Darin Roberts has been around the world since he finished his Bachelor of Arts degree at Avondale, from war zones to cyclones and refugee camps, and he wouldn’t change a thing.
My name is Koonjiani
Friday, June 5, 2020Avondale arts student Stephanie Callaghan created a podcast that discussed the journey of learning about her Aboriginal culture and has, in National Reconciliation Week, agreed to share and discuss it with us.
Love in the time of corona
Friday, May 8, 2020The middle-age of the day is a slow slog of work; of forcing words that would usually flow naturally between people into a digital space. I make lists to remind myself to be human—breathe/stretch/read/drink water. It seems manic and eternal. By evening I’m old; exhausted by ennui. To find my way through this, I start a Facebook group with my students in response to a National Poetry Month challenge: “a poem a day for April.”
Soul fighters
Thursday, April 23, 2020Eliminating spirituality from the national conversation only cheapens the experience of Anzacs who wrestled with belief on the battleground, argues a Great War historian.
Anzacs were secular but . . .
Thursday, April 23, 2020It’s always tempting to see the past in terms of the present, to deny the past its difference. In Australia, perhaps that temptation has been hardest to resist when it comes to Anzac history.
A spiritual wrestle under stress of war
Thursday, April 23, 2020Professor Daniel Reynaud’s reading of their diaries and letters provides a glimpse into the soul of more than 1000 members of the Australian Imperial Force, 27 of whom he profiles in his new book, The Anzacs, Religion and God. He reveals in this question and answer what the personal and sometimes philosophical narratives reveal about the relationship between war and religion.