The Bloodwood Tree

The US Supreme Court ruled last week that there should be no limits to how much money a corporation is allowed to give in “donations” to politicians. When something controversial is being decided (eg climate change legislation, rules around whether the US should sell weapons to a country that tortures people etc), companies are now […]

Isn’t it timely that now the new Balibo movie is hitting the screens, John Howard and Alexander Downer have suddenly revealed that they were on East Timor’s side the whole time? They ask us to take them at their word, but to do so we need to throw away a few other pieces of the […]

A little while ago I received a text message telling me that 22 missionary families were to be executed today in Afghanistan, to pray and to forward the message on. My immediate response was to do just that, but as soon as I had hit send I decided to look into it.
There is a bit […]