The fortuitous abolition of Australia’s death penalty for murder means that Victorian Supreme Court judge Christopher Beale didn’t put on his own death cap to pronounce sentence on triple murderer […]
Read MoreNot much changes
What a shame that modern day mathematics and our understanding of the three dimensional elliptical orbits reduces all the fabulous mythology and superstitions of the past to inane storytelling. Or […]
Read MorePessimism over peace
Senior policy analyst Allon Lee is right to question the permanency of Middle East peace, its meaning and exactly what “saving this region” means. (“Have Trump and Israel saved the […]
Read MoreFreedom of thought
With prison overcrowding a global problem, perhaps it’s time for a global solution. (“Bailed”, DT, 15/5). While history is known for repeating itself and opportunity knocks more than once, I […]
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NEW POPE HAS RIGHT CREDENTIALS
Understanding seven languages, working for 20 years as an Augustine missionary and later archbishop in Chiclayo, Peru, a diocese sounding very like his home town of Chicago, Robert Prevost stands […]
Read MoreNo fuss Pope Francis
Perhaps only in regaling the dead are we sufficiently circumspect and emotively staid, where our capacity to succinctly celebrate the life and times of the deceased becomes therapeutic and comforting […]
Read MoreUkraine knows it has a friend Down Under
Writing brilliantly in Friday’s The Daily Telegraph, Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko shows his diplomatic skills, setting a tone of reconciliation and foresight as he considers the possibility of […]
Read MoreWaging the good fight against rising hatred
The issues raised in one of the best editorials of the year are certainly timely and focus on a central conundrum for editors worldwide. There is a hypothetical risk that […]
Read MoreHolocaust teaches us
Josh Frydenberg is right to encourage as much publicity as possible to remind the world of the eternal truth as he advocates against anti-Semitism on the 80th anniversary of the […]
Read MoreWho will and who won’t watch Matildas
Reminiscing on history’s unfaltering lights once again beaming across the amazing Olympic Stadium on Monday night, past glories were recounted from the 2000 Olympics, later capped off with Aussie Mary […]
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