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'Basil Sellers' $100,000 Sport-Art Prize opening this evening at Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne

'Basil Sellers' $100,000 Sport-Art Prize opening this evening at Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne

17 artists are in the running for the 2016 Basil Sellers $100,000 Sport-Art Prize 5 – with the official opening and naming the winner this evening at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne..

  • 380,000 WWII German POWs in the USA - democracy illustrated

    380,000 WWII German POWs in the USA were well fed and looked after so as to illustrate democracy is one of the claims that has been made by numerous historians over the past 70 years and it now appears as though Hitler acknowledged this.

  • Anecdotal – 1942 Japanese scouted a route by-passing The Kings Highway

    There are occasions when major landslides on the Clyde Mountain\'s The Kings Highway between Bateman\'s Bay and Braidwood (to Canberra) has closed this main arterial road – sometimes for over two weeks - disrupting major business and tourism traffic.

  • Footplate Padre speaks of the Newcastle Flyer

    As the Footplate Padre I can attest there are many stories about the Newcastle Flyer express train. This was one of the major \'name trains\' on the New South Wales Government Railways, and in the days of steam right after World War II, it was hauled by the magnificent 38 Class steam locomotive.

  • Salvation issues – comes by the saying!

    That if you confess with your mouth,\"Jesus is Lord\", and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.. Romans chapter 10 verse 9.

  • Four editors for the young writer PSI program

    Press Service International (PSI) young writer program with Christian Today has seen Sophia Sinclair become chief editor this year, which in turn has precipitated the need for four new \'week\' editors.

  • Vegemite - it's remarkable

    What is Vegemite made of? Like many Australians, when I travel on mission work, I take small jars of Vegemite as gifts to my hosts.

  • Becoming complicit when it's not on your agenda

    It sneaks up - then it\'s too late - has been the outcome of many naïve and non-perceptive people over centuries and in a sense, why politics at any level can become so very deceptive.

  • How the question is asked – 'Muslim speaker' up with our own 'Yes Minister'

    This video clip of a Muslim speaker demonstrates the very thing \'Yes Minister\' cites, in that it depends how you ask questions and in what order - as to the answers you want and the subsequent conclusions.

  • Returning servicemen – horrors witnessed

    In my archive I found this SMH article by Kevin Johnson titled: \"Troubled veterans pose special risk for US Police\" in which he raises the real issues associated with highly trained and vastly better trained urban warfare veterans who for whatever reason \"have lost it!

  • Ultimate judgement

    An associate in South Africa Terrence Hanafey wrote on the question regarding the \'day of judgement for the believer\'.

  • Bringing God's Hope to NAIDOC in Rockhampton

    NAIDOC Week was celebrated last week from July 4-10. The week is an observance of Aboriginal culture and successes and is celebrated by many events in places where there is Indigenous heritage.