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Yes, Yes, Yes. Let’s recognise First Nations Peoples in our Constitution

Michael Frost — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:58:23 +0000

Later this year, Australians will go to the polls to vote on whether the First Nations peoples of this continent will be granted constitutional recognition. We will also vote on the constitutionally enshrined establishment of a permanent committee comprised entirely of First Nations people to act as a consultative body to the parliament on legislation […]

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Cricket goes “Woke” and I love it

Michael Frost — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:06:54 +0000

This week the Australian animated kids program Bluey released an episode about the great and ancient game of cricket. I know Bluey is very popular in the USA, so I can’t imagine what its American viewers made of that episode. There were references to “square cuts” and “pull shots” and “straight bats,” and I have […]

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Generous anger: George Orwell on fighting the good fight

Michael Frost — Mon, 17 May 2021 00:21:04 +0000

I’ve been reading a lot of George Orwell lately. As a young man I read him voraciously, but in recent years I have left him to gather dust on my bookshelves. Then I picked up David Lebedoff’s fascinating dual biography of Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, The Same Man, and I was inspired to start re-reading […]

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These three men survived a pandemic, economic collapse and war, and still emerged hopeful

Michael Frost — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 23:08:51 +0000

As we wade through the sludge and stench of this our annus horribilis, it’s nice to see any sign of optimism or hopefulness. For me that came in the form of a simple tweet by Jane O’Dwyer, the vice president for global relations with the Australian National University. She shared a 1948 picture of three […]

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Launching rockets while Rome burns

Michael Frost — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:36:41 +0000

While major cities across America were aflame with race riots, a rocketship took off. On Saturday, May 30, a Falcon 9 spacecraft, owned by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX project, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. For Musk, it had been 18 years in […]

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It seems racists don’t even have the decency to be subtle anymore

Michael Frost — Wed, 27 May 2020 12:06:35 +0000

Those three videos. You saw them. First, the blatant murder of Ahmaud Arbery by two white men as he jogged through suburban Georgia. Second, the blatant use of deadly force by a Minneapolis police officer, leading to the death of George Floyd. Third, the blatant racially-charged accusations of a white woman toward a bird-lover who […]

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Coronavirus is freaking my intellectually disabled sister out

Michael Frost — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:08:51 +0000

I have a 60-year-old sister named Joanne. She lives with an intellectual disability. It used to annoy me when people asked me what Jo’s “mental age” was. It’s not as simple as saying she’s like a six-year-old or an eight-year-old. She lives in a group home near me, catches public transport, works at a social […]

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Love in the time of COVID-19

Michael Frost — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:24:14 +0000

In his novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the complicated marriage of Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his wife Fermina. Urbino is a passionless man, a medical scientist, devoted to order and progress, committed to the eradication of cholera. Before their marriage, Fermina […]

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5 Reasons Capitalism is not Christian

Michael Frost — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:41:30 +0000

Recently, Julie Roys, whose work in unmasking evangelical Christian leaders accused of spiritual, sexual, and psychological abuse I greatly admire, wrote an article entitled, 5 Reasons Socialism is not Christian. It wasn’t the most sophisticated piece, I must confess. Those of us who have lived outside the United States in economies that have been influenced […]

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And a (Swedish) child shall lead them

Michael Frost — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:33:58 +0000

Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg might have just missed out on the Nobel Prize last month, but this week Time named her their Person of the Year for 2019, making her the youngest ever to receive that recognition since the magazine started it in 1927. The Swedish schoolgirl has become the face of a worldwide campaign for […]

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