Apologies for the delay in R2BC, but with a big enough time difference…

Happy Australia Day.
Living in the UK, the New Year and Queen’s Birthday Honours List can sometimes feel like a mystery.
Knighthoods, Damehoods, CBEs, OBEs, MBEs, GCGs, KMCGs, and the rest of alphabet, mixed with a long list of the famous, not so famous, deserving and undeserving can often feel disconnected from the day-to-day lives of the rest of us. On Australian Day, Rosie Batty, Domestic Violence Campaigner, is named Australian of the Year. While I love tradition, there is a simple beauty to being selected as the best of us. 🙂

I hope in these stories you find something to make you better, stronger and more hopeful. 🙂

• HMRC Unit nets 60% more Tax
• New Horizon Probe nears Pluto
• Domestic Violence Campaigner named Australian of the Year
• Haiti forms Electoral Panel
• DR Congo Senate amends law to allow 2016 Election
• First Female Bishop to be Consecrated
• Ancient Underwater forest Discovered off of Norfolk
• WWI Treasure Chest found by School
• Raffle nets Honeymoon Companion for Charity
• Botswana’s first Youth Radio Station
• Christie Crowned European Short Track Skating Champion
• Mapp wins Gold in first World Cup Para Bobsleigh
• Lapthorne wins Melbourne Quad Singles Title