I stumbled over the following video exert from Charlie Chaplains comedy that was released in 1940 and satired Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. While the words of the speech are truly amazing, up there with great orators of our time, it is the context in which Chaplain released this film that makes the speech just [...]
In 2010, the OECD did a study across the Global Mining industry and part of the study looked at the “optimum level of tax and effective tax administration.” In the report that this study produced, they calculated an Effective Tax Rate (which is essentially the value of all payments to governments divided by the value [...]
Now people, I know that we are all different and have different perspectives on life and how things should happen. However, over the last few days with the release of the details about the carbon tax I have seen a few comments about how Australia is becoming a communist/socialist country. To these friends I would [...]
One of the most amazing and emotional experiences I have ever felt was listening to the national anthem being sung at Lone Pine on Anzac day in Gallipoli. Surprisingly what made it amazing was that it wasn’t my national anthem, it was the thousands of Kiwi pilgrams who were belting out their anthem. It wasn’t the [...]
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“We can no longer just keep beating the climate change drum that our opponents claim is imaginary (even if we have the science to prove that it is a drum). We must engage our fellow Australians on the environmental issues that can achieve the same outcomes of reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gasses, yet are [...]
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I just came across the following video on The Australian website. It takes a look at Aboriginals experiences of growing up in Australia and experiencing racism. VIDEO: Are we racist? I believe that the problems of racism can only be overcome once we accept that we as humans have a built-in racist tendency. Only then [...]
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Following on from the (amazing) Four Corners expose of the brutal slaughter of Australian live export of cattle to Indonesia, there has been an amazing public response and out cry against the treatment of these cattle. When our community response is so strong and so unanimous on animal rights issue like this – why aren’t we just as [...]
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Here are the 8 steps on how to use the ACL to get an advertising campaign to go viral. 1) Develop a basic and inoffensive (well to everyone but the Australian Christian Lobby) advertisement that has a positive social message. 2) Place these ads in locations that senior members of the Australian Christian Lobby frequent. [...]
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Today is national sorry day, a day that has huge significance in the history and future of our beautiful country. As this day fights for it’s time and space in the oxygen starved 24hr news cycle and in our busy daily lives, I thought it would be worth re-telling one story of the Stolen Generation. This story [...]
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*And time to ramp up education and training support. As the Australian economy sits at an extremely low unemployment level, never had we had a better environment to nip the high Aboriginal unemployment problem in the bud. I am not making this call as an ‘expert’ within this space. Rather, this push is being led [...]
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As the co-founder of the Live Below the Line campaign I have been intrigued by recent articles in the Huffington Post and Good Magazine questioning the effectiveness of the campaign. The question being asked is “Is living on US$1.50 a day (for food) helping those living in extreme poverty?” It’s a valid question. So here’s [...]
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