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Without a vision?
By Greg Spearritt Anwen Crawford, music critic with The Monthly, has an interesting take on a fundamental shift in identity formation. In our...
Do what you’re told
Rodney Eivers considers reactions to COVID-19 restrictions As the hours and minutes drew near to 6 p.m. on Friday 8th January 2021, for Brisbane’s...
Paranoia and prayer
By Greg Spearritt What nation pops to mind when you hear the words “conspiracy theory”? While Australia has its share of conspiracism, it’s a...
One and free
By Greg Spearritt On New Year’s Eve, Scott Morrison revealed a one-word tweak to our national anthem. As of 2021, Australians are “one and free”....
No larrikins here
Waleed Aly submits that the reason Australia has performed so well on COVID-19 is that we have a remarkable level of obedience to government...
Cats in Oz
By Denver Kanowski The CSIRO has recently released studies and a book on the impact of cats in Australia. One study connects cats, human health...
Afghanistan: the blame game
By John Carr The recent revelations of alleged war crimes by Australian SAS troops in Afghanistan are shocking and seriously embarrassing to us all....
The forest and the trees
By Greg Spearritt It’s said of some people that they can’t see the forest for the trees. I get that it’s a metaphor, but taking it literally for a...
On transparency
By Greg Spearritt Religious groups have long recognised the need to ‘keep the bastards honest’. Individual bastards, that is. The Catholics, for...
Obedience is no virtue
By Greg Spearritt Trust and obey, For there’s no other way To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey. God’s favour and joy – according to verse 4...
One bus journey, two events
By John Carr Throughout the pandemic restrictions, I have continued to travel to the Brisbane CBD by public transport for various, quite legitimate...
Fairness without complexity
John Carr considers a COVID conundrum. During the COVID pandemic, the main dispute in determining national policies has been over the relative...