By Penny Mulvey Disability advocate Dr Rhonda Galbally AO, delivering the annual Sambell Oration in Melbourne last week, reminded the 300 plus guests ‘that like being born, getting old and dying, disability is part of li
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Image credit: Garth Jones Friday Forum Your views on the news David French, a conservative writer for the National Review, was recently interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air.
REVIEW BY EMMET O’CUANA BOOK | THE SILVER BARON’S WIFE | DONNA BAIER STEIN Donna Baier Stein’s fictionalised account of Elizabeth ‘Baby Doe’ McCourt Tabor promises much.
This chart represents the ages of attending church members across Victoria and Tasmania EMMET O’CUANA For the fifth year running, synod operations has canvassed congregations in Victoria and Tasmania inviting submi
1 Subsection 5(1) Insert: marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.
The Magnificent Seven (2016) dir Antoine Fuqua What relevance does The Magnificent Seven, a film about cowboys and corrupt land barons set in 1879, have for audiences in 2016? John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven (1960) i
Friday Forum Your views on the news Our graphic designer, Garth Jones, got a dragon, because of course he did. So I’m a beagle.
Review by Emmet O’Cuana VIDEO GAME | DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION I did not expect to find myself reflecting on the nature of religion while playing a horned giant ‘Qunari’ using magic spells to fend off attacks from a demon
Are we obliged to give ‘equal platform’ to those who vilify the vulnerable? Is “journalistic balance” balanced? This is a question that has been on my mind lately.
On Saturday evening while all about me were losing their heads about the 2016 Australian federal election, I was happily enjoying the afterglow of voting for the first time in seven years.
