The avenue of trees
Here’s a song by Steve Messer about Australia’s war memorials.
Heading out of Ballarat towards the western plains
The tall white arch behind me, ahead the dual lane
On both sides of the highway, stripped bare by winter’s breeze
Ten miles of sad reminders, the avenue of trees (more…)
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Lest we forget the Lord
Yesterday was ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day when we remember all those who served for Australia in armed conflicts. In particular, we remember those who died in defending our nation and our allies. Theirs was a costly sacrifice of courage and devotion for our freedom. (more…)
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Climate education
Do you want to get up to date on the scientific, political, economic, legal and media aspects of climate change? Then check out the presentations and discussions at “Climate realism rising”, the 16th International Conference on Climate Change convened by The Heartland Institute. 18 videos of all the addresses, presentations and roundtables are available online. (more…)
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World climate declaration
There is no climate emergency
Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures. (more…)
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The Bible is the backbone of western society
When Somali-born Dutch American activist, writer, and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali addressed the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference (ARC) forum in London in February 2025, she claimed that Christianity and the Bible is the backbone of the secular state. Nations need Christian morality. It’s like the operating system of society. Remove Christianity, Ayaan argued, and the entire Western system topples over. (more…)
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Light and darkness in climate science
This message
was given by Anika Sweetland at the World Prosperity Forum, which is a freedom-based, prosperity focused alternative to the World Economic Forum. Anika is a climate scientist who has worked for the Australian government in energy policy.
Introduction
When I was 19, I would lie awake at night trying to calculate how old I would be when the food shortages hit. Where I should live one day to avoid the sea level rise? Where would be safe to live in 20 years time? Whether it was even ethical to bring a child into the world I genuinely believed was going to collapse due to unavoidable catastrophic climate change. And the strangest part is that no one had made me think this with violence. No one had threatened me. All they had done is teach me. (more…)
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When Christianity came to Australia
Most countries take at least one day a year to celebrate their nationhood and Australia do it on 26 January. On this day in 1788 Arthur Philip raised the British flag at Sydney Cove. (more…)
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God’s hate speech
When I was young there was a children’s rhyme: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names (words) will never hurt me”. We must have been more resilient and tougher then because now the Australian government wants to legislate against hate speech! This could lead to discrimination against Christians and the censorship of Christian views. (more…)
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Comparing people and animals
“Humans once stood on a pedestal: made by God in his image, earthly lords of all creation, categorically distinct from mere animals. That was the belief, anyway. Jane Goodall played a large role on eroding that self-flattering conviction, with her extraordinary study of wild chimpanzees at what is now Gombe National Park in Tanzania. By discovering unexpected behavioral similarities between chimps and humans, she continued the revolution begun by Copernicus and Galileo and advanced in a great leap by Charles Darwin: taking earth out of the center of the universe and humans down from our holy isolation. Goodall helped us see, long before genome comparisons confirmed it, that the gap between chimps and people is smaller than anyone thought. Gorillas aren’t the closest living relatives of chimpanzees. We are” (Quammen, 2025). (more…)
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Dealing with problems in the church at Corinth
Imagine a high-performance sports team. They’ve got incredible talent—star players with amazing skills, speed, strength, and strategy. But when they hit the field, something’s terribly wrong. The players are arguing over who gets the spotlight, fighting about playing styles, some are living reckless lives off the field that’s dragging the whole team down, and others are showing up in mismatched uniforms, ignoring the coach’s playbook entirely. They’re talented, but they’re fractured—divided, dysfunctional, and far from winning. That’s a picture of the problems in the church in Corinth. (more…)
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A Christian manifesto
This manifesto is a statement by some Christian leaders in Australia declaring essential Christian beliefs that must be upheld, taught, and practised no matter what laws are made to oppose them. It addresses laws and cultural forces that threaten to silence Christian convictions in Australia by defending free speech, life and biblical values. (more…)
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The 2025 Westminster Declaration
The 2025 Westminster Declaration is a call from Christian leaders and organizations across the UK to affirm timeless truths about life, marriage and family, freedom of conscience, and the role of Christian faith in public life. It also carries calls on the university, and on the development of AI and other new technologies. (more…)
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Where does intelligence come from?
Archaeologists have discovered ancient stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, suggesting early humans were there more than a million years ago (assuming uniformitarian deep time). These stone artefacts and some fossils were found in sandstone sedimentary layers. And the finding was published in Nature (Hakim et al, 2025; Phiddian, 2025). (more…)
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The benefits of carbon dioxide and fossil fuels
Many people are ignorant of the benefits of carbon dioxide and fossil fuels.
Two physicists have issued a technical paper showing that physics demonstrates that increasing greenhouse gases cannot cause dangerous warming, extreme weather or any harm. In particular:
– More carbon dioxide will create more food, and
– Driving greenhouse gas emissions to net zero and eliminating fossil fuels will be disastrous for people worldwide. (more…)
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New US climate report
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has just published a report by the 2025 Climate Working Group. The report concludes that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced warming appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and that aggressive mitigation strategies could be more harmful than beneficial. Additionally, the report finds that US policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays. (more…)
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Climate and the church
The Climate Realism podcast begins with some crazy climate news items.
On 7 February 2025 the third news item was “Going to climate church”. This was based on a WCC news story, “The World Council of Churches (WCC), with churches in the Caribbean and North America debuts training on climate litigation”. “The WCC has offered the first in what will be a series of training workshops on climate litigation. In partnership with the Caribbean and North America Council for Mission (CANACOM), the WCC led the training through a lens of child protection and our future generations.” … “It was the children from our churches who asked us to take this new route of climate litigation, which is new for the WCC and is the only way that really gives solid hope for children in the face of what science tells us about the climate emergency.” (more…)
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Is carbon dioxide a pollutant?
On 9th January 2025, nine people were hospitalised due to carbon monoxide poisoning in Hobart, Australia. Authorities say the incident was caused by inadequate ventilation of petrol fumes while cutting concrete. (more…)
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Our civilizational moment?
Four threats
In October 2024, Os Guiness published a book titled, “Our civilizational moment: The waning of the west and the war of the worlds”. An earlier essay is also available here.
Civilizations rise, flourish, and then decline and fall. Guiness asks, is the West facing its own civilizational moment today? (more…)
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Abortion and the culture of death
How did we get to become a culture that celebrates the choice to kill pre-born babies?
This article comes from Seth Gruber who researched this topic in a documentary, The 1916 project. This is a study of the past in order to understand what’s happening now.
Over 65 million unborn children have been murdered (aborted) in the USA since 1973. What bred this culture of death that is targeting our families? (more…)
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Climate change and the Bible
This article comes from Dr Jason Lisle, an astrophysicist of the Biblical Science Institute.
Is climate change real? If so, what is the cause? Is it caused by human activity? And can it be reversed? If so, should it be reversed? Many people have never stopped to consider these questions because they think they already know the answers to all of them. After all, we have been told that climate change is real, dangerous, caused by human activity, and that we should fight it by reducing our carbon footprint. But does science bear out such claims? Most importantly, what does the Bible teach on this topic? (more…)
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Renewable energy fantasy
Most of this article comes from Russ Schussler, an electrical grid engineer.
In late November NSW faced electricity blackout warnings due to elevated temperatures and reduced coal plant generation. Four of the 12 coal-generation units were offline for maintenance or breakdowns. Although it is being phased out slowly, coal remains the primary source of electricity generation in NSW. (more…)
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The fatal flaw in Artificial Intelligence
AI’s role in amplifying dominant narratives will continue to stifle dissent, limit open debate, and impose restrictive controls on society. If we allow this to continue unchecked, AI will become a tool for shaping thought, controlling discourse, and eroding the very freedoms it was meant to empower.
This article comes from Leigh Haugen. (more…)
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The climate scam
Recently Donald Trump said that climate change is “one of the great scams of all time”. A scam is a dishonest way to make money or obtain something else of value by deceiving people.
This article from Leigh Haugen shows how the climate change narrative is a scam. (more…)
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Professor escaped censorship
Climate change is tricky. There’s a disconnect between what the science says and the narrative in the mainstream media. One professor found that the only way to be able to discuss this topic freely was to leave academia. (more…)
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