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Ethics & Religion

Peter FitzSimons: ‘Religion and charity’ report will help inform debate

This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and charity. It is the hoariest chestnut of the ...
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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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Science & Health

Fixing Australia’s abortion postcode lottery

When the American legal precedent protecting women’s right to an abortion in the United States, Roe versus Wade, was overturned last ...
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Science & Health

AI and the problems of personification

In literary criticism, a commonly used term is ‘personification’, which describes when a writer invests natural phenomena with human qualities. ...
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Letters to the Editor

Readers show ‘defensive and uninformed perspectives’ on circumcision

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

Three lessons from Aristotle on friendship

While most love songs are inspired by the joys and heartaches of romantic relationships, love between friends can be just ...
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