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Stephanie Gardiner

Scones and sympathy: country ways connecting the city

Tea, scones, chit-chat and company - Sydney member Rebecca Lim says the CWA is a support network. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

As Rebecca Lim supported her father through years of cancer treatment, she found comfort in teaching friends how to make preserved lemons and kimchi.

When her dad Jung Mook died in mid-2026, she was inundated with care packages, text messages, phone calls and hugs from those same women.

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