Friends, Last weekend I was honoured and humbled to attend the memorial for Australia’s worst maritime tragedy since world war two in Canberra, performing the incredible song ‘Time and Tide’ by my brother Phill. The ‘SIEV X’ sank in late 2001, with 353 people drowned – predominantly women and children. Despite the enormity of the […]

By Terry J. Allen It has already started. The first ripples from rising seas are inundating low-lying areas, threatening coasts and islands. Climate refugees around the world are fleeing regions beset by violent storms, extreme temperatures, melting glaciers, spreading deserts, swelling oceans and other escalating effects of global warming. Read more… http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3289/climate_change_refugees/

Adele HorinSeptember 1, 2007 Between Australians and the Irish there has always been a special bond. From the Irish convicts we have inherited an irreverent humour, and a big-drinking culture along with a particular brand of Catholicism. In more recent times, the two countries have enjoyed upbeat economies and falling unemployment. But there the similarities […]

Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, and others have formed a group to articulate new approaches to global issues. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0719/p07s02-woaf.html?page=1

This post is about two things really – a performance about a past injustice, and the current issue it has raised. The performance was a brilliant piece of political theatre, which runs in Sydney until September the 8th. Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue, a very theatrical retelling of the Australian Government’s enquiry into the Australian […]

The balance between the bystander who acts and the bystander who doesn’t act is a cultural problem. In Australia, we have established a culture where the public duty is not priced highly. Clearly, it is irrelevant to many. Until, of course, they need a Good Samaritan to help them. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6098

Familiar in his clerical collar, cream-colored suit and dyed-blond pompadour, the Rev. Billy has spent much of the last decade parading through the streets of Manhattan, shouting through a megaphone messages such as: “Mickey Mouse is the anti-Christ!” Accompanied by a robed choir belting out gospel songs, the Rev. Billy condemns the “Disneyfication” of Times […]

Giant military exercise does not serve Australian interests Operation Talisman Sabre (OTS) is getting underway today (Friday) at Shoalwater Bay in Queensland – the biggest military exercise in our country’s history, involving 20,000 US and 7,500 Australian troops live-firing in counter-insurgency operations and live-bombing from aircraft. It comes as figures obtained for the Centre for […]

Micah Challenge: 07:07:07 half time events Bring the important message of global poverty to your own sporting event. http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/pages/content.asp?plid=159

I don’t know who’s more ridiculous: “Christian” Islamophobes obsessed with the “threat to civilization” posed by “Islamofacism” or atheist evangelists who think religion is the root of all evil. Seeing as how most human beings on the planet believe in some kind of divinity, the atheistic evangelism of “intellectuals” like bully leftist-turned-Bush-apologist Christopher Hitchens is […]

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Dear friends We are all celebrating after receiving a slap on the wrist for breaking into Pine Gap spy base and causing it to go into lock-down. The judge refused to lay the excessive penalties that were open to her. In her address she complimented us and noted our sincerity and good character. We feel […]