Category Archives: Society
“Time to build a new Scotland” – EA Scotland statement
Support Young Indigenous Leaders through the Grassroots Gathering
Promoting Political Debate about Schooling
Can Work Be Redeemed?
Movie Review – ‘Noah’
We Are What We Eat
Gordon Preece in India
The First Fleet: A Shaky Start to the European Colonisation of Australia
John Smith (in his book Advance Australia Where?) suggested that Australia is still nursing some deep scars which may trace back to injuries inflicted two hundred years ago but which may well affect to this very day our view of ourselves, our world and our ‘gods’.
Between 1787 and 1868, 162,000 convicts arrived on the Australian shore. Half were sentenced for seven years and one-quarter for life.