Desperately seeking a tax dodge
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.
Vale Gough Whitlam
I was three when Gough Whitlam was dismissed. The two years and nine months that he was the 21st prime minister of Australia brought in many changes – changes for a better, fairer society.
Hand-made help
Risk assessment officer Kelly Smith test drives the prisoner-designed swag Some homeless Tasmanians have slept warmer and drier this winter thanks to an innovative joint project between UnitingCare Tasmania and female pr
Images of faith
book l Inklings – Doubt, Faith and Everyday Life – Australian poets, writers and artists at work, edited by Mac Nicoll, 2014 Review by James Tulip Former professor of English at Sydney University In my local Uniting Ch
John Corben Lavender (Jock) 6 July 1919 – 23 June 2014
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.
United in truth
Nadia Bolz-Weber (pictured). The stories of some delegates can be viewed on the conference website at www.unitingwomen.org.
Going for green
A scene from Chasing Ice A community film night recently raised $10,000, enabling Queenscliff to become the latest Uniting Church to install solar panels.
STRYDA for RYDA
Robert de Castella claims that humans have evolved to run marathons. He believes that of all God’s creatures, we are the only ones with the genetic disposition to maintain a constant run over 42.2 kilometres.
Whishing Alison well
After six years as the Presbytery Minister-Leadership Development in Tasmania Rev Alison Whish (pictured) is moving to South Australia.