Posts by Hugh Harris

25 Nov

Feature series, Law & Politics

The hope for secularism

• 25/11/2023
• By Hugh Harris
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This article is part of our ‘A secular Australian future’ feature series to mark the first Secularism Australia Conference

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17 Jul

Education

How Queensland’s state schools remain ‘mission fields’ for ‘harvesting’

• 19/07/2023
• By Hugh Harris
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"But Dad! Dad! We learned it at school!" This was how my son defended his claim that “God created the whole world".  Evidently, this...

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14 Jun

Education

Why is Labor walking away from secular education?

• 15/06/2023
• By Hugh Harris
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) looks like it’s jettisoning the long-held ideal that schools are “universal, free and secular”....

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10 Jan

Ethics & Religion

George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex

• 18/01/2023
• By Hugh Harris
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Attending the Religious Freedom roundtable in November 2015 on behalf of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was bemused by ...

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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 ...

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30 Jun

Ethics & Religion

A country retreating from faith

• 15/07/2022
• By Hugh Harris
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The 2021 census reveals a society in transformation. In terms of religion, the earth is shifting beneath our feet. Rocketing to 38.9...

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16 Jun

Education

What’s so offensive about secularism?

• 15/07/2022
• By Hugh Harris
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Demonising secularism has become something of a sport for the religious right in the United States. Secularists are routinely painted a...

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18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Challenging the Jesus myth theory

• 15/07/2022
• By Hugh Harris
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"I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however ...

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19 Feb

Ethics & Religion

Why does Stan Grant’s opinion about religion pass as ‘analysis’ on the ABC?

• 22/07/2022
• By Hugh Harris
• 4 comments

We recall the controversy surrounding Emma Alberici’s 2018 article about corporate tax cuts. Subsequently, the ABC judged it to ...

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08 Jan

Feature series

A fundamental examination of the intersection of reason and belief (Part 2)

• 07/09/2022
• By Hugh Harris
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This is Part 2.  You can read Part 1 here. Distinguishing faith and reason Richard Colledge, in ‘Intellectual Assent and th...

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07 Jan

Feature series

A fundamental examination of the intersection of reason and belief (Part 1)

• 07/09/2022
• By Hugh Harris
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"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their t...

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