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Climate Change
Download a new article by Brian Edgar and view The Climate Institute's election report card for the major parties.
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A reminder from Psalm 146
I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praises to my God all my life long.
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God, who made heaven and earth,...
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Two New Articles
Go to our articles page and read Dr Greg Clarke on the question 'Are 'Australian Values' Christian 'Values'?' and Dr Mark Brett on a virtually invisible issue in the current election campaign yet one which goes to the core of who we are--our identity, our history, our future together--namely, indigenous issues.
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Seminars on election issues
Don't struggle with the issues on your own. Take the opportunity to process your thoughts with other thinking Christians.
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Post-Election Comment: What Might the Rudd Victory Mean? Part 4
Democracy isn’t perfect, but sure beats the alternatives. Looking at the election result, did Australians get their money’s worth?
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Fear Not
When you leave the house today: fear not. When you travel to the polling station: be not afraid. When you stand in line: don’t give in to anxiety. When you’re faced with the string of empty boxes: don’t get scared. Make your judgements in wisdom and love of neighbour without giving way to terror.
Today, vote for someone else.
--Byron Smith, Sydney
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Can Fallen Leaders Be Redeemed: Governor Spitzer, King David and the Son of David?
Remembering the Triumphal Entry of Jesus the Son of David into Jerusalem provides pause for reflection on fallen leaders past and present.
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Post-Election Comment: What Might the Rudd Victory Mean? Part 1
Bruce Wearne provides our first reflection. Bruce gives thought to the meaning of the Labor victory particularly in relation to the complexity of our social and political life.
(More respondents to follow.)
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Post-Election Comment: What Might the Rudd Victory Mean? Part 2
Doug Hynd responds to comments by Peter Stokes in Salt Shakers E-News on the way Kevin Rudd will engage in policy, raising some interesting questions about differences in their respective understandings of the way Christians should engage in policymaking in a secular society such as Australia.
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Australia 2020 - A Challenge to Substantive Symbolism and Action
Deborah Storie reflects upon her experience of the 2020 Summit and the extent to which change is needed in the face of our fraught histories and the complex challenges to social, ecological and individual well-being.
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Freedom of Religion
The Australian Human Rights Commission has commissioned the Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF) in association with RMIT University and Monash University to prepare a report on Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century. AEA Public Theology and the Religious Liberty Commission both made submissions.
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Apology Day... and Beyond
Shayne Blackman, CEO of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Alliance (NATSICA), reflects on the significance of Apology Day and the future.
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Moving Past Assertions - Are Homosexual Friendships Marriages?
Dr Bruce Wearne responds to a recent assertion of Senator Bob Brown in the light of California's same-sex marriage laws
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Post-Election Comment: What Might the Rudd Victory Mean? Part 3
Kevin Rudd first sprang to prominence with several related articles about his vision of the relationship between Church and State. But what consideration has been given to how this might work out since Labor's overwhelming victory?
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A National Agenda for Religious Freedom
A paper by Professor Patrick Parkinson, University of Sydney.
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