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  • Bagpipes over the Arboretum drift up to the hill

    This poem was inspired by a visit to Canberra’s arboretum. It is a beautiful gift to the city by visionary leaders who rather than opening up the land for development, wanted to create a public park open to all Canberrans and an arboretum, which then city then did not have. These forests, like almost all the people of Canberra, come from far away. Many are species that are endangered in the homelands. On any fine Canberra weekend the arboretum fills with walkers and families enjoying the beautiful scene. Autumn is particularly special as many of the individual forests put on their autumn colours. However this poem is not just a…

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    Mary Gilmore – Nationality, a Response and a Little Ghost

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  • white australia policy

    White Australia Policy

    Most us take a multicultural, multiracial reality in our stride – a normal and welcome part of life. It is a very recent development. For a Faith that arrived in Australia when the White Australia policy was the law, it inevitably raised questions for some of the newly enrolled Baha’is. How were they to square their religious beliefs – with the expectations of the society around them? And maybe with their own unexamined prejudices about their fellow human beings? The period in question unfolded mostly during the time that Shoghi Effendi led the Baha’i Faith. And at a general level, the likely answer was clear enough. Baha’u’llah came to establish the…

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    April 23, 2017
    Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah

    Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

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    We can Change the Whole Atmosphere And That’s Not Good

    June 4, 2017
  • Graphs of migration planning levels for Australia http://www.immi.gov.au/media/statistics/statistical-info/visa-grants/ creative commons licence 3.0 attribution

    Crossing Over: does immigration policy discriminate?

    Does immigration policy discriminate?  The White Australia policy is gone – so we might conclude that it doesn’t.  And indeed Australia would be unrecognisable to those who created the White Australia policy at the end of the 19th century. Times change and such racist practices are now a condemned part of the past. Today Australia celebrates the diversity and strength of its people: actively creating pathways and welcoming individuals and families from around the world into its community.  Race is not relevant. That’s not the full story of course.   Currently a human rights inquiry is investigating the treatment of children in Australian immigration prisons.  These are children from families, or…

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    Martin Luther King Civil Rights Leader and Peace Advocate (Part 1 of 4)

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    What does it mean to be human?

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