As I related some months ago, Barnaby Joyce’s horizontal peccadillo was not the problem, it was the continuous rorting of the system1. At the time, he demanded that people respect…
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The voters of Ireland have just voted to overturn the 8th amendment to the Constitution of Ireland1. This amendment was approved by a referendum in late 1983 and it recognised the…
Stanford University professor Walter Scheidel has written a book, ‘The Great Leveler’1, in which he argues that income inequality is an inevitable byproduct of civilisation, and that when this becomes…
Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has been convicted of covering up the sexual abuse of children1 perpetrated by priest James Fletcher in Newcastle and the Hunter region in New South Wales2….
Over the last few days, I have had a few, um, discussions with creationists, as much as that is possible with such dogmatic people. They keep trying to tell me…
One day, many years from now, another Prime Minister will stand up and apologise for the damage done to refugees in detention. We will be told that we didn’t know then what we know now. But we did know. We always knew. We just chose not to hear and to silence those who tried to remind us of the truth.
As expected, another school massacre has happened in the US. This time it was in the gun-fetish capital of the US, the state of Texas. The perpetrator was a 17-year-old…