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Suffering. Even the mention of the word is something we run from, due to the sense of discomfort it brings. In a world where we’re constantly surrounded by picture-perfect lives, how do we face the reality of pain? In a world where it’s often taught [...]

The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, has recently expressed deep concern with an “escalation of intimidation and threats” against women and girls on matters of sex, gender, and gender identity. It comes as debate rages in Australia over [...]

The Federal Court of Australia recently ruled that the Australian government could not terminate the Russian embassy’s lease in Yarralumla, despite the National Capital Authority’s reasoning that the embassy had occupied the site for too long without developing it. The Guardian noted that there were [...]

with John Flanagan Of all the many things that the left-wing Albanese Labor Government did not bother to tell the Australian public prior to last year’s election was that they intended to take Australia’s utterly dysfunctional family law system back to the dark ages, when [...]

It is often said that the Christian needs to be on guard against the temptations of the three Gs: Gold, Girls and Glory. All three areas can easily trip up a believer and render him ineffective for kingdom service – and worse. Another similar way [...]

A wave of angry women and mothers appear to have forced TerryWhite Chemmart to backflip on the use of the term "birthing parent". The 500-store-strong Australian pharmacy used the pro-LGBT newspeak in its “scientific” medical information on whooping cough. Under the title “family affair”, the [...]

Fr Tony Percy, head of the Catholic campaign to save the hospital, has asked supporters to “accept the decision” and write to parliamentarians to voice their protest. The head of the Catholic campaign to save Calvary Hospital has asked supporters to “accept the decision” of [...]

Religious freedom, a fundamental human right, encompasses the belief in and worship of a higher power without constraint or inhibition. While countries like the United States and Canada have explicit protections for religious freedom, Australia's approach has been more nuanced, primarily relying on constitutional provisions [...]

Few poets have explored the weight and wonder of fatherhood like Andrew Lansdown. Over the years, Andrew has established a high reputation for his subtle, insightful poems about his wife and children. I have known Andrew Lansdown for over two decades. As a songwriter [...]

The current debate regarding the ability of faith-based schools to preference staff who share a common faith appears to ignore a crucial principle of international human rights law that aims for a principled balancing of conflicting rights. World War II was the deadliest military conflict [...]

We now move on to the penultimate section of Handel’s “Messiah”. In the wordbook from 1743 I mentioned previously this has the heading, “A Hymn of Thanksgiving for the final overthrow of Death”. This, in turn, is broken down into another three sub-sections, the first [...]

Why has the Durham report been ignored, sneered at, and dismissed?

Lessons for the Liberal Party from the Moira Deeming saga. On most days that the Australian Parliament sits, there is one – sometimes two or three – rallies on the lawns in front of the building. Most parliamentarians are unaware of these events, unless they [...]

Take a Stand for Our Religious Freedom It's a grave time for religious freedom in Australia. As you may have already heard, in the Australian Capital Territory, the Labor-Greens Coalition has passed legislation to forcibly acquire Calvary Hospital on July 3. Calvary Hospital is [...]

The loss of the federal seat of Aston by the Liberal Party is, unfortunately, simply the latest chapter in a saga of defeat and decline. A Long Trend of Decline Consider the record. In the past few years, the Liberals have lost government in Western [...]

Novice politician Moira Deeming didn’t agree and the men expelled her from her own party. A once-great Australian political party has raised the white flag to wokeness. “Apparently, if you think that men and women are not fully interchangeable, that marriage is not open to [...]

An unchanging gospel in a changing world. Some things change in life. Some things do not change. Knowing which is which is vital. As to the former, people change. Cultures change. Societies change. But as to the latter, God does not change. The Christian gospel [...]

“Go woke, go broke” is perhaps becoming an overused expression, but more and more incidents prove it’s simply true. The latest proof is American retail giant Target, which lost billions of dollars following recent backlash over the store selling pride-themed merchandise – but it’s more [...]

The new documentary, The Great Awakening, asks us to imagine life as it used to be. In 1959, I was seven years old. It was a summer’s day. I lived with my family in Yorkshire, England. We had consumed our main meal, mid-day Sunday. But [...]

Children’s television program Sesame Street is celebrating Gay Pride month. This of course raises the question, why does Sesame Street want to celebrate divergent sexual orientations with your children? The educational children’s show put out a tweet at the weekend announcing… “This Pride Month let's [...]