Bob Burdett – Candidate for Brand
Candidate offers new alternative Article by Niall Boyle, Sound Telegraph A new candidate for the Federal seat for Brand claims to offer a real alternative for voters in September’s election. Australian Christians representative Bob Burdett said he would be working hard to offer the electorate a viable option to Labor and the coalition. Mr Burdett [...]
Are we really casually & comfortably racist? – Vickie Janson
According to Saturday’s Age article Casually and comfortably racist, Australian’s carry racism deep within. Examples abounded and included ‘parodying an indigenous accent’. Presumably it’s ok for all to parody Julia’s accent or the Queen’s accent, but once we step outside the white race its apparently no longer funny. Am I a racist? In our [...]
manna4life
There’s an outward move in the churches to bring life to their own communities. In Moe and in Morwell, Vickie and Michael visited two churches that are also functioning as community centres with hot soup accompanied by hot hearts. And this weekend in Hallam, St Mina and St Marina Coptic Youth Group birthed their community [...]
ABC’s neutrality cover blown
Monday nights edition of Q&A has completely blown the ABC’s claim of “fairness and neutrality”. With 5 (including Tony Jones) against 1 on gay marriage, and a completely biases selection of tweets, how can the program producers claim this is fair. In spite of this, Rev Fred Nile did a Stirling job, worthy of great [...]
One Good Day
Last weekend Michael and I experienced ‘One Good Day’ with David and Angela Armstrong, their family and the families they serve. These guys believe that every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander should have ‘One Good Day’ – they are determined to make it happen. We arrived at the Shalvey, NSW venue mid morning and were [...]
