The sad narrative of our Youth Crime. Radio, TV, newspapers and online social media posts bring us daily stories about what appears to...

In late 1970 I moved to Belfast to take up a Senior Social Work position with the City Welfare Department.  As I had anticipated, this...

Many of us would agree that housing is a basic human need.  For many Australians, however, finding and keeping a “fixed abode” is...

The phenomenon of Truth is something that most of us confront regularly. Many would regard it as one of the values underpinning every...

WHY AM I WRITING THIS? I grew up in an era when, matters of gender diversity and sexual orientation were rarely discussed except in the...

By any standard, Australia is a wealthy country. It’s rather surprising, therefore, that charitable food distribution appears to be a...

Music ran through the veins of my mother’s side of the family. My grandfather was a popular popular country fiddler who regularly played...

Why am I writing this? Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs have, in one way or another been a very significant part of my life. Let me start...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster I was born in 1942...

Over the years there have been some recreational and creative things that I have really wanted to do, but somehow never achieved. Of...