Happy Birthday Morgan

Five Years

We miss you

Happy Birthday Morgan

Happy 40th Birthday

Three Years

Three Years

♥♥ When your brother dies, your childhood fades,
there being one less person to remember it with...
It's like losing your computer and there's no back-up ♥♥
Garrison Keillor

Uncle Morgan

1000 Words

A year since we said goodbye...

We miss you Uncle Morgan

I miss you little brother

Remembering...

Can I have one? Can I?

Aunty Caroline is in Jakarta organising for Morgan's things to be shipped home. She is going to bring us home a new pet too. Don't tell Mummy!

Goodbye Brother Lawrence

The Last Wave

Bronte 11am Saturday 24th March 2007

Fraggle Rock

Dance your cares away,

Worries for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

Work you cares away,
Dancing's for another day.
Let the Fraggles play,
We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.

Woweeee!

"Ooooh a Fwaggle! Look Ma! I caught a Fwaggle"

Ma: "Ahhhhhhh!"

"Wahhhhhhhhhhh! Woopee!"

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.
Down at Fraggle Rock.
Down at Fraggle Rock.

H.R. Pufnstuff

H.R. Pufnstuff,
Who's your friend when things get rough?
H.R. Pufnstuff
Can't do a little cause he can't do enough.

Once upon a summertime
Just a dream from yesterday
A boy and his magic golden flute
Heard a boat from off the bay
"Come and play with me, Jimmy
Come and play with me.
And I will take you on a trip
Far across the sea."

But the boat belonged to a kooky old witch
Who had in mind the flute to snitch
From her broom broom in the sky
She watched her plans materialize
She waved her wand
The beautiful boat was gone
The skies grew dark
The sea grew rough
And the boat sailed on and on and on and on and on and on.

But Pufnstuff was watching too
And knew exactly what to do
He saw the witch's boat attack
And as the boy was fighting back
He called his rescue racer crew
As often they'd rehearsed
And off to save the boy they flew
But who would get there first?

But now the boy had washed ashore
Puf arrived to save the day
Which made the witch so mad and sore
She shook her first and screamed away.

H.R. Pufnstuff,
Who's your friend when things get rough?
H.R. Pufnstuff
Can't do a little cause he can't do enough.

H.R. Pufnstuff,
Who's your friend when things get rough?
H.R. Pufnstuff
Can't do a little cause he can't do enough.

Touched by tragedy

Walkley Award winning journalist Morgan Mellish was an uncle beaming with pride after hearing about Kathryn and Simon Chik's achievements with Springwood Swimming Club.

Only recently Morgan posed for a family photo holding the coveted Walkley in one hand, and a Blue Mountains Gazette article reporting on his niece's achievements at this year's Central Tablelands Carnivals in the other.

Tragically, Morgan will not be there to congratulate his niece and nephew on their future swimming wins.

He was one of 21 people killed after a Garuda Boeing 737-400 crashed in Indonesia last week.

Morgan was on his way to cover Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer's trip to Indonesia for the Financial Review.

He won the Walkley Award for his series on tax evasion stories that rocked the Howard Government.

He had also been acknowledged for stories he produced on Rodney Adler and Ray Williams' part in the collapse of giant Australian company HIH.

Morgan is survived by his parents, Dawn and Peter, his sisters, Lucy (of Faulconbridge) and Caroline, his niece Kathryn and nephew Simon and his partner Nila Tanzil.

Morgan's funeral service will be held at St Andrew's Cathedral, corner George and Bathurst Streets, Sydney at 10am, Wednesday, March 21.

Blue Mountains Gazette

Homecoming unites families torn by grief

Australia brings the victims home

Stephanie Peatling
March 15, 2007

KELLIE STEELE stood up as the casket holding the body of her husband, Federal Agent Brice Steele, was carried from the RAAF aircraft.

Mrs Steele was the only one standing, but she was not alone in her grief. The families, friends and colleagues of the five Australians who died in last week's air crash at Yogyakarta Airport surrounded her.

All had gathered yesterday morning at Canberra's Fairbairn air base to see their loved ones returned home.

In a sombre ceremony, federal police carried the five caskets holding the bodies of the Australian Financial Review journalist Morgan Mellish, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade official Liz O'Neill, the AusAID official Allison Sudradjat, and Mark Scott and Federal Agent Steele of the Australian Federal Police. A lone drummer accompanied the bearer party.

The caskets were draped in Australian flags, while those of Federal Agent Steele and Federal Agent Scott were also covered with the police flag, their caps on top.

Families spent a few minutes with the caskets before they were taken to the Kingston Forensic Centre to formalise the repatriation.

Ms O'Neill's husband, Wayne Adams, wheeled the couple's nine-month-old daughter, Lucinda, across the tarmac in her stroller. Mrs Sudradjat's family placed a photograph of her on her casket, before covering it with flowers.

Mrs Steele had to be supported as she walked away from the casket, pausing to look back as she returned to her seat.

A piper played Amazing Grace.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, was emotional as he hugged the mourners. On Tuesday he described the crash as the worst event, "by a big margin", in his 11 years as minister.

Other federal ministers, the Leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd, and the Governor-General, Michael Jeffery, were at the ceremony.

Once the repatriation process is complete, funerals will be held.

Mrs Sudradjat will be buried today after a private funeral service at Canberra's mosque, while a memorial will be held tomorrow morning in the Great Hall of Parliament House.

Also tomorrow, a Mass for Ms O'Neill will be held at St Canice's Church, Elizabeth Bay, at 10am, followed by a private interment.

Ms O'Neill's family has asked that donations be made to the Jesuit Refugee Service instead of floral arrangements.

Federal Agent Steele's funeral will be in Brisbane on Monday and Agent Scott's in Canberra on Tuesday. But the details of their funerals have not been finalised.

A memorial service for Mr Mellish, who would have turned 37 yesterday, will be held at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney next Wednesday at 10am, followed by a private cremation.

Agence France-Presse reports: Indonesia has appointed a new air transport chief, an official said yesterday, a week after the airliner disaster that killed 21 people.

The move comes amid pressure for better air safety in Indonesia after last week's accident and a crash on New Year's Day in which 102 died.

Budhi Muliawan became the new head of air transport on Tuesday, said a spokesman, Dody Sofilin.

Mr Muliawan and Indonesia's embattled Transport Minister, Hatta Rajasa, were to make

an unscheduled inspection of the international airport in Jakarta later yesterday, the spokesman said.

The appointment came after a senior expert from a transport taskforce set up by Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said air safety had hit a "low point".

"There is still room for improvement," the expert, Oetarjo Diran, said on Tuesday after submitting an interim report to Dr Yudhoyono.

SMH

The Navy Hymn: For those in peril on the sea!

Eternal Father, Strong to Save

Rev William Whiting 1825-1878