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Netball Australia Players Should Consider Their Own History Before Virtue Signalling

Netball Australia Players Should Consider Their Own History Before Virtue Signalling My latest article is published by the Epoch Times, Australia . https://www.theepochtimes.com/netball-australia-players-should-consider-their-own-history-before-virtue-signalling_4830468.html   A wise Rabbi from Nazareth once said you should take the plank out of your own eye before you attend to the speck in another’s. It is a principle that Australian Netball should have remembered in its  recent controversy  over Hancock Prospecting and its, now former, sponsorship of the Australian Netball team. A number of players took issue with Hancock Prospecting, the opinions of Gina Rinehart about climate change, and in particular, a statement Lang Hancock (Rinehart’s father) made in 1984 about sterilising and breeding out Aboriginal people. The debacle cast a shadow over what should have been a celebration with the imminent debut of a player who would have been the first Indigenous member of the...

Freedom for me, but not for thee

The good people at the Dawson Centre in Hobart have published my commentary on the Essendon Football Club scandal.  I discuss double-standards applied to Christians and others, the deeper issues, and how I think the scandal will backfire on Dan Andrews. He has backed himself into a corner from which it will be hard to extract himself. Thank you, Dr David Daintree and the team at Dawson!  Freedom for me, but not for thee https://www.dawsoncentre.org/2022/10/13/freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee/