Today I attended the ‘opening’ of a children’s memorial at the old Mount Gambier Cemetery on Lake Terrace, Mount Gambier. The memorial serves as a focal place where the deaths of children who died before birth or during infancy, but for whom there is no marked grave, can be remembered. I was unaware of the …
I submitted a reflection piece on 9/11 for our local newspaper, The Border Watch. Here’s the text. Some of us argued about whether the new century began on January 1 2000 or January 1 2001. But 11/9/2001 or 9/11 is the shorthand code that I think history will use to mark the commencement of the …
Media release from Peter Garrett, Australian minister for education. Schools given greater choice under expanded chaplains program Schools will be able to choose the type of support that best meets the needs of their students under changes to the Government’s National School Chaplaincy Program outlined today. School Education Minister Peter Garrett said from next year, …
The online edition of the September 2011 Presbyterian Pulse (Monthly Magazine of the Presbyterian Church In the State of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory) has been posted. THIS MONTH: Great debate: Was Jesus present in the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper? Presbyterian Peter Barnes Versus Catholic Tim Staples in a …
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