Law & Politics - Rationale Magazine

Si Gladman 29/10/2022

Upon signing up as a member of the Liberal Party in Victoria, some churchgoers have been handed a one-page document ...

Chris Fleming 25/10/2022

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about ...

Hugh Harris 15/10/2022

Many would see the removal of Andrew Thorburn from his position as a victory for progressive values over intolerance. While ...

Frank Bongiorno 11/10/2022

“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose” – attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill – is one of those quotations ...

Nuri Veronika 07/10/2022

The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in the custody of Iran’s ‘morality police’ in Tehran sparked anger ...

Nicholas Davis 28/09/2022

The human face is special. It is simultaneously public and personal. Our faces reveal sensitive information about us: who we ...

Maria O'Sullivan 19/09/2022

During the present period of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, public sensitivities in the United Kingdom and Australia are high. ...

Noel Turnbull 15/09/2022

Pope Innocent II has a lot to answer for. After his elevation to the papacy in 1130, the church was ...

Gary Bakker 31/08/2022

In my previous article for Rationale, titled Sex, gender and identity: It’s complicated, I described some of the complexities around ...

Lisa Hill 24/08/2022

Our voting choices are only authentic if our decisions are informed by truthful information. That condition is now increasingly elusive. ...

Holly Lawford-Smith 15/08/2022

The latest in a series of intra-left conflicts turns on the decision to bar male athletes from competition in the ...

Jane Morris 06/08/2022

In June 2005, royal assent was given to the Criminal Code Amendment (Suicide Related Material Offences) Bill 2005. This ushered ...