2012 K's 4 Kids Walkathon Team Burleigh Heads and Caningeraba State Schools
Yes it's that time of year again, the K's 4 Kids walkathon is back and only two weeks away..
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Scientific snippets from Australia
When browsing online news bulletins, Mark Tronson, Well-Being Australia Chairman, sometimes finds interesting articles on science and he has summarised three of them below.
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Footplate Padre tells of a fearful steam trip after six months on diesels
Footplate Padre Mark Tronson in his May article for the On Track railway e-magazine tells the story of the mountain line between Unanderra and Robertson on the south coast of New South Wales. This, he wrote, was perhaps one of the best places in Australia to recognise the benefits of diesel electric working compared to steam engine working.
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Will Graham's Sydney breakfast: "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, Oi, Oi"
The call rang out into the chilly Sydney morning as a group of congenial Australians taught a visiting American their war cry over breakfast. The American in question was Will Graham, grandson of Billy Graham, who wrapped up a two-week stint in Australia with a breakfast for supporters and friends of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).
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Is there a 'true value' or a 'relative value' of our servicemen and women
The Commonwealth of Australia established in 1901 has never experienced a military coup. Having said that, in its earlier history the Rum Corps in the colony of New South Wales saw exactly that in 1808,. There was fifteen years of fermentation from 1793 with disenchantment between the civil and military authorities.
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The factors that drive men and women to sex regardless of health, career or relationship risks...
Jefferson Bethke writing in My Christian Daily stated: "I recently read an article called "Why Young Christians Aren\'t Waiting Anymore," and the statistics were that 88 percent of non-Christians (young) adults have had sex, while (young) Christians were 80 percent. There is only an 8 percent difference, which is really staggering when you think about it."
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Olympic Tourism - London Calling No.14 – two months to the Olympics
The London Olympics, if anything, will be a huge boom to tourism and challenges the Christian community in the United Kingdom as to how they might minister to so many \'additional\' tourists.
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Jobs transferred to New Zealand - Australian workers relocating to New Zealand is another story
A recent report in the Sydney Morning Herald says that hundreds of Australian jobs have been shifted to New Zealand as local producers try to avoid the impact of high wages, a soaring Australian dollar and restrictive labour laws.
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Human trafficking tackled in Sydney and a response to its devastating tentacles
The Sydney Morning Herald recently featured an article where an alleged human trafficker was charged after the Salvation Army discovered three woman allegedly being held as sex slaves. The Australian Federal Police allege the women were told they were travelling to Australia on student visas but upon arrival had their passports confiscated and were taken to the brothel where they were held against their will.
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Encouragement helps youngsters reach their potential
One of the articles, published on Anzac Day and reported on ABC radio that evening, tells the story of Dr Clunes Mathison - a brilliant young Australian doctor who was killed accidentally by a stray bullet at Gallipoli in 1915 at the age of only 31.
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Music industry professionals to mentor Christian musicians in July conference
Empowering and building up the professionalism of Christian Musicians is a passion of Ian Pav.
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Superannuation rules have a "proclivity to change" as it is highly politicised as it amounts to a "bewildering amount of money"
Superannuation rules have a "proclivity to change" as it is highly politicised as it amounts to a "bewildering amount of money" so say a multitude of financial analysts and once again, its borne out in a recent claim.
