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40 Days: Unbounded love
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 March 2024
Love is a much-used word, and, like domestic cutlery, it tends to lose its shine. Its boundaries then shrink to the average rather than to the inspiring. For that reason we need stories that stretch the ceiling of love beyond anything we could imagine. Not because we think that we could reach such far places, but because it enlarges the horizon of our lives.
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AUSTRALIA

40 Days: Reconciliation
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 March 2024
Recognition is not simply an acceptance of facts. It involves also entering the experience of the people affected. Reconciliation must begin with truth telling, flow into empathy, and be followed by a conversation aimed at building decent relationships.
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AUSTRALIA

40 Days: Humility
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 February 2024
Lent is a time of asking what matters and on commitment. It is a time of grounding, on awareness of the ground and the ash on which we stand, and of focusing on what is important. That being grounded underlies the idea of humility, of being earthed with one’s bare feet on the soil.
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AUSTRALIA

Addressing gendered violence in Australia
- Barry Gittins
- 01 April 2021
11 Comments
We don’t want to admit the truth of who we are as a nation: there are Australians who are violent toward the people they say they love the most. Living among us are those who take what they want, out of entitlement, privilege and the naked use of power.
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FAITH DOING JUSTICE

Social services, Laudato Si’ and Jack Mundey’s legacy
- Joshua Lourensz
- 22 May 2020
6 Comments
In thinking through how social services can contribute to what society or the economy needs in light of the ramifications of COVID-19, Catholicism and communism are not two traditions that probably come to the mind for most. But for the kind of thinking that governance and leaders require to make good decisions in and beyond a time of crisis, there are people and concepts from each tradition that we can learn from.
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FAITH DOING JUSTICE

Social justice is not a spectator sport
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 February 2020
5 Comments
Catholic reflection on social justice has been supercharged by Pope Francis, who in his encyclical Laudato Si declared the Cry of the Poor and the Cry of the Earth to be central to faith. He also insisted that neither could be addressed simply by technological fixes but required personal conversion to see the world as gift to be respected, a home, and not as a prison or a mine.
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AUSTRALIA

The bastard subsidiarity of bushfire responses
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 January 2020
11 Comments
The crisis brought to a head this ambivalence of governments. It underlies the attack by three NSW government ministers on the community groups responding to the fires. The ministers criticised them for doing ineffectually what the government was not doing and for spending money on administration that it should have provided.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate is disrupting children's education
- Lauren Rickards, Blanche Verlie, Briony Towers, Bronwyn Lay
- 18 November 2019
9 Comments
Some have argued we shouldn't discuss climate change during this bushfire emergency. Yet when children previously tried to protest climate change they were told to 'stay in school'. The statement denies the evidence that our normal routines are already being disrupted by climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT

After the climate strike
- Bronwyn Lay
- 23 September 2019
11 Comments
These strikes aren't solely sites of protestation but rather a chance to step out of the individual grey loneliness to come together for our collective future in intergenerational solidarity. There is something powerful and visceral about putting your body on the street, in the public forum, with other bodies and being vulnerable together.
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AUSTRALIA

Tragic absurdity on the Western Highway
- Bronwyn Lay
- 23 August 2019
4 Comments
In an age where destruction of eco-systems is occurring at a fast rate and sanctioned by governments, these absurdities are lethal for collective humanity. Non-Indigenous support for the Embassy and trees reflects a desire to reverse the absurd lie that human culture and nature are not in a continual, intergenerational relationship.
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CARTOON

Political experience necessary
- Fiona Katauskas
- 23 July 2019
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MEDIA

In defence of 'court jester' Mark Knight
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 September 2018
14 Comments
The tradition of court jesters licensed to criticise the king exists in many cultures. It is part of a broader tolerance of satire in which the foibles and sins of the great can be safely criticised. The Shakespearian fools are typical in representing the view of the common man as he speaks truth to power. Printed cartoons stand in this tradition.
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