The science behind some Aboriginal medicines
Before there were modern methods of making and analysing medicines, and before there were regulations about testing them for safety and efficacy, there were traditional herbal remedies handed down from one generation to the next. .
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The importance of music through the ages
Music is important in worshipping God. There are many references in the Bible to singing, playing or dancing with joy.
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The Richard Pengelley video interview
Richard is from Perth, an Australian water polo Captain, an Olympian, then an Anglican priest...
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The art of 'silence'
Silence can be utilised as a defence, a weapon, a plea for mercy, a statement of ignominy, a cry of ignorance, a shout of defiance, a political comment, an expression of contempt, and much more besides.
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Jarrod McKenna video interviewed
Jarrod McKenna the youngest recipient of the Donald Groom Peace Fellowship, an Australian Peace Award.
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AUSLAN now in the education system
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Children's colouring books challenge
NZ Herald ran an interesting article recently how children's colouring books dropped off the top sales list to a parenting book and this behoves the question as to what might be happening to this traditional and essential tool for children.
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Christmas and community in Australia
Throughout Australia an annual Christmas season highlight are the Carols by Candlelight.
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One Day in Melbourne 'young writer' planning team
Last weekend saw a mammoth development for the annual 'One Day in Melbourne' seminars for the unsung Australian Christian media — mission publication editors, small Christian publications, Social Media mavens, congregation publication editors, writers, editors …
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Cathedrals and Pentecostal Churches growing
A fascinating article appeared in the NZ Herald recently on the best SuperBowl commercials and had available for viewing these super 'cool' and 'engaging' adverts. This they were. They were all designed to do precisely this.
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A long stretch from Anne Frank to current refugees
It is a long stretch to claim Anne Frank of Holocaust note was a refugee on the same level as those seeking a new life in America from Islamic countries.
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Back to the future – KiwiRail
Late last year both the New Zealand Herald and the Railway Gazette made play that KiwiRail had finally made a decision on the 'electric' haulage of freight trains.