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By Greg Spearritt Sydney Morning Herald columnist Jacqueline Maley makes the clear-eyed observation that voters actually expect politicians to lie....

By Greg Spearritt The (positively) discriminating response of one major Church group to the Federal Government's Religious Discrimination Bill is...

By Greg Spearritt You’re currently most likely to encounter the term ‘woke’ as an insult or an expression of derision. This is especially so in the...

By Greg Spearritt The secretary-general of the OECD has had a moment on the road to Damascus. Mathias Cormann, formerly finance minister in the...

Progressive Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong passed away recently at the grand age of 90. Exactly 20 years ago SOFiA (then Sea of Faith in...

By Greg Spearritt Many of us were shocked recently to learn of the vengeful and indiscriminate murders of Indigenous people that Tom Wills, ‘father...

By Rodney Eivers ‘A Visit to Bunnings – Aborted’ My wife and I sat down for our daily afternoon tea ritual. “Did you go to Bunnings as you said at...

By Greg Spearritt The G word is a frustrating one. It’s thrown around, even by people who should know better, as though its meaning is clear....

By Greg Spearritt With the caveat that there may be subtleties lurking in a recent issue of which I may be unaware, I’m inclined to think that a...

By Greg Spearritt Repeatedly we seem to look for some unequivocal person, group or ideology that we can swear by. There’s no shortage of people...

By Dallas Elvery Let me begin by introducing a designer friend of mine. There are some activities that she seems to get really absorbed in. Curly...

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...