Bioethics Professor Margaret Somerville is from the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and she has written a piece in the Guardian bemoaning the concept, let…
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Just like the US taxpayer is currently paying for a refurbishment to the fence along their southern border, Australians are paying for the erection of a huge fence around federal…
Senator Cory Bernardi has again opened his mouth before checking his facts and it has been to the benefit of a school fundraiser. Craigburn Primary School was involved in the…
Often in the so-called debate over same sex marriage, you will see the less sophisticated ‘no’ campaigners whine about how there are males and females, as if that is all…
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.
Caroline Overington wrote a piece for the Australian in which she asked people to give Nicole Kidman a break after the latter’s Emmy Award win for her performance in Big…
Often you will hear Australia referred to as the world’s largest island, or conversely, its smallest continent, or sometimes, the island continent. Which is it? Most people have no idea…
Gay Alcorn has reported on some politicians, in both major parties who have changed their mind on legalising same sex marriage. They include Labor’s Tony Burke (Catholic), Jason Clare, and…
Earlier this year, France changed its organ donation system from an opt-in system, (like Australia’s) to an opt-out system. The aim of this is to increase the proportion of the…