Director of the UK-based Tax Justice Network, John Christiensen, is in Melbourne to discuss the actions the Australian Government could be taking to combat the damage caused by tax havens.

“Dear Santa, are you real?” Arthur Christmas starts with a letter from a curious child sent to Santa Claus in the North Pole. I’m not sure what you know about Santa Claus, but in Arthur Christmas, things are a little different.

The Christmas Bowl is the annual appeal of Act for Peace, the international aid agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia. This year, the Christmas Bowl highlights the work of Act for Peace’s partners in Zimbabwe.

This article considers the Christmas stories of each of the four gospels and how we in our time might be inspired by a pastoral word spoken into our human life and history from the diversity of their unique accounts.

For some time now, we have been working on the Every Australian Counts campaign which was set up to raise awareness of the need for a safety net that would protect all Australians should they be born with or acquire a disability.

Set in 2002, Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland As baseball franchise in this biographical tale. Moneyball suggests that what we have right now is often the victory we had been searching for all along.