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Law & Politics

The King’s coronation: Pomp and Australia’s divided circumstance

On Saturday night, as the new King of England was being crowned, I found myself caught in the crux of ...
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Science & Health

Our female genital mutilation laws are broken

A nurse once told me many health professionals don’t report female genital mutilation (FGM) because it could result in children ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Why Earth is worth protecting – and not just for our sake

Environmentalists rightly urge us to consider the long-term effects of our actions. Plastic bags, they point out, can take hundreds of ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

A genealogy of panic disorder in the 20th century

One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne, was a thinker noted for merging casual ...
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Education

‘Holding the line’ on Religious Instruction for the Christian Right

Queensland’s education minister Grace Grace faces a decision of either listening to her Labor colleagues and their call to remove ...
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Law & Politics

Our duty to laugh in the face of tyrants

Autocracies are very serious places. They have to be. Their power is founded on an absurdity – the assertion that ...
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