Rowland Croucher

Commonwealth Bank Insurance Scandal

On March 18, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Two articles suggesting why bank financial advisors are best avoided if you want honest advice… http://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/comminsure-life-insurance-has-lost-its-noble-purpose-20160315-gnjr6d.html http://www.smh.com.au/money/motley-fool-dont-buy-what-your-planner-is-selling-20160314-gnixms.html

Bullying in our schools: what can be done?

On March 16, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Why Safe Schools program must be kept March 12, 2016 Farrah Tomazin The Sunday Age’s state political editor. Coming out in high school can be agonising at the best of times. The first step for me involved confronting the fear of being cast out by my mates or bullied by my peers, which is often […]

Refugees: busting some of the myths

On March 16, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Busting some myths about asylum seekers and refugees March 12, 2016 Tom Ballard The Melbourne University qualitative research laid bare the negative views on asylum seekers held by many Australians. At this year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival, I’ll be performing Boundless Plains To Share

Sexual Slavery the IS way…

On March 15, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Islamic State uses birth control to maintain supply of sex slaves Date: March 13 2016 Rukmini Callimachi Dohuk,

Political ‘Case Study’: when a gifted leader is hamstrung by ideological pygmies

On February 25, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Note from Rowland: this is an unusually perceptive article (by someone with a Christian – Salvation Army – upbringing) Malcolm Turnbull is losing his chance to be a great Prime Minister February 23, 2016 Ross Gittins The Sydney Morning Herald’s Economics Editor Expectations were high, but now the Prime Minister is resorting to the same […]

EUTHANASIA: A doctor’s confession: She took my advice and died as planned

On February 23, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

February 5, 2016 She was the first person who ever asked for my medical opinion, so I suppose that made her my first patient, although I was only a final-year medical student at the time. She took my advice, and as a result she died as planned. Later I discovered that what I had done […]

POVERTY – and ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO

On February 14, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

POVERTY and MARGINALIZATION AROUND THE WORLD, WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE LIFE OF ARCHBISHIP OSCAR ROMERO (EAST DONCASTER BAPTIST CHURCH, Melbourne: February 14, 2014) First thanks to all of you at EDBC for your wonderful support and prayer for Jan and me, her carer over the last couple of fairly traumatic years. For those […]

How to get fit for free

On February 3, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Armed with a bit of get-up-and-go and good planning, you can be fitter than ever without spending a penny. We’ve enlisted the help of top fitness experts to help you explore new ways and places to exercise for free By Peta Bee Daily exercise can help with overall personal health

The End of Materialism

On January 27, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

By Thomas Scarborough Imagine a game of fast chess, in which a timer is used.

The Art of Darkness (dark literature which can change your life)

On January 19, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Rowland: Which ‘dark books’ have made a deep impression on you? Mine: off the top of my head: Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, CSLewis: The Problem of Pain (and later A Grief Observed), James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; more recently Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. ~~ the art of darkness […]

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