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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: 12 per cent increase in reports of human trafficking and slavery to AFP

Posted on 30/07/2024 by John Sandeman

A press release from the Australian Federal Police reports an increase in trafficking statistics. Reports of human trafficking and slavery to the AFP have reached an all-time high, following a 12 per cent increase in the 2023-24 financial year revealed… Continue Reading →

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Portrait of a Christian leftie (The twin gets an AM)

Posted on 29/01/2023 by John Sandeman

My twin received an AM, becoming a Member of the Order of Australia this week. It is worth discussing why. It was on April 15, 1971, at an event denounced by the crusty conservatives of our state upper house that… Continue Reading →

Farewelling Ron Sider (1939–2022) the prophet of the evangelicals

Posted on 11/08/2022 by John Sandeman

“Ron Sider was the first evangelical writer who opened my eyes to the whole gospel,” Tim Costello tells the Other cheek. “As a young 22-year-old reading his classic 1977 book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger was both explosive… Continue Reading →

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