Month: March 2017

Brisbane Suburbs Welcoming Refugees

Brisbane Suburbs Welcoming Refugees

Posted by | Mar 31, 2017 | , , |

After months of hard work, Refugees Welcome Australia has launched its homestay program that allows individuals in Australia to offer a roof for refugees and people seeking asylum. The program was launched at an information night held on Tuesday the 28th of February, at the Romero Centre, 20 Dutton Street, Dutton Park in Brisbane. On the political level the world seems to be closing its doors towards refugees and people seeking asylum. Donald Trump is erecting physical walls, while on the European continent far right political parties promoting zero immigration are erecting imagined ones. The effect of these developments...

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Meditate your way to happiness.

Meditate your way to happiness.

Posted by | Mar 31, 2017 | , , , , |

Learn to use meditation to foster your own inner peace and happiness, and increase peace and happiness for everyone else at the same time. Over five weeks in April–May at Langri Tangpa Buddhist Centre, Buddhist Carolyn Mason will lead participants through guided meditations designed to increase their loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity¾attitudes that Buddhists call, ‘The Four Immeasurables.’ “They are called ‘Immeasurables’ because you learn to spread your positive attitude to immeasurable numbers of people, even people you don’t like or don’t know, ” says Carolyn Mason, long-time student of Buddhism. “Doing these meditations also give you immeasurable...

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Just how crowded are our schools?

Just how crowded are our schools?

Posted by | Mar 31, 2017 | , , , |

A lengthy, but interesting, analysis by local Councillor Jonathan Sri, of how our local schools are woefully overcrowded. School over-crowding is one of the big planning issues in Brisbane’s inner-south side. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of misinformation floating around which makes it harder to focus on and push for policy reforms that will actually improve the situation. This post isn’t intended to be a detailed analysis or policy proposal. But I thought it would be constructive to articulate a few key facts and highlight what I think some of the main issues are, in order to stimulate further conversation...

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Keep Australia out of U.S. wars

Keep Australia out of U.S. wars

Posted by | Mar 19, 2017 | , , |

IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, is calling for an independent Australian foreign policy, and seeking public donations to pay for a national media campaign. Here is their statement: We the undersigned are deeply concerned with the growing threat of another major world war. We are alarmed that as a compliant ally of the US, Australia will be dragged into another US provoked war with devastating consequences for people and the environment. Australia hosts thousands of US marines in Darwin and conducts joint military exercises in Qld. with tens of thousands of US troops.  Australia hosts the giant...

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