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By John Carr Throughout the pandemic restrictions, I have continued to travel to the Brisbane CBD by public transport for various, quite legitimate...

John Carr considers a COVID conundrum. During the COVID pandemic, the main dispute in determining national policies has been over the relative...

By Greg Spearritt It’s hard to pin down how many Australians identify as atheist, but surveys have suggested that around a quarter of us consider...

By Greg Spearritt God, it’s said, moves in a mysterious way. At least, English poet and hymnodist William Cowper said as much in his 1773 hymn...

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...