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Scott Stephens

Religion and Ethics Editor at ABC News (Australia)

Most quotes people use that are from 'Unknown' or 'Anonymous' are actually from me but they refuse to give me credit

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  • 3 days ago | abc.net.au | Scott Stephens |Sinead Lee

    It is a problem many people increasingly feel they can neither avoid nor ignore: we could characterise it as the problem of loving the art, but being unsettled by the behaviour or the beliefs of the artist who created it. This is a perfectly serviceable way of grasping the outline of the matter, but, on further reflection, it fails to get to its heart.

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Scott Stephens |Sinead Lee

    Fresh from a commanding victory at the federal election, Anthony Albanese began to bundle his campaign policy offerings together in a new package — not just to give these political commitments a kind of internal coherence, but also to stake out what could be distinctive about his premiership as a whole. The term he reached for to sum it all up is “progressive patriotism”.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Scott Stephens |Sinead Lee

    Over the last two years, many in Australia and around the world have watched in horror as Sudan, Gaza and other zones of mass violence descend into humanitarian crises of devastating proportions.

  • 3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Scott Stephens |Sinead Lee

    “Joy” is a strange kind of word. It describes a feeling that we all know, but do not know exactly how to value. It’s not happiness — which can, after all, be interior, quiet and express itself as a kind of contentment — nor is it merely pleasure (even though, in many languages, “pleasure” and “joy” are etymologically related). Joy is not only more exuberant than happiness, it is also weightier than pleasure.

  • 1 month ago | abc.net.au | Scott Stephens |Sinead Lee

    In 2000, after a hotly contested American election and amid an equally contested vote count, outgoing US President Bill Clinton famously remarked to a pool of reporters, “The American people have now spoken, but it’s going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said.”In this particular case, what was at issue is whether Democratic candidate Al Gore or Republican candidate George W. Bush won the state of Florida, and therefore the election.

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Scotty @Ariscottle_
5 Oct 21

USPS likes to be sparse w/ updates when I’m the recipient “in transit, arriving late” for 5 days, but when I’m the sender, they’re quick to push responsibility on me with “tracking created, USPS awaits item” like yeah you guys would really be on top of it otherwise

Scotty
Scotty @Ariscottle_
9 Jul 21

if there’s any purity or goodness in this world then I like to think my high school science teacher thoroughly enjoyed the whole cicada thing last month

Scotty
Scotty @Ariscottle_
14 Apr 21

RT @dril: i dont see any problem with getting the Milkbone vaccine. i trust milk bone even though they are usually a dog food company