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Letters - 16 May, 2026 - Letters to the Editor
1+ week, 5+ day ago (89+ words) Pamela Mc Coll's article on drugs policy, "Oh, Australia, Don't Blindly Follow Canada's Lead" (News Weekly, March 21, 2026) had plenty of good things to say, but was notable for several omissions. So far, there is no successful pill formul" Analysing Australia's…...
Book Review - The Church Against the State: On Subsidiarity and Sovereignty - Music, Cinema & Books
1+ week, 5+ day ago (75+ words) On What Comes Next in the Abstract In his Preface to The Church Against the State, Jones explains that the aim of this book is to attack li" Analysing Australia's place in the world since 1941 Join our email list to…...
Book Launch: Introducing Communio Theology - Religion
1+ week, 6+ day ago (160+ words) On April 23, the feast of St George, the Thomas More Centre launched patron Professor Tracey Rowland's latest book entitled Introducing Communio Theology to a warm audience of over 45 in Melbourne's inner south. The hardback book pleasingly bound and printed was…...
Record Number of Catholic Baptisms at Easter Across the West - Religion
1+ week, 6+ day ago (146+ words) After decades of Church decline, there has been a big upturn in young people coming to Christianity across many Western countries as measured by the number of baptisms over more recent years. Since the 1970s, liberalism has accentuated philosophies of self-actualisation…...
What Soren Kierkegaard Saw Ahead of Time of Our Mental-Health Crisis - Part 1 of 2 - Culture & Society
3+ week, 6+ day ago (23+ words) If we want to help people suffering mental distress, we need to expose the soul-destroying effects of our culture's unexamined nihilism....
Unwelcome Acknowledgements: It's Time to Start the Debate - Aus Politics
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (159+ words) I would like to begin this essay by acknowledging the Townsville RSL sub-branch, and I pay my respects to its president and staff. The present leadership, despite the usual whingeing from local Aboriginal elders and the ABC, trimmed the schedule…...
Enthusiastic Book Launch of Caught in the Current - Energy, Science & Environment
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (26+ words) Over 80 people attended the launch of a new book on the Murray-Darling Basin in Albury one week out from the federal Farrer by-election....
The Water Act: An Anti-Agriculture Plan - Aus Politics
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (22+ words) The central problem of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is the Water Act that bureaucrats use to drive their anti-agriculture agenda....
Channel Seven Documentary Exposes Supply Chain of "Blood Energy" - Energy, Science & Environment
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (169+ words) When is a hit job not a hit job? When it manages to go against the media/political tide and tell some truths. Seven Network's Liam Bartlett did that with some flair in the 7 News Spotlight program aired on Sunday,…...
Workers Unite Under the Patronage of St Joseph -
2+ week, 2+ day ago (25+ words) The feast of St Joseph the Worker, patron saint of The Movement, is a time to ask again what sort of nation Australia should be....