Robyn Douglass grew up in Sydney and Melbourne, completing a journalism cadetship at the Anglican newspaper in Victoria. In South Australia, she has worked for church, local, and national media.
It comes as a surprise to learn that most Australian clergy are still expected to work a 48-hour week, six days a week, in many dioceses, including Canberra-Goulburn, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney.
The irony of the queen being head of the Commonwealth while the Australian church wrangled over whether women could be ordained priests was not lost on many.
