The Journal
All writing
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Carr Confused
Soon to be Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr says it is time Labor exposed Tony Abbott’s weaknesses. He also says he will reach out to the federal opposition to try to engender a more bipartisan…
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Nothing is Free
I have said this before, but campaign promises in Queensland and arguments in US about health insurance coverage make the point worth repeating. When people say something should be free, what they are really saying is…
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Labor Party = Celebrity Apprentice
The Australian Labor Party is the girls’ team on Celebrity Apprentice, and Lisa Lampanelli is Kevin Rudd in drag.
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Christian Marriage
The Adelaide Church Guardian is the newsletter of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide. There is an article in the February/March edition called ‘Christenviron’ Inclusive Church. The article, by Fr David Thornton-Wakeford, argued that there should be…
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An Arrow in the Knee
I used to be a blogger like you, until … well, you know the rest. I have been too involved with family and business over the last month to spend any time updating this blog. For…
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Something is coming that will leave the world a different place. Not something wicked perhaps, though made necessary by wickedness. Certainly something sad, bad and dangerous. I wrote a couple of days ago about what I thought…
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An Excerpt From a Christmas Sermon
By Bishop N.T. Wright at Durham Cathedral. Read the whole thing. It is a reminder that despite its mad follies and unfaithfulness, the Church of England still has men who care about the truth, and stand…
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John Howard Earns Order of Merit
I am not sure ‘earns’ is the right word, but it is, as Governor General Quentin Bryce noted in her congratulations to John Howard, ‘a rare and singular honour for his service to Australia.’ It is…
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Christians Get End of the World Prophecies Wrong Again
Or not… Runaway Global Warming promises to literally burn-up agricultural areas into dust worldwide by 2012, causing global famine, anarchy, diseases, and war on a global scale as military powers including the U.S., Russia, and China,…
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Happy 2012? Probably Not
I wholeheartedly wish and pray for my readers and all people of goodwill, a happy, purposeful, peaceful and prosperous New Year. But I don’t think it is going to happen. Over the last six years the UN…
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Christmas, Beauty, Light, and Everything That Matters
O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in præsepio. Beata virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum, Alleluia! O great mystery and wondrous sacrament, that animals should see the newborn Lord…
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Warming? What Warming?
It certainly isn’t getting any warmer here, with the coolest start to Summer in Australia for the last fifty years. But according to the alarmists, that’s just weather. Ed Caryl suggests that most of the land based…
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On The Persistent Promulgation Of Platitudes
It is a tad disappointing that church leaders trot out the same bland comments about illegal immigrants year after year. You might hope that if all they can up with is platitudes, they could at least try to…
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Not Such A Happy Christmas
I would have thought the primary motivation for becoming a journalist was to make the world a better place by helping people to know the truth. So it is a constant source of dismay that so many…
