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by Daniel Stepniak · Published 6 April 2019 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesBest known for his award-winning and best-selling book ‘Wimmera’, Mark Brandy has also written numerous short pieces for the press. His just released book, ‘The Rip’, promises to be another resounding success. It is...
MUSIC REVIEWS / Music Reviews - Alternative
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 5 April 2019 · Last modified 25 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Early Summer’ is Amaya’s second album. Though released in 2010, it is a personal favourite that showcases this talented singer/songwriter, her noteworthy band and their hypnotic melodies.
MUSIC REVIEWS / Music Reviews - Alternative / Music Reviews - Jazz
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 5 April 2019 · Last modified 24 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis 24-minute single track EP was released in 2016. Although it is classified as Jazz, to accept such a clear-cut classification is to ignore the track’s complexity. Melanie De Basio has released two Alternative...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 3 April 2019 · Last modified 25 April 2019
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn application sought a court order preventing a husband from having sex with his wife, who appeared to lack the capacity to consent to have sex with him. The judge’s réponse was to observe. ‘I cannot think of any more obviously fundamental human right than the right of a man to have sex with his wife – and the right of the state to monitor that,” he said. “I think he is entitled to have it properly argued.’ But, no such right exists in English or Australian law, as both parties are required to consent to sex.
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 1 April 2019 · Last modified 5 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith Series 2 of Killing Eve about to be broadcast, I watched Series 1 again, and enjoyed it just as much this time around. It is a truly mesmerising show. The outstanding cast of...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 21 March 2019 · Last modified 25 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWee need to reintroduce or reinforce the old fashioned view that winning is about being better at playing the game. We need to promote the view that by sledging, intimidating, threatening, and regularly breaking the rules in the hope of not being caught, you are conceding that your only chance of winning is to step outside of the rules.
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 16 March 2019 · Last modified 25 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe last few days have demonstrated how in fulfilling their role of disseminating information of public interest, sectors of the media could not resist the temptation to provide information that may be of interest...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 8 March 2019 · Last modified 25 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe may disagree over Pell guilt, but what we can’t possibly disagree over is whether the plight of child abuse victims should be recognised. Those praising or defending Pell after his conviction appear to overlook or downplay the damage and hurt suffered by the victims.
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 27 February 2019 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesA revelation that has caught me, and I suspect many others by surprise is the existence of the ‘pontifical secret’ a code or rule of secrecy by which the Catholic Church actually prohibits any...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 26 February 2019 · Last modified 24 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe astonishingly high number of incidents of child abuse by clergy simply could not have occurred without the Church’s lack of respect for civil law, and preoccupation with protecting the reputation of the Church. Without these self absorbed, uncaring, and perverted policies, child abusers like Cardinal Pell and many other Church figures would have been exposed and dealt with according to the law, and countless children would not have been irreparably harmed.
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