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Tim Costello

Tim Costello

Tim Costello is a senior fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity and chief advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk effectively dismantled USAID overnight, a move projected to cost 14 million lives by the end of the decade.

Bigger defence budgets are more often a prelude to war, not peace

USAid cuts are predicted to kill 14 million people in the next five years. As the world squabbles over defence spending, the deaths are beginning.

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There is great irony in the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, pictured with US President Donald Trump, has slashed support for the world’s poorest people.

Trump and Musk are destroying the world, but there’s a way we can counter this

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has stripped all support for the world’s poorest. The irony would be comical were it not so grotesque.

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Elon Musk played a key role in Donald Trump’s winning campaign and has been rewarded with an advisory role in the new administration.

I’ve seen the impact of Trump and Musk’s savagery. What they’re doing is cruel and lethal

As an aid leader, how do I tell my African friends that Trump’s Christianity isn’t for them, so babies will die?

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Antisemitism and Islamophobia are not the only things rupturing our communities

Conflict entrepreneurs politicise conversations over the Middle East and then decry the breakdown in social cohesion. They’re part of the problem.

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Tim Costello, speaking at the MCG on Boxing Day 2005, thanks the public for their contributions to tsunami relief.

Amid death and destruction after the Boxing Day tsunami, remarkable things happened

I witnessed a wave of terrible destruction in Sri Lanka and Banda Aceh. It was met with a wave of generosity and compassion from the Australian people.

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Tim Costello and Anthony Albanese.

Social media’s too risky for kids but gambling’s OK? PM’s each-way bet stinks

Apparently, the social licence of the betting companies that deluge us with 1 million ads a year isn’t problematic for the government.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

In the life of every PM there is one real test. This is Albo’s moment to be up there with Howard

As tempting as it may be to think we’re different from other countries when it comes to a love of punting, we’re not. We lose the most because we have the weakest regulations.

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Tim Costello can’t understand why so many of his fellow Christians, both in the United States and Australia, support Donald Trump.

I am a Christian but my tribe supports Trump. I feel like I no longer belong

The Christian support for Donald Trump, both in the United States and Australia, has left me scratching my head in dismay. I no longer know where I belong.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu has again stated his opposition to a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.

Palestinians and Israelis have been coexisting in peace for years. Their leaders have failed them

There are many examples of Israelis and Palestinians uniting through what they have in common, not what they differ on. In these environments, people see humanity.

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A national self-exclusion register for online gambling has launched in Australia.

Online gambling does great harm. Why is government rolling the dice with public health?

It’s fuelled by a tsunami of advertising that dominates our sporting events and saturates the media we consume.

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