For your edification - commonsense and Christian should not be used in the same sentence.
" Revisit what the Jesuits taught you about Social Justice." Like discouraging condoms in AIDS ridden Africa. Legalizing same sex marriage. Christianity and social Justice should also not be used in the same sentence.
And why should a Christian receive any preferential treatment.

What I found most telling in this article was the comment made almost in passing about when we last voted. In parenthesis it reads (is it really only a month ago?).
Indeed. How quickly have the Rudd/Gillard disruptive years passed into history.
Abbott will do well as PM. He did what he had to do to get elected, and he will do what he has to do to govern. Witness his first foray overseas. Suddenly finding himself not campaigning but representing Australia, he dealt with the issues at hand - boat people, our relationship with Indonesia and our place in Asia being chief amongst them - with skill and necessary compromise.
Abbott could become one of Australian politics biggest surprises. I admit to having mixed feelings going into that election booth, and my vote for the Coalition was as much anti-ALP as pro-LNP. But so far, so good.

So, we should continue to borrow money simply to send it overseas? The borrowed money will be repaid by Australian workers (with interest) and we will get no direct benefit other than the warm fuzzy feeling of possibly having helped out people in countries which are too corrupt to help their own people.

Between 2003-2011 the UK sent 1.9billion pounds to the Congo in "aid". Half of it was wasted and a lot went to politicians whose salaries increased by 800%. They now account for 11% of the country's GDP.

Ethicists should attack the source of the problem not the outcome. Its far too easy to spend other peoples money.

There is no necessary connection between being "educated", or more correctly brain-washed by the Jesuits and social justice concerns.
Yes some sections of the Jesuits have a strong social justice orientation, but not all of them. Do a Google on Jesuits and fascist politics in World War II - particularly in Croatia.

Have you ever noticed there are many people in academia who are closer to the problems of the world, than they are to the problems of folk in Oz?

Have you also noticed there are many people in academia who take themselves, & their opinions far too seriously, treating their ideas as gospel?

Have you ever noticed these people also are in the habit of quoting themselves?

Have you also noticed they very often wear natty little beards, that require hours standing in front of a mirror, trimming them to perfection?

I wonder if this is the reason they fall in love with themselves, & talk down to the mean masses they despise.

What a disgusting bit of self aggrandizement .

As we see the usual haters come out to abuse someone telling the truth and holding the mirror up to their faces.

1. we don't borrow money from overseas countries like Afghanistan, we borrow it from other rich people, it is not the fault of the people of Afghanistan that we do that.
2. Abbott was a brown nosing groveller breaking the law in Indonesia and still the haters will claim we really do have some legal right to force other nations to jail refugees for us.

The people abusing the author show him to be telling the truth about the cruel, racist stupidity and ignorance of people who have never known a day of real hardship.