News 2025
The College proudly congratulates current student John Kenny (BE(Hons)/BComm III) on receiving the Commendation for...
On Thursday 14 August, St Paul’s College hosted a special evening to honour the generous donors to the St Paul’s College...
On Tuesday 19 August, the University of Sydney’s Intercollegiate Palladian competition reached a new milestone with its largest-ever...
St Paul’s College is proud to be part of the University of Sydney Open Day on Saturday 30 August, from 9am to 3pm. Join us for a...
News about old Paulines
On Friday 2 August, the Salisbury Bar welcomed 36 Paulines from the 2005 Freshers cohort for a joyful reunion. The evening was filled...
The media has drawn strong parallels between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s July 2025 visit to China and that of Gough Whitlam,...
Hockey Throughout May the long season of Rosebowl Hockey was played at the University’s Cumberland Campus and St George Randwick...
His Excellency Miles Armitage, a distinguished alumnus of St Paul’s College (1982–85) and Senior Student in 1985, has been...
On 4 July 2025, Bryson Constable (in College 2022–24) concluded his term as President of the University of Sydney Union (USU),...
It began as a conversation over a couple of beers—two lawyers airing their frustrations about having to turn away victims of...
Since the first Act founding St Paul’s College in 1854, the College community has been proud to be “of and within” the...
At the 19th Annual Young Gun of Wine Awards, Rikard Wines took home the prestigious Vigneron Trophy. The award...
Paulines Warwick Holmes, Sam Richards and Gigi O’Rourke have contributed to the University’s success. Main image: The USYD...
Pictured Chief Justice Andrew Bell, the Warden with the University Mace, and Justice Mark Leeming. In May, three distinguished...
The College community congratulates Professor Richard Kingsford on becoming an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2025 King’s...
“We want to see the new wing!” That was the enthusiastic request from a group of alumni—freshers from the later years of Warden...
Six rather peculiar guests arrive at a mysterious dinner party hosted by an anonymous figure and greeted by the ever-composed butler,...
For a second year in a row a Victory Dinner for the Rosebowl Rowers was held in the Quad on 28 May when the team of Harry Scambler...
On Tuesday 27 May 2025, a Service of Baptism and Confirmation was the College’s final Chapel service of Semester 1. During the...
The Boomalakka Investment Club is a student-run, not-for-profit investment fund managing approximately A$40,000 in global equities....
A recent Sydney Morning Herald article (17 May 2025) by Education Reporter Christopher Harris has shone a spotlight on the...
Where the Study of Languages can take you … Heath Slone, in College 2013-16, completed BA(Languages) majoring in Chinese, Hebrew,...
[This article is a follow-up to the previous story posted on 31 July 2024 – see Webnews] Graduate House PhD student Ines Wen has...
Mummers’ plays in recent years have delved into the comedic genre to provide wholesome entertainment to the masses who now regularly...
Victory in Europe Day, holds global significance as it marks the official end of World War II in Europe on May 8, 1945. This day...
Paulines will be pleased to know that the College ethos of service is being upheld by two alumni who have been re-elected to the House...
On the 110th anniversary of the Anzac landings, 25 April, the College community gathered for the annual service of commemoration in...
Intercol sport so far in 2025 has been a thrilling ride. The Rosebowl Rowing Team have retained the cup in a race dominated by the St...
On the night of 5 April 2025 the Union held a black tie dinner-dance at the College which brought together 160 Paulines and friends...
The Rosebowl Swimming was convened by Alice Radford and Anoushka Cayzer and after a thrilling carnival at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic...
All members of the College, their families and friends as well as members of the public are warmly welcome to attend any of our...
Two black tie dinners for students and their fathers were held on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 March organised and hosted by students....
John Gaden AO is one of the country’s leading actors who cut his teeth as a member of Mummers when he was at Paul’s...
Netball began the Rosebowl 2025 campaign with Women’s just edging out St Andrew’s by the close of the competition. The St...
The election for the two vacancies for six-year terms as Lay Fellows for St Paul’s College Council has concluded. The election...
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Rawson Cup Cricket leads the campaign to retain the Rawson Cup in 2025. The team played a scheduled pre-comp game on 27 February on...
The annual tradition of the Academic Dinner to recognise the university achievements of our undergraduate students was held on Monday...
More from the spectacular International Tour of St Paul’s College Chapel Choir. For some members of the Choir this visit was their...
Canterbury The City of Canterbury in the County of Kent is one of the most picturesque cities of England and is home to the seat of...
Our student leaders and pastoral staff gave their time for professional development over the week before Welcome Week including a...
Perfect weather greeted over 130 freshers joining the undergraduate community and 31 arriving postgraduates joining Graduate House on...
Pauline, The Hon Andrew Bell, the Chief Justice of NSW, gave his Opening of Law Term address on 6 February and made news headlines...
Expectations about a visiting Australian choir in London were well and truly exceeded when St Paul’s College Chapel Choir sang their...
News 2024
The St Paul’s College Chapel Choir will embark on a highly anticipated tour from Saturday, 28 December 2024, to Thursday, 9...
Michael Lodge, at College 1961-62, brought his old friend Prof Garth Nicholson, at College 1961-66, back to College to finalise an...
In memory of Zac Lerner (2003-24) who died peacefully in his sleep at College on 16 March 2024, his family has donated to the College...
The Senior Student’s Speech at the Rawson Cup Victory Dinner: I’m going to touch briefly tonight on a few stand out moments from...
The Undergraduate community has chosen its Students Club executive and committee for 2025. Congratulations to the newly elected: The...
On 11 November 2024 the College pauses for a commemoration service in the Chapel at 10.30 am and at 11.00 there will be silence in...
The Paul’s Formal, held on Friday 11 October continued its tradition of being one of the most creative of the Sydney University...
Murder’s in the Heir – a Knives Out Mystery from the Impresario’s players, the Waddy Theatre – 12 October 2024...
For their second play in 2024 and second in the Waddy Theatre the undergraduate theatrical company, St Paul’s College Mummers,...
“A splendorous, sparkling night” was a guest’s comment after seeing the 60th production of Victoriana in October. Delighting a...
Jacaranda Week is a hallowed tradition of St Paul’s College, this is the week before Stuvac and it always coincides with the...
With a little sadness and much joy the College celebrated the immense contribution of our third year undergraduate cohort with the...
Between 19 and 23 October Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla are on their second overseas trip and first to a...
With 430 resident Paulines the College boasts two theatrical troupes: Mummers, founded in 1948 by the then Warden Felix Arnott, and...
Academic achievement among members of Graduate House is an important part of the celebrations during the cycle of the academic year....
The heading says it all! Congratulations to the College’s Athletics Teams, Rawson and Rosebowl, on their great achievements on the...
The Graduate House community operates a student body similar to the undergraduate community’s Student’s Club. Established in 2018...
The Semester 1 academic results show an average Semester Average Mark (SAM) of 74.2%. On previous results the College’s SAMs...
The Australian University Games were held in Canberra from 7 to 13 September and over 6,000 students gathered to compete in 30 sports....
St Paul’s has an impressive community of medical graduates, many of them true leaders in the field of medicine who have made and...
The two points separation between St Andrew’s and St Paul’s heightened the excitement and tension of the Palladian Instrumental...
“A Law School education bestows and receives the gift of responsibility” said the incoming Dean of Law, Prof Fleur Johns to...
Enthusiasm and great concentration led to a performance from a ‘scratch choir’ of Paulines that won one of the two Palladian Vocal...
Congratulations to the College’s Rawson Cup and Rosebowl Soccer teams on their outstanding performances on the field over the last...
The Legislative Council of NSW first met on 25 August 1824 as an advisory council of five members appointed by the Governor....
The combined forces of St Paul’s College Choir and the Muffat Collective produced two fabulous nights of early opera in the Waddy...
To re-start the Intercol sports campaign we celebrated the Rosebowl Rowing win with a very historic victory dinner. In 1867 St...
After months of planning the St Paul’s College Union held a very successful reunion event onFriday 26 July at the College. The Hall...
Across the board members of the Pauline community are contributing to the success of the University’s great run of world...
Invitation to participate in research Ines Wen is one of only five scholars world-wide to be chosen for an international research...
If you have seen NCIS: Sydney on TV Channel 10 you may not know that its producer/director is Pauline Morgan O’Neill. Morgan was at...
‘Mummers’ began in June 1948, a group formed by the then Warden, Revd Dr Felix Arnott, which included women from the Women’s...
At the Graduate House Mid-Winter Feast on 14 June our post graduate community celebrated the end of Semester 1 and the 5th year of...
Congratulations to Bryson Constable (Economics/Law III) who was recently elected President of the University of Sydney Union (USU) for...
Rawson Cup: St Andrew’s 15 | St Paul’s 9 | St John’s 7 | Wesley 4 Rosebowl: St Andrew’s 31 | Wesley 20 | Women’s 15 | St...
On 2 March the 141st Men’s Varsity Rugby match was held between Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge comfortably beat Oxford 56-11 at...
Organised and hosted by Jason Zhu He (BSc/LLB IV) a very successful careers panel was held on 16 May in the Chalmers Common Room for...
With a warm welcome from the Warden to start, and a great flourish to unveil the plaque, the opening of the Waddy Performance Centre...
The commemoration of the fallen is a time-honoured traditional of St Paul’s College. This is particularly meaningful because of the...
There are many links between St Paul’s College and the Supreme Court of NSW book-ended by the third Chief Justice, the founding...
Rowing Triumph. Exciting stuff for St Paul’s in early April during the Intercoll regatta at the Sydney International Regatta Centre,...
Graduate House Seminars provide an edifying forum for a range of topics that, so far this semester, have proven both popular and...
Over the long break the College was surging with tradies completing much needed renovations of the student facilities and conservation...
The College is in mourning at the sudden and tragic death of Zac Lerner at St Paul’s on 16 March 2024. Zac came to St Paul’s in...
The Academic Dinner at the start of Week 3 acknowledged the highest individual scholarly achievements of 2023. There were 26 students...
A great tradition, thanks to our great oval, is ‘tip’ (touch footy). It began with a bang in Welcome Week and is a...
The Rawson Cup Cricket team played a scheduled pre-comp game last week. The College played I Zingari Australia which is one of the...
Musician and composer Jonathan Mills returned to College in January and had the opportunity to visit the Waddy Centre during its...
Robert Albert AO RFD RD 14 December 1934 – 07 February 2024 Benefactor, philanthropist, sailor, husband of Libby, father,...
It starts with mindset. It is about being supportive and enabling others to accomplishments through working together. For the last...
Tiffany Wong (GH 2019) is a third generation Pauline and was one of the pioneering first cohort of resident women students. She...
The College is delighted to share that the Senior Tutor, Katie Newcombe, has given birth to a son, Alfred, during the Christmas break....
Our long-time former Alumni Officer, Selwyn Owen, has died at the age of 80 after a long illness. Selwyn was an undergraduate...
New in 2024 is the David Edwards Theological Bequest which is offered to a student of Theology or current Anglican minister for a...
“At noon yesterday, being the anniversary of the Conversion of St. Paul, a very large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at...
Young Pauline Dr David Llewellyn, in College 2006-09, graduated from Sydney University in 2010 with BSc(Advanced Studies)(Honours) and...
News 2023
Here is a link to the Choir’s YouTube channel where you will find a video of them singing Elizabeth Poston’s Jesus Christ...
Evenings at St Paul’s College can be busy and full of action! But if you look closely, after Formal Dinners, around Palladian...
The College’s Annual Carol Service rounded out the ‘Chapel Year’. It was held after the Semester 2 Exams in the form of the Nine...
Mia Baggett, Fresher 2023, is the first woman at Paul’s to be awarded a University of Sydney Blue for excellence in sport. Mia’s...
This year’s Students’ Club Committee decided to give added meaning to our final Formal Hall for the year which was a Christmas...
Trippas White Group (TWG) provide all catering and housekeeping services at St Paul’s College. They manage over 35 restaurants,...
The foundation stone for the College’s Chapel was laid in 1959 and the building of this permanent new chapel was supported...
From Harry Croker, Dean of Undergraduates The Rawson Cup and Rosebowl competitions have finished for another year. All those who were...
The College community congratulates those elected to the Students Club Committee and the Middle Common Room Executive for 2024. The...
by Katie Newcombe, Senior Tutor Our seminar series for students’ future and career planning continued at the end of Semester 2 with...
To conclude the social calendar of Graduate House 120 members and friends converged on Pier One Darling Harbour for a glittering...
I count myself in nothing else so happy, as a soul remembering my good friends (Shakespeare, Richard III) On 25 October the...
Tiffany Kwong, in College 2018-21, was the first female student to be admitted to St Paul’s College and was the very first...
The Paul’s Formal took place on Friday 20 October under a star-filled sky in the College Quad. Everything was meticulously...
As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973, the performing...
Unauthorised immigration arrival by boat was the topic of PhD student Jake Davies, in College 2022-22, on Monday 16 October. During...
The College community is delighted to learn that Prof Ben Saul (in College 1995-97) has been appointed as a Special Rapporteur to the...
Over three nights of full houses in late September the College presented the 59th season of Victoriana! under the direction of Jack...
Here is a pdf copy of the August Boomalakka which can be viewed on screen or downloaded to your computer and printed. Click...
Join us for an evening of drinks, dinner,dancing and fireworks to celebrate the endof the academic year & the start of...
By Harry Croker, Dean of Undergraduates Football: The Rawson Football team continued their phenomenal winning record, taking out a...
Answer: they are each the subject matter of MD projects which were presented in a Monday Dinner Seminar on 18 September. Three 3rd...
Tutorials in academic writing are just one part of the offerings of the St Paul’s College Tutorial program. In September as...
The Australian History Prize for 2023 was won by Emeritus Professor Alan Atkinson (in College 1964-67, Fellow 2011-16, Senior Tutor...
11 September, 109 years ago: Having landed at New Britain, Pockley volunteered to join a small party entrusted with capturing an...
With a 165 year old dining hall designed and built for a College of about 50, the popular Mothers’ Dinner was held over two nights...
The English Renaissance composer William Byrd is considered amongst the greatest composers of the Renaissance and is regarded as...
When Freshman John Kenny arrived in the UK on June 13 to join the crew at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club he wore his St Paul’s...
The Law Dinner guest of honour was Professor Ben Saul (in College 1995-97) who is Challis Professor of International Law and was...
An approach from the head coach of Strathfield Croquet Club, Ruth Bridger, led to a croquet reactivation of sorts. A small group of...
From the Senior Tutor, Katie Newcombe On Thursday 7 September, around the cozy Senior Common Room fireplace, we were joined by two Old...
A fitting speaker for the 60th Monday Dinner Seminar held in Graduate House was Sydney-based Endocrinologist Professor Roger Chen....
The first Australian prime minister to have visited China was Old Pauline Gough Whitlam (in College 1935-42). Tony Wright has written...
Vered Lalrinpuii who holds a LLM from the National Law University of New Delhi, discovered the Sydney University Law School to fulfil...
St Paul’s will host a Touch Football Gala Tournament on the St Paul’s College Oval on Friday 15 September from 3 pm as a fund...
The Intercol Debating fixture is part of the Palladian competition and over a two day tournament in August Paul’s was victorious....
An interesting line-up of Semester 2 speakers at the Graduate House “Dinner Seminar” series has dug deep into considerations about...
On the heels of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Intercol Soccer was being held. Football fever had certainly settled at St Paul’s for...
Our Freshers have their first semester of uni under their belts, our Seniors have made a great transition to their increasingly...
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To celebrate the students’ return to College for Semester 2, we invited all parents to attend a lunch in the Quad on Sunday 30 July....
By the second half of the 20th Century, at the time of the College centenary, St Paul’s was a substantial and integral part of...
A rather exclusive group gathered in the JCR for a 30 year reunion dinner on Saturday 15 July. The Freshers of 1993 are actually a...
A group of Freshers of 1963 and a number of their spouses gathered on 15 July at Paul’s for their 60 year reunion. This was more...
It is remarkable what old treasures there are out in the Pauline alumni community. We recently received a wonderful gift of...
On 20 June members of the St Paul’s Chapel Choir entered the Sydney Eisteddfod Vocal Ensemble and were awarded 1st Place! They now...
Here is a pdf copy of the May Boomalakka which can be viewed on screen or downloaded to your computer and printed. Click...
Recent stories about two Graduate House members have highlighted the great work St Paul’s College, in partnership with the...
Prof Ben Saul FASSA, in College 1995-97, is the current Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney and an...
a review by Lady Whistledown Directed by: Meheer Zaveri and Sanjay Yapabandara | Starring: Arnav Shetty, Kate Mountain, Campbell...
from the Dean of Undergraduates Harry Croker The Rawson Cup and Rosebowl tournaments have produced varying levels of success this...
In another of our 2023 “firsts” St Paul’s has participated in Intercol Women’s Rugby Sevens. Coached by current Paulines Jack...
The Hon Ben Franklin MLC has been sworn in as the new President of the upper house in the NSW Parliament. Ben was at Paul’s 1990-96...
Coronation night at the College was a festival of great music, great food, great wine and great company. A gathering of over 180...
Mia Baggett, one of our 2023 Freshers, has been selected in the 19/U Netball Australia National Pathway Squad for 2023-24. Mia, from...
From Katie Newcombe, Senior Tutor Our annual undergraduate Academic Dinner for 2023 was once again a wonderful night full of...
Rehearsing in the Quad will be a thing of the past when the Waddy Performance Centre is complete! Always a tough competition, the...
The educational offerings at St Paul’s College are complementary to the University’s courses and teaching programs and include our...
280 current students attended the Sydney Dawn Service on Anzac Day. This was followed by the College Service of Remembrance at 10 am...
Supporter scarves for alumni, staff, and friends of our illustrious community that is St Paul’s College. $25 delivered to...
Faultless performance by exciting young...
FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE UNION The St Paul’s College Union Incorporated is holding its 2023 AGM on Tuesday 18 April...
Allegri’s “Miserere” – a special performance was included in the Tuesday Evensong during Holy Week. The College Chapel...
Here is a pdf copy of the March Boomalakka which can be viewed on screen or downloaded to your computer and printed....
By Harry Croker, Dean of Undergraduates Photo Credits: Jason Zhu He and his team The Rawson Cup and Rosebowl tournaments roll forward...
Intercol students’ events kicked-off with Surreal Sounds at Paul’s on 15 March. This annual ‘dance’ brought the 165 year old...
“We are halfway through now. So far extraordinary” began the text message from the Palladian Solo Vocal where St Paul’s was...
From the Dean of Undergraduates, Harry Croker The 2023 Rawson Cup campaign is underway at 9 City Road. The College cricketers were...
From the Senior Tutor, Katie Allen Last year’s academic results are in and our Paulines can be proud of their fantastic...
From the Senior Tutor, Katie Allan The 2023 Academic Year began early for our newest medical students. Long before Welcome Week, our...
Congratulations to Rev’d Dr Max Wood and Rev’d James Collins OAM who have been declared by the Returning Officer as Clerical...
St Paul’s College Rosebowl Netball Team made history on 13 March playing the College’s first women’s competition game. The final...
At the start of the year the Students Club Committee of 2023 headed down to spend a weekend at The Barn Scone. “The Barn” Scone...
There is great excitement as the first St Paul’s Netball team prepare for their first ever Sydney University Intercollegiate...
It is not surprising that the enthusiasm for celebrating gender equality and embracing diversity has been so strong at the College...
Over the summer break a big project for the College was a renovation of a tired old Sals. The need to bring the bar up to modern...
In Welcome Week the newly arrived members of Graduate House sign the College Register and they officially become Paulines like their...
2023 Freshers Signing the College Register The Warden’s remarks Welcome Service in the College...
On the first day of Welcome Week the College saw the arrival of 120 freshers including 60 women undergrads making...
News Archive
St Paul’s seeks your generous support to make this important new facility a reality, thereby honouring one of our most distinguished...
Old Pauline Ben Franklin, in College 1990-96, has been a member of the NSW Legislative Council since 2015. He has held a number of...
Graduate House now has 32 students studying medicine or allied health degrees at the University of Sydney. St Paul’s has become THE...
After the COVID hiatus the first ‘Faculty Dinner’ was for the students of Law. The tradition of the faculty dinners has been an...
Power for the Sydney University Campus is provided through the University’s contract supply arrangements and St Paul’s has chosen...
St Paul’s College Union was founded in 1892, on the joint initiative of resident members of the College and of former students. In...
Emeritus Professor Frank William Nicholas has been recognised in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for significant service to...
The Honourable John Duncan Anderson AO has been recognised in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for eminent service to rural and...
College celebrated the 70 years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign with a Platinum Jubilee Evensong followed by a Platinum Jubilee Dinner on...
It is exciting to report that the College community has a new MP in Dr Andrew Charlton who has won the seat of Parramatta for the...
His Excellency the Australian Ambassador to Turkey, Mr Miles Armitage, gave the Anzac address on behalf of the Australian nation at...
PIC: PRIZE WINNERS MR ANGUS MALMO (FIRST ON LEFT) AND MR NICK TROTTER (THIRD ON RIGHT) WITH ACTING DEAN HARRY CROKER AND FOURTH YEAR...
Creative ideas pour out of universities every day, not the least of these come from students seeking to make a difference to society....
This year College is presenting a regular Monday night After-Dinner Speaker Series. This kicked-off in Week 1 with old Pauline...
Several members of St Paul’s are the beneficiaries of scholarship support enabling them to live away from home and within the...
Support for replacement of floor boards, table tops and chairs in the Dining Hall is greatly appreciated but the appeal continues. The...
Friday 5 July | 7.00 pm Paulines living in, or visiting, London are invited to the St Paul’s College Union London Summer Soiree...
1963 Freshers are warmly invited to a 60 year Reunion Lunch at College on Saturday 15 July. To get to the ticket website CLICK on:...
For Alumni
1993 Freshers are warmly invited to a Reunion Dinner at College on the evening of Saturday 15 July. To get to the ticket website CLICK...
We are warmly inviting Paulines, their spouses, widows and friends from the Arnott years back to College to reconnect at a reunion...
After the roaring success of last year’s Victoriana!, the Warden, Fellows and Union of St Paul’s College are commanded by...
Tarsus | Spotlight Date | Sunday 16 July 5pm Location | St Paul’s College Graduate House Refectory Tickets...
Important message from SUSF for Paulines planning to attend the Rugby Finals: Oval 2 is currently closed and unplayable and with...
‘The Lieutenant of Bungendore’ is an adaptation of Martin McDonagh’s classic black comedy, ‘The Lieutenant of...
Date | Saturday 6 May 5.30-11.00 pm | Chapel, Hall, Quad All welcome to St Paul’s College for a celebration of the Coronation of...
For the community
What could possibly be better than a trip to the theatre? That’s right – the theatre taking a trip to you! If you’re after a...
Tickets | free, register at events.humanitix.com/just-another-story Date | Sunday 2 April 3pm @ Graduate House Refectory The...
Le Labyrinthe Tickets | trybooking.com/CGDHL Date | Friday 31 March 7.30pm @ St Paul’s College Chapel Venture into the labyrinth...
Book now, limited seats. St Paul’s College presents Henry Purcell’s masterpiece Dido and Aeneas, a tale of destiny, love and...
“Victoriana!” is Australia’s longest running theatrical production and one of its most enduring and endearing. Run under the...
Music
You are warmly invited to a Service of Choral Evensong sung by the St Paul’s College Choir at St Luke’s Anglican Church, 4 Heydon...
St Paul’s College, Ensemble Apex and international-renowned soloist Brendan Joyce present Max Richter’s modern taken on...
People who rely on their performing arts talent to pay the bills in the have suffered throughout the pandemic and St Paul’s...
A small band of recent alumni gathered in the Salisbury for a reunion in February, which was perfect timing just as the COVID...
Romance, drama, death and comedy. Join our cast of characters in a night of opera presented by the second year students of the Sydney...
St Pauls’ College Mummer presents Wine Talks, farce written by Thomas Burrow and Timothy Richmond. Love to see you all there,...
This is an hour long concert that combines new electronic dance music written by the ‘Salisbury Institute’ with live vocals...
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