Law & Politics - Rationale Magazine

Ian Robinson 27/07/2023

The official No case for the Voice referendum – the pamphlet of which has just been published by the Australian ...

Reg Naulty 13/07/2023

In Noam Chomsky’s new hard-hitting book, his position is always clear, incisive and challenging. Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of ...

Jonathan Meddings 29/05/2023

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government — except for every other one we’ve tried. While ...

Dave Collins 16/05/2023

Throughout the 20th century, reliable and low-cost coal-fired electricity, plentiful oil for transport, and natural gas for heating and chemical ...

Alison Francis-Cracknell 10/05/2023

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

Tama Matheson 24/04/2023

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

Jonathan Meddings 11/04/2023

Several years ago I found a copy of Mein Kampf in a second-hand bookstore in country Victoria. Better my bookshelf than a ...

Mike Gaffney 29/03/2023

This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Tasmanian Legislative Council 28 March 2023. It is ...

Natalya Maitz 27/03/2023

The regent honeyeater is a small bird, mostly black, with speckles of soft yellow dotted down its body. Its chirp ...

Alan Petersen 09/03/2023

The recent decision of the major law firm MinterEllison to sever ties with the Adelaide Festival because it invited two Palestinian writers ...

Liam Elphick 01/03/2023

In 2018, Australians were shocked to learn that religious schools still had the right to discriminate against LGBTQ students and ...

Robert Dover 17/02/2023

The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or ...