Rowland Croucher
What capitalism just cannot get right
What capitalism just cannot get right By Michael Kinsley November 22, 2006 The death of Milton Friedman has been an occasion for celebrating the magic of capitalism, and fair enough. Capitalism is pretty great, and Friedman was its feisty defender when that view was far from universally held. But let’s not get carried away. There […]
Jim Reiher: Christian Greens candidate
Hi from Jim Reiher A quick update…. and two short speechs I have given recently: I survived 5 meet the candidate nights in the last week: 4 run by the Australian Christain Lobby group and the 5th in a Uniting Church. The ACL ones only gave upper house candidates 3 minutes to speak. I changed […]
American politics
I abhor violence and hate and wish I had the answer to the world’s troubles but I don’t. Where were you when your country invaded Vietnam, along with mine? Where were you when your country invaded El Salvador? Where were you when your country, again in the company of mine, invaded Iraq? Where were you […]
Aussies
The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humour. Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV. How do the plants […]
Smile
I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with. Her last project of the term was called “Smile.” The class […]
Children On Grandparents
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Reclaiming the Cross in the UK
Reclaiming the Cross in the UK Yesterday Nadia Eweida lost her internal appeal against her employers, British Airways. She had been seeking the right to wear a small silver cross visibly around her neck while working in her check-in job at Heathrow Airport. Nadia’s case is an example of the discrimination which now exists in […]
21 November 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: 200,000 STUDENTS JOIN ‘DARE TO BE A DANIEL’ TRAINING PROGRAM MILITANTS IN INDIA KILL PROMINENT CHRISTIAN, ATTACK VILLAGERS CONVOY OF HOPE HELPS UGANDA REBUILD FOLLOWING TRUCE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT GIVES GRANT FOR HEALTHCARE PROGRAM AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING PIONEER DIES AT AGE 89 An actor handpicked by Chairman Mao’s wife to star in several Chinese […]
Senator Steve Fielding – Putting The Murdoch Family First?
For God’s sake are there any Christians left in Australia who care about where this country is heading, or has the Christian God become a private idol or a family totem? Without the support of Senator Steve Fielding the government wouldn’t have got its new media laws through parliament intact. Those laws now threaten to […]
Ghosts of imperialism past coming back to haunt us
The Independent – 20 November 2006 http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/yasmin_alibhai_brown/article19 98888.ece Even when our foreign policy is benevolent, it appears condescending and exploitative In many ways, I am a captive of my history, as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are of theirs by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Tony Blair and Gordon Brown take up the white man’s burden, one in […]
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