A study published recently shows that many children in Australia think that their parents work too hard. The Australian Institute of Family Studies points to a growing lack of balance between work and home. Parents’ concerns about work, and about bringing work-related stress into their families, were similar to their children’s concerns. Professor Alan Hayes, Read more
In a book called “Wage Theft in America,” the author calculates that wage theft costs employees $100bn at a minimum each year and possibly up to $200bn. The way to steal from those who live in poverty is to do so “in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators,” according Read more
There are signs that Russia is buying support from Pacific nations according to Australia’s parliamentary secretary for Pacific Islands Affairs, Richard Marles. He says there are signs that Russia’s recent aid projects in the Pacific were designed to buy support for its territorial claims in Europe. Russia has made development aid commitments to tiny Tuvalu Read more
Three private members’ bills which would enable same-sex adoption are either in the Parliamentary members’ ballot or are being drafted. One of them is being developed by National’s Nikki Kay and Green’s Kevin Hague. In an email to gayexpress on Monday Hague said “the cat’s out of the bag” after the National Party’s northern regional Read more
Many Australians are using Facebook to find out about the Church following an advertising campaign run on the social networking site last year. The Catholic Enquiry Centre, Australia, has received 327 inquiries from January to March this year compared with 543 for all of 2011. They also reported that Facebook advertising accounted for 33.6 per Read more
Microsoft and the Vatican have agreed to give 43 million pupils at 200,000 Catholic schools access to a wide range of Microsoft’s products. The Social Network for Catholic Education will give students in Catholic schools in 100 countries access to Office 365 for Education, reports Money Control. Students will be able to use teleconferencing and Read more
Mike Smith was chuffed to see a story about himself in the St Bede’s College centennial book, but a little shocked to read about his violent death. The story in the Faith of Our Fathers centennial book says Smith was in Africa working as a freelance photographer when he “came too close to the action Read more
A claim has been made that Kiwis are naive and gullible about religion. Since 1877 New Zealand has a public education system that is compulsory, free and secular. Douglas Pratt suggests that this has given rise to a poor knowledge of religion on the part of many New Zealanders which in turn has made them Read more
Lady Gaga has cancelled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the nation’s youth. The controversy was a blow to the predominantly Muslim country’s reputation for combining free speech and democracy with a mostly moderate brand of the faith. Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to “married” Saturday and received over one million “likes” from his followers. But the site he founded isn’t always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups. More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Read more