Law & Politics

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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The end of the ‘American moment’

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what is happening ...
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It’s a lose, lose, lose situation for Trump’s ‘Divided States of America’

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what is happening ...
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‘Australia Day’ controversy shows we’re a work in progress

The controversy surrounding Australia Day is no bad thing. January 26 is our annual reminder of the 1788 starting gun ...
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If you want peace in Palestine, don’t start from here!

There is an oft-told joke about someone lost in a rural area who finally encounters a local and requests directions ...
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Next steps in campaign to remove prayers from local government

This article is based on a speech given at the Secularism Australia Conference on 2 December 2023 in Sydney. In ...
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