Last week, Greenpeace uploaded this advertisement which has now gone viral and the video has had over 750 000 views in less than a week. The ad highlights a campaign to start a national ‘Cash for Containers’ scheme in Australia (like one already operating in South Australia) and is a reaction to a recent law suit involving Coca-Cola in the Northern Territory.

Ranjini is a 33 year old Sri Lankan woman with three children who came to Australia fleeing persecution in her home country. After being assessed as a refugee and living in Melbourne’s suburbs, Ranjini was the 47^th asylum seeker to receive a negative ASIO assessment in May of 2012.

Ranjini was determined by ASIO as unsafe in the community and was transferred with her two boys to Villawood detention centre in Sydney. She has left behind her husband and then eventually gave birth to her son, Paari, in detention this year.

A ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement which governs Gaza has come into effect overnight.
Over the past week violence in the Gaza Strip, a narrow band of land bordering Egypt, Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, sharply escalated and at least 157 people have died.

"And God created the man in his image. In the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27

A proposal by the Anglican Church for a wife to promise to 'submit' to her husband in her marriage vows has caused a furore in the Australian media.