An Obadiah Slope column Offended: Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, which offers a low bar to establishing a case of discrimination. 18c “makes it unlawful to do an act in public if: the act is reasonably likely to… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Gold star award: John Steenhof, the lawyer who heads the Human Rights Law Alliance, a body fairly described as conservative, which defends the human rights of Christians in legal trouble – Jereth Kok, whose medical licence… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Obadiah finds reading letters to the editor more misses than hits, but thought this was a great letter to the NY Times that did not waste a single word. “I do not agree with a lot of Charlie… Continue Reading
Last Sunday lunchtime, Obadiah did his best to avoid any of the three marches (anti-immigration, pro-Palestine and anti-anti-immigration) that filled various streets in Sydney. Instead of protesting, he was on an errand to retrieve his lost mobile phone, which Find… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Sergeant Schultz moment: Obadiah knows nothing, nothing about this story. But he is so glad it happened. ### The “Both Sides Now” problem: Obadiah thinks some of the best comments The Other Cheek receives are the… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column ### Funny bun: Archbishop Jeremy of Brisbane commits pun-ishment… and Obadiah notes the names of two other Bishops at least gave him a like. Giggling, no doubt! Tradition for sale: Spotted in the “preloved uniform shop… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Headline on the AFL site: “Friends, footy and fantasy: The draft hopeful who reads two books a week.” Yes reading books makes news in some places. Oh, and Obadiah wishes Danika McDonald all the best with… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Drawing to a close: Can you change the world with paper and pencil? The answer is yes if you consider the work of the visionary architect Léon Krier who died this month. He hardly built a… Continue Reading
A note to the future: Anne Weeks posted this on her facebook and asked people to share. So why not? If I get dementia, I’d like my family to hang this wish list up on the wall where I live.… Continue Reading
Learning to be present: Journeying up and down to Melbourne for the last three months to visit my sister Sylvia in hospital, for a short time in rehab, and now preparing for her funeral, rotating in and out of those… Continue Reading