By Greg Spearritt More than a year after COVID-19 burst onto the world stage, religion is still enabling its spread. It didn’t take long in 2020 for quackery of all kinds to emerge from religious groups. It wasn’t just religion, of course: the morally bereft hell-bent...
By Greg Spearritt Let me state up front: the current gender crisis is not up to women to fix. It’s male behaviour and a deeply sexist culture, and a society designed by and for men, that are at the root of the issue. We all have a part to play, especially men. Our...
By Greg Spearritt No doubt the issues around attitudes to women and skewed attitudes to sex are society-wide, but there are microcosms of particularly misogynistic views. One such microcosm is the private school sector, especially the ‘elite’ private boys schools. So...
By Greg Spearritt Who to believe? Attorney-General Christian Porter or the woman, unfortunately now deceased, who accused him of raping her when they were both in their teens? It seems there can be no criminal investigation or trial without a plaintiff, so neither...
By John Carr When I was growing up in the 1940s and 50s, I was often intrigued by some of the pejorative terms used by adults. The adults of my childhood and youth were members of my parents’ and grandparents’ generations, born between roughly 1870 and 1920. Many of...
