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This Christmas heralds a new beginning for all Australians, the President of the Baptist Union of Australia, Rev Dr Ross Clifford, said in his Christmas message. Dr Clifford is also the Vice-President of the CDP. “Change and renewal is happening all around us: in the weather, in the cycles of the natural world, in our personal well-being, in history and politics. But when Jesus was born in humble circumstances in Palestine more than 2,000 years ago, something fundamentally new and permanent was underway.

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life.

During a visit to the Lakemba Mosque on Friday 30 November, NSW Liberal Leader, Barry O’Farrell, offered a formal apology to the State’s Islamic community for the activities of rogue Liberals during the recent Federal election campaign.

We are so conditioned to the idea that two main parties define politics, we even call them left and right as if they were parts of our body. But parties spring up in response to the primary tensions in a certain time and place. In the 20th century that polarisation was capital versus [...]

The 2007 Federal Election is being seen as a fight for the middle ground by two ‘play-it-safe’ politicians with adept political skills and conservative ‘man of the people’ values. Election day 2007 will mark a crucial time in Australian political history, which is expected to have a long-lasting impact on the country’s two biggest political parties and the community they serve.

For good or ill, Australia is now a high-profile member of the Western alliance engaged in the war on terrorism. If that war is to be won, it will be with the active cooperation of Australia’s Muslim community. ASIO, by its crass blundering in the case of Izhar ul-Haque, will have given Muslims excellent reason to distrust and fear its motives. The danger of terrorism continues to be present. It must be fought. But it will not be fought successfully by agencies which adopt, in effect, the terrorists’ own attitude

In 1999, Sweden passed legislation that criminalised the buying of sex and decriminalised the selling of sex, a law based on the fundamental belief that prostitution is a form of male violence against women and the exploiters/buyers need to be punished, and the victims/prostitutes need to be helped. The impact has been staggering.

Australia prepares to make the next big decision on November 24. And so, we go to the polls.

Today many Christians are leaving Iraq from Basra, Baghdad, Mosul and elsewhere. Fleeing the appalling anti-Christian violence, they cross into Syria to cities such as Qamishli, Hassake, Aleppo and Damascus, some entering into Jordan. Many, like Abraham, do not know where they are going. Their future is fraught with uncertainty.

Despite rising interest costs, less than 20,000 of the 5.3 million home loans are more than 90 days behind in repayments. 99.6% of all home mortgage repayments are up to date.