April, 2023 - Rationale Magazine

27 Apr

‘Holding the line’ on Religious Instruction for the Christian Right

27/04/2023
By Alison Courtice
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Queensland’s education minister Grace Grace faces a decision of either listening to her Labor colleagues and their call to remove Relig...

24 Apr

Law & Politics

Our duty to laugh in the face of tyrants

24/04/2023
By Tama Matheson
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Autocracies are very serious places. They have to be. Their power is founded on an absurdity – the assertion that one person or ideolog...

21 Apr

Philosophy & Psychology

Animal consciousness: Time to rethink our human-centred approach

While we may enjoy the company of companion animals or a fleeting encounter with wildlife, many people believe humans have a superior c...

18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism

18/04/2023
By Paul Monk
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On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair of hands at the OECD, i...

14 Apr

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

11 Apr

Law & Politics

In the face of extremism, liberals must snap out of their complacency

Several years ago I found a copy of Mein Kampf in a second-hand bookstore in country Victoria. Better my bookshelf than a neo-Nazi’s, I...

08 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Radicalisation and white Christian nationalism

Last year, I had a quick conversation with another writer about the difference between the ‘far right’ and ‘extreme right’ when it came...

05 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Supernatural beliefs exist to explain natural phenomena

05/04/2023
By Brock Bastian
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Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throug...

02 Apr

Science & Health

Rationalists and circumcision

02/04/2023
By Meredith Doig
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On 14 April 2023, it will be 10 years since I sent out the very first edition of ‘RSA Daily’. Every weekday morning for a decade, I...

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