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Easter Monday's National Day of Repentance builds on Australia's long and rich Christian history. Discover the many calls for national prayer and repentance by Church and government leaders over the past two centuries.

Dark deeds of a few bad forebears now masquerade as Australian history, loading our kids with guilt to make them easy to control.  They need an antidote. So, here is some history of good forebears who sacrificed to leave us a priceless heritage.

Don’t believe the popular myths. Australia wasn’t just some ragtag, criminal outpost of the British Empire. Australia is a product of revival.

The Two-State Solution is a proposed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by establishing two separate states (within the current borders of Israel) for two peoples. This fails to provide the parties with genuine enforceable assurances of peace, protection, and safety.

Ukraine was not invited to a key meeting between American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia last week to decide what peace in the country might look like. Such high-handed power politics rarely ends well for those affected, as these seven historical examples show.

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Many said that Communism was dead. They were wrong. Communism is a mind virus. It adapts. It mutates as it travels through history. Let us examine how it has transformed through the ages.

These books all argue that modern Israel has a right to exist, it has a right to defend itself, and it is the only real democracy in the entire Middle East. Given the global hatred and hostility to Israel, we need to be aware of books like these.

Calling Australia Day “Invasion Day” ignores the harsh realities before 1788 and paints a one-sided view of history. Abolishing Australia Day would undermine the unity our forebears worked so hard to create, based upon a view of our history which is simply not true. 

Almost everyone has heard of Charles Spurgeon, but few know of Spurgeon's pseudonymous alter ego John Ploughman, whose writings are just as relevant today as the time they were written.

While the Overton Window concept is valuable and appealing, the man behind it deserves to be remembered every bit as much.

Discover the dark alliance between Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger — pioneers of contraception whose obsessions with eugenics and sexuality sparked rivalries, scandals, and an enduring global legacy.

For believers today, the story of Hanukkah carries a powerful message of standing firm in the face of persecution.

There are some special events to honour William Cooper this 6 December. At the Israel and German embassies in Canberra, a plaque honouring him will be erected on the adjoining fence of the embassies, an amazing gesture of solidarity.

Information Warfare is an integral – and largely misunderstood – part of conflict. The use of terms like “misinformation” by politicians and pundits does nothing to help dispel this misunderstanding.

How did attitudes about the British Empire change so quickly? Is the legacy of the British Empire good or bad? Was it built on slavery or cooperation? Did it expand through violence or trade? And was the British Empire essentially racist?

Take away the history of a people or a culture or a nation, and you effectively take away the people, the culture, and the nation. We are today what has gone before in our past. Being unmoored from our own past makes us quite vulnerable.

Basically, all cultures throughout human history have been involved in slavery. Yet Westerners today tend to think it ONLY happened in Western countries and was perpetrated by whites on non-whites. Slavery is wrong, but telling lies about it is wrong as well.

It is easy to forget that Winston Churchill was widely distrusted prior to becoming Prime Minister. Churchill’s story is echoed elsewhere. Australia’s two longest-serving Prime Ministers, Robert Menzies and John Howard, succeeded after having been dismissed as yesterday’s men.

Johann Sebastian Bach is arguably the greatest composer of all time. But what motivated him to write the music that he did?

We’ve all heard the rhetorical attacks on Western Civilisation — often centred on Christianity, capitalism, or colonialism, and often on all three. It’s worth examining the data to determine whether they deserve to be so despised.