Australia
In 2000, she relocated from South-East England to Melbourne, Australia, when her husband Charles Lane was appointed as director of project funding at the Myer Foundation and then the Dept. of Victorian Communities. At the time she was suffering ovarian cancer but survived after operations in Melbourne.
Tewson resides in an eastern suburb of Melbourne and is the mother of two children. She works on some inner city Melbourne projects, and elsewhere, through Igniting Change (formerly Pilotlight Australia). For example in 2005, Igniting Change helped take forward a concept begun in East London, We Are What We Do, which asks people to make small voluntary actions promoting goodwill and sustainability. The book "Change the World for Ten Bucks" was published (price, $10, 340,000 copies sold), and German and British editions have also been released. The Dying to Know project and book (2009, UK 2010, 55,000 copies sold) is about coming to terms with death, and negotiating grief.
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“I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.”
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