The Low Road; defunding Indonesia Alternatives to Jihadism

Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:00

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The Coalition's announcement that it would defer $448 million in funding for the Australia Indonesia Education Partnership to pay for the rebuilding of Queensland after these summers floods is not in the national security interests of Australia.

The original program, created to build schools and train teaching staff in the poorest parts of Indonesia, was introduced in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami of 2004, which killed tens of thousands of people in Aceh.

Copt this!

Tuesday, 08 February 2011 00:00

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On New Years Eve this year, Egypt's Christians celebrated the coming of the New Year. As they began to leave the Saints Church in East Alexandria, Cairo, a large explosion went off. 22 men, women and children were killed, and 98 people severely injuring, a Jihadist suicide bomb ripped through the Alexandria's premier Coptic Church.

Christians under attack in the Middle East and Australia

Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00

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Clad in his spectacular Bishop's regalia, Greek Orthodox Bishop Ezekiel throws a cross in the water at the annual "Thefeonia" at Station Pier. This Greek "Festival of the Waters" is held at Port Melbourne in early January every year, where I've represented Federal Labor to the sometimes 5 to 6 thousand members of the Greek Australian community.

Sanctions biting on Iranian Regime

Monday, 11 October 2010 00:00

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