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For the Aussies:

EzyDVD is proud to present this EXCLUSIVE release of the complete Anne of Green Gables story, available for the first time ever on DVD! Featuring all three movies starring Megan Follows as Anne, this triple pack features over 10 hours of classic drama and is brimming with special features!

Out 15th May. Mum and my sister had already bought them through North America, but I'm considering buying it for myself.

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For the Aussies:

EzyDVD is proud to present this EXCLUSIVE release of the complete Anne of Green Gables story, available for the first time ever on DVD! Featuring all three movies starring Megan Follows as Anne, this triple pack features over 10 hours of classic drama and is brimming with special features!

Out 15th May. Mum and my sister had already bought them through North America, but I'm considering buying it for myself.

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The Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, impresses me very much. And this article increases my love. And for two weeks from Tuesday, she will be the first woman to fill in as Administrator of the Commonwealth while the Governor-General is out of the country.

THE Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, more often than not drives herself around Sydney. On this night, however, an official driver was taking the Governor and her husband, Sir Nicholas Shehadie, home when the driver noticed a figure slumped in a gutter.

The vice-regal car came to a stop, the Governor leapt out and checked that the young man was neither dead nor in grave danger of being so. He was, rather, dead drunk, having over-celebrated a good TAFE examination result.

Bashir helped load the celebrant into the vice-regal vehicle, ascertained his address, delivered him home, extracted his phone number and bade him goodnight. She phoned the next day to deliver a heartfelt, but firm, lecture. He probably still doesn't know the identity of his good Samaritan. ...

The Bashirs came to Australia from Lebanon towards the end of the 19th century. The Governor has spoken of her first visit to Lebanon: "I walked across the tarmac to glimpse, through the tears I could no longer hold back, the extended family members whom I had never met."

She has spoken of their proud culture: Arab scholars and scientists were busy while Europe was imprisoned in the Dark Ages - inventing algebra, using astrolabes to plot the rising of the sun, pioneering latitude and longitude, developing the lute and guitar, the microscope and telescope, diagnosing smallpox and measles. They produced "that universal poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran" and her own cousin, Dr Charles Melick, who helped draw up the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

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The Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, impresses me very much. And this article increases my love. And for two weeks from Tuesday, she will be the first woman to fill in as Administrator of the Commonwealth while the Governor-General is out of the country.

THE Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, more often than not drives herself around Sydney. On this night, however, an official driver was taking the Governor and her husband, Sir Nicholas Shehadie, home when the driver noticed a figure slumped in a gutter.

The vice-regal car came to a stop, the Governor leapt out and checked that the young man was neither dead nor in grave danger of being so. He was, rather, dead drunk, having over-celebrated a good TAFE examination result.

Bashir helped load the celebrant into the vice-regal vehicle, ascertained his address, delivered him home, extracted his phone number and bade him goodnight. She phoned the next day to deliver a heartfelt, but firm, lecture. He probably still doesn't know the identity of his good Samaritan. ...

The Bashirs came to Australia from Lebanon towards the end of the 19th century. The Governor has spoken of her first visit to Lebanon: "I walked across the tarmac to glimpse, through the tears I could no longer hold back, the extended family members whom I had never met."

She has spoken of their proud culture: Arab scholars and scientists were busy while Europe was imprisoned in the Dark Ages - inventing algebra, using astrolabes to plot the rising of the sun, pioneering latitude and longitude, developing the lute and guitar, the microscope and telescope, diagnosing smallpox and measles. They produced "that universal poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran" and her own cousin, Dr Charles Melick, who helped draw up the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.