Mark Tronson
Press Service International
Dr Mark Tronson - a 4 min video
Chairman – Well-Being Australia
Baptist Minister 45 years
- 1984 - Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
- 2001 - Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
- 2009 - Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
- 2019 - The Gutenberg - (ARPA Christian Media premier award)
Gutenberg video - 2min 14sec
Married to Delma for 45 years with 4 children and 6 grand children
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Never underestimate what children hear at home
This is a story that needs to be told as it reflects Christian homes everywhere. Some years ago now our family celebrated the engagement of our fourth, our third daughter, Salley to Sam. They have now been married four and a half years.
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CoolyRocksOn Church Service -10 June – Coolangatta, Gold Coast
The CoolyRocksOn nostalgic Rock 'n Roll Festival held in Coolangatta (Gold Coast) during the entire Queens Birthday 7 day week culminating on Mon 11 June with 115,000 visitors (competing with the numbers at the April Gold Coast Commonwealth Games) is gearing up for another remarkable music and vintage car festival.
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The sugar industry needs rail – Footplate Padre
The Footplate Padre was born and raised in the Mackay region of Queensland which is a huge sugar cane growing area. There were several sugar mills in the region and they were all largely supplied in the fifties by an astonishing 2 foot gauge railway network.
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The NBN example reinforces to the public who are the biggest... just like us all...
When the former Federal Labor Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy admitted that the NBN was "overly ambitious" with its National Broadband Network rollout targets and "clearly underestimated" working with the construction industry.
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Young writer reviews – No 3
The Press Service International young writer program in conjunction with Christian Today has each Week's editor or coordinator write a review of their week the week after publication.
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Just War Theology and Islamic rants
Has Christian theology on a “Just War” influenced the rhetoric of hard line Islamic rants? This has become a valid question after a recent rant by an Adelaide Islamic preacher Sheikh Sharif Hussein which was videoed and uploaded to the Internet.
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Israel turned 70 with a population of 8.8m
Israel turned 70 last week. In the year David Ben-Gurion declared the State's establishment, only one city in Israel, At that time Tel Aviv and Jaffa had a population of over 100,000 residents.
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ANZAC - Japanese attacked Australia's seaboard
The Japanese ran amok on Australia's eastern seaboard in 1942-43 with submarine attacks, air attacks and moreover Sydney and Newcastle were shelled let alone northern and the western seaboard of Australian with the bombing of Darwin all the way to Broome.
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Laguna Quays Respite - delightful visits
The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite coordinated by Well-Being Australia for missions now in its seventh year has proven to be a lovely break away for a wide range of those in Christian service. It continues to be a good seven years.
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Very Fast Train – here we go again!
Once again the Very fast Train has come to the fore and strangely, as is the custom in Australia, around election time – State or Federal. The Very fast Train proposals have popped up since the 1970's and they have ranged from Japanese and European models where huge populations are moved en-mass.