The NBN example reinforces to the public who are the biggest... just like us all...
When the former Federal Labor Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy admitted that the NBN was "overly ambitious" with its National Broadband Network rollout targets and "clearly underestimated" working with the construction industry..
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Young writer reviews – No 3
The Press Service International young writer program in conjunction with Christian Today has each Week's editor or coordinator write a review of their week the week after publication.
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Just War Theology and Islamic rants
Has Christian theology on a “Just War” influenced the rhetoric of hard line Islamic rants? This has become a valid question after a recent rant by an Adelaide Islamic preacher Sheikh Sharif Hussein which was videoed and uploaded to the Internet.
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Israel turned 70 with a population of 8.8m
Israel turned 70 last week. In the year David Ben-Gurion declared the State's establishment, only one city in Israel, At that time Tel Aviv and Jaffa had a population of over 100,000 residents.
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ANZAC - Japanese attacked Australia's seaboard
The Japanese ran amok on Australia's eastern seaboard in 1942-43 with submarine attacks, air attacks and moreover Sydney and Newcastle were shelled let alone northern and the western seaboard of Australian with the bombing of Darwin all the way to Broome.
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Laguna Quays Respite - delightful visits
The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite coordinated by Well-Being Australia for missions now in its seventh year has proven to be a lovely break away for a wide range of those in Christian service. It continues to be a good seven years.
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Very Fast Train – here we go again!
Once again the Very fast Train has come to the fore and strangely, as is the custom in Australia, around election time – State or Federal. The Very fast Train proposals have popped up since the 1970's and they have ranged from Japanese and European models where huge populations are moved en-mass.
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Efficient energy
The phrase 'think globally, act locally' has been a mantra of the environmental movement since the late 1960s, but its origin probably dates back to town planning initiatives in the early 1900s.
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Australian young writers striding ahead
The 2018 young writer program with Press Service International in conjunction with Christian Today is well and truly striding ahead.
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Heart breaking - putting a spoke in the wheel
In recent years I have noted a number of Australia’s civilian honours and sadly, (history is replete with military honours) which are similarly ‘posthumous’ - or after the event of death. There has been a push for some years now to see one or more of our soldiers killed in Afghanistan to be awarded “posthumously”.
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The do-gooders are out in force – grand-dad's are at risk
This was a story in the Sydney Morning Herald written by Eamonn Duff titled 'Police investigate frolicking child' and sub-titled 'A family is shattered after an innocent outing turned sour'.
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One Day in Melbourne on 19 May – Craigieburn Salvation Army
One Day in Melbourne for 2018 is on the 19 May at the Craigieburn Salvation Army – 75 Interlink Dr, Craigieburn, 20 minutes from Melbourne airport.