April, 2022 - Rationale Magazine

29 Apr

Has Covid destroyed our trust in experts?

15/07/2022
By Carrick Ryan
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It started with a tweet. On 14 January 2020, as the world waited anxiously for news about the emerging virus in Wuhan, the World Health...

27 Apr

Law & Politics

The death of traditional journalism

15/07/2022
By David James
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Journalism is a humble activity, or at least it should be. To be a reporter in a newsroom is to be continually confronted with severe o...

25 Apr

Science & Health

Religious chaplaincy is failing the Defence Force

15/07/2022
By Phillip Hoglin
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While the nation takes stock to remember our Anzacs this week, we need to take a moment to think about how we can better support the cu...

22 Apr

Law & Politics

Why you need to watch out for strategic lies in the federal election

15/07/2022
By Caroline Fisher
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During the federal election, politicians of all persuasions will use a range of campaigning and spin tactics. But there is a dif...

20 Apr

Law & Politics

The election is a race – it’s a horse race

15/07/2022
By Trevor Bell
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Adam Bandt’s appearance at the National Press Club may well be remembered in Australian political folklore for the response to that ...

18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Challenging the Jesus myth theory

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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"I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however ...

16 Apr

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

14 Apr

Law & Politics

Political advertising in Australia: Few restrictions, no spending limit, and almost no oversight

15/07/2022
By Anika Stobart
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So the federal election is on. Billboards are suddenly plastered with party slogans, campaign ads are all around us, and our social med...

11 Apr

Philosophy & Psychology

Je Suis Mill

14/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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This is an edited extract from a dinner speech to the Liberal Club of the University of Melbourne, delivered on 10 December 2021 Abo...

09 Apr

Law & Politics

A review: The struggle for India’s soul

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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What precipitated Shashi Tharoor’s new book, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy, is the path t...

06 Apr

Law & Politics

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

22/07/2022
By Richard Lachman
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As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with his efforts to build empire in what...

04 Apr

Education

112 years on, Religious Instruction remains controversial in Queensland

08/09/2022
By Alison Courtice
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The genesis – pun intended – of Religious Instruction (RI) in Queensland state schools has its roots in a 1910 referendum. When Quee...

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