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AUSTRALIAN Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down the 2026 Budget with housing affordability and intergenerational equity as headline measures. The budget landed during a turbulent 12 months – petrol shocks, high inflation, rising interest rates, a housing crisis, a cost-of-living crisis and a geopolitical deadlock in the Middle East. Mr Chalmers’ major tax measures included scra...

MAY 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three shepherd children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917.  She appeared six times to Lucia, 9, and her cousins Francisco, 8, and his sister Jacinta, 6, between May 13, 1917 and October 13, 1917. She came to the little […]

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THE country’s world-first law restricting social media for under-16s is in the spotlight as academics question the ban’s effectiveness. Researchers from Australian Catholic University say teenagers have found a workaround and they are concerned social media use is stunting youth literacy. “I am a parent of a 13-year-old whose use of social media has not […]

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PRAYER is becoming a source of comfort for Australians as international conflict adds to anxiety about an uncertain future, a new study shows. The US-Israel and Iran war is continuing to impact global trade with high fuel prices contributing to a high cost of living. Read also: Feeling defeated? Community and church can lift low […]

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AS children in Haiti face unimaginable conditions, a religious sister and her team are changing thousands of lives by providing protection, education and faith formation in the nation’s most dangerous slum, Cité Soleil. Sister Paesie was born Claire Joelle Phillipe in Lorraine, France. Raised in a faith-filled Catholic home, she felt called to religious life […]

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