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Monthly Archives: November 2021

28 Nov
Law & Politics

A tribute to the ‘indefatigable’ Rodney Syme

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Nick Carr
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This is an edited version of the tribute to Rodney Syme delivered during the RSA Webinar on 24 November 2021. It is an incred...

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25 Nov
Law & Politics

New Religious Discrimination Bill will cause damage to Australian society that will be difficult to heal

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Elenie Poulos
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Australia is not a particularly religious country. Australians have a reputation for being largely ambivalent about the place of religi...

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24 Nov
Law & Politics

Third time lucky for the Religious Discrimination Bill?

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Luke Beck
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The Morrison government has finally provided details of the third draft of its Religious Discrimination Bill. This prompted heated d...

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23 Nov
Letters to the Editor

No sin, no Christianity

  • 02/07/2022
  • By author-avatar Rationale Magazine
  • 1 comment
Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. Dear Edi...

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20 Nov
Law & Politics

Conscientious objection in Australia: A comparison between VAD and abortion

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Ronli Sifris
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Conscientious objection is defined, according to Peter Butt, as "an objection to partaking in certain forms of behaviour … on moral gro...

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19 Nov
Art & Humour

MBJ’s view

  • 19/12/2021
  • By author-avatar Matt Bissett-Johnson
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See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.

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17 Nov
Law & Politics

Rodney’s final stand on voluntary assisted dying

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Si Gladman
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Even in his final months of life, Dr Rodney Syme was doing all he could to help make voluntary assisted dying accessible for all Austra...

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14 Nov
Science & Health

The science everyone needs to know about climate change

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Betsy Weatherhead
  • 1 comment
With the United Nations' climate conference in Scotland turning a spotlight on climate change policies and the impact of global warming...

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11 Nov
Law & Politics

In defence of democracy

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Carrick Ryan
  • 2 comments
In 1989, as the Soviet Union crumbled, historian Francis Fukuyama now infamously proclaimed "the end of history". His reasoning was tha...

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08 Nov
Ethics & Religion

When rationalist Anne Lennon exposed church’s selling of ‘indulgences’

  • 09/09/2022
  • By author-avatar Peter Adamson
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In the Roman Catholic Church, a 'novena' is a devotion in which special prayers or services are repeated on nine consecutive days. I...

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05 Nov
History

Tolstoy’s last years

  • 04/08/2022
  • By author-avatar Reg Naulty
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Tolstoy’s death in 1910 occurred just seven years before the Russian Revolution. His last two essays What’s To Be Done? and I Cannot B...

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03 Nov
History

How do you spot a witch? A notorious 15th-century book gave instructions

  • 04/08/2022
  • By author-avatar Melissa Chim
  • 0 comments
Books have always had the power to cast a spell over their readers – figuratively. But one book that was quite popular from the 15th to...

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