October, 2022 - Rationale Magazine

29 Oct

‘Infiltrate, Impact, Impel’: Raising up Christians for the Liberal Party

30/10/2022
By Si Gladman
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Upon signing up as a member of the Liberal Party in Victoria, some churchgoers have been handed a one-page document with the title ‘Pol...

27 Oct

Ethics & Religion

In the Defence Force, religion is a barrier to care – and it shouldn’t be

27/10/2022
By Collin Acton
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In February 2018, as head of the Royal Australian Navy’s Chaplaincy Branch I attended an international Chiefs of Chaplains conference i...

25 Oct

Law & Politics

Why ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

25/10/2022
By Chris Fleming
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In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about th...

20 Oct

Science & Health

New ‘ethics guidance’ puts science publishing under the microscope

20/10/2022
By Cordelia Fine
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The British journal Nature was founded in 1869 and is one of the world’s most influential and prestigious outlets for scientific resear...

18 Oct

History

Why the Middle Ages have such a bad reputation

“People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made recently by Luxembourg’s Min...

15 Oct

Law & Politics

The need for caution when prioritising employers’ values over individuals’ rights

15/10/2022
By Hugh Harris
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Many would see the removal of Andrew Thorburn from his position as a victory for progressive values over intolerance. While this messy ...

13 Oct

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

11 Oct

Law & Politics

The Liberal Party is in a dire state – and that should worry us

11/10/2022
By Frank Bongiorno
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“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose” – attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill – is one of those quotations I remember seeing on exam...

07 Oct

Law & Politics

The long battle for women’s freedom in Iran

07/10/2022
By Nuri Veronika
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The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in the custody of Iran's 'morality police' in Tehran sparked anger worldwide. W...

05 Oct

Philosophy & Psychology

Democracy and inequality of epistemic power

05/10/2022
By John Wright
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Many hold that growing inequality is one of the most serious problems we face. But there are others who hold that it does not...

03 Oct

Philosophy & Psychology

Has the pandemic changed our personalities?

03/10/2022
By Jolanta Burke
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For many of us, some personality traits stay the same throughout our lives while others change only gradually. However, e...

01 Oct

Education

School chaplains and the strategy of ‘saving souls’

01/10/2022
By Si Gladman
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Many parents at public schools will have little clue that their kids are being targeted as “souls to be saved” by churches and missiona...

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