Monday is Australia Day, the day Australia commemorates the first European settlement of Australia, and the years since. For us it is a day of humble acknowledgement and thankfulness  for a life where we are free to live as we wish within the law,  to work, to educate our children, to worship as we believe we ought, a life in a free, stable, and relatively secure society. 

In Perth, where we live, it looks like being a hot one, with 37C being forecast followed by 2 days of 40 degrees. 

May God bless Australia.