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If Your House Was Being Bombed, Would You Run?

Monday, May 23, 2016

Right now, more than 60 million people across the globe have found themselves making this awful choice.

Opinion Pieces, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

A Budget Is Not Just A Financial Document, It's A Moral One

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

How you judge today's federal budget depends what you think a budget is for. Conventional wisdom has it that the best budgets stimulate the most growth. Conventional cynicism says the winner budgets are the ones that give enough prizes to the right voters to lock in a majority come polling day.

Opinion Pieces

Liberal soul searching needs future focus

Thursday, March 10, 2016

A political eon ago, in 2013, Tony Abbott promised to end the soap opera. But the show goes on, viewers both entranced and appalled, into its umpteenth season.

Opinion Pieces, Tim Costello

Thank God the Churches have found their voices at the right time

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Last week, churches and church leaders around Australia intervened in the issue of sending asylum seekers, including children, to Nauru, following the High Court decision upholding the government’s legal power to do so.

Opinion Pieces, Refugees

Too much of a good thing? Let’s talk about it

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Do we have too many charities, attempting to do too much of the same thing? Are Australian charities creating unnecessary duplication as we compete for public donations and a shrinking pool of government grants?

Opinion Pieces, Asia and the Pacific, ACNC, Tim Costello

Global Goals prove we’re all ‘aspirational now’

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Our new PM is right to say there's never been a better time to be Australian but this also means that there's never been a better time for Australia to get on with the job of building a better shared future with our neighbours. Published Huffington Post, 29 September 2015

Opinion Pieces, Emergencies, Water & sanitation, Transforming lives, Human trafficking, Poverty, Climate change, Famine, More and better aid, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Millennium Development Goals, Tim Costello

Chance For a Change Of Heart On Refugees

Thursday, September 17, 2015

After 15 years of a deeply divisive and toxic debate over refugees, ordinary Australians have finally and decisively rejected the politics of fear. It is my hope that in doing so they will have also led our political leadership to a new and fairer place.

Opinion Pieces

It's Time To Trust The Young

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Increasingly I find my country's past easier to explain than its present. Today's Australia confusingly lacks a coherent narrative or explanation for how we are doing things, and to what purpose.

Opinion Pieces, Asia and the Pacific, Tim Costello

Reconciling faith with political power

Monday, January 5, 2015

Julian Burnside is puzzled by Scott Morrison's faith. Burnside examines Morrison's maiden speech to Parliament, in which he stated that his values come from his faith in Jesus, and concludes that Morrison is a hypocrite (Comment, 23/12). Others, including myself, are puzzled that the most Catholic Coalition Cabinet in Australia's history can be so cruel in slashing our aid program – the lowest in our history.

Opinion Pieces, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Food Security, Foreign Aid, Tim Costello, World Vision

Australia retreats from global challenges in hour of need

Thursday, December 11, 2014

There are some things we as a nation want to stop from happening. The continued spread of Ebola, which is delivering a dividend of misery across West Africa, and may eventually reach our shores, is one of them. The suffering of millions of people in Syria and neighbouring countries is another.

Opinion Pieces, Poverty, Syrian Refugee Crisis, West Africa Ebola Outbreak, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Australian Government, Budget Cuts, Foreign Aid, NGO, The Fred Hollows Foundation, Tim Costello