Anglican Church of Australia

Christ Church South Yarra Worship, Ministry, Mission Contact

Eastertide 2017

Parish Journal

Vol 26, No 1

www.ccsy.org.au From the Registers since the last Contact

Baptisms

13 November Sabine Dawn Wretham 20 November William de Lassence Kennedy 5 February Lindsey Ellen Warner (adult) 12 February Elodie Ava Cuddy 2 April John Arthur Michael Jayawardena 15 April Farkhandeh (Ferri) Forouzi (adult) 23 April Bailey Beau Gravelle Lila Sybyl Machado Holly Imogen Udovicich 30 April Holly Grace Chiselett Noah Arthur Bignell Hicks Jason Zi Yang Huang Lucien William Marcel Hamish Alexander Michael Nicholson Charlotte Anna Roylance Alicia Gail Teska (adult) 3 May Tom Edward Jesudason Stella Rose Jesudason Ruby Grace Jesudason

Weddings & Marriage Blessings

18 November William Mace & Edwina Manifold 19 November Steven Jenkins & Kerryn Meagher 9 December Mitchell Goodwin & Loren Giles 10 December Shon Jones & Elsa Crocker 17 December Tony Dickinson & Natasha Wilson (offsite) 6 January Christopher Harley & Sandra Treadwell-Monk 7 January Nicholas Cheng & Tanya Nunes 14 January Kier Haslett & Alexandra MacCallum 19 January Max & Elizabeth Welch (blessing) 29 January Davis San Roman & Alexandra Chu (blessing) 5 March Jin Mai & Jiaxin Liut (blessing) 11 March Peter & Patricia Reuben (blessing) 25 March Charles Westh & Alexandra Hanson 8 April Xikan Han & Elizabeth Evans 29 April Nicholas Harrison & Lindsey Warner 6 May Yee Michael Tsam & Vittoria Tonin

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Funerals & Memorial Services

28 October Shirley Seaboyer 18 November Andrew Hay 28 December Elizabeth Duffield 18 January Max Thompson 3 February Marjorie Orr 20 February Alan Meuleman (off site) 8 March John Smith 12 April David Parsons

Ashes Interred

5 January Richard Middleton 26 March Max Thompson

Introducing the Parish Library (and Librarian!)

You may have noticed or have read in the pew sheet about the Parish Library which has sprung up in the corner of the Benfield Room in the Old Vicarage, from which you are welcome to borrow, and/or donate to, when next visiting the Parish Office.

At this stage the books have come mainly from 3 sources: • from the library of the late Fr David Warner, former vicar of CCSY • from the library of the late Dr Trudy Spencer, a psychiatrist by profession but also in her later years a scholar of Middle Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies and Comparative Religions • Fr Alex Ross, former Assistant Curate of CCSY, has also contributed a few volumes We have about 100 books at the moment, and counting, including: The significance of the message of the resurrection for faith in Jesus Christ Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages The Resurrection narrative: a new approach The poems of St John of the Cross The Church from the Gentiles in Palestine The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church The Prayer Book- its history, language and contents The parables of Jesus on the way to the Cross The life of St Teresa Early Christian Doctrines Isolation, Integration and Identity: the Muslim experience in Australia Archaeology of the Old Testament The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible: an introduction to the history of the Bible

Happy browsing and reading! Dr Jenny Baldwin 3

From the Vicar

Five Wounds of Christ – Five Marks of Love

This year’s Paschal (Easter) Candle is featured on the front cover, with thanks to Honorary Associate Priest and artist Jenny Nelson. It was lit for the first time at the Easter Vigil, and will burn at services throughout the 50 days of the Easter season, and at every baptism and funeral until next Easter. As it does every year, the candle – a sign of the presence of the Risen Christ with his people – bears five brass nails marking the five wounds of Christ: head, hands, feet, and side; wounds that the Risen Christ also bears, for the Risen Christ does not cease to be the Crucified One.

Mother Jenny has circled the nail at the centre of the cross with five open hands, five differently coloured palm prints, and around the base of the candle are five corresponding words: tell, teach, tend, transform, treasure.

During Lent some of us took part in a study series – face to face or online – called The Five Marks of Love, each one a reflection on an aspects of mission as identified by the Anglican Communion of churches worldwide.

That mission is God’s mission: God’s mission to the world in Christ, crucified and risen; a mission that begins with Mary Magdalene’s telling; a mission in which we are called to participate – a calling entrusted to the Church, and given to each of us in baptism.

Because of what God has done in raising the Crucified One with his five wounds, there are things we are called to do as his body in the world, bearing still those five indelible marks of divine love. Hence the five hands.

Tell: tell the good news of the Kingdom of God, by our words, attitudes and actions.

Teach: teach, baptise and nurture new believers; show others – and keep learning ourselves – what it means to live under that just and merciful reign.

Tend: tend to human need by loving service.

Transform: transform unjust structures, challenge violence of every kind, and pursue peace and reconciliation, in our homes, our workplaces, our churches, our nation, our world.

Treasure: treasure and safeguard the integrity of creation; sustain and renew the life of the earth.

Fatima Measham is a Melbourne-based Roman Catholic blogger. Reflecting on the observance of Holy Week and Easter in a recent issue of Eureka Street, she writes:

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I don’t think Easter is meant to be entirely comforting. The human drama, with its . . . betrayals . . . [and] machinations . . . bears the sting of injustice. The central narrative of Christian faith is political. Choices were made by people in power. They are still being made.

Measham points to the recent state-sanctioned violence in her own country of origin (the Philippines), to the clerically-tolerated abuse of the most vulnerable in her own ecclesial tradition – an indictment in which our own churches fare better only in degree – and to the bleaching of two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef, emblematic, she argues ‘of a bleak future’, likely to impact on the lives of her own children.

People in power make choices.

On Good Friday morning, Fr Paul Bower spoke of the helplessness we feel at the foot of the cross in the face of injustice, of the abuse of power, which takes manifold forms: the crisis in Syria, the carnage in Egypt, escalating global tensions, chronic disadvantage for Indigenous Australians, entrenched and structural homophobia, barely submerged racial prejudice.

Yes, people in power make choices. And so do we.

We can choose to share in God’s mission to the world in the Crucified and Risen Christ.

Indeed, in baptism we have chosen – or have been chosen – a choice that we are asked to make again this Eastertide, as we reappropriate our baptismal identity and stand in solidarity with children and adults being baptized in this great season of our profession.

Mary Magdalene chose not to walk away from the injustice of the cross, when almost everyone else did. She stood Celebrating Ferri’s baptism (centre left) are there and stared it down at God only Mother Marilyn Hope (Parish Deacon, left) and knows what cost to herself. Ferri’s sponsors Jan Rothwell Short (centre right) and Sara Karimi Haghighi And in the poetic justice, at least, of John’s gospel, it is Mary Magdalene who exercises the first mark of love: she tells the other disciples the good news of the kingdom of God, namely that He is risen, that there is something more powerful even than brute force.

The Church catholic, or universal, exists because of that one breathless, bewildering announcement.

Perhaps we are part of the Church – that community of faith and fellowship – because someone taught or showed us this subversive truth, and brought us to the edge of those risky waters of baptism.

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Or perhaps it is because someone tended lovingly to our wounds in a time of need.

Perhaps there are things going on in our world, in our country, in our communities that we cannot pretend are not happening, in which we cannot pretend we are not somehow complicit, and that we hope to join with others in changing.

Perhaps we feel the groaning of creation under the weight of our human self-interest.

Whatever has drawn us in to this community, our worship Year 6 CCGS students and the renewal of our baptism sends us out to participate in Alette McCrum and Charles God’s mission to world: a mission begun in creation, Harley take part in the inscribed in Israel, embodied in Christ, continued in us. ANZAC Day March with the support of Year 1 So may we bear those costly marks of the love that bears us. Teacher Marg McBean

The Parish Website With thanks to Senior Associate Priest Father Paul Bower and Honorary Associate Priest Mother Jill Renison, and with the support of Parish Council, we have a new website. If you have not yet had a browse, go to www.ccsy.org.au New pages are being added all the time, and the site is proving to be a valuable point of contact for inquirers. You can even listen to selected sermons – the ones we remember to record on our phones!

And then there were 30! Dr Roy Port, regular contributor to Contact (see pages 9 to 11) and pioneer of the ‘Gallery of Faith’ project, has reached a milestone with his thirtieth photographic portrait of members of the Christ Church community. The portraits are accompanied by short testimonies, each one engaging and illuminating. To see the most recent additions, please visit www.ccsy.org.au/faith-gallery

The Christ Church Music Foundation As we approach the middle of the year, two opportunities to support the work of the CCMF arise: the annual end-of-financial-year appeal for tax-deductible donations, and the Choir’s annual Showcase Concert on Friday 12 May (see p. 12). This year’s concert pays tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s 65 years as monarch, and promises to be another wonderful evening.

We are richly blessed with the consistent CCGS Year 6 student Thomas Attwood standard and breadth of repertoire that the Choir enjoys a workshop as part of the offers under Michael Fulcher’s direction, and the Japanese Music festival last October – an Music Foundation exists solely to support this initiative of Emiko Yamamura and the CCMF ministry and point of outreach, easing pressure on the Parish budget in the process. 6

The Foundation’s goal is to build a corpus that will help sustain and strengthen the tradition of sacred music at Christ Church, and the Trustees acknowledge the generosity of so many in this regard.

A new Chairman for Christ Church Grammar School Having chaired the Board of the Parish School from May 2012 to August 2014, and again from January 2015 to May 2017, I am excited to share with the wider Christ Church community the announcement in late April of a new Chairman for CCGS.

The Directors of Christ Church Grammar School, with the Principal and Head of School, are pleased to announce that Mr Paul Sheahan, AM, is to be Chairman of the School Board. Paul’s appointment will be effective as of the next Board meeting on 23 May, and represents the culmination of many months of succession planning to secure a permanent Chair. We are delighted to have brought someone of Paul’s calibre to the role, and look forward to working with him. My own chairing of the Board has been necessarily transitional. With Chrissy Gamble now well and truly established as Principal, the Main Campus Redevelopment Project underway, and a new lease executed securing the School’s long- term footprint at Parkside, it is an opportune moment for me to step aside from that role. As Vicar of the Parish and ex officio President of the School I will continue as a Board member, and happily so. Much remains to be done as we support and resource Chrissy and her team in delivering the very best of the Christ Church experience in our 120th year and beyond. Paul Sheahan – former Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School, a responsibility he fulfilled with distinction from 1995 to 2009 – brings a wealth of skills and experience in both education and governance. A highly regarded educator, and a leader of great schools (including The Geelong College, his alma mater, from 1986 to 1995), Paul has served as a Trustee or a Director on numerous Foundations and Councils across many areas of public life. In 2014 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to secondary education as a teacher, and through roles with sporting, charitable and community organisations.’ Paul’s dedication and expertise has benefitted many not-for-profit and other organisations including Ruyton Girls School, The Alfred Hospital, Anglicare, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Australian Drug Foundation, Independent Schools Victoria, and DrinkWise. 7

An Australian Test cricketer 1967-1974, he served as President of the Melbourne Cricket Club from 2011-2015. Paul is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University, where he sits on the Advisory Council to its Business School, as he does for the Australian International School (Singapore), and a member of the Australian College of Educators and of the Australian Institute of Management. Drawn to the prospect of working with Mrs Gamble and Mrs Holland, and confident in our Senior Leadership Team and strategic direction, Paul speaks of his fondness for CCGS: When I was Head of Melbourne Grammar, I was most impressed with the students who came on from Christ Church; now, when I look around the school, I see that same sense of clear-eyed confidence and desire to succeed and I am impressed. It is a wonderful school, peopled by an outstanding Principal and some outstanding staff. I look forward with great enthusiasm to making a strong contribution to the Christ Church community, building on the marvellous work done by others, including the President and outgoing Chairman. In welcoming Paul I wish to express my deep and abiding gratitude for the commitment of all our Directors, staff, and families. Ours is a remarkable community – School and Parish together. We are right to hold high hopes for the next chapter of our history, and commensurate expectations for our children’s future.

Fr Richard

‘The Rites of Spring’ for our CCSY Gardeners

Over summer, the CCSY garden has responded well to the spring time ‘TLC’ provided by Roy Hardcastle and his team of gardeners. Bruce and Greg have made sure the plants have fertilized soil in which to grow, the roses have flourished thanks to Diana, Walter and Mark and the mosaics supplied by June have infused artistry and colour. Roy, Ros, Mark and Gihan have maintained a high standard of garden and lawn care. Fr Paul provided a frangipani tree which, God willing, will be in full bloom in the warmer months.

The mid-week fellowship enjoyed by the gardeners was enhanced at the annual spring time lunch hosted by Bruce Bp Garry Weatherill Walker. The timing of the luncheon meant we had the (Ballarat) preaches at pleasure of experiencing three great feasts in three days-the ABM’s Lent Appeal Launch in February, great feast of All Souls, the great spring-time gardener’s feast with one of Peter and the great feast of All Saints. Bennett’s lovely flower arrangement in view, Bruce’s delicious meal, featuring seasonal vegetables and reminding us of the fruits, was complemented by stimulating conversation. floral beauty we enjoy Bruce’s story about the need for a spit-roasted pig “to be both inside and outside served with an apple in the mouth” still brings a smile to my the church building face. 8

Bruce’s luncheon helped create the bonding needed for the gardeners to overcome the challenges that will be presented over the summer months. All are welcome to join in to ensure the CCSY garden flourishes during Melbourne’s hot and dry summer.

God willing, in 12 months’ time the CCSY garden will be more beautiful than it is today and Bruce will again be able to host the spring time luncheon.

Ross Baker

Christ Church Colours

Whenever I behold a rainbow in the sky I am not only reminded of the promises of God, but also how God uses colours in nature to show his love for us and how he embraces all people regardless of race or colour. While looking heavenward, I pause and reflect on the blue sky, the colour of the heavens, and ponder the mystery of God being eternally ‘above us’ and yet always also ‘with us’.

The Church has long recognised how colours evoke a season or an emotion of theological importance. The use of colour to differentiate liturgical seasons became a common practice in the Western church in about the 4th century. There are 13 colours used in liturgical settings where many find expression in altar frontals. In this article I shall concentrate on the colours that we use in our liturgy, here at Christ Church. An understanding of these colours helps us to A collection of Fr David Warner’s stoles and his meditate on the ‘mood’ of the day. festal cope, generously donated to the Parish by Dr Janet Duke and family There are four seasonal colours that we typically use: Red, White, Green and Violet. During the seasons we may use six additional colours to emphasise a feature of the service, Blue, Rose (pink), Black, Olive, Orange and Gold. 9

Red is a colour that has multiple meanings according to the season. In Scripture, its primary associations are with blood and fire. As such, it signifies action, sacrifice, vocation, and spiritual awakening. Hence we us red vestments on a feast day for a martyr or martyrs, and in Holy Week reminding us of the glory of the Cross. At Pentecost, Red reminds us of the work of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in Acts 2:3, ‘Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them’. As we enter the narthex of our church and look down the nave and up to the altar we see the Red carpet. This vividly reminds us that we are entering Christ’s church, and that we should tread with humility and due reverence toward the altar.

White signifies purity as when the prophet Isaiah said (1:18): Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.’ The white vestment is symbolic of how we are covered (sanctified) by the righteousness of Christ. It is the liturgical colour for the for the Christmas and Easter seasons, for Weddings and some Funerals or Memorial services. Silver can also represent purity, which is why it is the preferred metal for the Chalice. Our servers, who represent the ministry of the laity at the altar, wear the colours of Red and White to show that Christ covers our sins and has made us pure in the sight of God.

Green is the colour of creation, fertility, plant life, and the abundance of spring. Green is the liturgical colour of what is sometimes called the ‘Trinity’ season – now mopre commonly referred to as ‘Ordinary Time’ or Sundays after Pentecost. The Holy Trinity gives us life in abundance. In the northern hemisphere, of course, Easter leads into the green of Spring and Summer. In our context, counter-intuitively, winter follows Easter.

Violet (purple) is the colour for penitence and mourning (Lent), and for preparation and royalty (Advent). It thus speaks of fasting and faith, patience and trust. Violet comprises the two colours of Red and Blue. With Red representing earth and humanity, and Blue the height of heaven and divinity. In ‘purple’ seasons we are reminded how Jesus ‘came down from heaven’ (blue) and humbled himself to take our flesh (red) as our mediator A purple chasuble as worn during between heaven and earth. As St Paul puts is the commissioning (in Lent) of our beautifully in Philippians 2:5-8: ‘though he was in Theological Student for 2017, Dr the form of God [Christ Jesus] . . . emptied himself . Srebrenka Kunek (second from the left, with Srebrenka’s Field . . being born in human likeness.’ Committee gathered round her) 10

As stated earlier, there are additional colours for special services or to highlight a feature within a particular season. Blue is often seen on robes to signify the divinity of God. Blue is the colour of sky, symbolic of the life-giving air and of heaven. It is also traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary. In the Old Testament the various fabrics used in holy or royal places are often described in various shades of blue and violet – a function of the high cost of purple dyes. It is its regal connotations that have seen Blue used as an alternative to purple in Advent.

Rose (pink) symbolises joy and happiness. It is used as an alternate colour on the third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete) and the fourth Sunday in Lent (Laetere). As pink is a kind of mid-point on the palette between purple and white, it is used just past the half-way mark in both ‘purple’ seasons to point ahead to the hope and joy of the goal of each seasonal journey: the white of Christmas and of Easter respectively.

As Black is the extreme opposite of the White, it is used primarily to depict the absence of life, which is death. It is also said to represent mourning, and eternity. It was once the liturgical colour of Good Friday to show that Christ died for us, and may still be used at Requiem Eucharists and on All Souls’ Day.

Olive is sometimes used during Ordinary Time as an alternate to Green.

Orange or amber is symbolic of endurance and strength; it is also the colour of flame. Orange represents the red of passion tempered by the yellow of wisdom. Amber is the colour used to demonstrate the brightness of God’s glory and presence. Amber halos are seen round the heads of the saints and of Jesus, the glory of God made flesh.

Gold symbolises what is precious and valuable and so symbolises majesty, joy and celebration. Because of its brightness metallic gold also symbolises the presence of God, and chalices are often lined with gold plate. It is most often used as an alternative to white for high holy days and festival days of the church year. Our Parish Cope (pictured right) is a majestic garment honouring his presence among us at Christ Church.

We can see the colours of the church in many objects we care to meditate upon. From the fires of sacrifice to the white purity of thought, a Christian embraces all of the colours of life. As you look up above the transept, high above our altar we see the showering light of blue, red and gold coming down through the glass of the ‘lantern’ upon us.

Indeed the majesty of Christ, our redeemer and life- giver is among us. Dr Roy Port

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Dates for your Diary Special Services and Events

Sunday 7 May, 10am Choral Eucharist with CCGS Fourth Sunday of Easter Including Admission of Children to Holy Communion

Friday 12 May, 7pm Choir of CCSY Showcase Concert 6.15pm for complimentary drinks For full details see page 15

Sunday 21 May, 6pm Choral Evensong Sixth Sunday of Easter Preacher: The Revd Dr Peter French, Vicar, St John’s Toorak, followed by wine and cheese

Thursday 25 May, 7pm Ecumenical Choral Eucharist Feast of the Ascension With our neighbours from St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Parish, South Yarra Community Baptist Church, and our Covenant Partners at St Martin’s Hawksburn, followed by a festive supper

Friday 2 June, 8.45am National Reconciliation Week Service CCGS Chapel Service, all welcome

Sunday 4 June, 10am Choral Eucharist Day of Pentecost Followed by a festive morning tea

Sunday 11 June, 10am Choral Eucharist Trinity Sunday

Sunday 18 June, 10am Choral Eucharist with Holy Baptism Corpus Christi Sunday

6pm Choral Evensong Followed by wine and cheese

Friday 23 June, 7pm Annual Combined Mission Dinner With our Covenant Partners from St Martin’s Hawksburn, at St Martin’s, with Guest speaker from SisterWorks, the focus of our collaborative efforts with respect to care of refugees and asylum seekers www.sisterworks.org.au

Friday 25 August, 7pm The ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ Christ Church Music Foundation Auction A night of entertainment, drinks and canapes, and great prizes to bid for, all in support of the ministry of music to and through the Parish

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Annual Review of the Covenant between CCSY & St Martin’s Hawksburn

In keeping with the terms of the agreement signed in April 2016, in February the Parish Councils of both Christ Church and St Martin’s, together with members of the ‘Achieving More Together’ (AMT) Working Group, met to review the Covenant.

There was unanimous support for the Covenant and what it has enabled over the past year. Responses to the question ‘What is the one thing about the Covenant that means most to you?’ highlighted such items as: • the more efficient and economical sharing of resources especially in the area of administration; • examples of collaboration in matters compliance and expressions of outreach, such as the Emergency Food Relief ministry; and • the greater interaction between our two communities of faith with respect to shared worship and spiritual practices such as Quiet Days.

Asked ‘What is one additional way in which we could achieve more together?’ responses included: • joint action towards training for and implementing a program of Pastoral Care in both parishes, including the provision by Parish Visitors of ‘extended Communion’ (the administration of the Reserved sacrament in the home or an aged care facility or a hospital); • the provision of services or opportunities for fellowship for lonely people in our two communities; • greater sharing of the resources available at Parish Council levels; • programs for Reconciliation with our Indigenous brothers and sisters; and • further work with and for Asylum Seekers and Refugees.

Others mentioned the opportunities and challenges presented by greater emphasis on reciprocity and the mutual support of one another’s events, meeting, services, and programs.

The joint meeting strongly re-affirmed the value of the Covenant and it seems we have plenty of work ahead of us as we explore some of the suggestions that have been made. Jamie Miller, member of the AMT Working Group

Editorial note: The Covenant is a direct outworking of two of the Goals arising from our 2015 Vision, Mission, and Values process, under the headings of ‘Outreach’ (increase reciprocity in participating in activities away from the Parish) and ‘Enablers’ (develop cooperation with neighbouring parishes, especially St Martin’s, to facilitate delivery of the Parish’s goals).

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PARISH DIRECTORY SERVICE TIMES

CLERGY Sundays The Revd Dr Richard Treloar, Vicar 8am Eucharist (BCP) The Revd Paul Bower, Senior Associate Priest The Revd Marilyn Hope, Hon. Parish Deacon 10am Choral Eucharist The Revd Jenny Nelson, Hon. Associate Priest The Revd Jill Renison, Hon. Associate Priest 10am Sunday School The Revd Dr Linda Fiske, CCGS Chaplain (in church, during the 10am service)

MUSIC 6pm Worship Mr Michael Fulcher, Director of Music Choral Evensong 3rd Sunday of the month Mr Siegfried Franke, Parish Organist ‘Service of Light’ Eucharist other Sundays

AUTHORISED LAY MINISTERS Wednesdays Ms Kim Bong, part-time Prof Peter Sherlock, Hon. 10am Eucharist

Mr Jamie Miller, Hon. Fridays

COORDINATOR OF SERVERS 12noon Eucharist Dr Jenny Baldwin, Hon.

THEOLOGICAL STUDENT Saints’ Days & Holy Days

Dr Srebrenka Kunek as advertised

VERGER Morning & Evening Prayer Mr Gihan Wijesinghe, Hon.

PARISH OFFICE 9am & 5pm weekdays

Mr Lance Coughlin Christ Church Grammar School Chapel 9866 4434 [email protected] www.ccsy.org.au 8.45am Mondays & Fridays (during term)

CONTACT POSTAGE PAID PRINT POST APPROVED SOUTH YARRA PP 100001438 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA If undelivered return to Christ Church PO Box 8 South Yarra 3141

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