Joan Kirner: Mentor, friend and role model
I first met Joan in late 1995 or in 1996 when she was meeting with ALP women to talk about an organisation she was starting – EMILY’s List Australia.
Mad Max Fury Road
Review by Emmet O’Cuana Film | Mad Max: Fury Road | MA When I was far too young, I was shown a film that featured horrific violence, death, fascist oppression and, ultimately, the end of the world.
Reconciliation is not assimilation
National Reconciliation Week concludes on Wednesday, but does that mean we don’t think about the meaning of reconciliation for another year? Indigenous activist and elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM reminded us to continue
Love Is Indispensable
And yet I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
Overcoming the bystander effect
Earlier this week, three Muslim women were verbally abused by two men on a packed Melbourne train. Jason Cias, a commuter on his way home from work, confronted the two men when they threatened to “smash” the women.
Share warmth this winter
For the past few days, people in the southern states have shivered their way to work. This foretaste of winter causes most of us to grumble.
National Sorry Day
On 26 May 1997, the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report on the Stolen Generation was tabled in the federal parliament.
Uniting Agewell raises money for Nepal
(From left to right) Sunny Nepal and Bikran Adhikari; Lauren Curnow, from Australia Red Cross; Rev John Clarke, director of mission, UA; Sita Gyawali, personal care worker UA Manor Lakes.
Poem – WALKING THE LABYRINTH WITH THE WHOLE CREATION
By Rev John Cranmer Here is a walking the Dunkeld Labyrinth with the whole Creation context by mountain sun sky trees a white-blueness — a multi-variant-greenness a red-tinged-brownness mirrored-together in gently
Poem – A SILENCE BEYOND THOUGHT
By Rev John Cranmer come find those silences between the words that minds speak to themselves as they tread sharp-edges of aloneness here release the mind from its frenetic-yabberings screamed-out in the darkness of it
Ireland Says Yes We Do
By Emmet O’Cuana An Australian Christian lobby group responded to the events of the weekend in Ireland with the following statement “the redefinition of marriage and family in Ireland this weekend is a wake-up call to A
Sharing the burden this winter
By Nigel Tapp Harrison UnitingCare faces the very real prospect of walking away from offering an emergency relief support service in Knox in the wake of a Federal Government grant funding cut which amounts to about $100