When Time Meets Eternity: A Theological Reflection on Michael Galovic’s ‘Last Judgement’

The monumental icon of the Last Judgement, written by Michael Galovic, is a visually commanding work containing multiple iconographic references and subsidiary scenes. It can be approached in manifold ways. I suggest that the most fruitful approach is to interpret it within its religious, scriptural, and liturgical context. In Australia and New Zealand, we have little experience of Last Judgement scenes.

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Panta Rhei, Panta Chorei, Panta Mataiotes

For Heraclitus I. Everything FlowsYou step into the shallow river,your feet enjoying the cool water.You feel the sun-warmed wind,your body drenched with delight.You walk forward and back,your mind developing memories. You return here another time,your favorite spot washed away.You sense changes in your body,your brain telling you otherwise.You try to remember the past feeling,

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I Wonder if God Sleepwalks

As a young person,I read a short storyAbout a detectiveWho solved a crime,Discovering it was he,The detective himself,Sleepwalking at night –Committing transgressions;I wonder if God sleepwalks When crime is glorified,And criminals rule,Books are banned,And religion –A hate propagating tool,When the poor are preyed uponAnd the disabled mocked;

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Mercy at St John’s Anglican Cathedral: Olga Bakhtina’s 2026 Exhibition

Olga Bakhtina, Mysterious Fishing, 2025. Oil on canvas, 90 x 90 cm. Olga Bakhtina returns in 2026 with Mercy, a luminous new exhibition hosted at St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane, running from 1 July to 19 August. One of the most significant elements of the exhibition is Bakhtina’s new series on St Francis of Assisi, created to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.

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Both ways

Photo by Timothée Duran on Unsplash. ‘We hope that the people of Australia will wait. Not so much waiting for us – but waiting with us as we find our way in the world. My people are used to the struggle and the long waiting. We still wait for the white people to understand us better. We ourselves had to spend many years hearing about the white man’s ways.

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Christianity both creates and can resolve the problem of monoculturalism - ABC Religion & Ethics

From the fourth-century councils to Australia’s White Australia policy, the Christian tradition has supplied theological warrant for cultural exclusion — but the same tradition has also, at specific m...

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How Christianity both creates and can resolve the problem of monoculturalism - ABC Religion & Ethics

From the fourth-century councils to Australia’s White Australia policy, the Christian tradition has supplied theological warrant for cultural exclusion — but the same tradition has also, at specific m...

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Basilica of San Francesco, Siena

Photo by Francesco Labita via Unsplash. Candles yearn and flutterin the sacred gloomstained glass glowslike coals and cobaltyesterday’s incenseghosts into your nostrils.Two pews down an elegant womanis summoned by the phonebelow her steepled fingersits pale oblong awakesto interrupt her prayersor answer them.The dead the lostand those close by are calling…

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PM shows unequivocal support for Australia’s creators with new Office…

The Prime Minister has made it clear. The future of AI development in Australia must respect creator rights.

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Monoculturalism as Heresy

Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting, 1951. House paint on canvas, 182.9 x 274.3 cm. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA. I. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has, for the third time in three decades, made monoculturalism speakable again in Australian public life – not simply as nostalgia for a vanished homogeneity, but as policy: a demand that immigration, citizenship, and public culture be organised around the protection of a single inherited ‘

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Offloading Ourselves

An inquiry into staying human in the age of AI — by the American Enterprise Institute’s Council on AI Ethics

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Winter Gathering. | KendallBryantArtist

Join Kendall Bryant for The Winter Gathering, a Melbourne community arts event featuring stories, music, creativity, conversation and performances inspired by hidden growth.

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Standing in Divine Assembly

Photo by Josh Withers on Unsplash. standingin Divine assemblyeachtree with its own connectionsitsown messageitsown roleitsown journeythroughlife sotoo, we humansstandin Divine assemblyeachof us with our own connectionsourown storyourown journeythroughlife nomatter where we standgriefwill find us…

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Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

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From the Nakba to Gaza’s ruins: One man’s lifetime of displacement

Nakba survivor in Gaza recounts displacement after 1948 and 2023 and his unwavering attachment to his homeland.

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Seized by the clouds

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. Oil on canvas, 73 x 93.4 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Across the swaying yellow fields,Vincent is startled by the stunted olive treesThat stretch outwards, upwardsBuffeted by the West wind,Yearning to seize The scudding restless clouds. How they envy their lone companion:A cypress standing apart, alert, …

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Les Less Miserable: The Poetic Journey of Les Murray

David Naseby, Les Murray, 1995. Oil on canvas, 179.5 x 184.5 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. The recent death of David Malouf, aged 92, has left many readers grieving the loss of a writer whose prose was marked by unostentatious care, quiet precision, and a deep humaneness. Malouf had a rare gift for tracing the places where the material meets the immaterial, where the ordinary world thins and something luminous shows through.

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Studio

Studio is a book-length journal publishing poetry and short fiction of literary merit, offering a venue for established, new, and aspiring writers. Studio also publishes literary articles, essays, news, and reviews of writing, writers, and events of interest to members. Studio was first published in 1980, and is published three times each year. Membership of Studio puts you in touch with:

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Three on the Road

Pro Hart, The Good Samaritan, c. 1980. Oil on board, 30 x 44 cm. Private collection. II was escaping a traumatic dayon the road with my dearest friendswhen he fell in step beside us on the wayand the world began to glow again III was a bastard, a tool of the Stateuntil face down in the dirt…

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US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured

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Theatre Choir | AFPS

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Leonard Brown: Painting the Celestial

The survey exhibition of the work of painter Leonard Brown is currently on exhibition at the Ipswich Art Gallery in Queensland until 14 June 2026. Curated by the distinguished art historian Sasha Grishin, this survey explores his distinctive abstract works that exemplify his interest in formal geometry and handmade mark-making. Alongside this body of work are his religious icons drawn from the Orthodox tradition.

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The Dust of Memory

Photo by P. M. Flynn. Here I sit in nothingness, asleepwhile I close my eyes to darknessas it falls around me. There is a line darkness does not cross.And still there are shadows: flesh doesn’t wander over spirit or death.(The flesh is quickest to disagree with eternity;the bones are slowest to turn over in graves…

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Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human | Peter Lewis

I actually don’t want to make my work easier. We should demand authenticity if we care about the sort of society that comes out the other end of this so-called revolution

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Les Less Miserable: The Poetic Journey of Les Murray

Tickets available here.

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Write My Name On My Leg, Mama, by Jason Goroncy

track by Jason Goroncy

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Mimesis, by Mahyar Hemati

9 track album

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Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Through the Torn Place: A Threshold for Good Friday

Through Lent and Good Friday, the High Altar of St Paul's in Auckland held something rare: an artwork that does not announce itself, but waits. Titled The Opening, conceived and created by Karen Sewell under the auspices of SPAM (St Paul's Arts & Media), is a site-responsive installation that takes as its starting point one of the most arresting images in the Passion narrative: the tearing of the temple veil.

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