March, 2022 - Rationale Magazine

30 Mar

Assisted dying and palliative care: An argument for ‘chewing gum’

22/07/2022
By Richard Lugg
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In his classic book Straight and Crooked Thinking – now in its fifth edition (2011) – Robert H. Thouless describes many dishones...

28 Mar

Business & Economics

Australia’s economic challenges – and the political implications

28/03/2022
By David James
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The federal budgets brought down in 2020 and 2021 during the height of the pandemic were thought to be some of the most difficult ever ...

25 Mar

Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 2)

22/07/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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This article is published in two parts. You can read Part 1 here. Despite George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, ...

24 Mar

Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 1)

22/07/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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There has been much social science research on polarisation recently – some assisted by AI-driven analysis of social media; some of it ...

20 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Why we trust experts – even when they admit they don’t know the answer

22/07/2022
By Erik Gustafsson
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We constantly make decisions about who to trust. Much of the time we’re bombarded with massive amounts of information on all sorts o...

18 Mar

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.

15 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Are we a failed species?

22/07/2022
By Paul Monk
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A very old friend and longtime mentor of mine, now 85 years of age, recently expressed the gloomy opinion that Homo sapiens is ‘a faile...

13 Mar

Science & Health

Future-proofing research

The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by br...

11 Mar

Science & Health

It’s time to decriminalise personal drug use

22/07/2022
By Dan Lubman
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The global ‘war on drugs’ is one of the single-most catastrophic public policy failures in history. Now one Victorian MP ...

09 Mar

Science & Health

Population growth from Genesis to Revelations

22/07/2022
By Robyn Friend
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The Book of Genesis is a romantic fiction written by a woman. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea, for surely any creat...

07 Mar

History

Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: A brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia

One interpretation of the name 'Ukraine' is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about diversity and co...

04 Mar

Science & Health

Our window is closing on a liveable future

22/07/2022
By Kathryn Bowen
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As catastrophic flooding devastates parts of Queensland and northern New South Wales, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

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