October 20, 2015
Today Baptistcare hosted a Master Class on ‘keeping the faith in faith-based care organisations’ at the start of the Baptist Care Australia National Annual Conference which is being held in […]
September 30, 2015
The image of the small boy’s body, with knees slightly tucked under him as though asleep, lying in shallow water at the sea’s edge with waves lapping over him, washed […]
April 7, 2015
In our challenging times, what does leadership feel like to you? I was a speaker at the recent Aged and Community Services WA annual conference and had the opportunity to talk about leadership, spirituality and values and disturbing the peace.
December 7, 2014
On Tuesday, 2nd December 2014 something quite amazing took place in Rome. The Religious Leaders around the world signed a Joint Religious Leaders Declaration against Modern Slavery. This global-wide commitment […]
August 7, 2014
Australia has become the subject of incredulity, pity and concern in its current treatment of asylum seekers and refugees and its total rejection of human rights and any claim to […]
August 7, 2014
I recently watched the film ‘Nelson Mandela Long Road to Freedom’ and was struck by his very human capacity to choose love over hatred, freedom over the experience of imprisonment, […]
May 7, 2014
Injustice can pretend to be something else, but eventually it will be shown up for the shabby fraud that it is. Justice, fairness and equity are the principles by which […]
April 1, 2014
The debate about Tony Abbott’s decision to reintroduce a new class of awards into the Honours list has evoked much humour and some of the best quotes of the week […]
December 13, 2013
I have a sense that we are witnessing the passing of an era, a consequence of the death of an extraordinary human being, someone who has shaped the consciences of […]
September 23, 2013
‘When is doing nothing no longer an option?’ This was the question asked by Journalist Robin Lustig in The Guardian Weekly (p.18) last week on the situation in Syria and […]
September 20, 2013
I am really disappointed at the absence of women in Cabinet positions in the new Liberal Government in Canberra. My disappointment is because I am tired of having to justify […]