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Ethics & Religion

Australia’s changing spiritual landscape

Spirituality is increasingly popular with young Australians: recent research shows 38 per cent of Gen Z Australians identify as spiritual. It ...
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Business & Economics

We all suffer when harmful industries define progress

What you perceive as progress depends on your perspective. To the logger, progress is cleared land, but to the conservationist ...
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Ethics & Religion

Time to take religion out of Anzac Day services

Plenty of non-religious Australians have fought, and have died, in war for our country. While the insulting line that there ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Dennett’s dangerous ideas

A stanza in the Buddhist text Dhammapada states: “There never was, there never will be, nor does there exist now ...
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Science & Health

Unravelling life’s origin

There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth. The definition of life itself ...
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Science & Health

Biology by the book

Back in 1987, around the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as a Senior Medical Officer I had volunteered ...
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