The nasty anti-ssm advertisements have begun on commercial television with the first from the Coalition for Marriage. It shows several women appearing and whining about some of the red herrings…
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Hurricane Harvey is doing its worst to swamp the parts of Texas. Not only has the Houston area already suffered massive flooding with some reports of floodwaters 10 metres higher…
Australia’s most senior catholic, Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart has pointedly warned the church’s 180,000 employees, which comprise teachers, nurses and administrators among others, they were expected to uphold its…
Republicans heaved a sigh of relief when Reince Priebus was ‘selected’ by Trump as his chief of staff in November 2016. The selection was somewhat of a surprise given that…
This is becoming a habit. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made a fool of himself again, in stating that the defacing of statues of James Cook, Queen Victoria and Lachlan…
Sometimes Mathias Cormann, in his unmistakeable drone can seem like the cartoon villain, but in a speech to the business-funded Sydney Institute1, he seems to have gone from cartoon villain…
In the Catholic Church, the seal of the confessional is the absolute duty to priests not to disclose anything that they learn from ‘penitents’ during the confession. According to canon…
After the Council of the City of Yarra (in NE Melbourne) decided to drop all references to Australia Day and cancelled its annual citizenship ceremony, conservatives around the country spat…
Trump’s wink and a nod to the neo-Nazis and other white supremacists after the Charlottesville death, was quickly stamped on by some at the White House, notably John Kelly, Trump’s…
The paradox of tolerance was first described by Karl Popper in 1945 in his book ‘the Open Society and its Enemies’1. It states that if a society is tolerant without…