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The science of population

The science of population

Over these past 14 years I have occasionally written on population. I recall mentioning that in 2008 a former missionary (a lady) who spent many years in Bangladesh and who travelled extensively throughout the sub-continent and south east Asia said that Australia could settle 20 million from that region..

  • Unfailing love

    An unfailing love is a love so freely given with no strings attached. A love we do not deserve, a love of purest form. A love that testifies with time, a love that redeems and transforms. This unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him (Psalm chapter 32, verse 10).

  • Philosophy is a winner  

    The Well-Being Australia 'Country Town Tour' program which has run since the mid-eighties has often had long lead-up times as preparations need to be put in place such as youth programs, schools, service clubs, men's breakfasts and dinners and the like.

  • Scams to the charitable

    I was sitting at the dining room table, enjoying my oats and morning coffee when the phone rang.

  • Are your high standards stopping you?

    I’m an artist who hasn’t created a serious artwork in three years. I could blame it on the business of life at the moment – two jobs and a young family.

  • Scarcity creates urgency  

    Recently I watched a black and white 1949 film titled “Whiskey Galore”. It was set in 1943 in the Hebrides Islands (Scotland).

  • ISIS and captured

    This continues to be an issue illustrated by the Australian High Court reinstating the Australian passport of an accused terrorist.

  • Today I pray

    The sun is rising, and hues of intrepid orange start to explore the edges of the bedroom curtain. Morning is here and a new day has started. The worries of yesterday and errant past no longer need to linger. The new day is a new start, a new chance and a fresh slate. Today, I pray.

  • What is this - FUA

    Sometimes a terrific gem pops up in the media and you wonder why you weren't you the one to come up with such a catchy phrase.

  • Mystical Christianity   

    As a young Christian I was attracted to the teachings of the classical Christian mystics, men and women whose writings have been widely acknowledged as bearing witness to Jesus across the various strands of Christianity.

  • When you lose part of yourself

    My eldest son moved out of home January this year.

  • Tripping over history

    There is a Holocaust memorial project in Hamburg, Germany where small brass plaques etched with the names of those who perished in the Holocaust, are embedded in the pavement outside the houses where these people once lived.