By Rod Benson 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, …
Moral issues not determined by public opinion
By Rod Benson 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, …
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Australians rely on the Christian tradition
By Rod Benson 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 …
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Who’d be on your literary dinner list?
By Rod Benson Today is World Poetry Day. On social media 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 …
Free Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani
The House of Representatives in the Netherlands. By Rod Benson Last week I mentioned Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, arrested and sentenced to death in Iran for changing his religion and telling Muslims the truth about Jesus. Support and advocacy for the pastor is growing around the world as people realise the brutal truth about religious freedom …
