The World Health Organization (WHO) is tasked with a noble aim: to “promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable”. The United Nations agency deserves praise for its historic eradication of smallpox in the 1970s, and for its vaccination programs that have averted ...read more
Moral injury is an event that violates deeply-held moral beliefs or values. It can cause a profound psychological distress that results from actions, or lack of them, which deeply impacts one’s moral code. (Williamson, Murphy and Greenberg, 2020) It may be something I have done, ...read more
To be Born an Untouchable One night, while an Indian man was away in a nearby city, a group of men came to his farm. They broke his fences, stole his tractor, beat his wife and burned down his house. He was a leatherworker and ...read more
I still believe there is nothing you can change from outside; you can scream your head off, you can fight and no-one is going to take any damn notice if they don’t want to. Someone within the system has to stand up and put forward ...read more
But You, Sovereign LORD, help me for Your name’s sake; out of the goodness of Your love, deliver me. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ~ Psalm 109:26-27 This is the strongest of what are known as ...read more
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his ...read more
Most Australians have never lived under an authoritarian dictatorship, and therefore we are largely ignorant of how quickly circumstances can descend. It was the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzenitsyn who resolutely warned against this kind of wishful thinking. In Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher ...read more
Polling booth figures in far north Queensland and the Northern Territory provide an insight into the extent to which Aboriginal people are used as “polling booth fodder” by the Australian Labor Party, Your Life Your Vote: Take Control said today. Your Life Your Vote: Take ...read more
The world’s favourite atheist Richard Dawkins has said that faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse not to think or evaluate evidence. He has also likened religion to a mental illness. Atheism likes the spotlight. It has had a pop-culture resurgence in the last ...read more
Over the weekend, unprecedented scenes emerged from the small island nation of Cuba, with thousands taking to the streets to demand freedom from 60 years of Communist tyranny. Crowds chanted, “We are not afraid!” and “Freedom!” — and called for an end to the impoverished ...read more