March, 2025 - Rationale Magazine

31 Mar

Support for scripture program highlights bias of politicians

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

27 Mar

Business & Economics

The electoral opportunity in our housing affordability crisis

03/04/2025
By David James
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As the federal election looms, there is an extraordinary silence about an issue that has profoundly distorted Australian society, divid...

24 Mar

Law & Politics

Behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags

24/03/2025
By Ralph Hertwig
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ushered i...

21 Mar

Law & Politics

The end of coal and the nuclear red herring

21/03/2025
By John Quiggin
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Coal has had its day as Australia’s key energy source — regardless of what politicians driving an energy debate full of distractions te...

17 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

The decisions we make

The new year is well and truly over, and most Australians are back to their normal lives. Which is another way of saying that the va...

14 Mar

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson. Published 14 March 2025.

10 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Are our thoughts ‘real’?

10/03/2025
By Sam Baron
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You can doubt just about anything. But there’s one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now. This idea came to...

06 Mar

Law & Politics

Having secular government spaces helps us respect religious differences

This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech opposing a motion to reinstate Christian prayers in formal government meetings at the W...

03 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

The quest to extend human life

“Who wants to live forever?” Freddie Mercury mournfully asks in Queen’s 1986 song of the same name. The answer: quite a few peop...

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