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Reviews: Saving the Reef by Rohan Lloyd and Cloud Land by Penny van Oosterzee The Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef are national and global treasures, World Heritage Areas, tourism drawcards, long managed by Indigenous people. But settlers and colonial Queensland governments have been, until recently, keen to plunder...

Review: Sand Land The death of Akira Toriyama, the manga artist and author best known for Dragon Ball, hit me hard when news of his passing hit in March of this year. Toriyama's most influential series was hugely important to me growing up, and now that I'm in my 30s...

5 May 1 John 5:1-6 One of the great places to learn about love is in music – or is it?  Love is one of the major themes of contemporary music. Yet, when you listen to the lyrics, what is described as love is often self-gratification, selfish, obsessive, stalking, objectification,...

ANZAC Day (25 April) is an annual commemoration that has been held since 1916, which was the first anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula during the early stages of World War I. These troops were the first of approximately 70,000 Allied soldiers...

The Uniting Climate Conference Faith in a Better Future,  is coming up on Saturday 11 May and we now have a full program and speakers for the day. The conference is an opportunity for our Uniting Church community to learn together,  be encouraged and invigorated, and build common purpose in our...

I grew up suspicious of structures. For me, institutions and organizations symbolized much that was wrong with the world. Sometimes I speculate on the source of this suspicion. How did it take root in my life? I came from a working-class background that resisted authority. My early experiences of institutions convinced me...