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Monthly Archives: October 2022

29 Oct
Law & Politics

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

  • 30/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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27 Oct
Ethics & Religion

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

  • 27/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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25 Oct
Law & Politics

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

  • 25/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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20 Oct
Science & Health

New ‘ethics guidance’ puts science publishing under the microscope

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

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18 Oct
History

Why the Middle Ages have such a bad reputation

  • 18/10/2022
  • By author-avatar Eduardo Baura García
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“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...

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15 Oct
Law & Politics

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

  • 15/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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 ...

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13 Oct
Art & Humour

MBJ’s view

  • 13/10/2022
  • 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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11 Oct
Law & Politics

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

  • 11/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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07 Oct
Law & Politics

The long battle for women’s freedom in Iran

  • 07/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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05 Oct
Philosophy & Psychology

Democracy and inequality of epistemic power

  • 05/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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03 Oct
Philosophy & Psychology

Has the pandemic changed our personalities?

  • 03/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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...

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01 Oct
Education

School chaplains and the strategy of ‘saving souls’

  • 01/10/2022
  • By author-avatar 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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