Do we want to be a little Australia? | Kevin Rudd

by TRMQoeSeeI | October 8, 2019 | Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Foreign policy, Hillsong, Political issues, Religion

  Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s speech railing against the international order offered no proof of the case he made against ‘evil globalism’.   Scott Morrison’s Lowy Lecture, titled “ In Our Interest”, offers the country a curious piece...

Can we have faith in the government’s religious discrimination agenda?

by TRMQoeSeeI | September 7, 2019 | Australia's move to the Right, Political issues, Queer rights, Religion

Australia has a government in search of an agenda and the religious discrimination bill is a poorly drafted solution in search of a problem   Following the passage of the income tax cuts package, the only policy discussed in any detail by the Coalition during the...

Scott Morrison’s unholy war against the poor | Mick Lawless

by Mick Lawless | August 1, 2019 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Political issues, Refugees, Religion

  Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is no Christian. His public displays of preaching and praying are enacted in an American-style, Pentecostal church, centred around a prosperity doctrine that worships Mammon An inverse interpretation of the teachings...

Scott Morrison’s unholy war against the poor – continued…

by Mick Lawless | July 31, 2019 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Hillsong, Media, Pensions and unemployment benefits, Political issues, Refugees, Religion

Money for mates at any cost The gradual privatisation of Centrelink has meant that the unemployed have become a source of revenue for companies associated with the LNP. Service has diminished as the bottom-line and not the unemployed is the over-riding priority. A...

‘Submit to your husbands’: Women told to endure domestic violence in the name of God

by TRMQoeSeeI | October 22, 2018 | Domestic Violence, Religion

  Research shows that the men most likely to abuse their wives are evangelical Christians who attend church sporadically*. Church leaders in Australia say they abhor abuse of any kind. But advocates say the church is not just failing to sufficiently address...

Hillsong Church is a haven of a thing called prosperity theology. But does God really want you to be rich?

by TRMQoeSeeI | October 10, 2014 | Political issues, Religion

    THE Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Hillsong Church’s senior pastor Brian Houston says God wants you to have money. Who’s right?    Jesus loved bling. Not. WE’VE all heard the phrase ‘worshipping the almighty dollar’. But...

Taxpayers support lavish Hillsong lifestyle – Adam Shand

by admin | July 25, 2010 | Corruption, Hillsong, Political issues, Religion

THE tax office wants a special national body set up to monitor “not for profit” charities, admitting that churches – such as the multi-million-dollar phenomenon Hillsong – are literally “invisible” to it. And the sector is expanding...

Hillsong Church ‘spent indigenous grants on staff’

by admin | February 13, 2006 | Corruption, Indigenous affairs, Legal matters, Political issues, Religion

  Indigenous development grants to Hillsong‘s benevolent arm have gone almost entirely to employing and providing offices for church staff, with only a trickle reaching Aborigines. In one case, Hillsong Emerge spent $315,000 in federal funds employing seven of...