Turn down the temperature

How can Australians deal with growing anger

The attack on Helen Haines was a shocking development in Australian public and political history. The Prime Minister is right to call for ‘turning down the temperature’, but it’s easy to say and hard to do.

Here are some thoughts about acknowledging anger and turning down its temperature.

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Signs of the Times: 3 Troubling Developments

Barbaric practices and evil colour coding are no longer the nightmares from a long and forgotten age. They are once again with us and prevalent and even praised. We don’t need to look for enemies outside and in the beyond when we are often our own worst enemy…

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The Progressive Picture of Equality

The Church of England misses the mark with another huge blunder.

There is a place for interfaith dialogue (boy, our society needs more civil discourse), but this isn’t it.

Only the Gospel of peace can bring about the kind of peace the world needs. That’s the church’s message and mission, not this.

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Charlie Kirk and one message that persists

Charlie Kirk was assassinated one year ago. One message spoken at his memorial service remains the message for today.


Regardless of one’s political persuasion, don’t be a Jonah.

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Generous and Responsible Immigration

1 year ago I wrote, ‘Immigration is a blessing’. At the time there was push back. Yesterday, The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Kanishka Raffel, and Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton, Chief Minister of The Great Synagogue in Sydney, wrote a piece in The Australian. I want to affirm their basic thesis.

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