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Resistance Thinking Society
'Society' is a term used to describe a grouping of individuals and outlines the structures employed to ensure that the individuals within a society relate to each other in an appropriate fashion. Different societies may have distinctive cultural behaviours and different institutions. In this society section you will find news, articles and reviews that relate to Australian society, or more specifically, individuals who live in Australia.
Topics in this section will cover: science and technology - stem cell research, IVF, cloning, intelligent design, evolution etc.; politics - ideologies (communism, anarchism, totalitarianism, capitalism etc.), state and federal politics, the free market, the United Nations etc.; sociology - globalisation, prisons, welfare, government; environment - global warming, alternative energy etc.; and moral issues - poverty, homosexuality, euthanasia, abortion etc.
The role of the Christian within society is to stand for truth, for justice and most importantly, to represent God's agenda on the earth. As the Resistance Thinking journey continues, our aim is to stimulate engaging dialogue exploring the complexities of how followers of Jesus should engage with society in our day and age.
Please browse through the articles below
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Monday, 10 September 2007 21:53 |
A school counsellor sides with pedophile against two schoolgirls who were victims of sexual abuse.
Heatherhill school counsellor says pedophile "loved" girls
Herald Sun, Geoff Wilkinson, September 10, 2007
A SCHOOL counsellor employed by the Government to help teenage girls has supported a pedophile in court, describing Gary Faux as caring and loving to his victims. Heatherhill Secondary College student welfare co-ordinator Robyn Hughes appeared in the County Court on behalf of Faux, who admitted sexually abusing two schoolgirls.
"He cared about them and he loved them," Ms Hughes said during a pre-sentence plea hearing before Judge Jeanette Morrish.
Ms Hughes, who also sits on the Heatherhill school council, is a friend of Faux and told the court she was not concerned he may have been manipulating the girls.
The County Court was told Faux took sexually explicit videos and photographs of himself having sex and performing indecent acts with the 16-year-old girls, who did not attend Heatherhille school.
Some were taken while one of the girls was wearing her school uniform. |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 21:37 |
Surgeon destroys healthy baby when trying to operate to destroy Down Syndrome twin, prompting Vatican outrage and comparison to Nazi-style selective breeding practices.
Vatican ire over botched twin abortion
Herald Sun, August 30, 2007
A BOTCHED abortion of a fetus instead of its Down syndrome twin has prompted the Vatican to compare abortion to the Nazis' selective breeding practices. Italy was embroiled in a bitter ethical dispute yesterday after it emerged that a surgeon had accidentally terminated the wrong fetus while trying to abort its Down syndrome twin.
The operation on a 38-year-old woman 18 weeks into her pregnancy was performed at the San Paolo hospital in Milan in June but has only just come to light. The fetus who had Down syndrome was also subsequently aborted.
Weighing into the controversy, the Vatican said aborting a Down syndrome child was the result of a culture of perfection resembling Nazi eugenics. |
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Friday, 31 August 2007 21:29 |
A closer look at the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals some good news. However this figure does not take into account any de facto relationships so it is not a holistic picture.
Divorce rate falling as marriages last longer
The Age, Daniella Miletic, August 31, 2007
"...a new Australian Bureau of Statistics report, released yesterday, has shown that people are staying married longer. The report, Divorces Australia, found that the national divorce rate had dropped, for the fifth year in a row, by 1024, or 2 per cent, from 52,399 in 2005 to 51,375 in 2006. The number of divorces in 2006 represented the fifth drop since a high of 55,330 in 2001.
There was a 2.4 per cent decrease in 2002, with the decline in the number of divorces slowing each year to 2005. Divorces in 2006 represented a decline on the number granted in 1996 (52,466), but a difference of more than 10,000 divorces to the 1986 figure of 39,417. |
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Monday, 20 August 2007 22:58 |
The Age, Asher Moses, August 20, 2007
The Federal Government's NetAlert website and telephone hotline, where families can download free internet filters and obtain net safety advice, has been launched. The website, Netalert.gov.au, went online at 10:30am today, while the hotline, which can be reached at 1800 880 176, started taking calls from 8am.
The Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, first announced the free filters in June last year and promised they would be available for download by the end of 2006. It is not clear what caused the almost eight-month delay. Two brands of filter have been offered, Optenet Web Filter and Safe Eyes, and they can be either downloaded directly from the NetAlert website or sent to the user in the mail. Only Safe Eyes supports Apple's Mac platform.
Senator Coonan has said the filters would help protect children from both inappropriate web-based images and from email and chat room predators, while the hotline - accessible seven days a week between 8am and 10pm - would allow families to obtain free internet safety advice. |
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Friday, 17 August 2007 21:12 |
The Age, Annabel Stafford, August 10, 2007
"PRIME Minister John Howard has made a strong pitch for the Christian and family vote with a $189 million package to provide a free internet filter for every Australian family in a bid to fight pornography and foul language online. Mr Howard used a live web-cast last night to between 80,000 and 100,000 Christians across the nation to announce the policy: "Net Alert protecting Australian families online".
Under the expanded NetAlert package, there will be $43.5 million to pay for 90 additional Australian Federal Police officers for the online child sex exploitation team. The specialist team tracks down people using the internet to identify victims and groom children for sexual activity, and detects people using the internet to send child pornography. The Government will also spend an extra $11.7 million to pay for more child safety officers from the Australian Communications and Media Authority to visit schools and talk to children, teachers and parents about online safety and protecting children...." |
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Friday, 17 August 2007 21:08 |
The Age, Paul Austin, August 14, 2007
"RAUNCHY videos of the pop group Pussycat Dolls, the "Cougar girl" bourbon advertisement and late-night sex-line TV ads have been condemned in State Parliament as MPs from all parties challenge the music and advertising industries to stop exploiting young women. New cabinet minister Tony Robinson said it would be "simply crap" for the Pussycat Dolls' producers to argue that the US girl group's latest video clip was an expression of artistic freedom.
This is allegedly a group of young women who sing, but anyone watching that video could be mistaken for thinking that far from it being about singers it is more like a travelling lingerie show," he told Parliament. "The manner in which that group of girls is portrayed is nothing more than a deliberate and calculated effort to titillate an audience."
Mr Robinson was speaking during debate on a Government bill to outlaw "upskirting" after a recent spate of incidents where police arrested men caught filming up the skirts of women on public transport and at public events, including last summer's Australian tennis Open.
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Read more... [All parties down on raunch in 'upskirt' debate]
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