What the NSW clubs and hotels don’t want us to hear is the facts about poker machines and gambling addiction. Like the fact that Australia’s high loss poker machines are designed to be addictive, and Australia has the fastest, highest loss machines in the world. No other country has as many dangerous, high loss poker …
Moral issues not determined by public opinion
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke is a wanted man. Police in South Australia want to question him in relation to the death of a woman at Victor Harbor, south of Adelaide, in December. Dr Nitschke says the woman, who suffered from motor neurone disease, contacted him to gain access to the euthanasia drug Nembutal, which is illegal. …
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Australians rely on the Christian tradition
Some people want to keep faith out of our schools, and some insist that politics and religion should be firmly and forever separate. But that way of thinking is culturally impoverished and intellectually bankrupt. The Christian faith has profoundly shaped Australian society, has a central place in Australian life today, and will continue to shape …
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Why was the death of Jesus unique?
Sermon preached by Rod Benson, Good Friday, 28 March 1997 Alexander the Great once found his philosopher friend Diogenes standing in a field, looking intently at a large pile of bones. Asked what he was doing, the old man turned to Alexander and replied, “I am searching for the bones of your father Philip, but …
Who’d be on your literary dinner list?
Today is World Poetry Day. On Facebook this morning I made a comment that W.H. Auden was one of, say, ten people with whom I'd like to have had a long literary dinner party. This got others thinking (along the lines of "Rod Benson reads literature?!!", and possibly also "pffft"), and Mike Frost asked me who, …
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