Valerie Browning - the angel of the African desert comes home to the excess of a Christmas in Australia

By Megan Doherty
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:09pm, first published December 22 2015 - 12:07pm

Even the most dedicated shopper can be turned off by the commercialism of Christmas, so it must be maddening for this small, desert-worn woman – used to working with people who have nothing – to be among so much excess in the middle of Sydney.

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