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We Australians hate queue jumpers. Everyone should wait their turn. Everyone should wait in order. It’s only fair. At the bread shop or the coffee shop, everyone knows to take their place. In the migration queue, we know there is a case for separate...
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People often ask why I keep returning to Vietnam each year. The answer is found not in the places I visit but in the people I meet....
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25 years ago our world changed forever when the planes ploughed into the World Trade Centre. We realised the power of hatred and evil in our world. War of some kind seemed inevitable....
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In the Catholic Church, of course, we have much painful experience to remember. Moving accounts of the lasting harm done by people representing the Church to survivors of abuse and to their families constantly keep it before our attention....
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Happy Father’s Day to all the dads. Today can be more than a commercial opportunity for the sale of lots of socks. Let’s all recall our own fathers whether they be living or dead. ...
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Cook to Connect gives people an opportunity to share food, stories and culture, while thinking about what it means to create a community where everyone has a place to belong....
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Irish Catholic, the Attorney General John Hubert Plunkett has always stood as a model for Catholic lawyers for prosecuting those responsible for the Myall Creek Massacre. ...
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Every now and again, it’s necessary to preach on a distressing topic. This is one of those weeks. In the darkness and shadows, let’s see light of a new dawn on the horizon and find hope in the scriptures....
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Each year, two First Nation students travel to Rome to study on the Francis Xavier Conaci Scholarship—in partnership with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the Australian Embassy to the Holy See—to represent their cultures on the world stage....