Law & Politics - Rationale Magazine

Luke Beck 07/02/2022

The Religious Discrimination Bill is due to be debated in parliament this week. This has been a long time coming ...

Michael Duffy 31/01/2022

As Buckingham Palace recently announced plans for an elaborate year of celebrations to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, a world ...

Verity Trott 25/01/2022

Grace Tame is an artist, an activist, a yoga teacher and a runner. She’s also a sexual assault survivor who ...

Bhante Akāliko 18/01/2022

As a Buddhist monk and a community leader, I have a particular interest in matters of religious discrimination and a ...

Trevor Bell 14/01/2022

When talking about ‘democracy’, ‘capitalism’ and ‘market economies’, many people confuse the terminology and the benefits that flow from these ...

Tom Daly 29/12/2021

On 9-10 December, the Biden administration held its first Summit for Democracy, a novel initiative seeking to bring government, civil ...

Si Gladman 07/12/2021

In a podcast interview earlier this year, Reverend Geoff Lin admitted that his Living Hope SA group (with ‘SA’ referring ...

Camilla Nelson 04/12/2021

The final days of parliament for 2021 have been marked by a spate of floor crossings. This includes Tasmanian Liberal Bridget ...

Nick Carr 28/11/2021

This is an edited version of the tribute to Rodney Syme delivered during the RSA Webinar on 24 November 2021. ...

Elenie Poulos 25/11/2021

Australia is not a particularly religious country. Australians have a reputation for being largely ambivalent about the place of religion ...

Luke Beck 24/11/2021

The Morrison government has finally provided details of the third draft of its Religious Discrimination Bill. This prompted heated discussion ...

Ronli Sifris 20/11/2021

Conscientious objection is defined, according to Peter Butt, as "an objection to partaking in certain forms of behaviour … on ...