Author: Mark Durie

When I was a kid I lived for a time in Western Queensland. The country was then in the grip of a terrible drought, when all the sheep had to eat was the leaves of the mulga trees. After a long period of dry, dry...

This article originally appeared in The Australian. The world has witnessed a flood of reaction this week to Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture, a reaction that has gone well beyond words, with attacks on churches in Gaza, the West Bank and Basra, and apparently the killing of...