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Monthly Archives: July 2009
I was homeless and you stole my freaking blanket
I can’t understand how this can possibly happen in any society who claim to have a regard for ethics or even human rights: Many Indigenous people live rough in Alice Springs, where the temperature often drops down to about zero degrees Celsius on winter nights. They often stash their blankets somewhere during the day. Alderman [...]
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Tagged Aboriginal Rights, Australia, australian-politics, Human rights, politics
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Justin Langer’s Maths Lesson
The Age’s demographics are obviously slipping. Here they give the cricket tragics a little bit of a Prep Maths lesson: The West Australian is captain of Somerset and yesterday he struck his 86th first-class century in his 345th first-class game. Bradman played 234 first-class matches. This week’s game will be Langer’s 346th. via Langer breaks [...]
A Healthy Dose of Atheism
One of the central points that Peter Rollins makes in “How (Not) To Speak Of God” is that part of believing in a God who is “beyond understanding” necessitates a degree of atheism in our theism. As we embrace a God who is, by nature, transcendent, we are forced to recognize that in order to [...]
Posted in God Stuff
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How do you respond?
When a spate of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne (and then later in other parts of the country), there were a heap of reactions. Some people fobbed it off as being coincidence that the students were all from the same nation, others were outraged at the apparent racist element in the community, still others [...]
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My new favourite Steve Fielding quote
Heard this on the radio yesterday at lunch. Found it pretty funny. Thought I should share. STEVE FIELDING: Look I think to get around any ambiguousness about the whole issue, principals shouldn’t be feeling under threat and they obviously, it is a concern and frankly it should be deleted from any condition. via The World [...]