Why has no-one called out the discrimination against short animals in Australia’s coat of arms?
Asked by:Should we make a comparable area of commonwealth land in the Northern Territory, Western Australia,or Queensland available to the small island communities who will lose their land due to rising sea levels?
I fear for their future.
These are small island communities without much support or political clout to get support. They are human beings and need our support. We should care about the plight of our neighbours. It could be a lost culture. They will need somewhere to live and continue their lives with dignity
Should I give a tip in Australia for service that is just OK?
The world has plenty of food and wealth for everyone. What is keeping billions poor and hungry?
I have a tiny sponsor child in Bangladesh. In an ideal world, she wouldn’t need to be sponsored and I wouldn’t have to worry about her reaching adulthood…
Is theology ever more important than democracy?
Asked by:Are we becoming Generation Device?
Modern society has taken to mobile technology at an astonishing rate. Most of us are plugged in, connected, friended or have followers; but is our immersion in the online world and our obsession with the next gadget adversely affecting our engagement with, and enjoyment of, the real one?
Asked by:If a mansplainer is manspreading at the same time, is he a manspleader or a mansprainer?
Asked by:Yachts harness wind power efficiently using fixed sails. Why cannot wind farms use fixed wings to harness wind energy?
How far are we from a borderless, visa-less world?
I’m a traveller, and as an Indian, I find travelling beyond India quite challenging due to Visa restrictions. This is a symptom of a larger problem. Till the time there are boundaries, there are going to be conflicts. The direction of history has been towards unification, we have far less independent political sovereignities today in the world than ever in history, but world unification still seems elusive. Is it going to happen anytime soon?
Asked by:Appeals to compassion have had little impact on attitudes to inequality, both internationally and domestically. Is it time to use fear as a catalyst for change?
In the mid 1970’s I heard a bureaucrat [Bob Lansdowne] argue that social change came from shifts in compassion or compulsion-he was discussing our relationship with Indonesia and argued that compassion was in short supply. He was suggesting that huge disparities in income and wealth in an increasingly open and global environment were a recipe for instability and conflict–and that we should be afraid of the consequences of failing to address it. His concern is even more relevant today.