28 Nov Science & Health Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe 29/11/2022 By Nathan Kilah 0 comments To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration ...Continue reading
26 Nov Science & Health From ‘Blind Watchmaker’ to seeing watchmakers 27/06/2023 By David James 0 comments For most of the first 15 years of the 21st century, there was a fierce debate between rationalist supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory...Continue reading
24 Nov Ethics & Religion, Feature series Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy 28/11/2022 By Si Gladman 0 comments This article is the second in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. During the G...Continue reading
21 Nov Business & Economics Class and inequality in Australia 21/11/2022 By Jessica Gerrard 0 comments In Australian news, opinion and popular culture, the figures of the hipster and the bogan are everywhere. These figures are proxies for...Continue reading
19 Nov Law & Politics Why religious discrimination is okay 20/11/2022 By Gary Bakker 0 comments To ‘discriminate’ is a very useful, indeed necessary, activity. The original and broader meaning of the word is to recognise and unders...Continue reading
17 Nov Letters to the Editor Thinking outside the box 17/11/2022 By Rationale Magazine 0 comments Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...Continue reading
16 Nov Ethics & Religion, Feature series The committee of clerics lording it over Defence 16/11/2022 By Si Gladman 0 comments This article is the first in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Every three months, Australian taxpayers pay to s...Continue reading
14 Nov Science & Health How the world’s fossil fuel addiction compromises our health 14/11/2022 By Celia McMichael 0 comments Climate change threatens to undermine the health of people around the world, with more intense and frequent extreme weather even...Continue reading
12 Nov Art & Humour MBJ’s view 12/11/2022 By Matt Bissett-Johnson 0 comments See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.Continue reading
10 Nov Philosophy & Psychology Why magical thinking is so widespread 11/11/2022 By Dimitris Xygalatas 0 comments Growing up in Greece, I spent my summers at my grandparents’ home in a small coastal village in the region of Chalkidiki. It was warm a...Continue reading
08 Nov Law & Politics Raised in her father’s church 12/11/2022 By Si Gladman 0 comments In 2019, when Clare Heath-McIvor wrote on her blog about why she wasn’t a dominionist anymore, she recalled that her entire chur...Continue reading
05 Nov Law & Politics A shift towards secularism in Iran 05/11/2022 By Hossein Dabbagh 0 comments My friend was in Tehran during protests after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police (Gasht-e Ersh...Continue reading