Media,the Churches and Peace: From Gloom and Doom to Vision and Hope

Abstract

The participation by Australian Christians and Churches in the current peace debate has attracted considerable media attention. Indeed, this matter has probably received greater and more prolonged media coverage than any other issue during the 1980s. Other discrete events, such as the 1986 papal tour, may have received more coverage by way of concentrated attention but the peace issue has been a hardy perennial for about seven years.