Past Programs
Activism and Lobbying - 2008
The ethics of climate change
26/03/2008
Leading ethicist Professor Michael S. Northcott of Edinburgh University, on his new book, A Moral Climate, about treating global warming as a moral and ethical issue.
A new Muslim Community Reference Group?
26/03/2008
The parliamentary secretary for Multicultural Affairs, Laurie Ferguson, says the federal government is actively considering whether to revive the Howard government's Muslim Community Reference Group. If it goes ahead, he says the new Reference Group will have fewer imams, more women and young people, and it will also reflect the sizeable non-religious component of Australian Muslim community.
A new Muslim Community Reference Group? ; The ethics of climate change
26/03/2008
The parliamentary secretary for Multicultural Affairs, Laurie Ferguson, says the federal government is actively considering whether to revive the Howard government's Muslim Community Reference Group. If it goes ahead, he says the new Reference Group will have fewer imams, more women and young people, and it will also reflect the sizeable non-religious component of Australian Muslim community. Also, we speak to leading ethicist Professor Michael S. Northcott of Edinburgh University, about his new book, A Moral Climate, about treating global warming as a moral and ethical issue.
On the murder of an Iraqi Catholic Bishop
19/03/2008
Iraq's Assyrian and Chaldean Christians under attack from terrorists
The Christian vote in federal politics
19/03/2008
It turns out that the Christian vote played a decisive role in Kevin Rudd's victory at the 2007 election. Pentecostals and evangelicals were vital in swinging elctorates that Labor needed win, and did, especially in QLD. But does this mean Labor is now "owned" by the Religious Right? that's what Christopher Pearson maintained recently in "The Australian ". He says Labor is going to have to restrain its more progressive social policy agenda. We beg to differ. What if Pentocostal and Evangelical Christians are moving to the left in Australia juts as they have been in the United States?
Defining the "Dalai clique"; The Christian vote in federal politics
19/03/2008
It turns out that the Christian vote played a decisive role in Kevin Rudd's victory at the 2007 election. Pentecostals and evangelicals were vital in swinging elctorates that Labor needed win, and did, especially in QLD. But does this mean Labor is now "owned" by the Religious Right? that's what Christopher Pearson maintained recently in "The Australian ". He says Labor is going to have to restrain its more progressive social policy agenda. We beg to differ. What if Pentocostal and Evangelical Christians are moving to the left in Australia juts as they have been in the United States?
Defining the "Dalai clique"
19/03/2008
Unrest in Tibet, in which Buddhist monks played a leading part, as with last year's demonstrations in Burma.
Death of the Mormon President Gordon B Hinckley
06/02/2008
An obituary for the 'prophet seer and revelator' for the world's 16 million Mormons -- America's expanding home grown religion.
The Exclusive Brethren and federal funding
06/02/2008
With the Rudd government in office where to now for the Exclusive Brethren? John Kaye MP (Greens) on the Exclusive Brethren, federal funding and the tax-payer dollar.
The Exclusive Brethren and Federal funding; death of the Mormon President
05/02/2008
With the Rudd government in office - where to now for the Exclusive Brethren? John Kaye MP (Greens) on the Exclusive brethren, Federal funding and the tax-payer dollar. Also an obituary on Gordon B Hinckley- "prophet seer and revelator" for the world's 16 million Mormons - America's expanding home grown religion.
