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Bible Passages: Psalm 22:1-6.

This country has never valued its teachers enough. Those engaged in education at whatever level, are not recognised for their significant contribution to successive generations. We do not pay them enough, honour them enough, and while loading more and more responsibilities upon them, keep reducing their levels of authority and status within [...]

Bible Passage: Hebrews 10:19-25.

Billy O’Shannessy, once a prominent barrister is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. He is a homeless alcoholic. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders’ cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, street kid heading for all the usual [...]

The Governors of Australia have been remarkable. Even the recently resigned Governor General has had an in-credible career of public service for forty years. I have known him over all that time since we were at University together. He does not deserve most of what has been said of him. If he had followed our [...]

Bible Passage: Acts 28:1-10.

The beheading in the Solomon Islands this week of Seventh Day Adventist missionary Lance Gersbach, is a tragedy. He is the last of a long line of Australian missionaries killed for preaching the Gospel in the Pacific. Since the first missionaries left Australia to proclaim the Gospel in the South Pacific, deaths [...]

Bible Passage: Acts 16:16-30.

In the first sixty years of European settlement in Australia, Britain sent over 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ships. The First Fleet contained convicts and marines. The British agrarian and industrial revolutions resulted in population growth in the cities, an increase in crime and overcrowding in the jails. The American Revolution [...]

Bible Passage: Hebrews 12:1-3.

The pioneers of European settlement were both heroes and villains. They were heroes as they moved into totally unknown country with only an axe and an adze, cut a clearing, made huts out of mud, boughs and bark, with no food supplies, shops or medical help, with little stock or grain, [...]

Bible Passage: Esther 4:1-17.

Early Australia was not a hospitable place to women and families. The role of women in our first 150 years of years of European settlement was more difficult than for any country ever settled and any continent inhabited.

Most of that first 150 years there was a imbalance between men and women in [...]

Bible Passage: Hebrews 11:13-16.

We are under attack from secular fundamentalists, atheistic humanists, and intolerant pluralists, who hate the idea of Australia’s Christian heritage. They seek as journalists, broadcasters, politicians and academics to remove every trace of Christian heritage in our land. Few Christians know anything of this nation’s rich Christian heritage and the fact that [...]