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    Cornish gather at Australian Celtic Festival 2012

    Posted on 15 May 2012 | No Comments
    The 20th Australian Celtic Festival may have honoured our cousins the Bretons, as well as Galicia and Asturia, as its 2012 theme  but the Cornish in Australia also gathered in Glen Innes  last week (3-6 May, 2012). Situated 915m (3,000 ft) above sea level in...
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    Back to Eaglehawk

    Posted on 1 May 2012 | No Comments
    The Cornish in Victoria, Australia, got together last month for 3 days of Cornish heritage, friendship and fun! [16, 17, 18th March 2012] As part of the 41st Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival, it was back to Eaglehawk, a town within what is now the...
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    A Cornish Settlement

    Posted on 17 December 2011 | No Comments
    On the afternoon of Sunday 18 December, 2011 members of the small local rural community and a few Cornish from much further a-field will again gather at the Byng Uniting Church for a simple Christmas Carol service and afternoon tea. The story behind this ordinary...
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    High Tea in Camden

    Posted on 20 November 2011 | No Comments
    What’s that? No, we haven’t gone all Home Counties English. This Camden is the one down in the Cowpastures countryside, where wandering cattle from the First Fleet in New South Wales were found happy and well fed many years later as the colony tentatively moved...
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    Sun, surf, and saffron?

    Posted on 21 September 2011 | No Comments
    - by Kevrenor - Sun – there was that in abundance! Surf - just nearby at your choice of ocean or bay-side location! Saffron - well, no saffron buns or cake for this year alas – but there was certainly saffron in the Cornish national...
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    Cornish in sunny Queensland keep active

    Posted on 3 September 2011 | No Comments
    IN what passes for winter in sunny Queensland the Cornish have kept busy with a Pasty Picnic in New Farm Park, Brisbane, which was reported in their Newsletter, ‘Pythow Kernewek … Things Cornish’ as very enjoyable, with seventeen members on the day (hmm .. seems...
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    Bendigo Cornish – down, but not out!

    Posted on 8 August 2011 | No Comments
    We like to focus on the good things around the Diaspora in this section of the e-magazine, but there are Cornish groups struggling to survive demographic change and a more and more busy lifestyle. A sad announcement has been received: “The Cornish Association of Bendigo...
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    Australian Census 2011 – Yes, the Cornish count!

    Posted on 27 July 2011 | No Comments
    It is now Australia’s Census time, and yes the Cornish need to be counted! Cornish born, or with Cornish men or women in your ancestry? Now is the time to be counted, along with an estimated 300,000 Australians, on Australia’s Census night, Tuesday August 9,...
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    [Celtic Council of Australia] Census 2011 – The Celts want to be counted!

    Posted on 26 July 2011 | No Comments
    It is Census Time in Australia, and the Celts want to be counted! That’s what the Celtic Council of Australia (CCA) is saying for an estimated six and a half million Australians, leading up to Census night, August 9. An umbrella cultural and educational organisation...
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    Pasty treat for the Cornish in NSW Australia

    Posted on 21 July 2011 | No Comments
    The Cornish Association of New South Wales  in Australia are having a special Cornish Fayre Day on Saturday 23 July, 2011. A Pasty making demonstration and workshop (up to 12 people can get hands on) will be held. Plus there will be a Pasty lunch...
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