Police throughout the world face a substantial challenge in stopping online child sexual abuse.
This abuse involves everything from grooming children for actual physical offences to the production of and trading in images of children being sexually abused.
The commercial trade in such images involves hundreds of sites. An estimated 50,000 new child sexual abuse images ...
Anyone who attempts to strengthen an argument by evoking images of Nazi atrocities risks repudiation via Godwin’s law. Yet not to acknowledge the similarities is becoming harder by the day.
“… a wave of immigration coming in would have been frightening to some people, concerned for the few jobs that were available.”
Just after the Melbourne Cup weekend we’ll start to see decorations for Christmas appear in shopping centres, followed not too long after by playing of Christmas carols. All designed to massage the general public into the mood for that great big cultural event we call Christmas.
In Australia, we associate that magical term – Christmas – with events like ...
Towards the beginning of the five-day Synod meeting we were invited to consider our hopes for the meeting and the Church. I had many, many hopes and this was probably partly as I was rather daunted by the whole ‘Synod thing’.
I was concerned that things discussed might feel irrelevant; that it would be too ‘business-focussed’.
If you ask most Christians what they want for their future, no one replies: more hand-outs for big business and please cut spending on health and education to fund them. Yet that is what some big businesses in Australia are seeking.
Ever heard of ‘patent box’ rules? Not many of us have, but this is a way of dodging taxes ...
Jock (pictured) was born in Ivanhoe, but spent most of his youth in Northcote where his father was a bank manager, and where he attended primary school, high school and the Methodist church in High Street. He took his first job in the dispatch office at McPhersons nut and bolt factory in North Richmond in 1935. After a short ...
The recent #LoveMakesAWay protests in Melbourne and Sydney, involving church leaders and activists from the major Christian denominations, shone a light on the contradiction of religion in Australian politics. Politicians like to be associated with the traditional values of Christianity, but being held accountable to them is less convenient.
The wording of Section 116 of the Constitution seems clear ...
Below are two responses to Darren Aronofsky’s film Noah, by Megan Graham and Emmet O’Cuana.
Noah blockbuster makes questionable choices
by Megan Graham
The International Movie Database website describes the plot of Noah this way: “A man is chosen by his world’s creator to undertake a momentous mission to rescue the innocent before an ...
What if I told you you could buy the right to shoot an endangered black rhino in South Africa for $150,000; or rent out space on your forehead to display commercial advertising for $777 in New Zealand; or stand in line to hold a place for a US congressional lobbyist for $15-$20 per hour?
On Monday 11 church leaders and members – from Uniting, Anglican, Baptist and other denominations – staged a sit-in at the WA electoral office of Julie Bishop to protest the cruel treatment of children in immigration detention centres. All were charged with trespassing and held temporarily in custody at the Perth police station. Below is a reflection from one of ...
In recent times, I have conducted ministries in Britain and Australia. There is a decline in church membership and attendance in both countries, and the decline is rapid. In the British press, there has been a spate of complaints by Christians, asserting that the Christian religion is under attack and being marginalised.
In 1995, former Prime Minister John Howard delivered one of his famous ‘Headland’ speeches, a series of appeals to a disaffected Australian public that contributed to his political success.
Earlier this month, The Australian published the results of a survey to identify the best prime minister for the past four decades. Howard was the clear winner. Revisiting his words is ...
