morepraxis

Dear friends,
The Treasurer has distributed our $236 billion and the budget headlines are brimming with praise and prosperity. But hidden among the welcome news remains an untold budget scandal – an Aboriginal child born today is statistically likely to be outlived by a newborn in rural Bangladesh. And what was allocated on Tuesday night to [...]

Looking for some discussion and understanding with the budget? Over the last few years I sit back and wait for Ben’s action email for tear. Of course if you want to hear more from ben (who has been a silent on morepraxis lately) I would encourage people over to Ben’s blog . As you can [...]

We’re starting something brand new for Australia. It’s GetUp’s ground-breaking competition: “Oz in 30 Seconds” – a chance to show us your Australia by making a 30 second political ad, which we will air on national prime time television during the lead up to the federal election.
The competition begins today. Check it out now at [...]

The upper room project meets the first Monday of each month (6:-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Caf?/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.
We hope the upper [...]

Hi morepraxis buddies
I am playing with the idea of starting a Bible Study sort of thing on morepraxis. We seem to be good at posting lots of actions and political stuff and I thought a bible study would be good in the mix. I was thinking about grabbing key texts that bother me or [...]

CPTnet 30 April 2007
by Abigail Ozanne
(post by Age taken from CPTemail updates)
“With a laptop, knitting, and a crossword puzzle, Kathy Kern and I stepped into the coffee shop. We ordered and sat down to pass the time like customers in coffee shops around the world — working, chatting, and drinking. However, unlike coffee [...]

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