Andrew Brown

6 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andrew Brown

EVERYONE has plans to rescue the Church of England, and here’s mine: on ordination, all preachers should be presented with a five-minute hour glass to remind them, as their hearers may be reminded, of their own mortality. But it would not be purely symbolic; for, each time the hour glass was turned, the preacher would have to eat at the end of the service another egg boiled for the length of their sermon.

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Andrew Brown

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsWorldPolls have closed across eastern states and the count has begun to determine the make up of Australia's next federal parliament. After a five-week campaign, results will be soon be known for who will lead the nation for the next three years.

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andrew Brown

MARIE LE CONTE, one of the sparkiest young journalists around, had an interesting Substack piece on her induction into the trade, between 2013 and 2015: “For my generation, being a young or new journalist meant being a clickbait monkey for a while, or possibly forever, if you couldn’t escape. . . There was this one website I worked at, which I won’t name, which needed us to write seven articles a day.

1 week ago | startsat60.com | Dominic Giannini |Andrew Brown

Source: Lukas Coch, Mick Tsikas/ AAP PHOTOS. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are scrambling to convince undecided voters to swing towards them on the penultimate day of campaigning before Australians head to the polls. Public polling has Labor in the driver’s seat to form government – with an outside shot at retaining majority – but the prime minister insists the government isn’t getting ahead of itself, after being scarred by an upset defeat to Scott Morrison in 2019.

2 weeks ago | nz.finance.yahoo.com | Andrew Brown

Peter Dutton has pledged the coalition will shave billions of dollars off government debt by removing some of Labor's signature policies, if the opposition wins the election. As the coalition released its costings on Thursday, the party claimed it would reduce debt by $40 billion over the next four years.