Law & Politics

Thomas Matthew Crooks was wrong to pull the trigger, but right to be afraid of Trump

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what is happening ...
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Faith-based politics is nothing new in Australia

Senator Fatima Payman’s defection over Labor Party policy on statehood for the Palestinians has generated wider discussion about the written ...
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How Jefferson and Madison’s partnership shaped America’s separation of church and state

Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state. According to the ...
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Junk science in Australia’s courtrooms

The conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons on Father’s Day 2005 is being questioned in the media, ...
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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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Archbishop Fisher’s slicing and dicing of religion

In The Australian on March 25 this year, front page and op-ed coverage was given to objections by the Catholic ...
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Why I’m speaking out about discrimination in Christian schools

I’ve worked for the Christian Schools Australia (CSA) network as a finance and risk manager for a number of years. ...
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Reaching for the mountain tops in Mayor Tate’s kingdom

Sue Baynes loves Christmas. A self-declared “Christmas tragic”, she gets her Christmas tree set up early – in November – ...
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Think again about America’s decline and the emerging new order

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what is happening ...
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Fear and loathing rule Australia’s ‘angry’ media landscape

Australia has a problem with illegal migration. Well, no, not a collapse of Operation Sovereign Borders, or the offshore processing laws ...
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The dubious day of the demagogue

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what is happening ...
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Satire saturation

I like to think of myself as having a good sense of humour. I am certainly not woke. I am ...
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