Issue 2015 May 09
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Advancing Indonesia should abolish death penalty
This has been an appropriate time for Australia to lobby and pressure the Indonesian Government to abolish the death penalty. Joko Widodo The campaign in Australia to stop the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran was supported by a parallel campaign by some in Indonesia. They pointed out that while the Australians were facing execution for drug smuggling, their Government was lobbying…
CULTURE World war to social media: how we were secularised
Philip Jenkins’ book, The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade, des-cribes how most Churches on both sides regarded the conflict as a holy war and called on their young men to join their country’s armed forces (See News Weekly, April 11, 2015). How did this devastating war affect religious faith and practice? The numbers attending church services…

