31 May, 2018 Liberty to the Captives 3: Building Health and Freedom in a MBB Community
Presentations at the Horizons’ Legacy Conference, May 2018....
04 Apr, 2018 Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia
For at least four years, a copy of the Noble Qur’an was placed for public use in Canberra Airport's prayer room. This particular edition of the Qur’an, printed in the millions by Saudi Arabia, has very disturbing footnotes, which promote an aggressively radical interpretation of Islam not very different from the doctrines and practice of ISIS. It is disturbing that this particular Qur’an was selected for the prayer room. (After this article was published, the Qur’an was removed.)
11 Oct, 2016 Violent Protests in Indonesia Blow an Ill Wind for Religious Tolerance
In Jakarta violence between protestors and police broke out Friday night, November 4, 2016 when an estimated 200,000 Muslims emerged from Friday prayers in mosques to rally outside the Indonesian President’s palace. Clashes with police led to tear gas being used on demonstrators, and Indonesia’s president,...
03 Jul, 2015 Sex Slavery and the Islamic State
Jamie Walker, Middle East correspondent for The Australian, asked two critical questions in a recent article which discussed the involvement of two Australian citizens, Mohamed Elomar and Khaled Sharrouf, in Islamic State sex slavery. In 2014 Elomar purchased sex slaves, of whom four, all Yazidis,...
22 Nov, 2014 How Labor’s religious schools policy will hurt Christian schools and organisations
This video was created before the 2014 Victorian state election. However the outcome it predicted for religious organisations has taken until 2021 to be fulfilled, when the state Labor Government introduced amendments to discrimination laws, targeting religious organisations, which they had foreshadowed seven years earlier. To...
11 Nov, 2014 How Victorian Labor’s religious schools policy will hurt Christian schools and organisations
This video was prepared in advance of the 2014 Victorian Election. The promised changes to anti-discrimination law targeting religious institutions did not happen until 2021....
05 Jan, 2014 The Abolition of Slavery and the Truth of History
The Abolition of Slavery and the Truth of History A Speech Given at the The Gettysburg 150th Commemoration St Peter's Eastern Hill, Melbourne, Tuesday 192019 November Mark Durie A version of this address has been published by Quadrant, see here. Memories shape us powerfully. For all of us there...
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