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YPAT, Free Agents and the Common Good
Thanks to generous donors, we have been able to complete another YPAT program. After I visited several sessions and met some new and returning attendees, I reflected on what young Australians are facing. It can be hard to look at the world around us. Disengagement and apathy are rife. Anxiety dominates our personal lives and…
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Cardinal and Kings
Australia has much to celebrate. From our beautiful fertile land to our (mostly) functional and (mostly) stable society and political order, Australia is a great place to live and raise a family. There are problems and challenges, but nowhere is perfect. Getting things as good as we can is something we all work on, in…
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Looking Beyond the Horror – the Al-Aqsa Flood One Year On
We’re coming up to the seventh of October, the first anniversary of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel. Hamas called it the “Al-Aqsa Flood”. Israel calls it the “Black Sabbath”. At least 4,300 rockets were fired into Israel. Terrorists stormed music festivals, communities, and military bases, killing whoever they could and kidnapping and brutalising whoever was…
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The Short and the Long View
The Movement has been forming and informing leaders for nearly a century, and politics plays a key part in this. There is a lot of politics to discuss. Nationally, there is the growing anticipation of a federal election and a concern among voters about the housing crisis and the cost of living. In Queensland, there…
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NCC Launches 2024 Survey of Supporters
The world has changed since the formation of The Movement in the 1940s, but the principles it stands for — and the things it values — have not. The world is more fragmented than ever before. New technologies have changed how we perceive our world, how we understand it, and how we communicate this understanding to one another.…
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for War
Twenty-three years ago, when I was volunteering on a year of youth ministry travelling across South Australia, the world changed. The United States was attacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, triggering a multi-continent, multi-nation war against a range of conventional and unconventional foes. Many people, innocent and guilty, lost their lives. The successes of the…
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Problems Arise When Principles Are Broken
Most of us move through life without needing to pay attention to the core principles upon which we operate. Principles are usually so widely respected in society that we don’t discuss them often, but do react passionately when they are disrespected or violated. These transgressions are what populate the pages of newspapers, and there have…
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Our Birthrate Warning Light Has Been Ignored For Too Long
Over four decades now a significant part of the Movement’s work has centred around family policy, social outcomes of marriage, divorce, parenting, and related economics, particularly income-tax policies and financial support for those raising young children. Most of this work has come under the umbrella of the Australian Family Association, which was established by Movement…