Pursuit of happiness: The search for meaning in our lives

By Zoë Wundenberg
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:30am, first published March 18 2019 - 7:00pm
PERSPECTIVE: After events like Christchurch, it's common to feel the need to do something. Picture: AAP Image/SNPA, Martin Hunter
PERSPECTIVE: After events like Christchurch, it's common to feel the need to do something. Picture: AAP Image/SNPA, Martin Hunter

It has been an overwhelming time this past week: the Christchurch attack, George Pell's sentencing and 1.5 million children marching to demand action on climate change. One of our senators has shocked the nation with hate-inciting speech, and now a cyclone is forming off the coast of Queensland.