest we forget.
We celebrate the diverity of our country with its people from all over the world ans its first nation peoples.
Also, the diversity of its native Flora as exhibited for each state’s emblem.
Now the modes of transport. Let’s list them:
Now we even use our icons as palates for entertainment and messages.
Australia is a very unique place in the world, with its landscape, flora and fauna, produce, humour and its people of many backgrounds, enjoying its many hard fought, freedoms, including protest marches.
However, freedom is eternal vigilance.
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