April, 2022 - Rationale Magazine

29 Apr

Has Covid destroyed our trust in experts?

29/04/2022
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

27/04/2022
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

09/05/2022
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

22/04/2022
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 difference...

20 Apr

Law & Politics

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

20/04/2022
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 ‘co...

18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Challenging the Jesus myth theory

20/04/2022
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

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

14/04/2022
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

11/04/2022
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

10/04/2022
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 taken by...

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