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"For me, it’s been a really positive experience, the royal commission," Ms Rees said.
"It's really been quite empowering.
"I can go for weeks now and not even think about my childhood. It doesn't come up."
Ms Rees was once fixated on revenge and said there was a time she would have "quite gladly smashed up a church", but she has refused to allow her experience as a child take away her spirituality.
She attends bible study sessions on Tuesdays and runs a prayer group on Thursdays at a community church near her new home in New Zealand.
"I’ve been able to separate what happened to me from my faith," Ms Rees said.
"I don't have any animosity. I'm not fired up like I used to be."
The national apology will be televised live throughout Australia from 11am on Monday.
People who are not attending the apology at Parliament House are able to attend alternative viewings at Margaret Whitlam Pavilion in the National Arboretum, or at Yarramundi Cultural Centre.
The ACT government is providing free return buses to take attendees to both alternative venues. The buses will leave from Gungahlin, Belconnen, Tuggeranong, Woden and Civic, with pick-up times and locations listed on the government's website.
The Falkland Islands Executive Council has approved changes to the Retirement Pensions Ordinance that will increase the retirement age from 64 to 65 in 2020. The changes reflect a policy initially approved by ExCo in 2013 and later by Budget Select Committee during the 2017/18 budget process. Those changes proposed an ...
From shorts to Oscar-nominated features, film has swept the fashion world of late, and the MoMA is going back to the early days of the genre with Frederick Wiseman's documentary, Modelwith a March 22 screening.
Produced in 1980, the documentary takes a look at the industry 30 years ago through the vehicle of the now-defunct Zoli modeling agency. We get to see a young Jerry Hall and others on shoots, castings, fittings and the like on the eve of the birth of supermodel culture. Shot in black and white three decades ago, the fi...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Former cricket star Imran Khan’s party, which won Pakistan’s July 25 general election, said on Friday it had enough support in the National Assembly to form a government after more than a week of talks with other parties and independent politicians.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or Pakistan Movement for Justice, did better than expected to scoop up 16.86 million votes, trouncing the party of jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif, which finished second with 12.89 million.
But the 116 seats won by Khan’s lawmakers were not enough to give him a majority without coalition partners in the National Assembly, which has 342 seats including 70 set aside for women and members of religious minorities.
Fawad Chaudhry, a PTI spokesman, told reporters on Friday that the party believed it had the support of 180 lawmakers when it counted coalition partners and holders of reserved seats.
The coalition would include the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which has dominated politics in the port megacity of Karachi for decades, and the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), a new alliance in Sindh province, Chaudhry said.
“God willing, we will be going much ahead of the absolute majority,” he added.
PTI has said it expects Khan to take the oath as prime minister before Aug. 14, Pakistan’s independence day.
Pakistan’s two former dominant political parties said on Thursday they would join forces to field their own candidate for prime minister in parliament.
However, the opposition alliance was not believed to have the numbers to block Khan’s election.
A European Union election monitoring team in its initial assessment described the election campaign as an unequal playing field, describing a “systematic effort” to undermine Sharif’s former ruling party, but said it was up to the people of Pakistan to decide on the vote’s legitimacy.
Before taking part in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first rally in the state, supporters had prayed at the temple, they said.
Udupi, Karnataka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supporters are offering potted tulsi plants at a famous shrine in Karnataka's Udupi, seeking divine help for the BJP to unseat the Congress in the state.
Forty-five-year-old devotee Keshavacharya travelled all the way from Shiruru village, 22 km from Udupi, to pray at the 800-year-old Sri Krishna temple for PM Modi and his party's success in the crucial May 12 Assembly polls.
Before standing in a long queue at the shrine with a potted tulsi plant, Keshavacharya said he had taken personal care to grow it.
At least one lakh tulsi plants are offered by devotees on a daily basis at the temple with a desire to get their personal wishes fulfilled.
"I decided to offer it (tulsi plant) at the temple for Modi's success," Keshavacharya told news agency PTI.
Two other devotees Govind and Kumaraswami echoed similar views.
Before taking part in the Prime Minister's first rally in the state, they had prayed at the temple, they said.
The project to offer one lakh tulsi plants to Lord Krishna has been initiated by Palimar Mutt's Vidyadheesha Tirtha Swami, who has got a second term to administer the temple.
The project is to dedicate one lakh tulsi leaves of gold -- estimated to cost around Rs 32 crore -- to the Lord during his tenure that will end in 2020.
The plan is to adorn the roof of the sanctum sanctorum of Sri Krishna Mutt with gold topping, Vedavasa Tantri, the diwan of the Sri Krishna Mutt, said.
The devotees, who cannot afford to contribute a golden tulsi leaf weighing one gram, are given the opportunity to render service by offering tulsi plants for 'tulsi archan' being performed daily since January, he said.
Asked if temple officials have come across devotees like Keshavarcharya, he said, "There may be. It is difficult to know with what prayers devotees visit the temple and offer tulsi plants. We never ask about it."
With growing demand for tulsi plants, the temple's project has encouraged employment opportunities in Udupi with many nurseries being set up in the last three months.
The temple too has undertaken tulsi cultivation in around 14 acres in Udupi, Vedavasa Tantri added.
After the puja, the tulsi plant is used for making ayurvedic medicines.
OTTAWA — Team Saskatchewan isn’t relying on anything spectacular. For the Steve Laycock-skipped team, slow and steady is the way to go at the Tim Hortons Brier.
In Tuesday’s afternoon draw, Saskatchewan evened its record at 3-3 with an 8-5 win over P.E.I. Laycock lost his late draw on Tuesday, 7-6 to Mike Kennedy of New Brunswick, falling to 3-4 with the loss. Laycock gave up a steal of two in the eighth end that came back to cost him despite scoring three of his own in the ni...
Laycock plays the Northwest Territories (1-5) in the morning draw on Wednesday before taking on Manitoba (4-2) in the afternoon draw.
The team learned all about the mental edge at last year’s Brier in Calgary.
The curlers need to be able to put things behind them and keep a clear mind.
In the middle of the pack, the Saskatchewan team is battling to stay in contention in what should be a fight to the finish.
Listen to Radio Ulster's commentary on the Ulster Club Football Championship final between Crossmaglen Rangers and Scotstown.
Crossmaglen, the Armagh champions, are attempting to win the Seamus McFerran Cup for an 11th time.
Monaghan side Scotstown have won the provincial title on four previous occasions, the last being in 1989.
For Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere, the opening of Toyota’s relocated headquarters isn’t just about the huge new campus or how much tax revenue it will generate.
“What’s really evident is that the impact Toyota will have in Plano, in North Texas, is the people that will be filling up this building; the value they bring to our community,” he said Thursday evening to an audience of over 350 people, including City Council members, Gov. Greg Abbott, state delegates and White House ...
That value will be realized through jobs and economic activity, but also through the Japanese automaker’s partnerships with local organizations and a $1 million community grant to mobilize area women who are homeless.
Nearly 3,800 people in Collin and Dallas counties are homeless, and more than a quarter of them are unsheltered, according to annual homeless census data. The problem in Collin County, one of the wealthiest areas in North Texas, may not be underscored in public perception because those battling homelessness are not alw...
Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz talks with the crowd at the grand opening of the new headquarters in Plano.
Janet Collinsworth, executive director of Agape Resource and Assistance Centerin Plano.
Jim Malatich, CEO of Hope’s Door New Beginning Center in Plano.
Sheila Miller, executive director of Family Promise of Collin County in Allen.
Eppy Thern, executive director of Shiloh Place in McKinney.
The groups will work together to allocate the $1 million over two years beginning this fall. The money is expected to benefit 40 women heads of households and their children.
The collaborative’s mission is fourfold, Collinsworth said: to provide stable housing, reliable transportation, safe child care and education. The focus on education is to prepare the heads of households for jobs that pay salaried wages, as well as provide benefits, health care and paid time off, Collinsworth said.
In Collin County, a mother with two kids would need to make about $45,000 a year to be self-sufficient, Thern said.
"You can't do that on just a high school diploma," she said.
Thern added that earning that much also wouldn't necessarily require a bachelor's degree but instead a certificate or equivalent that could be earned in a year or less. She said the four groups have devised a list of career fields the women could pursue to earn higher, "head-of-household" wages, such as in bookkeeping ...
The organizations will identify women and families already embedded in one of the programs who are progressing toward independence, Miller said. While Toyota provides financial resources, the collaborative will provide case and budget management as well as counseling. The end goal is for the women to become independent...
PAUL COOK is prepared to take a financial hit to blood Pompey’s youngsters.
The Blues boss is ready to shake up his team selection for tonight’s Johnstone’s Paint Trophy (JPT) trip to Exeter City.
If we have to take a financial hit I’ll take a financial hit.
And that is likely to see the club fined over the competition’s rules for picking players.
The JPT rules state clubs have to pick six of 11 players who started the side’s previous or ensuing fixture.
Alternatively, a manager can play six of his top 11 appearance makers from domestic league and cup competitions.
Breaking those rules can see clubs liable for a fine of up to £5,000.
That is something Cook is prepared to take on the chin to ensure his emerging players get minutes at St James Park in the first-round clash.
Cook is planning to hand starts to the likes of Academy youngster Calvin Davies and teenage midfielder Adam May.
Like many of his peers, the Pompey boss is perplexed by the restrictions placed on his selection choices.
And he is willing to accept the penalty to do what he believes is best for his side.
Cook said: ‘I will be making changes.
‘I don’t agree with the rules at all. I think we should be looking out for the future of our young players.
‘If we have to take a financial hit, we’ll take a financial hit.
The likes of Ben Tollitt, Ben Close, Brandon Haunstrup, Adam Webster and Conor Chaplin could be involved.
Tollitt has had to settle for just 23 minutes of first-team action since joining from Skelmersdale United.
Haunstrup and Chaplin were both given Blues starts in the Capital One Cup matches against Derby and Reading.
Adam Barton is close to coming back into the senior picture after struggling with a groin injury so far this season and Kal Naismith has been passed fit after his thigh problem.
James Dunne is fit again after his ankle issue, while Adam McGurk will be looking to up his playing time.
Cook said: ‘People haven’t really seen Ben Tollitt yet but he is a talented young man. I want to give them minutes on the pitch.
‘Once we get past the Exeter game I will need to look at the bigger picture for these lads to gain experience.
‘I don’t think it should surprise you with the way Adam Webster has played.
‘He is such a good player and such a good lad. The good thing about our young lads is their attitude to the game.
‘It’s Conor Chaplin, Ben Close, Brandon Haunstrup and you can go right through the lot of them really.
‘These lads are grounded and are working hard.
‘They are the last lads to leave the training ground.
Unlike all those recent American movies that seem, somehow, alien corn, Daniel Petrie's "Square Dance" (at the Music Hall) has the flavor of one kind of American life down pat.
Jacek Laskus' camera catches the look of rural Texas and Fort Worth, and Petrie's actors catch some of the rhythms. The film has a dry, hot texture: in the country, trees and ground, the way the wind stirs the grass. And in the city: the cheap, flattened-out look of the houses, the way the sunlight seems to bend over t...
The movie is based on a novel that screenwriter Alan Hines took partially from boyhood Texas memories. Its central character, Gemma (Winona Ryder) is another child on the brink. Just 13, she's forced to choose between two worlds: the settled, rural life of her grandfather, Dillard (Jason Robards), and the messier, more...
The grandfather represents solidity, tradition; he's a cranky, quirky old harmonica-player. The mother, Juanelle--a hairdresser married to a gas station owner--lives in a world of gas, booze and cosmetics, of casual promiscuity and get-rich-quick schemes.
The whole conflict is schematic. It suggests Larry McMurtry and "Hud" as well as the obvious influences: McCullers, Capote, Harper Lee. And Hines also serves up that Southern Gothic touchstone: the tender, scorned idiot, Rory (Rob Lowe), a sweet, slack-jawed lad who loves Gemma.
"Square Dance," like other "heartland" movies, is both celebratory and satiric. It casts a fond eye on Gemma's rural, religious roots at the same time it attacks the city and its materialism.
The dialogue is salty, the milieu precisely sketched. The script has limitations; it's a derivative coming-of-age story and, in a way, you feel that Hines, a Fort Worth boy who settled in New York, is cheating. (His characters return home, though he didn't.) Yet, if "Square Dance" isn't really great material, the movie...
It also shows how good mainstream U.S. film artists can be when they focus clearly on their own country. Petrie's last film was the semi-autobiographical "Bay Boy." He's a fine, earthy director, whose virtues are idealism, close observation, compassion--and this is just the type of vehicle to bring them out. He sets th...
As Juanelle's buddy Gwen, Deborah Richter has a juicy, clinging sensuality; Guich Koock is faultless as the stolid husband, Frank. Rob Lowe's Rory is a good job, if too studied. It's not the cracker Mortimer Snerd routine you might expect, but, as elsewhere, Lowe's charisma outstrips his inspiration. High schooler Ryde...
Robards and Alexander are great actors who know exactly what to do with every opportunity they're given. They have plenty of opportunities here, and they make their scenes, simple in outline, soar with emotion. The way Robards says, "Yes ma'am, you do," when Gemma asks if she looks like her grandmother; the way Alexand...
An Island Pictures release of a Michael Nesmith presentation in association with NBC productions. Producer Daniel Petrie. Director Petrie. Script Alan Hines. Executive producers Charles Haid, Jane Alexander. Camera Jacek Laskus. Music Bruce Broughton. Editor Bruce Green. Production design Jan Scott. With Jason Robards,...

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