CCANSW Weekly News Letter - 21/03/2021

The Star news site (Malaysia) recently published an article about the  Prestavest Memorial Park Group and its use of technology to offer  an alternative to how people pray and show filial piety towards the dearly departed.

The Catholic Weekly reports Catholic Cemeteries Trust CEO Peter O'Meara being frustrated with a NSW government directive stopping construction of a new cemetery for Sydney, NSW, NSW. Mr. O'Meara is quoted; “The Government has now had the cemeteries review report for six months without any response to its various options….[except] to stop this ‘shovel-ready’ development at Varroville"

The ACT’s (Canberra) first publicly owned crematorium officially opened at Gungahlin Cemetery  15 March, 2021, according to a number of reports out of the ACT this week