It’s unlikely many elderly men aged over 80 would survive seven years and four months as a hostage in the unforgiving Sahara Desert with its boiling days and freezing nights, blinding sandstorms, a spartan diet that led to scurvy, and
A landmark health meeting will be presented with shocking figures on the number of people with severe psychiatric conditions who are receiving few or no services in the community, as ministers come together to formulate a national response to the
Power to Change (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) recently announced the production of a new animated version of the JESUS film, due for cinema release across Australia in December 2026. This film is being described as a USD$150Million gift to
Australian psychiatrists have led the biggest-ever worldwide study into youth mental health, finding that young people’s psychological health has “entered a dangerous phase” amid economic insecurity and political and technological changes that have young people feeling marginalised and cast adrift.
In a shock move, Premier David Crisafulli has ruled to ban any changes to Queensland’s abortion laws in the next four years. “I move that notwithstanding anything in standing or sessional orders, this house orders that no bill or amendment,
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Australia’s peak legal body is challenging a movement to reshape the administration of rape trials in the wake of #MeToo, declaring that the presumption of innocence and the rule of law must remain sacrosanct, as the country’s law reform commission
Mark Powell is the pastor at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Hobart and a writer and commentator on Christian issues. He wrote recently in the Daily Declaration that: “The Spirit of God might be about to do an extraordinary work.” “Christians from all
After months of speculation since Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan voiced her support for a replacement of the Lord’s Prayer in January this year, Attorney General Jaclyn Symes sensationally denied in a recent Legislative Council debate that the Andrews-Allan Government had
Anglican priests need not be “chaste” under a change of policy in the progressive Diocese of Perth that has angered traditionalists and stoked tension over moral standards in the nation’s second-largest church. The terms “chaste” and “chastity” were axed when
