I am starting to become convinced that the political right wing is perfecting the art of stupidity, and I am disappointed that the Aussie right is importing some language from the US. Australia lacks anything resembling a bill of rights, but today, Victoria became the first state to introduce a human rights charter. You can read it here. Now, I ( Read more... )

In religious discourse, especially the Christian discourse with which I am quite familiar and shall focus upon in this entry, there is a heavy emphasis on the idea of "sin". It is taken as a given, as a self-evident reality that requires no explanation or justification. We are all sinners; we have all fallen short of the glory of God; we all ( Read more... )

John Howard,

Imagine the following scenario. An Australian serving in Afghanistan to aid the Global Spread Of DemocracyTM is captured by the Taliban. They believe he is a threat to their existence and throw him in jail, pending a trial to determine whether he is guilty of criminal conduct. They then hold him in miserable conditions without ( Read more... )

The most interesting article on the news tonight was, in my opinion, the release of an extensive list of names of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Interesting, because it shows such blatant hypocrisy on behalf of the US government. Of the five hundred and fighty-eight people on the list, only ten have actually been charged with anything. Some ( Read more... )