Booty from an illegal war
The War Memorial's gold-plated 'souvenir' from Saddam's regime demeans its commemoration of conflicts.
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Toni Hassan
Toni Hassan is a Canberra writer and Adjunct Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University.
The power of lament and song
In a strange and beautiful way, sad songs offer nourishment.
Trump a test of Christianity in America
Conservative Christians favour the far right for reasons that have little to do with Jesus' teaching.
Give the gift of quality time this Christmas
Here's a radical idea this Christmas. Don't buy just more stuff for your loved ones. Give them your time. Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. The irony of giving your time to others, mindfully, involves being less time-obsessed. Each of doesn't really have more or less time. We have the same amount. You may have heard the one about the bloke who was asked, 'If he had only 48 hours left to live, how would he spend them? 'One hour at a time," he replied.
It takes a village to prevent institutional sexual abuse
"It takes a village..." was perhaps Hillary Clinton's most memorable line. It was given a macabre twist in the Academy award-winning movie Spotlight, about the cover-up of sexual abuse by Catholic Church clergy in Boston. One of the actors observed that "if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one."
Free tablets: an election sweetener without nourishment
Where's the research showing tablets will help students?
How the internet is amplifying poor body image
If you don't love your body, you're in good company.
Malcolm Turnbull should listen to Indigenous Australians
After acting like a sook on election night, Malcolm Turnbull reemerged this week as someone more like a statesman or an Indigenous elder.
Australia's asylum seeker policy in disarray
Papua New Guinea's decision to close the Manus Island detention centre after its Supreme Court unanimously declared it a denial of a right to personal liberty and illegal has been met with little more than a declaration that our government will never allow its residents to come to Australia.
Lent a good time to get by on less
Retail temples tempt us to by all sorts of things that we don't need, but a simpler and slower life is more likely to content us.
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