(Netflix streaming and cinemas) (scroll down to downloadable PDF file) Engage with culture without disengaging your faith. Genre: Fictional ‘documentary’? drama? Dark comedy? Sci-fi?Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett (and many more!!)Rating: M (language, some sexual content, graphic nudity and drug content)Director: Adam McKayWriters: Adam McKay, David Siroto Netflix synopsis: Kate Dibiasky...
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Jennifer Rubin, Columnist (adapted from an article published 29th December 2021 on Washington Post) This is written in the context of US politics and evangelicals in the US, but some of it is of concern to many other countries. Much has been written about White evangelicals’ central role in the fraying of democracy. More attention,...
A petition signed by over 189,000 Australians calling on @ScottMorrisonMP and @AlexHawkeMP to take #ActionforAfghanistan was tabled in Parliament by Rebekha Sharkie MP, calling for 20,000 additional humanitarian visas for those at risk for the vulnerable persecuted people of Afghanistan, similar to Canada’s announcement on 14 August 2021 accepting 20,000 people of Afghanistan as refugees,...
(Sourced from ABC and Kaldor Centre) The Federal Government this week sought greater discretionary powers to cancel or refuse immigration visas on character grounds. The Morrison government first attempted to pass the laws in 2019, but they failed to win the support of Labor or cross-bench Senators. Under the proposed laws, a non-citizen who has...
(information from #endcovidforall campaign – the full report can be downloaded here). COVID-19 and its knock-on impacts have affected almost every one of the world’s 7.9 billion people but not all equally. There is an urgent need for the world to come together to ensure that safe, effective vaccines make it into the arms of...
(from The Advertiser 15th September 2021 by Antimo Iannello) One of Australia’s most beloved songwriters has written an emotional new piece in tribute to the Aussie rules legend’s relentless fight against discrimination. Australian music legend Paul Kelly has released an emotive new song inspired by Eddie Betts and his ongoing battle with racism. The Adelaide-born...
The Guardian reports that Government MPs are urging Scott Morrison to fund chaplains in every school, saying global warming alarmism is causing “mental health problems” in young. In the Coalition party room on Tuesday, Liberal MP Andrew Wallace compared children’s fear of climate change with the threat of nuclear annihilation in the 1970s and 80s,...
MORE than 10,000 South Australians signed a petition, tabled in parliament, calling on the state to declare a climate emergency. Margaret Hender, 70, of Modbury Heights, said she started the petition with a few friends in 2019, when former Greens MLC Mark Parnell’s motion to declare a climate emergency passed the upper house. Together they...
Hoda Afshar was born in Tehran. She is based in Narrm (Melbourne) and works with photography and the moving image to explore the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making. Through her work, Afshar considers the representation of gender, race and lived experiences of marginal and displaced people. Agonistes is an installation comprised of a single-channel video...
An article in The Guardian by Adam Morton and Graham Readfearn, 9th August 2021 Australian scientists have stressed it is “not too late” to take action to stem the worst of the climate crisis and called on leaders to “wake up” after a landmark global science report found widespread and rapid changes were already occurring...
