As per normal around this time of year, shops are filled with spider webs, ghouls, zombies and cemetery scenes with retail assistants in many shops dressed in horror themes, all due to it being Halloween. I understand the commercial forces… Read More ›
Domestic Violence
Family Violence in Australia: Guest Blogger Craig Bennett
Guest Author Craig Bennett. There is perhaps no subject as emotive in our Australian context as is the subject of Domestic Violence. The problem with the term DV is that it conjures an image of male female partnerships, and… Read More ›
I Wonder When We Will Start Taking People’s Desperate Cries For Help Seriously?
I recently read the story of a woman, Kelly Thompson, who had been murdered by her ex partner in February 2014 and was currently the subject of an inquest. During the inquest it came out that Kelly had called… Read More ›
Today the World was Outraged by the Wrong Thing – The Mitchell Pearce Incident
Today the world has been apparently outraged (I say ‘apparently outraged’ as the outrage will last about 7 minutes) by the three seconds (literally three seconds) of simulated sex with a dog by drunk NRL Roosters Co-Captain Mitchell Pearce…. Read More ›
Peter Pilt’s Top 5 Most Popular Blogs of 2015
Yesterday was my 4th Anniversary since I started blogging. (5th January 2012). Over the last 4 years I have had 433,090 views of my blog site and in 2015 I had 184,504 views. Here are the top five most popular… Read More ›
Ps Saeed: The American/Iranian Pastor who has been incarcerated in an Iranian Prison since 2012 presents an interesting dilemma to Christians.
Ps Saeed: The American/Iranian Pastor who has been incarcerated in an Iranian Prison since 2012 presents an interesting dilemma to Christians. He was arrested and put in prison in 2012 while he was in Iran building a state sponsored orphanage…. Read More ›
Malcolm Turnbull Announces Package to Address Domestic Violence: Details and My Thoughts.
Today the Turnbull Government announced a $100 million package to combat Domestic Violence in Australia. Australian police deal with an estimated 657 domestic violence matters on average every day of the year. That’s one every two minutes. Those figures are based… Read More ›
