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With much of Lismore still recovering from floods earlier this year, a local Uniting Church led an effort to provide affected school age children with beanies as winter chill set it. Sue Duncan is Secretary for the Far North Coast Presbytery. Ms Duncan told Insights that the initiative started earlier...

In the last fortnight, a number of high profile artists have passed — Archie Roach, First Nations musician and advocate, Nichelle Nichols, famous for acting the part of Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, Judith Durham of the Seekers and most recently, actor, singer and cancer research advocate Olivia Newton-John. I...

Review: Life: as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, Juan Jose Millas and Juan Luis Arsuaga Juan Jose Millas, a well-known Spanish novelist and something of a happy misanthrope, as writers sometimes are, begins this book by describing his revelation that, despite millennia between us and our neolithic ancestors,...

The University of Divinity has announced that Professor Anne Pattel-Gray  has been appointed Professor of Indigenous Studies and inaugural Head of the School of Indigenous Studies. Professor Pattel-Gray said that she was “overwhelmed with joy at this appointment as this has been a lifelong dream.”“I feel truly blessed. I look...

The federal government’s confirmation on Monday that it will set up a National Housing Supply and Affordability Council has not received much media or public attention. But, dollar for dollar, it might be the year’s most important and impactful housing announcement. The announcement by the minister for housing and homelessness,...

On Sunday, 11 September, Kogarah Uniting Church will hold a thanksgiving service to mark 30 years of  the Kogarah Storehouse being a force for good in the local community. The storehouse was an old, disused factory that was transformed into a big space for local community services.At the time that...