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By Greg Spearritt Anwen Crawford, music critic with The Monthly, has an interesting take on a fundamental shift in identity formation. In our...

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...

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...

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”....

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...

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...

By John Carr The recent revelations of alleged war crimes by Australian SAS troops in Afghanistan are shocking and seriously embarrassing to us all....

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...

By Greg Spearritt Religious groups have long recognised the need to ‘keep the bastards honest’. Individual bastards, that is. The Catholics, for...

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...

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...