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Innocence issues

Innocence issues

Some time ago I wrote on the Innocence Project – how Griffith University in Queensland says of their Innocence Project: "We are committed to freeing innocent persons who have been wrongly convicted in Australia. We will take on cases where initial investigations support inmates' assertions that they have been wrongly convicted and where innocence may be established through the use of DNA technology." .

  • Simon Manchester video interview

    This is another of those wonderful interviews for the Australian Missionary News IPTV, this one is the Reverend Simon Manchester.

  • Young people living at home - painful option

    Several recent Australian surveys have shown that young people are choosing to stay at home longer than their parents ever did; or they return back home to save money. Although necessary, there is also a degree of the disagreeable to both.

  • Forks in the road – an old theme

    Recently I wrote to a young man suggesting he might prayerfully consider a ministry opportunity that if handled in the right way, would provide him remarkable evangelism, especially within the area of his interest.

  • Femininity is alive and well

    Femininity is alive and well – the fashion industry thrives on it, the boutique business world depends upon it, social media is full of it, it heralds a woman's sex appeal and the Bible says it is God's wonderful gift to women.

  • AIS chaplain Peter Nelson video interview

    This is another of those wonderful interviews for the Australian Missionary News IPTV, this one is the Australian Institute of Sport and Olympic chaplain of 27 years Peter Nelson.

  • Iincy Wincy is very hungry

    Way back in 2014 I wrote an article on spiders getting bigger which was initiated in an article in The Conversation. Now the NZ Herald recently cited that these self same spiders are very hungry and moreover they could eat us all.

  • Australia Day - Railway magazine editor Dave Moyle video interview

    Nothing could be more Australian than a railway magazine editor's interview.

  • Half Wars – can they ever be won?

    In my article "Is there a 'true value' or a 'relative value' of our servicemen and women" this was stated: The nation can never 'wear the shoes' of those who have witnessed battle at first hand.

  • Surprising realisation

    A surprising realisation came from the lips of Ric Charlesworth a few years ago, the renown Australian hockey player and coach, a World Cup gold medallist from London in 1986, and coached Australia’s national women’s team, the Hockeyroos to Gold and the Kookaburras to World Cup glory. 

  • Immune to death?

    A modern issue for Christian evangelism is that every day we are visually invaded on the television news with multiple deaths of good people who have led meaningful and value-add community and family lives whereupon.

  • Andrew West video interview

    This is another of those wonderful interviews for the Australian Missionary News IPTV, this one is Andrew West, originally with the Sydney Morning Herald, now the Religion and Ethics Report on the ABC Radio National.