Author: Neil Ormerod
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AUSTRALIA
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 November 2010
60 Comments
Tony Abbott has been in public life for a long time. Most recently there has been his meteoric rise to leadership of the Liberal party and to a hair’s breadth from the prime ministership itself. Charming and disarming as he can be, there is something deeply disturbing in the way he carries out his public role.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 15 September 2010
12 Comments
Only yesterday, as an afterthought, were the words 'tertiary education' added to Minister Evans' responsiblities. But a clear statement of priorities had already been sent, revealing just where the Government believes universities belong.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 29 July 2010
7 Comments
In 2012 Australian universities will experience a radical shift in government policy, resulting in a marketplace where universities must hawk their wares in a bid to attract the best and brightest. Whether all the present universities will survive in this competitive marketplace is an open question.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 27 April 2010
3 Comments
The Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal indicates a major ethical breach somewhere within the club. Perhaps their senior executives might benefit from the NSW trial of school ethics classes.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 16 April 2010
22 Comments
The Sydney Anglican diocese is concerned that proposed ethics classes in schools might attract students away from
existing scripture classes. This looks more like a matter of turf wars, of seeking to maintain numbers and so
justify their continuance.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 February 2010
33 Comments
It's unlikely people will flock back to mass simply because a new
translation is in place. Far more likely
is that, as with the change at Vatican II, there will be a disaffected
minority who cease to practice because their experience of the
sacred has been violated.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 January 2010
3 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect. September 2009
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 18 November 2009
7 Comments
The movement of existing theological schools into the university structure restores the ancient place of theology as a discipline within a university. But universities could be more interested in money than theology, with theological colleges bringing healthy student numbers and value for money research outputs.
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ECONOMICS
- Neil Ormerod
- 26 October 2009
Even if we understand the intelligiblity of an automobile, we can still drive badly. With the GFC, the argument is not that better theories will ensure everyone behaves properly, but that without a proper economic theory even
people of good will cannot work to achieve the good.
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ECONOMICS
- Neil Ormerod
- 20 October 2009
2 Comments
Sixty years ago, Jesuit Bernard Lonergan developed an analysis of the boom and bust cycles of economy. He often asked, 'Where were the Christian counter-parts of Karl Marx, sitting in the British Museum voraciously reading
and relentlessly studying about political economy?'
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 05 October 2009
36 Comments
Hitchens, like The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, views belief in God not just as quaint, but as a sign of intellectual
bad will. The age of muscular evangelical Christianity has been replaced by the age of muscular evangelical atheism.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 September 2009
3 Comments
When the Hawke-Keating Government cut back funding for overseas aid, churches said nothing. Last week, 260 Christian young people set out to lobby politicians about Australia's failure to meet its obligations to developing nations.
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