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Dellaram Vreeland
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Freelance journalist | Australian-born Iranian | Rural + regional reporter at Guardian Australia
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What if the world’s religions aren’t competing but rather one unfolding truth? | Kat Eghdamian
What if the world’s religions aren’t competing but rather one unfolding truth? | Kat Eghdamian
Shifting from debating difference to seeking shared meaning isn’t just theoretical. I’ve seen it work I was born in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when religion became the architecture of public life. But it was precisely this fusion of faith and power that forced my family to flee. We were persecuted not for breaking laws but for belonging to a minority religious community, the Bahá’ís – a persecution that continues today. This experience taught me how religion can be used to exclude, to dehumanise, to dominate. But it also taught me that ignoring religion is not the answer. More than 80% of the world’s population identifies with a religion. Yet in many parts of the world – especially in the west – religion is treated as a private matter, something best kept out of polite conversation, or at worst, a source of division and danger. We live in a paradox: a deeply religious world that increasingly doesn’t know how to talk about religion. What does it mean to live a meaningful life? How do we hold both reverence and reason in the same hand? Continue reading...
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June 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My piece sharing why the diaspora is going wild over Ed's new piece.
April 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“If we really cared, we would build a school for students and ensure it had high quality facilities. Parents are obviously still wanting to choose the public school, but the government is not responding appropriately."
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‘It just leaves us without anything’: why was Wodonga left reeling by sudden primary school closure?
‘There was really no communication,’ Daniel Dickinson says. ‘We found it out through the school and the media’
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April 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Three religious traditions overlap this year, providing a rare opportunity for collective reflection | Kat Eghdamian
Three religious traditions overlap this year, providing a rare opportunity for collective reflection | Kat Eghdamian
For the first time in decades, three major religious traditions – Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá’í Faith – will observe their sacred fasting periods at the same time * Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to…
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March 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
More than 2,000 people are living without adequate housing in bushfire-prone areas in western Victoria, which advocates warn is risking catastrophe.
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Life in the ashes: Lisa lost her Grampians home to a bushfire. Ten months later, it almost burned again
More than 2,000 people are living without adequate housing in bushfire-prone areas in western Victoria, which advocates warn is risking catastrophe
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January 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Loved writing this one 💗
December 1, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Demand for EAL teachers in our regions is on the up, and our schools are having to keep up in an era when there's already a teacher shortage. My story in @australia.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:07 PM
With the persecution against the Baha'is in Iran intensifying, I felt compelled to pen this piece for @australia.theguardian.com.
Regional Australia has welcomed Iranian Bahá'ís with open arms. Back home, we’d be persecuted | Dellaram Vreeland
The community-building activities my family and I participate in every week are a core part of our faith. In Iran, it would see us arrested
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November 24, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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It’s a 100km round trip for Gabi Chan to shop at Aldi to take the government’s advice to shop around for cheaper groceries. About the same here, and we’re both in well-serviced areas. How do you tackle the supermarket duopoly when you’re lucky to have one shop?

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Shopping around for the best deal on groceries is good advice for most Australians – except if you live in the bush | Gabrielle Chan
It’s a 100km round trip to the nearest major supermarket chain. Should I budget in extra fuel to shop the specials, or just stick to my local IGA?
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November 18, 2024 at 10:14 PM