- Reporting as ordered (30 Dec 05)
Similarly to last year part of my work in 2005 was to prepare Australia's annual Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997. The 2004-05 edition was presented ...
- Hot greetings (24 Dec 05)
December 25th looks like being typical of SE Australia in mid-summer; very warm with a scorching northerly wind and a risk of bushfires. This little tune sets the scene: The ...
- Done in the dark (02 Dec 05)
The death by hanging of Nguyen Tuong Van at Singapore's Changi Prison has been confirmed by the Singapore authorities. The execution was at 6:00am Singapore time almost an hour before ...
- Here I am, Lord (01 Dec 05)
Advent has already been with us for almost a week. It's far more important to me as a new year that January 1st. Time once again to take out Hedley ...
- World AIDS Day, 1 December 2005 (01 Dec 05)
FactsThe Caribbean has the world’s second highest HIV prevalence rate; the highest HIV-infection levels among women in the Americas are in the Caribbean; HIV-AIDS has become the leading cause ...
- Slovenians amaze (28 Nov 05)
The spectacular finals of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Melbourne last night and shown live on Australian Televison. For me the highlights were the near-miraculous skills of ...
- Visited by design(ers) (14 Nov 05)
During the past month we have enjoyed a delightful family visit by James' daughter Kim Hojung and her friend Kim Minsoo. Both work in Korea as professional designers. Hojung does ...
- It's Time. (11 Nov 05)
11 November. A day of mixed remembrances for many Australians; Remembrance Day when we remember the dead of too many wars . . . . . . and the 30th anniversary of the ...
- More please (10 Nov 05)
Our region is prone to strong thunderstorms. Last night there was bright lightning and the loudest thunder I have ever heard. After years of drought we have had quite a ...
- Remembered (01 Nov 05)
This is Australia's 11 November 2005 Remembrance Day poster. It shows Australian prisoners of war from Japan arriving in Sydney on HMS Formidable on 13 October 1945. The group includes ...
- Partnership as friendship (30 Oct 05)
Mark Vernon in "Coming out as friends" (The Guardian 28 Oct.) says that although civil partnerships will not be in effect in Britain until 21 December commercialisation is already attempting ...
- Give them this day . . . (13 Oct 05)
From *Christopher and Annie (and now me) comes this: Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Fasting almsgiving and prayer have a long foundation in the Christian tradition stemming from our ...
- Jimbaran (03 Oct 05)
I'm at a loss to describe let alone understand the senselessness of the bombings in Bali on Saturday. These pictures show the place where two of the bombs exploded. Jimbaran ...
- The fabulous True Self (02 Oct 05)
Paul at Prodigal Kiwi writes about an article by Patrick W. Collins "From illusions towards truth: Thomas Merton's 'true self' and gay spirituality." The Way Jul 2005 pp. 71-84. Collins' ...
- Chusok (20 Sep 05)
Chusok "autumn evening" is a Korean harvest festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. In Korea this year the Chusok holidays extended over three days Saturday 17th ...
- Together (08 Sep 05)
No entries for a few days as I'm off to Goulburn to attend the first three-day session of the 42nd Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. The ...
- Eaten away inside (04 Sep 05)
I wonder if it makes sense to get angry against a disease? I am really upset today about cancer. Almost all of my relatives who have died during my lifetime ...
- Who sinned, these men or their fathers? (03 Sep 05)
Like many others I've been wrestling with my thoughts in response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans. The hurricane was simply a natural physical process glorious yet terrible. We ...
- Not all the tribes (14 Aug 05)
Yesterday evening James and I attended a joyous celebration to mark to completion of a building extension for our former parish. The service was wonderful and the hospitality superb. We ...
- Sudan: hope and sadness (07 Aug 05)
The Sudanese community in Australia has been deeply saddened by the death of Sudan's First Vice President and the President of the Government of Southern Sudan Dr John Garang de ...
- Gold in the frost (06 Aug 05)
Daffodils are my favourite flower. I love their yellows and golds bringing an early message of spring. But the Canberra climate confuses them. Thanks to James' plantings there are dozens ...
- Anniversary (02 Aug 05)
June Norton McKinlay née Hitchcock daughter of William and Judith sister of Nanette wife of John mother of Brian Robin Pauline and Noella Ann grandmother of Karen Tracy and Victoria ...
- Renowned of all the lands (31 Jul 05)
On Friday James' elder daughter Ho Jung became an Australian citizen. I joined them at the citizenship ceremony -- the first time I had been to one. It was welcoming ...
- Jon Stanhope presses on with reforms (25 Jul 05)
In its first term of office the Australian Labor Party government of the Australian Capital Territory led by Jon Stanhope made much progress in law reform towards greater equality for ...
- In face of drought (24 Jul 05)
Beginning today 27 July at the initative of the National Council of Churches of Australia and others many Australian Churches began 40 days of prayer in the face of drought. ...
- Please protest against Iranian horror (23 Jul 05)
There has been wide coverage of the public hanging of two allegedly gay teenagers in Mashad in north eastern Iran on 19 July 2005 for the 'crime' of homosexuality. One ...
- My near miss (08 Jul 05)
The bombing in London makes everyone's comments on the Olympic victory (including mine) rather trivial by comparision. Media reports include several near miss stories from survivors. My own such story ...
- The Sharing House (07 Jul 05)
I find this picture of Father Michael Lee with one of his plants delightful. Gardening is one of the activities for the chidren cared for by the BanSongDong Sharing House. ...
- Different Religions Week (26 Jun 05)
15-22 July is Different Religions Week which encourages people to attend services of faiths different to their own. Founded in 2003 by Nathan Black a published writer and student at ...
- Welcomed to serve (19 Jun 05)
Our Vision is to be a caring Christian community which embraces and honours difference and offers a place to celebrate and grow spiritually. I have been licensed by our ...
- Eureka, 150 years on (13 Jun 05)
Today to the Old Parliament House in glorious winter sunshine for lunch and to see the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery's exhibition Eureka Revisited: the Contest of Memories. The events of ...
- Urgent need of slow rain (11 Jun 05)
There is slow drizzling rain in Canberra today. It is so long since we have seen this that it makes the continuing drought seem all the more stark. The dryness ...
- Vaccine for shingles? (11 Jun 05)
As I am still convalescent from shingles [herpes zoster] I am interested in some widely-reported work of the Shingles Prevention Study Group published in an article with no less than ...
- Beads and meditation (03 May 05)
James and I meet weekly with some church friends for 'MSM' -- meal study and meditation. I find meditation the hardest part; somehow it doesn't suit my temperament. I need ...
- Polio: going, going, . . . but not gone (25 Apr 05)
The Pittsburg Post Gazette is marking the fiftieth anniversary of Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine with an fine series of articles including historical materials and reports on current progress toward elimination ...
- St. Mark's NTC (24 Apr 05)
As well as being Anzac Day 25 April is the feast of St. Mark a reminder to pray for St. Mark's National Theological Centre where I am a graduate student ...
- Anzac anger (24 Apr 05)
25 April is Anzac Day and each year more and more Australian and New Zealand pilgrims gather at the Anzac site in Turkey as well as at commemorations throughout Australia ...
- St. James the Less, full circle (19 Apr 05)
As a unionist I know that 1st May is of course May Day; but it is also the feast of St. Philip and St. James. We are planning a service ...
- Glorious (16 Apr 05)
We have wanted some oriental lillies for some time and today James bought some. So delightful. Here they are flourishing in our garden. ...
- Glued (14 Apr 05)
In the battle to get on top of the shingles and assorted uncomfortable side ailments my doctor and I have worked through a vertiable pharmacopoeia: amoxycillin; atorvastin; betadine (iodine); citalopram; ...
- The gate to life (02 Apr 05)
Heavenly Father into whose hands Jesus Christ commended his spirit at the last hour; into those same hands we commend your servant John Paul that death may be for him ...
- Decisions of life (01 Apr 05)
As the health fails of HSH Prince Ranier III of Monaco his son Prince Albert has been appointed Regent to govern in his stead. Not far from Monaco in another ...
- Kimhae family (31 Mar 05)
This picture was taken when James and I visited Kimhae about two years ago at dinner hosted by the man in the centre (wearing a tie) who is James' ...
- Jazz and simnel cake (30 Mar 05)
In the BBC's Thought for the Day 29 March 2005 Rev Dr Alan Billings observed that "In the past and until relatively recently the faith of non-attending or not attending ...
- Good wishes remembered (28 Mar 05)
When we moved house last year I threw away a pile of old greeting cards I'd received but I kept three. My workmates signed this and gave it to me ...
- Healing (27 Mar 05)
This has been the first Easter since James and I joined St Philip's and I have been looking forward to it. So it's been frustrating to be too ill to ...
- White and black (18 Mar 05)
Shingles had always seemed to me one of those half understood diseases from Grandpa's generation. I'm painfully learning that that is far from the case. The National Institute of Neurological ...
- All desires known (01 Mar 05)
This prayer has been said at Anglican communion services since the Book of Common Prayer was written in the sixteenth century. It seems to me a searching yet simple focus ...
- Pink patronage (12 Feb 05)
Roses do well in Canberra. Australia's Old Parliament House has had rose gardens since Robert Broinowski began work on them in 1931 using donations from ordinary Australians. The National Capital ...
- Lunar Lent (09 Feb 05)
(sae hae bok manhi badeseyo)In Korean this asks you to receive many blessings at new year my third new year in as many months - Advent Sunday (church 'new year') ...
- Gaza at first hand (05 Feb 05)
The regular mid-week gathering which James and I share with a few church friends was visited this week by Mr Brad Chapman. Brad runs a successful home mortgage and finance ...
- Dry reading (29 Jan 05)
One of my annual labours is to to prepare Australia's annual Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997 the latest edition of which was published this week ...
- 8th, 9th and 10th of Christmas (03 Jan 05)
To me New Year's day is pretty much a non-event; a welcome holiday but otherwise just a number on the calendar. More importantly the first of January is the eighth ...
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