Romantics and egalitarians like to believe that “having a go” at the umpire stems from an anti-authoritarian streak which is part of the archetypical Australian character. There might be some truth to this. But it is also true that, as a sport, Australian Rules has some unique characteristics which lend themselves towards criticism of the umpire. […]
WAR WITH IRAQ-The case against
WAR WITH IRAQ-The case against (First published in ‘Overland Magazine’ in Autumn 2003 before the intervention in Iraq) What matters could have been raised in federal parliament if Howard’s promised parliamentary debate on Australia’s participation in a war on Iraq had been allowed to take place? A starting point in the debate should be […]
Clyde Holding Tribute
See the tribute to Clyde Holding here
The ideas of fate, predicting the future and pre-destination
Summary: Hunter gatherers appear not to have been pre-occupied with predicting the future. Ideas about fate and pre-destiny arose more strongly after the advent of farming as pleasing God might be rewarded with better harvests. Examines the idea that fortune telling may have been an earlier method of psychotherapy. Analyses ideas of fate and pre-destiny […]
The spiritual testament of Paul Sheer
Introduction I regret never having met my maternal grandparents. They were secular Austrian Jews who fled Vienna shortly after the Anschluss (Nazi invasion) in 1938. They went from Austria through Czechoslovakia to what was then Palestine and then by boat to Australia via France. My mother, who was just six years old, remembers asking why the family was going to […]
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