School chaplains ‘worked miracles’
GOD has cured at least one state school student of attention deficit disorder and another of asthma, according to interviews with chaplains employed in 2850 schools under a $165 million federal government program.
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Genesis of complaint
FOR one father, godliness is next to intolerable. He is taking on Education Queensland for exposing his daughter to Christian stories.
Quarrels galore on icon’s future
YOU would think that with the death of Joern Utzon, squabbling over the design of the Opera House would come to an end.
Utzon dies without seeing his sails
ARCHITECT Joern Utzon died never having laid eyes on the Opera House that defined his achievement and symbolised a nation.
More Aboriginal children in care
WELFARE workers in NSW are removing Aboriginal children from their homes in numbers far greater than during the Stolen Generations.
Fostering trouble
The knee-jerk use of foster care as a response to child abuse can harm those children it’s meant to protect.
It’s the quality that counts in foster care
WELFARE agencies should stop the practice of heaping awards onfoster carers who have taken 50 or 100 children over the years, and instead celebrate those who have a small number of settled kids.
Cash to care for problem children
STATE governments are increasingly outsourcing the care of the most difficult abused and neglected children to private operators.
Bigger issue is men who don’t pay
SOMEWHERE in Australia tonight, an angry man is going to creep into a little girl’s bedroom and pull a chunk of hair out of her head.
Child welfare is ‘not working’
THE vast majority of child protection workers are young women straight out of university with limited life experience.
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