Law & Politics - Rationale Magazine

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 ...

Si Gladman 08/11/2022

In 2019, when Clare Heath-McIvor wrote on her blog about why she wasn’t a dominionist anymore, she recalled that her ...

Hossein Dabbagh 05/11/2022

My friend was in Tehran during protests after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police (Gasht-e ...

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 ...