Footplate Padre tells the story of the clever guard and the locomotive crew who welcomed his prudence
In the days of steam on the Queensland Railways in the fifties a guard named Bluey – stationed at Almaden in the Gulf Country of far north Queensland – worked trains to Forsayth. .
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Obama must 'be more conscious' of global poor
The director of Christian anti-poverty movement Micah Challenge has called upon Barack Obama to do more to help the world\'s poor.
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The real Gold Coast is not all about tourism!
A recent look at the front page of the on-line Gold Coast Bulletin might have one think that the Gold Coast is entirely about tourism events – it lists music festivals, major events, sports, Eisteddfods, holiday planning, best beaches, most popular beaches, popular tours, hinterland guide, rainforest walks…
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Cricket has plenty of records and statistics but there are other statistics for the record book
The Australia – South Africa Test series commences today at the Gabba. Now, talk to an American baseball fan and they will recount the variety of records and statistics of this all American sport, But nothing, not baseball, not hockey, not basketball, not gridiron, not swimming nor any other sport has anything on cricket when it comes to the variety of breadth and depth of records and statistics.
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Newcastle doctor: volunteering on medical ship in Africa is addictive
When asked why she keeps going back to volunteer on a hospital ship in West Africa, Nerida Butcher says simply, "It's addictive."
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New centre brings joy to children in Philippines
Church Mission Society partners have opened up a new children\'s centre in an impoverished neighbourhood close to Manila.
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Schoolies Week - end-of school celebrations – movement of change
\'Schoolies Week\' in Eastern Australia, the traditional end-of-school celebration for final year students is experiencing a movement of change from tilting to the wild to more considered options. In Australia, the end of the academic year and the impending summer coincide with the forthcoming Christmas holidays. The air of festivities is therefore multiplied several-fold.
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Queensland motoring radar's highest 'ping' list has similarities to church life's statistics
A recent Courier Mail article listed the five greatest money spinners with radar catching speeding motorists. Number one on the list is very close to where we live in Tweed Heads, we can see it in the distance, past the Gold Coast airport, the Pacific Motorway at Tugun, what Tweed residents refer to as the Tugun By-Pass. (
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Hockey India League – Australian hockey too could be on the verge of a cricket 'big bash' lookalike
As an author of five books on hockey and written hockey since the early 1970s in the public media (Illawarra Mercury, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Australia) and more recently an occasional outburst in Christian Today, the news that the Hockey India League gets under way in January 2013 has excited Australia\'s top echelon of hockey players along with the hockey fraternity.
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Bruce King was an inspiration to one who stammered as Mark Tronson turns 61 today
Bruce King who passed to glory 12 months ago, was a remarkable man in many different ways, not least that he held senior positions in the Baptist Denomination both at home and internationally, and not least that he was born with a cleft pallet and it took a little time to adjust when listening to him speak.
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Would have been a huge benefit to Mission: The dead-in-the-water proposed domestic Trans-Tasman flights
Clive Dorman Sydney Morning Herald travel writer has spilled the beans on why the 2009 announcement by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of \'domestic\' trans-Tasman flights has not come to fruition and its seriously cost \'Christian mission\' dollars.
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Christians welcomes passage of Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission legislation
UnitingCare NSW.ACT has welcomed the passage of legislation to establish the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission.
