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By John Carr Queensland’s Courier Mail seems to assume that all non-state schools are ‘elite schools’. Whether the news being reported is...

A dystopian (realist?) tale by Denver Kanowski The King was troubled. The peasants in his Kingdom were unhappy with the distribution of wealth and...

By John Carr. The traditional Irish tune ‘Slane’ is a very popular hymn setting and there are four hymns in Australia’s Together in Song that use...

SOFiA values the honest (and clearly-expressed) exploration of ideas and views that challenge or reflect on the status quo in the fields of reason,...

Shore School, an elite Anglican boys-only school in Sydney, has hit the news for very wrong reasons recently. The Year 12 tradition of ‘muck-up day’...

Hypocrisy is something most humans have in common, but willful and systematic hypocrisy is still shocking. This is especially true, of course, when...

UK novelist Susan Ertz famously claimed that “millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon”....

Atlassian entrepreneur Scott Farquhar was the subject of a recent Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery program. He and his business partner Mike...

Andrew Walker reflects on evolution and the genesis of human values. I find it interesting that any talk of evolution seems to have a human value...

By Dallas Elvery Responses to the global Covid-19 pandemic were ambiguous at first. It was extremely hard to grasp what magnitude of pandemic...

The ‘Karens’ of the world have been in the spotlight recently. This stereotype of the entitled, strident middle-aged white woman is to some extent a...

SOFiA member Bill Hendry reflects on conscience and morality. I'm always interested in the origins and development of social cohesion, especially...