Julian Leeser, the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians and the Shadow Minister for Education, highlighted a tragic statistic at the Garma Festival this week. “In Australia, an Aboriginal boy is more likely to go to jail than university.” But Leeser… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column News from the North: Obadiah frankly admires the Church of England, General Synod. Why/ because of its openness. It is live-streamed. When they take a vote, they use an electronic voting system that even elderly Bishops… Continue Reading
Alliance Defending Freedom HELSINKI (24 JULY 2026) – The Finnish parliamentarian criminally convicted for “insulting” a group by Finland’s Supreme Court has filed an application to appeal her conviction to the European Court of Human Rights this week, commencing the final legal… Continue Reading
The Daily Telegraph called it a “holy Exodus,” senior chaplains resigning from the NSW Police because of the changed wording of a new contract that would require them to name police officers who contact them. But after media exposure of… Continue Reading
Fleeing domestic violence has got harder over the last decade, according to research by Anglicare Sydney The immediate costs of leaving, such as securing housing and temporary accommodation, and the follow-on costs of rebuilding a household and establishing safety afterwards,… Continue Reading
Politically speaking, Aussie conservatives are spoiled for choice. Spoiled because they have such a wild array of choices. The Saturday Paper reported that TWO factions in the Liberal Party have a Christian religious affiliation: the hard right (Catholics) and the… Continue Reading
Joseph Holmes via Religion Unplugged (REVIEW) Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has drowned out its critics in a sea of money and critical acclaim. The film has generated mountains of controversy before it came out for its casting choices, historical anachronisms… Continue Reading
Two recent free speech and transgender cases came to significant milestones this month with spectacularly different results. But it should be said that neither of the two women involved came out unscathed. Both have been dragged through lengthy proceedings that… Continue Reading
Bishop Joseph Aba Nicanor, via Anglican Communion News Service To the governments of f the Republic of South Sudan and the Republic of Uganda; the African Union (AU); IGAD; the United Nations (UN); Diplomatic Missions; Humanitarian Partners; Ecumenical and Faith-Based… Continue Reading
Kirralie Smith will have to publish an account of how two male-to-female footballers were vilified by her following a judgment handed down in the NSW Supreme Court, in the latest installment of a long-running case. Update: Prof Neil Foster correctly… Continue Reading