The ABC and CAN member Renate Howe have made an excellent radio programme aired this afternoon on Radio National. Hindsight is Australia’s only feature radio programme dedicated to social history. It airs at 2pm on Sundays. Today’s programme examined the compulsory acquisition and demolition of ‘slum’ areas in inner Melbourne up to the 1960s, including [...]
Liberty Victoria, one of Australia’s leading human rights organisations, is holding a film fundraiser at the Nova next month. Set during World War II, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a [...]
65% of Australians think we have a Bill of Rights. We don’t. Very few of our human rights are actually protected in Australian law. The Rudd government is considering introducing human rights laws at the federal level, though not in the constitution, but as an ordinary act of parliament, similar (probably) to what the Bracks [...]
Brian’s guests at worship last Sunday were on Radio National yesterday, interviewed by Phillip Adams on Late Night Live. Environmentalists Lincoln & Alice Day have spent three years and much of their savings making Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives. It is a film about our deep dependence on the natural world and the significant threat [...]
26 February, 2009 – 12:44 pm
An edited extract from a Lenten reflection of the great prophet of nonviolence John Dear SJ: “What are you and I afraid of? How can one let go of fears and grow deeper in true faith, hope and love? What keeps you and me from taking a public stand on the thorny issues? How can [...]
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6 February, 2009 – 3:28 pm
delivered 1 February 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans 1 Cor. 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 In the gospel of Mark, the crowd who gathered on the occasion of Jesus’ first public act of ministry at the synagogue in Capernaum were astounded at this teaching: He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. [...]
3 February, 2009 – 9:14 pm
delivered 25 January 2009 by Rev. Pam Kerr Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Mark 1:14-20 “We can do it. But we must change. And we must do it together.” The world hung on Barak Obama’s words as he gave his inaugural speech as President of the United States this week. Because people the world over are tired [...]
