Bishop Blames Churches for Dwindling Numbers

Church attendance across the globe is going down faster than Pamela Anderson in a football team locker room in almost all cases (the exception being those absurd US mega-churches but they are far more a business than an actual church).   Why is this happening? Former Australian Defence Force Anglican bishop Tom Frame is blaming a [...]

Australian Education: Proposed Changes are Big Trouble

Last night SBS had an edition of their usually excellent ‘Insight‘ program, where people involved in a modern issue come to say their piece in an attempt to deliver and overall balanced snap shot of the story.  Last night was based on the issue of the creation of ‘League Tables’ and transparency within the Australian [...]

No Child Left Behind: Coming to Australia

The United States of America has the questionable honour of possessing one of the worst educational systems in the developed world.  One of the worst aspects of this system is the policy known as ‘No Child Left Behind’.  At the core of NCLB is the idea that if a school does not perform up to [...]

The Chaser: Victim of Wowsers

The Chaser’s War On Everything is an Australian Television Comedy series which is often pretty controversial (but also usually incredibly funny).  They’ve pretended to be terrorists testing international conference security, flown things over the Vatican and so on.  But the cast are now in a spot of trouble for a skit from their last show; [...]

Christians: Upset They Can’t Impose Their Morals On You

The Australia Christian Lobby seem to be a bizarre bunch, investing a great deal of their time and resources into Steven Conroy’s idiotic mandatory internet filtering plan for Australia.  Finally bowing slightly to technical expertise and simple common sense, Conroy’s hardline stance seems to be softening slightly of late to the extent where (shock! horror!) [...]

Church Bans Tai Chi

In yet another example of a religious organisation demonstrating that it is indeed incredibly backwards in it’s thinking, a Baptist Church is Tasmania has banned Tai Chi classes that were being held on the basis that the exercises go against the Bible.  It certainly makes you wonder about church mentality but is also very revealing [...]

Australian Labour: Also No Clue on Education

I have commented before how the previous Australian Federal Government had little to no clue about how to run an effective education sector (here, here, here, here and here).  Sadly it would seem that the current Federal Government is just as bad, trying to introduce measures which are, to say the least, expressly counter productive [...]