Having prayed and breakfasted with some of my pastoral colleagues here in Mount Gambier this morning, I found out that some of them were unaware of the weekend announcement of extended funding for the National School Chaplaincy Scheme. Though the details are not clear just yet, 42 million dollars in additional funding was pledged by …
An amazing story. Here’s a link to a report at The Age website. A video clip and article can be seen at Skynews. Another article from Skynews. Here’s a sponsored CBS clip from YouTube. (You have to watch an ad first)
Joe Hockey is member of the Australian House of Representatives. He is the member for North Sydney and shadow treasurer, considered by many to be a future contender for the leadership of the parliamentary Liberal Party, though Hockey rules this possibility out, at least before the next election. Mr Hockey is delivering a series of …
I was listening to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio current affairs program AM at the gym this morning. One of the stories featured Don Watson, former speech writer for Paul Keating, all-around word curmudgeon and enemy of ‘weasel-words’. He was being interviewed about the use of ‘tiresome management speak’. Interviewer Sabra Lane asked Watson for …
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