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Photo  -  1938 tree felled by my father, Seymour Tronson, a Crediton Qld, pioneer bushman Australia is known far and wide by the voice of their bushmen. My father in the 30s on his dairy far, his voice carried and the dairy herd knew it. Our young writer program now in its 11th year says that Christian Today provides young people their own Voice! There are many ideas behind a Voice. Actors, by necessity, acquire the skills associated with creating a different voice for the specific role in t...

WWII steam Alice Springs General Douglas MacArthur arrival in Australia began with his railway journey - the brief back-story is explaining the three different rail gauges (widths between the tracks) used in Australia. In the 1940s, different states used one or more of three different gauges for a variety of political, economic and historical reasons. South Australia used all three. They were narrow gauge (3ft 6ins or 1067 mm), broad gauge (53" or 1600 mm) and standard gauge (4 8.5" or 1435 m...

Photo – Christchurch Flowers   My eldest daughter is one of many lawyers who specialise in contesting someones last Will and Testament. Over some years now, she has developed a professional set of skills that specialises in Wills. Like many things in life, nothing is as simple as it might first appear. A last Will and Testament allow you as an individual to state clearly that after you have gone, who gets what of your possessions – such as property, shares, investments, royalties, your bu...

Photo   -  Jeremy Dover and Michele Ong These young writers regularly attend youth camps and conventions, missions to rural and regional Australia and New Zealand, they are part of outreaches, they are engaged in highly specialised ministries and give of their time and expertise. These young writers are a cross section of the Australian / New Zealand Christian scene.  We did not go out with the intention of somehow selecting the most brilliant academics or the most outstanding philosophers ...

Photo - Victor Brown - Internationals young writer, West Indies The international young writers commenced a new era in 2021 in becoming separate to Press Service International in Australia in their being published in Christian Today. Way back in 2012 international young writers were welcomed into the young writer program with Christian Today and leading to 2018 where a program known as ‘Stand Alone’ developed where the internationals ‘stood alone’. Over these past three years the ‘S...

Photo - A chair lift, in this case for an older gentleman Some truths apply in any era. I have here pulled an older article and rewritten it for 2021. There is much to learn from events 80 years ago even if a sitcom. The 1970s Dads Army British television hit series has many telling lines, not least the very first program titled The Man and the Hour where the opening scene has a post war function celebrating the launch of the Back Britain campaign. The guest of honour is the indubitable Capta...

Photo - Victor Brown - Internationals young writer, West Indies The international young writers commenced a new era in 2021 in becoming separate to Press Service International in Australia in their being published in Christian Today. Way back in 2012 international young writers were welcomed into the young writer program with Christian Today and leading to 2018 where a program known as ‘Stand Alone’ developed where the internationals ‘stood alone’. Over these past three years the ‘S...

Photo – Repulse Bay, Whitsundays This is not new. Water is the issue. It is front and centre. The science of population focus on water. Remember way back in 2013 when the Abbott Government initiated their Sovereign Borders policy was activated and three inevitable outcomes have prevailed since, the third of which is the topic of this comment piece. The first two outcomes of this new immigrant policy were that the boats coming from a variety of countries have largely stopped – predominatel...

Photo  -   From the Driver’s Seat ‘From the Drivers Seat’ was my 1989 book  – now out of print - details 14 rail journeys from the locomotive drivers perspective, an oral account of what occurs from signing on for duty to when relieved upon arrival at the destination. Why might I write something of an account of such a book 25 years after publication and moreover, the book is out of print. This book was the fourth of 16 such railway books I wrote in that busy period from 1982-1996 ...

Photo - Kiwi young writer Rebecca Hoverd who is the front person for the Kiwi young writer newsy bits video The Kiwi young writers became separate to Press Service International in Australia in 2021 and its proving to be a positive move. Published in both Christian Today New Zealand and Christian Today Australia their articles have been bountifully received.  Changes have taken place in the operations engine room to keep publishing schedules flowing – Liz Hay has taken over from Matthew Th...