A plan to force schoolchildren into work gangs and make them pick up rubbish until they are visibly tired has caused outrage in a Central Australian Aboriginal community.
The new federally-appointed manager of the Yuendumu Aboriginal community in Central Australia has proposed the scheme for school truants.
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Businessman Geoffrey Cousins says he hopes voters in the federal Environment Minister’s electorate will take notice of a full-page advertisement tomorrow involving a number of Australian celebrities.
Mr Cousins and a group of other prominent Australians – including former tennis champion John Newcombe, actors Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward, playwright David Williamson and singer Mark Lizotte (Diesel) – have taken out the advertisement to protest against the proposed Gunns pulp mill for northern Tasmania. Read more (ABC News)>>
The Tasmanian Wilderness Society is also offering a cyber-petition against the fast-tracking of the Gunns pulp mill. For more information see the Wilderness Society website.
The Cook Island Christian Church showed their love for Papa and Mama Oremetua Ta & Mata William last Saturday with a sendoff Cook Islands style!
Minute of appreciation – Ministry of Ta Samuela William (pdf)
Andrew Denton gave Tanya Levin enough rope recently to share her experiences of the Hillsong church in Sydney. You can catch this sensitive interview at Enough Rope.
(Note: The video begins with Georgie Parker. If you want to jump straight to Tanya, click the >| button.)
Taliban militants have freed two female South Korean hostages on Monday, after much confusion over whether the two Christian aid workers had already been released.
According to Reuters news agency, officials in Seoul confirmed that the women had been freed and handed over the Red Crescent.
Witnesses said that the women were driven in a saloon car by two tribal elders to the village of Arzoo, near the city of Ghazni, where they were released.
A ROW has erupted within the Anglican Church over a visit to Australia by an American cleric who has being accused of modernising Christ to the point of stripping him of all divinity.
Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen has taken the extraordinary step of banning John Shelby Spong, a fellow member of the Anglican communion who arrives in Sydney this morning, from churches in his diocese.
By contrast, Anglican Primate Phillip Aspinall has invited Bishop Spong, a leader of the church’s liberal wing, to deliver two sermons in Brisbane’s St John’s Cathedral.
Bishop Spong will be speaking at the Malvern Town Hall in Melbourne this coming Wednesday evening, August 22nd.
The incarnations art exhibition and wisdom’s feast are among the many exciting things to hit Melbourne in the busy month of July.
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July Artfull faith
The July 2007 edition of Cross Purposes – a forum for theological dialogue is now available for free download (pdf and html formats).
Amongst other items, the July 2007 edition features:
UCA 30th Anniversary Special Part II: where to from here for the Uniting Church?