Rowland Croucher
The Australian Constitution: what you didn’t know
Turning point for process? Bruce Grant September 6, 2010 With luck, this political impasse will motivate us to modernise the constitution. THE secret ballot is the most revolutionary political invention yet, taking power from monarchs, popes, archbishops and ayatollahs, warlords and dictators, corporation chiefs and trade union leaders, celebrities and bloggers, and giving it to […]
Climate change is a scientific fact, like gravity
Power of persuasion creates critical mass for climate action Nicholas Low September 6, 2010 THE science of climate change does not appear to be understood by the leaders of the major political parties, though it appears to be better understood by at least three of the four elected independents, as well as by the Greens […]
Talking to your doctor about how to die
The best medicine September 3, 2010 This year more than 100,000 Australians will be told they have cancer. In her new book, oncologist Ranjana Srivastava says not all will get the medical treatment they deserve. She speaks to Julia Medew. AS A child growing up in the impoverished Indian state of Bihar in the 1980s, […]
Religion and Politics in Queensland
GUEST BLOG: THE BONHOEFFER EFFECT By John Harrison ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 31 AUG 2010 When one looks at the swathe of seats in regional Queensland lost by Labor in the federal election, there is clearly a ‘state of origin’ factor in play. Queenslanders are a parochial lot, as the enduring interstate rugby league […]
Entitlement – the cure
I would like to take a minute to share with you one of the most important lessons I have learned in my life to date. The day was July 3rd, 2003 at approximately 3pm and I was working as a shift supervisor, freshly graduated with my bachelor degree in business management and confident that I […]
Humility and Entitlement
The Paradox of Humility In an age of narcissism and entitlement, humility may be the antidote we need. Now if we can just identify what it is. By Everett L. Worthington, Jr. For years, every morning at five a.m. my mother-in-law, Rena Canipe, would crawl out of bed and awaken her husband Clyde. Donning track […]
Meditation
29 August 2010 Meditation: Falling Awake If the aftermath of the Federal election has made you edgy you might need a good dose of medically-prescribed meditation. Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses and Letting Everything Become Your Teacher is Professor emeritus of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he […]
Pray for Azerbaijan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 1 September 2010 AZERBAIJAN: NO RE-REGISTRATION, NO BUILDING – NO WORSHIP http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1482 Cathedral of Praise Protestant church in Baku – which claims […]
Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups
Note from Rowland. I don’t know this organization, and hesitated to post this. However, I’ve noted that it affirms that sexual abuse happens in hetero- as well as homosexual contexts, within churches and elsewhere… **** From Chris Goddard, Director, Child Abuse Prevention Research, Monash University Re: Adult conspiracy to silence children a perversion of justice, […]
Oceans – mass extinction?
Oceans on brink of mass extinction: study Friday, 3 September 2010 Stephen Pincock ABC Climate change, over-fishing and other human impacts have pushed the oceans to the brink of a mass extinction that could take tens of millions of years to recover from, an Australian scientist says. Dr John Alroy from Macquarie University in Sydney […]
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