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ABSENT Generations of men increasingly count the cost of never having had a father ... By Mark Reidy THERE IS a movement gathering momentum throughout western society determined to draw attention and deliver hope to the increasing number of children facing the world without the loving guidance of a father. The devastating effects of fatherlessness are powerfully captured in a multi-award winning film to be presented in Perth on June 29. Absent, produced by US Director Justin Hunt, is a powerful and moving 90-minute documentary testifying to the individual and social ramifications inflicted by fatherlessness. “The father wound is so deep and so allpervasive in so many parts of the world that its healing could well be the most radical social reform conceivable,” Hunt says. “Not only here in the West, but across the globe, disengaged fathers are leaving a mark that will forever reshape the future of our planet.” The documentary, which includes big name subjects such as US heavy metal rock band Metallica frontman, James Hetfield, has touched a nerve and evoked widespread interest; so far it has screened in 33 countries, featured at 18 film festivals and taken out six awards. Continued - Pages 12-13
Metallica front man James Hetfield, above. The lead singer of the influential heavy metal rock band is one of numerous men who talk about the experience and effects of losing contact with or never knowing their own fathers in the documentary Absent, to be screened in Perth later this month. PHOTO: ABSENT MEDIA
Aranmore students soar in languages THEY CAME, they saw, they conquered: Aranmore Catholic College students blitzed their global opposition to come seventh out of more than 1,000 schools around the world in an international language competition. Australian students spent ten days from May 20-30 competing in Madame Béatrice Archambaud and Aranmore students. Aranmore registered top results. PHOTO: ARANMORE
the world’s largest online languages competition, the Language Perfect World Championships. Aranmore was the top school in WA for the second year running. Students worked as a team to answer over 1.4 million questions. They also took the global prize as Top School in the World for Maori. The College’s French students “had certainly been our driving force under Madame Béatrice Archambaud,” said College Principal, Mr Jim Elliott.
“It has proven to be a great community effort by more than half the school population. “I think many students have a greater appreciation of the beauty and joy of another language,” said Mr Elliott. The school placed: • First in WA out of 114 schools. • First globally for Maori out of 491 schools. • First in WA for French out of 92 schools. • Fourth in Australia out of 705
schools. • Seventh globally out of 1,054 schools. Approximately 220,000 students from 1000 schools in 12 countries took part in this year’s competition, making it the largest participation in the six-year history of the event. Students answered questions online in more than ten languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Maori, Russian and Spanish.
A different kind of Catholic education
The educational and religious philosophies attracting a growing number of families to homeschooling - Pages 10-11