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...scene, hangs up her habit to face the light of day, must have had added resonance: that year Bernadette entered the cloistered world of the Carmelite sisters of Dulwich Hill. In the 45 years since, she's seen no movies, and no more Audrey Hepburn - no Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Natasha in War and Peace. For Sister Bernadette, Hepburn is a distant memory. "I think it was just a made-up order," she says of the convent in The Nun's Story. "Yes, I saw that when I was young...
...John Paul II's 31 new cardinals, the Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, is visiting the monastery for the first time this afternoon. "It's a great blessing," says Sister Antoinette excitedly. Otherwise, the day has proceeded calmly for the sisters. For many of them, breakfast was "bread with honey straight from the hive," reports Sister Veronica. And fish for lunch, plus plenty of fruit "and because we don't have meat, we just throw in peanuts for the protein." But no alcohol. As Sister Veronica puts it, "We have a regular life, marked by a moderate austerity...
...friends and relatives come and go. "The grass keeps the wind off," explains father Leslie Robbor (standing, with back to the camera). On weekday mornings, his son Darren and daughters Brenda and Jasmine scrub up in the ablution block and go into the roadhouse, where manager Jones gives them breakfast and correspondence lessons sent from the Aboriginal community at Kalkarinji, 170 km to the south. If the kids are good, they get to cool off afterward in the roadhouse swimming pool...
...start of the British Open on his television means that a picture of Greg Norman the paper's been chasing since late afternoon is on its way. It's a long time since 7 a.m., when Whittaker's daily immersion in news begins: 11 papers online at home over breakfast, perhaps a call from editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell who's out walking the dogs, then another newspaper on the bus into work. Every night he bins a stack of papers and printouts on his way out the door, and every morning the blank layouts of another day's paper...
...buzz of getting a byline or a splash is the same buzz I get from this," she says. "It's not the power; it's the fun, the crafting." As she walks out just after 1 a.m. into the dark morning, she remembers she hasn't eaten since breakfast, or left the building all day. Above her the newsroom is still. But it won't be for long. There are always new deadlines on the way; and there will always be more rocks to turn over...