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Thinking about the Greens

Thinking about the Greens

The weekend by-election held in Victoria resulted in a huge 12 per cent swing away from Labor to the Liberals. The Greens also made some gains, and have been stating that they are the wave of the future, with voters growing tired of the major parties..

  • School attendance is no optional matter

    A Western Australian court has determined that children of school age are required to be at school.

  • Winter Olympics - haven for sex trade – or not?

    Vancouver: Benjamin Perrin, a law professor at the University of British Columbia specialising in human trafficking, said he knew of "dozens" of young women, mostly from major urban centres and native reserves, who were being sent to Vancouver to deal with an expected surge of tourists seeking prostitutes.

  • The mentor is different from the parent

    Let's face it, when it comes to teenagers a parents advice usually goes in one ear and out the other. Young adults are more likely to respond positively to guidance from outsiders with non biased, non judgemental views.

  • The World is Coming to an End

    Most cultures and religious traditions have as part of their beliefs and overall worldview the idea that the current world will in one fashion or another come to an end. There are various apocalyptic scenarios out there, some more negative than others, and some more alarmist than others.

  • Conflicts are inherent with road infrastructure in cities

    The classic city road infrastructure conflicts were highlighted in a recent Sydney Morning Herald article, in which Andrew West reports on two proposals being considered for a labyrinth of motorways across suburban Sydney.

  • Heterosexuality: A New Hate Crime

    It is not just in the futurist, dystopian novels such as Brave New World and 1984 that the totalist state seeks to punish thoughts as well as actions. In real world dictatorships and totalitarian states the same attempt has been made. Certain thoughts and ideas are declared to be verboten with corresponding punishments for those daring to think them.

  • Three trouble-plagued areas are identified

    Recent research by the Barna Group, a Christian faith and life survey organisation based in the USA, has identified three quite specific areas of behaviour that turns people off Christianity.

  • 'Church Politics' should be a mandatory seminar

    There are numerous experienced Christian ministers in each denomination who have come through the mill of church politics, claims Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister of 33 years, who he says, may well be ideal to give an annual seminar to their respective denominational theological students in this damaging area of church life.

  • A review of Heresy

    The subject of this book seems rather strange today. That is because the concept of heresy only makes sense if we accept the concept of orthodoxy, or more broadly, the concept of truth. But truth and related concerns have fallen on hard times in the contemporary West, and so discussions of heresy seem almost anachronistic.

  • Centrelink staff in 2010 continue busy schedules

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister says, that in his many years of ministry, some of the busiest government employees he has met are the hapless Centrelink personnel.

  • Gimme a Little Respect

    In something straight out of a George Orwell novel, the Victorian government has recently appointed an MP to become 'Minister for Respect'. With all due respect – pun intended – this has to be a national first – perhaps a world first.