2023

The current Australian Federal Government has proposed amendments to the Australian Constitution to create a first nations “Voice” to parliament. There are multiple concerns about this. Many Australians are not happy about enshrining division by race…

I keep seeing a meme that claims that smart cities, phones, etc stands for “Surveillance, Monitoring, Analysis, etc, etc …” Smart does not stand for that. It is not an acronym. Smart cities simply means making…

This kind of baseless and inevitably incorrect prediction makes some Christian groups look like idiots. This kind of baseless and inevitably incorrect prediction make another group look like idiots.

From the great Babylon Bee. Why should shoplifters have to bear the increased cost and risks of travelling outside their local areas to steal? Unfair! Break the system!

The primary risk indicators for suicide, accounting for sixty percent of all attempted and completed suicides, are a history of self harm including previous attempts, and intimate partner issues and family breakdown. This is hardly news.…

Sellout concerts and four hit singles have fans and critics alike saying Two Times Shy is Australia’s hottest new band. Tearing Up Inside, their third single, is on Youtube as audio only – no video. I…

I was very sorry to hear this evening of the death of Barry Humphries. He died in hospital this morning. He was a rare comic genius.

An interesting story here from a former Presbyterian theologian and historian, whose studies of history and the early Church led him to the Catholic faith. His journey mirrors mine. I attended AOG churches in my teens,…

A friend of mine went to court a few days ago to challenge a speeding fine. He didn’t address the question of whether he had been speeding or not. Rather, he noted that the speed camera…

Mainland China (The People’s Republic of China – PRC) insists it owns Taiwan. Taiwan says it is an independent nation. The PRC finds this embarrassing. The PRC does not like to be embarrassed. Communist China has…

It may seem a small thing, but what does it say when a shooter or other violent criminal’s race is mentioned every time he or she is white, but never when the perpetrator is of another…

You are not your mental illness. You are not your failures, your hurts, your fears or temptations. Who are you? You are loved.

Learn to weld, shoe horses, build a house, make a road… Over 160,000 tech jobs in the US lost in 2023 as at the 20th of April.

I am twenty-five years older than Cleopatra was when she died. I’m not black either. I don’t care really, if it’s fiction, do what you want, but if you call it history, it should be history,…

I always cringe when I see people write “Doctors can’t explain…” This just means the writer cannot imagine an explanation and assumes no one can, and hasn’t actually asked any doctors. Ditto for young earth creationists…