Ethics & Religion
Peter FitzSimons: ‘Religion and charity’ report will help inform debate
Peter FitzSimons
11/06/2023
This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and charity. It is the hoariest chestnut of the ...
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Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism
Paul Monk
18/04/2023
On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair ...
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Radicalisation and white Christian nationalism
Clare Heath-McIvor
08/04/2023
Last year, I had a quick conversation with another writer about the difference between the ‘far right’ and ‘extreme right’ ...
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Supernatural beliefs exist to explain natural phenomena
Brock Bastian
05/04/2023
Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throughout ...
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The day I stood up to bullshit
M. Robert Campbell
25/02/2023
The first time I was suspended from school came in Year 8. To some, that might seem a little early ...
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Euthanasia through the ages
Hugh Breakey
15/02/2023
Are our moral judgements about euthanasia a product of our time? If we came from a different culture, might our ...
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How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny
Giulio Bortolozzo
07/02/2023
I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as ...
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The faithless in foxholes
Noel Turnbull
25/01/2023
There is an old saying – there are no atheists in foxholes. In reality, modern soldiers are unlikely to be ...
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George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex
Hugh Harris
10/01/2023
Attending the Religious Freedom roundtable in November 2015 on behalf of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was bemused by ...
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Andrew Denton: Report reveals gulf between conservative Christian politics and voters
Andrew Denton
18/12/2022
This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and politics. In May of 2022, as New South ...
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Christ’s commanders
Si Gladman
13/12/2022
This article is the third in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. ...
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Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy
Si Gladman
24/11/2022
This article is the second in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. ...
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