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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 ...

Si Gladman 17/11/2021

Even in his final months of life, Dr Rodney Syme was doing all he could to help make voluntary assisted ...

Carrick Ryan 11/11/2021

In 1989, as the Soviet Union crumbled, historian Francis Fukuyama now infamously proclaimed “the end of history”. His reasoning was ...

Meredith Doig 23/10/2021

In the days before Rodney Syme passed away, his family asked if I would like to send a video message ...

Ian Bryce 04/06/2021

In this paper, I propose a new approach to the tenure of agreements, which could have had the potential to ...