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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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Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

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

Antisemitism: No echo of the past in current troubles

I have been re-reading the unbearably heart-rending letters sent from my parents in Germany and Austria to their more fortunate ...
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