Derryn Hinch talks to Simon Moyle this afternoon

Hinch is talking to Simon on his show Drive today, regarding the economic stimulus package. Drive airs 4pm to 6pm on 3AW.
UPDATE: Simon says he’ll be on about 5:35pm

‘Lifegiving manna from Kevin’

This is from an article Paul Toms wrote the other day, thinking about what we should do with out economic stimulus handouts:
I have been involved in a number of conversations as well as reading peoples ideas online and I often find myself thinking “Yes, I SHOULD do that,” but soon feel the grey cloud of [...]

‘How about using Kev’s manna to stimulate some generosity?’

Simon has a piece in today’s Age about the economic stimulus payments that started this week:
Character might seem like a tedious or moralistic question to ask at a time of seeming crisis, but it is precisely at times of crisis that personal and national character is most revealing. Most of the stories defining Australia’s national [...]

Meekonomics

From Twitturgies:
The meek will inherit the earth: do business with them.
The poor are blessed: seek blessing among them.
God teach me the laws of meekonomics

Lenten Lectionary – March 19

My response to today’s Lenten Lectionary reading:

Manna from Kevin

Tomorrow the payments for Kevin Rudd’s economic stimulus plan will start coming out. Manna Gum and the Seeds Network are trying to get people talking about what they’re going to do with their payments. Join the conversation at the Manna from Kevin blog.

Lenten Lectionary – March 4

My response to today’s Lenten Lectionary reading (mostly done during Pain in the Arts today):

A greater storm?

One of my readers, John Carlson, posted this comment last night, in response to Sue’s article, ‘Love is Always Born’:
I read Sue Hogans reflections and felt an acheing inside. Here we live through hurricaines that come the worst in august to november. Like fires we smell, feel, see, and hear the inevitable unstopable coming and [...]

‘Fostering a dangerous climate of addiction’

My colleague, Simon, had an opinion piece in Saturday’s Age, about how climate change is a result of our addiction:
As Wendell Berry, the Kentuckian agrarian poet and essayist says of the climate crisis, “The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. But that [...]

‘Reach out and help somebody: PM’

The global economic crisis will test not only government and business, but in a time when jobs are being lost, it will test Australians’ basic sense of solidarity, Mr Rudd said.
“Our responsibility is not just to see that person as a statistic,” Mr Rudd said at an Australia Day barbecue breakfast in Hobart. “Our responsibility [...]