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The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of [...]

If you wanted any more evidence as to the decay of Western civilisation, then you need only to consider the following example reported by The Daily Wire. As you can see below, in the American city of Seattle, the statue of George Washington has recently [...]

1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. 2 For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth. ~ Psalm 47:1-2 Christianity is communal. It’s not just for individuals but for the nations. Christianity [...]

1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with [...]

“Have you seen ‘Best Daddy’, Warwick?” This was the short cryptic text I received from my friend Hayden Gillie from Warrnambool. Hayden is the sort of guy who doesn’t say much about something, unless it is really good. I was not disappointed when I watched [...]

My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skilful writer You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you [...]

Some words are more important than others. They speak to the human heart, describe our inner longings, and rally us around a cause. One of these words is hope — a faith-filled word that is particularly relevant during this global pandemic. Hope is the experience [...]

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself! Do not reject us forever. Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression? We are [...]

But progressives' grip on the levers of power is slipping. I turned 50 last year in the immediate aftermath of a failed attempt to become a Senator for Queensland. There’s nothing like a setback coinciding with a significant life event to put one in a [...]

“Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” — 1 Samuel 30:6 Sometimes in life, [...]

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Saviour and my God. ~ Psalm 43:5 Christians can get discouraged, downcast and depressed. It is not the case that we are [...]

J.K. Rowling, author of the immensely popular children’s book series Harry Potter, has been in the firing line in recent years for her commonsense views on transgenderism and biological sex. Last week she faced another Twitter storm when she took a stand for sanity. Responding [...]

Destroying statues, books and art: today’s left is the new Taliban: Remember how the world was outraged when the Taliban blew up and destroyed two large 1500-year-old Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001? ‘What barbarians’ everyone thought. ‘This great cultural, artistic and historical artefact has [...]

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? ~ Psalm 42 There is a spiritual thirst and hunger, [...]

An aunty from northern Queensland rang me recently with great excitement. A politician from the Solomon Islands was funding research into identifying those who had been brought over to Australia historically as slaves. As I already knew, our family was part of that tragic tradition. [...]

The ideas that shape our culture eventually find their way into the church. Francis Schaeffer traced this pattern over many centuries, observing that what begins in the philosophy departments of Western universities spreads first to art, then music, then the general culture. Finally, these fashions [...]

1 Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble. 2 The LORD protects and preserves them — they are counted among the blessed in the land — He does not give them over to the desire [...]

Editor's Note: The team at the Canberra Declaration are deeply concerned about the Cultural Marxist hijacking of the protests against racism in the USA and Australia. Having said that, there are still some deep problems that need to be addressed for the greater good of [...]

Ruth Institute Rejects UN “Gender-Neutral Language” Manipulation Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said the United Nations’ attempt to make language more politically correct is “another advance for the Sexual Revolution and a further descent into barbarism.” A UN bureaucrat recently tweeted that [...]

“I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put [...]