Law & Politics - Rationale Magazine

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 ...

Reg Naulty 13/02/2023

Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, as explored by Gabriel Debenedetti in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe ...

David Lewis 27/01/2023

This is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given to the Fraser Coast Regional Council on 25 February 2023. ...

Paul Monk 20/01/2023

Word has spread. After five and a half years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is stepping down ...

Jon Piccini 16/01/2023

One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labor government in December 1972 was to free seven men ...

Geoffrey Barker 03/01/2023

Functions at Government House in Canberra these days are likely to end with a demand from Mrs Linda Hurley, wife ...

Geoffrey Barker 15/12/2022

The age of journalism is gone, managed information processing has succeeded, and the glory of newspapers is extinguished forever. This ...

Noel Turnbull 06/12/2022

While we worry about social media misinformation we overlook that one of the main sources of misinformation about politics is ...

Ben White 03/12/2022

Voluntary assisted dying will soon be an option for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory, now the Senate has ...

Geoffrey Barker 01/12/2022

Former United States President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term in the White House will doubtless prompt fresh efforts ...

Gary Bakker 19/11/2022

To ‘discriminate’ is a very useful, indeed necessary, activity. The original and broader meaning of the word is to recognise ...